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[[File:Red Giant Earth warm.jpg|thumb|274x274px|alt= A dark gray and red sphere representing the Earth lies against a black background to the right of an orange circular object representing the Sun| Artist's idea of the [[Earth]] several billion years from now, when the [[Sun]] is a [[red giant]].]]

The ultimate fate of our universe may be the [[heat death of the universe]] or the [[big rip]]. Before that happens, it is possible to predict that the following will happen.

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| Best-guess recurrence rate for a "civilization-threatening" [[supervolcanic]] eruption large enough to throw up 1,000 gigatons of pyroclastic material.<ref>{{cite journal |title='Super-eruption' timing gets an update — and not in humanity's favour |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07777-6 |accessdate=28 August 2020 |journal=Nature |date=30 November 2017 |volume=552 |issue=7683 |pages=8 |language=en |doi=10.1038/d41586-017-07777-6
|pmid=32080527 |s2cid=4461626 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Scientists predict a volcanic eruption that would destroy humanity could happen sooner than previously thought |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/volcano-super-eruption-apocalypse-wipe-out-life-human-kind-timeline-how-long-a8082006.html |accessdate=28 August 2020 |work=www.independent.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
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(contracted; show full) crystal]]" data storage using [[Mode-locking|femtosecond laser]]-etched [[nanostructure]]s in glass.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=J. |last2=Gecevičius|first2=M. |last3=Beresna|first3=M. |last4=Kazansky|first4=P. G. |title=Seemingly unlimited lifetime data storage in nanostructured glass|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260004721|journal=Phys. Rev. Lett.|volume=112|issue=3 |page=033901|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.033901|pmid=24484138 |date=2014|bibcode = 2014PhRvL.112c3901Z 
|s2cid=27040597 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=J.|last2=Gecevičius|first2=M.|last3=Beresna|first3=M.|last4=Kazansky|first4=P. G.|title=5D Data Storage by Ultrafast Laser Nanostructuring in Glass|journal=CLEO: Science and Innovations|date=June 2013|pages=CTh5D–9|url=http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/fileadmin/downloads/5D_Data_Storage_by_Ultrafast_Laser_Nanostructuring_in_Glass.pdf|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906152109/http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/fileadmin/downloads/5D_Dat(contracted; show full)

<ref name=loeb_2016>{{cite journal |last1=Loeb |first1=Abraham |year=2016 |last2=Batista |first2=Rafael |last3=Sloan |first3=W. |title=Relative Likelihood for Life as a Function of Cosmic Time |journal=Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |volume=2016 |issue=8 |pages=040 | arxiv = 1606.08448 |doi=10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/040|bibcode=2016JCAP...08..040L |s2cid=118489638 }}</ref>
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