User:TimeMaster/Timeline

THIS IS AN INCUBATOR.

What if the world shaped up against global warming and scientific development was increased in the near future? The world would be more peaceful, more democratic and more environmental, of course, but other advances would surely happen. ..

Proposed Name: EnviroWorld? Enviromental World? I think former.

2010

 * China begins efforts to build their first space station as they continue to build their own space program.
 * General Motors announces that they will be releasing the Volt ahead of schedule at the end of 2010.
 * Ford continues to increase milage standards; at the end of the year they release an inexpensive vehicle that gets 65 mpg. After this is achieved, they begin an electric car project.
 * Congress passes the Information Neutrality Act, basically cementing net-neutrality.
 * The first history books with a chapter on the Bush Administration hit US schools. The chapters, while written by different historians, frequently state problems and mistakes by him, and criticize the reduction of government agency funding. Overall, he is regarded as a moderately bad president, but note that the recession was not entirely Bush's fault.
 * The Terrestrial Planet Finder and the Darwin planet finding probes are combined by the ESA and NASA into the Terra-nova Space Probe. Twice the size of either of the original probes, this vehicle is planned to be launched on 2014.
 * After an emergency meeting is held due to the sea levels suddenly rising a few decimeters, the Environmental Protection Treaty is signed in Copenhagen, basically solidifying clean air acts and clean energy research in all countries.

2011

 * Aptera Motors surpasses Chrysler in American automotive sales.
 * Nano solar, now with billions in federal subsidies from the GAA, announces construction of a second US manufacturing plant to be built in Indiana.
 * US midterm elections give the Democratic party a super-majority in the senate, with 64 out of 100 seats, and 256 out of 435 seats in the house. An independent also gains a seat.
 * China announces the construction of the Shenlong Space Plane, a space shuttle capable of lifting three metric tons into Geostationary Orbit.
 * Kosovo and Abkhazia are now recognized by most countries, including the USA and all of the EU. South Ossetia and North Ossetia have also joined together to form Ossetia.
 * After years of intense negotiations, and the election of a far more moderate president to power, Iran officially ends their nuclear weapons program, and allows full IAEA cooperation.

2012

 * Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announces his candidacy for President of the United States. Charlie Crist, Ron Paul, Sam Brownback, and Mike Huckabee also follow with their on candidacies.
 * South Africa constructs their first Nuclear Power Plant.
 * 20% of all US electricity now comes from Solar Energy, mostly from inexpensive Thin-Film Solar Cells. 10% Now comes from Wind power, and New York City now receives the majority of its energy from offshore wind and tidal power. Nuclear power retains its percentage at 20% as fossil fuels continue to drop out of use at only 30%.  Major oil companies announce heavy losses as electric cars go big.
 * Osama Bin Laden is killed in a US cruise missile strike in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. The Pakistani Government, states their anger of an attack on their soil, but is willing to forgive the US considering the circumstances.
 * With most of Al Qaeda and the ringleader Osama Bin Laden dead, President Obama recalls most of the troops from Afghanistan back to the US, while the rest remain in peacekeeping, to be recalled over the next two years.
 * Ocean levels stop rising, much to a relief of the human population.
 * Apollo Space Development is founded with ambitious plans for space exploration.
 * Vladimir Putin becomes president of Russia, but is no longer Prime Minister of Belarus.

2013

 * President Obama wins his re-election over Former Governor Mitt Romney, winning about 58% of the vote. Surprisingly, the election diversifies as the independents and third parties win more votes.
 * In a UN Resolution, the delegation passes the Protection Protocol with the recommendations of former Vice President of the Untied States Al Gore to make all global electricity production renewable in ten years. The Protocol also calls for the elimination of all greenhouse gas emissions in fifteen years. Al Gore is made Director of the International Renewable Energy Council.
 * Congress passes the Green America Act, calling for a modern day WPA and hundreds of new Public Works projects aimed at advancing the country's infrastructure and energy production to environmental friendly and energy conscious standards per the Protection Protocol.
 * A major advancement in gene correction reduces genetic disorders around the globe. The UNBF (United Nations Biology Fund) is started.
 * The Republic of Persia is founded due to a reform by the new Iranian president. Persia almost immediately puts down its nuclear weapons program.

