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| - | ==Timeline==
| + | History of the [[Transhuman Space]] setting. |
| - | *Up to 2010: China embarks on a manned
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| - | space program, putting several yuhangyuan
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| - | (“space navigators”) into orbit and on the moon.
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| - | The first human clone is born. The United States
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| - | commits to a Mars mission.
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| - | *2011: Sales of new wearable computers
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| - | (using a visor display and belt computer) exceed
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| - | those of desktop or notebook systems. The Terrestrial
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| - | Planet Finder (TPF) space infrared interferometer
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| - | begin scanning stars within 50 light
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| - | years.
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| - | *2012: North and South Korea set date for
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| - | reunification.
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| - | *2013: TPF discovers an Earth-like planet
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| - | orbiting the G5 yellow dwarf star 61 Virginis,
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| - | 27.8 light years away. It is named “Virginia.”
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| - | Later, more advanced sensors locate other habitable
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| - | worlds around farther stars.
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| - | *2014: U.S. space development firm Columbia
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| - | Aerospace begins operating a reliable laserlaunch
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| - | service for commercial microsatellites.
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| - | *2015: Russia joins manned Mars program.
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| - | Antibiotic-resistant pneumonia pandemic kills 7
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| - | million worldwide. Revised Outer Space Treaty
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| - | is drafted, making it easier for corporations or
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| - | states to lay claim to extraterrestrial resources.
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| - | *2016: South African conglomerate Ithemba
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| - | Biotechnologies distributes a cheap broad-spectrum
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| - | AIDS vaccine in Africa. China and Taiwan
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| - | negotiate date for peaceful reunification. China
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| - | announces its own Mars program.
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| - | *2017: The brown dwarf Xiang-63 is discovered.
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| - | Parallax measurement reveals it is quite
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| - | close to Sol, less than a light-year away.
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| - | *2018: The Long March VI rocket lofts
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| - | China’s first space lab module into orbit. European
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| - | Union increases fusion power budget.
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| - | Biotech Euphrates is founded, with a then-radical
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| - | commitment to human gengineering.
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| - | *2019: The commercial Aristaeus mission
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| - | lands several thousand tiny robots on Mars, for
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| - | both science and teletourism. A separatist party
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| - | forms in western Canada, believing their destiny
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| - | lies with Asia-Pacific.
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| - | *2020: Most cars use hybrid gas-electric or
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| - | fuel cell engines. The genetic testing of unborn
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| - | children and use of genetic engineering to “genefix”
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| - | monogenetic hereditary defects is common
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| - | in affluent nations. China lands robots on Mars
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| - | and Phobos. United States and Russia establish a
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| - | service station facility at the Earth-Luna L4
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| - | point.
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| - | * 2025-2049 - [[Biotech Revolution]]
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| - | * 2050-2069 - [[Transhuman Awakening]]
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| - | * 2070-2084 - [[Overturn]]
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| - | * 2085-present - [[Pacific War]]
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Pages in category "Future History"
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