2014

 * The Blue Dog Coalition leaves the Democrats and form the Forward Party, focused on right-wing and libertarian ideology.
 * The Apollo Space Development company successfully captures a small asteroid in Earth's Orbit.
 * Baluchistan breaks off from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Persia to become the Republic of Baluchistan, a nation because of the growing movement of Eco-Islam. The remainder of Afghanistan renames itself Pashtunistan.
 * The Treaty of Mecca is signed officially by nearly all islamic countries recognizing new countries in the middle east and giving others independence. For example, the Alawite Republic is formed in northwestern syria and Druzistan and South Sudan gain independence from Syria and Sudan respectively.
 * NASA and ESA launch the Terra-nova Space Probe. By the end of the year the probe reports the discovery of a planet 1.5 times the size of Earth, and an atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide and Water vapor at 3 times Earth Atmospheric pressure in the Alpha Centauri system. The planet is named Centauri 3, nicknamed Centaur.
 * Croatia joins the European Union.

2015

 * Apollo Space Development announces their gross income for FY 2015. Due to the mineral value of the captured asteroid, Mariner is now the richest company in human history with a gross revenue of over one trillion dollars in precious metals and other valuable minerals.
 * Apollo donates most of their earnings to the United Nations to pay to the international deficit and to fund programs such as UNICEF and UNBF.
 * The Near East and Middle East are now at one of their most stable times in history, united by Islam.
 * Apollo Space Development creates Greenery Enterprises, an investment firm dedicated to global conversion to non-polluting vehicles and buildings, they immediately invest about 200 billion into the global Automotive Industry to build a new generation of Green vehicles.
 * The People's Republic of China is reformed over a few months into a socialist and transparent country like France, and becomes even less left-wing over the next few years. It invites the Taiwan to join it, and it gratefully does and renames itself the Republic of China.

2016

 * The Republic of China begins its constitutional convention.
 * President Obama announces the expansion of Universal Healthcare to Gene Therapy.
 * Greenery begins construction of a series of vertical agricultural farms in all major cities of the world, most notably in Africa.
 * Vice President Clinton announces her candidacy for President.
 * The Republican Party announces that Congressmen Joe Wurzelbacher will be running on the Republican Ticket.
 * The Libertarian Party nominates Christopher Buckley as their candidate for President.
 * The Forward Party announces Charlie Melancon will be running for President on the Forward Ticket.
 * Terra-Nova discovers the most Earth-like planet to date around Sirius B. The planet is almost the same size as Earth, with similar mass and atmospheric readings as well. The world is dubbed Gaea.
 * Cosmos Space Corporation is founded as an independent company with some former Apollo workers. It is unofficially the competition with Apollo.
 * Norway and Bosnia-Herzegovina join the European Union.

2017

 * Hillary Clinton wins with 41% of the electorate. Buckley takes 24%, and Wurzelbacher takes 23%, with Melancon 17%.
 * The United Federation of China launches the Tiangong 1 space station signalling a new beginning for China.
 * Apollo Space Development begins construction of the Armstrong Lunar Base in the Sea of Tranquility.
 * Terra-Nova has discovered 24 Earth like planets thus far; four of which could likely support human life.
 * China ratifies their new constitution, it is very similar to the micronationalist representative democracy of Europe.

2018

 * Apollo or Cosmos captures every Near Earth Object, 95% of the revenue is directed at global economic growth.
 * Turkey, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro join the EU.
 * After the United States finally adopts the Metric System much to the happiness of other nations, Liberia follows suit and all countries now use it.

2020

 * Apollo, in conjunction with NASA, ESA and RKA land the first men and women on Mars.
 * IREC Director Gore reports that human greenhouse emissions have dropped to early twenties century levels.
 * Russia begins Project Unity, an effort to develop cities in Siberia and eliminate most of the pollution they produce.
 * Europe closes its last Coal fire plant.
 * Aptera unveils the Hydrogen Cruiser (or H Cruiser), the first cost effective hydrogen powered fuel cell plug-in hybrid.

2021

 * Fossil fuels now only account for five percent of the world's energy production. The most common is Photovoltaic solar power.

2022

 * Chevron Corp. and Total S.A. announce bankruptcy.
 * Completely clean nuclear fission is finally mastered.

2023

 * The last Coal Fire plant in the world is closed in Shanghai and converted to a manufacturing plant, a celebration is held in the UN headquarters.
 * The Opportunity Base is completed on Mars, and with regular flights made by the Cyclers, Mars' population doubles every six weeks.
 * Apollo finishes processing the minerals from their NEAs 75% of the minerals are transfered to Earth for commercial use, with the rest being left from the construction of space stations used as habitats and processing plants for the mining crews.
 * Cosmos does the same and plans to creates a space station in the orbit of Mars.
 * Conoco Phillips dissolves after going bankrupt.

2024

 * The tachyon is finally observed, effectively proving a version of string theory designed in 2019.

2025

 * A cure for autism is discovered as a joint project of several hospitals in New York City, New York, USA. As a result of this cure, the surplus number of people creates a decade-long employment boom.

2026

 * International Scientists begin a project to find a way to achieve 100,000 km/s speed. This will make a journey to Alpha Centauri shorter, although advances in Cryonics may make it less useful.
 * Beyond Petroleum announces bankruptcy. This leaves Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell as the remaining two oil companies, both drastically weakened by environmentalism.

2027

 * Carnegie Mellon University reveals the molecular replicator, a nano-manufacturing device only 1 million nanometers thin, capable of manufacturing anything to atomic precision.
 * Mariner implements the molecular replicator in the construction of space stations.
 * GM, Aptera, Chrysler, Tesla, and Ford all implement the molecular replicator for their manufacturing process.

2029

 * All manufacturing in the US is conducted by molecular replicators.
 * GM unveils the worlds first hydrogen fuel cell hybrid capable of 500 MPGe.
 * Tesla unveils the worlds first practical flying car.
 * Mariner Space Development constructs a spacecraft capable of making a Mars flight in 2 weeks.
 * NASA, ESA, RKA, JAXA, CSA (Canada) and the Chinese Space Program (CSEA) announce an international effort to terraform Mars in 30 years and establish small enclaves of habitable zones.

2030

 * Television has become obsolete by this stage, as the internet and computers have made it redundant.

2031

 * Fusion Weapons are invented as a non-radioactive alternative to Nuclear Weapons, later renamed Fission Weapons.

2033

 * Global Greenhouse Gas levels drop to early 20th century levels,
 * Mars receives its first terraforming ships; the Apollo, the Freyr, the Garuda, the Lugh, the Helios, the Amaterasu, and the Ra. The ships are enormous golden mirrors, each twenty miles wide and designed to raise the temperature of Mars to suitable levels for human colonization.
 * The world space programs complete construction of the Sagan Radio Telescope, a giant space radio telescope capable of receiving every conceivable frequency of light and communication based signals.

2035

 * The space based particle accelerator Fermi II goes online, it is specifically designed to study gravity's ability to bend space.
 * Mars' temperature rises to 25 degrees C on the equator. The ice caps have now fully melted thanks to concentrated heating the poles.
 * The Vergil deep core drills are completed on Mars, they are intended to detonate a series of fusion weapons within the Martian Core to jump start the planet's magnetosphere. The project is set to go online once the asteroid tugs drag several large asteroids from the belt to Martian orbit to be fused with Phoebos and Deimos via super heating with the space mirrors and gravity collision with the other asteroids.

2036

 * The first colonists arrive at Valles Marineris aboard the Venturer, a spacecraft built for travel to Mars.
 * Brazil (AEB) joins the Mars Colonization project.
 * Professor Stephen Hawking, discovers the slip stream while working at the Fermi II accelerator, he dies only months after concluding the existance of the anomole, but leaves behind the first step towards FTL travel.

2037

 * The first interstellar messages are found in a strange code, originating from a star about 50 light years away. It is thought it could be a sign of intelligent life.  In addition, the Interstellar Exploration Program begins.

2039

 * The Interstellar Exploration Vehicle Independence is nearing completion, it is the first manned craft capable of FTL travel, on board will be a crew of over a thousand; all scientists, astronomers, engineers, physicists, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, diplomats, trained astronauts, and one platoon of Marines. The ship also sports a SHIELD, an advanced network of deployable satilites that are all armed with their own lasers that can shoot down any and all missiles.
 * Mars now has a population of half a billion people concentrated in a few cities spread out in the habitable zones.
 * Earth, on the other hand, has decreased to just over five billion in population since 2009. Half of the population left for Mars, the other half is from simple population decrease.

2040

 * ISEV Independence launches for the first target star: Alpha Centauri. Their mission is to first confirm if life is present on any of the confirmed planets, they are to
 * Independence reaches Alpha Centauri with only a few days travel time, they confirm Terra-nova's report of 2 gas giants with moons, and two "Super Earths" with a few smaller planets. The smaller one of those appears to be mostly habitable and with beginning multicellular life and oxygen.  It is almost twice as large as Earth, but only 50% larger in mass. From orbit the world appears to be a purple mixed with pale red sphere.  The presence of life is confirmed when they land and find some crustaceans.

2041

 * The first colony on Gaea, the super earth, is established.

2042

 * A terrorist attack in Earth orbit causes a Kestler syndrome in Low Earth Orbit, cutting Earth off from the valuable resources of space, sending the world economy into an economic recession.

2045

 * The United Nations convine to discuss the creation of a series of inter-species conduct protocols.
 * The UNSC Vice Admiral Preston Cutter proposes a simple measure allowing any species who wishes to and promises to abide by the basic protocols of the UN should have the right to do so. The protocol also calls for the use of molecular replicators by any species who is in some kind of global crisis, or is trying to recover from said crisis.
 * Elsie May remakes "Gravity," by John Mayer. EuroBlues is taking off around the world.

2051

 * The Republic of China establishes the city of New Beijing on Gaea.
 * The debris around Earth is finally cleaned up, defensive measures are put in place to prevent further attacks. Earth's economy recovers.

2065

 * The UN begins construction of a series of large space elevators on Earth.

2068

 * The UN establishes the Universial Health Care Protocol, insuring every member nation's citizens free and universal health care. This really has a small effect for humanity considering that Eugenics have made eliminated most disease. Other planets in the HPDO (Human Planets Defense Organization)

2073

 * The United Nations conveine to discuss building a new headquarters off Earth. They elect that a space station outfitted for every habitat for every species and culture would be best. Project Unity begins.
 * Blind Eddie Jackson founds Jupiter's Shadow.

2075

 * The UN Council on the Environment reports that the Earth's ozone layer is 99% restored.
 * The UN Security Council votes to further reduce the tonnage of the UN Navy, as many continue to cite how small a force is typically needed to stop a conflict on new worlds, and how every species humanity and the Earth Sphere have encountered have joined the UN peacefully.

2077

 * Project Unity completes the United Nations headquarters. It is the largest station ever built.
 * Currently the UN consists of countless nations. But another species has not been found.  Humans look to the far off star 50 light years away.

2079

 * The IEV Endurance makes contact with the first species ever discovered on the star, apparently Rho Coronae Borealis. They are peaceful and are currently as advanced as humans in about 1990.

2172

 * Contact is remade with Planet Chikyuu in the Fuji system. It is discovered that the colony ship's Hawking Drive was damaged during atmospheric entry, and has cause a distortion in the space time continuum within 1.32 light-years of the Fuji system, accelerating the flow of time within what astronomers and physicists have dubbed a Fuji Distortion. The First Marshal to make contact with the world discovered that over 2000 years have passed on that world, and the population is completely ignorant of any technology beyond early steam engines. The planet is in the middle of a massive war between the three nations that control the four main continents.

2187

 * The Indians discover a planet that has been rendered lifeless by what is apparently a nuclear war. While the battle appeared to have occurred thousands of years ago, their are still ruins of the old civilizations, indicating a society roughly as advanced as Earth in the 1960s. Humanity is somewhat unnerved by the grim reminder of how close they came to nuclear armageddon.

2200

 * The UN completes construction of the New Shield, a massive array of defensive satellites placed around every planet and moon in the Earth Sphere as well as major defensive stations in the Lagrange points of every planetary system.