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2008 - Mandatory Meat Labeling? / U.S.A. - "The Senate sent a $100 billion food and farm spending bill to President George W. Bush on Thursday [11/03/05]. The measure includes a two-year delay on lables telling grocery shoppers where their meat comes from. Approved on an 81-18 vote, the food and farm spending bill would postpone mandatory meat labeling until 2008. Originally sought by Western ranchers and required by law in 2004, country-of-origin labeling has stalled under pressure from meatpackers and supermarkets who call it a record-keeping nightmare. [....]" [Based on: A.P. article, p. A3, S.L.P.D., 11/04/05]
2008 - In Effect? / Real ID Act, U.S.A. - "[....] President George W. Bush signed legislation Wednesday [05/11/05] aimed at denying drivers licenses to illegal immigrants and increasing homeland security. [....] The Real ID Act, which takes effect in three years, will turn drivers licenses into national identification cards. To renew a license or get a new one, motorists will have to prove their identification and residency in four ways. Even then, state workers will have to contact the issuing agencies to make sure the documents are valid before handling the motorist a license. [....]" [Based on: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. A1, 05/12/05]
2008 - Bank Debt / Charter Communications Inc. - "Charter Communications Inc. of Town and Country [Mo.] has postponed a day of reckoning until at least 2008 by exchanging $6.83 billion of its bonds for new securities with longer maturities. [....] Aryeh Bourkoff, an analyst with UBS Securities AG in New York, and the exchange will reduce Charter's debt by $708 million and lessen the chance that it will file bankruptcy. The exchange also trims interest expense by $60 million a year. Charter still has $1.5 billion of bank debt maturing in 2008 and 2009." [Based on: Business page article, p. C2, S.L.P.D., 09/14/05]
*Trivia: "Charter Communications Inc. said its subsidiaries exchanged $6.86 billion of existing debt for new notes with longer maturities in a transaction completed Monday [09/26/05]. The subsidiaries had offered to exchange debt up to $8.43 billion. In the exchange, Charter took in $3.39 billion in notes that mature in 2009 and 2010 and $3.47 billion in notes that mature in 2011 and 2012. A subsidiary then issued $3.53 billion of new 11 percent notes due in 2015 and $2.53 billion of various series of notes due in 2014 and 2015. About $1.66 billion of the old notes will remain outstanding." [Based on: Business Page article, p. C2, S.L.P.D., 09/28/05]
2008 - Status / "Black Boxes" in U.S. Vehicles - September, 2008: "If the agency [the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] has its way, by September 2008, recorders ['Black Boxes'] will collect up to 42 data elements, including the time it takes for air bags to deploy. [....] 'The basic question I have is, 'Why not?' Engleman Conners said." [A.P., 08/04/04]
2008 - Digital TV / U.S.A. - December 31st, 2008: "A U.S. House of Representatives panel approved a measure requiring television broadcasters to switch to digital signals in 2008 and creating a $1 billion subsidy to keep older sets working, one-third as much as provided for in Senate legislation. The House Commerce Committee on Wednesday [10/26/05] cleared the provision to digital by Dec. 31, 2008. That's three months earlier than the April 7, 2009, deadline set in the bill passed last week by the Senate Commerce Committee, which calls for a $3 billion subsidy." [Based on: Business page article, p. C2, S.L.P.D., 10/27/05]
*Trivia: [....] By fiscal 2007, an active Army unit will begin testing early equipment of Future Combat Systems, whose cornerstone is a digital communications network that connects soldiers, pilots, ships, satellites, robotic planes and tanks to command centers and an array of weapons systems across all branches of the military. [....]" [Based on: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, pp. B1 & B12, 05/27/05]
2009 A.D
2009 - Moon Probe? / NASA - 2009: "NASA will crash probe into moon [2009] / Aim is to find water, which would be needed for a lunar outpost." [Based on: Title & Subtitle for A.P. article, p. A4, S.L.P.D., 04/11/06]
2009 - All-Digital Television Broadcasts / U.S.A. - February 17th, 2009: "House lawmakers approved legislation early Monday [12/19/05] that would complete the transition to all-digital television broadcasts by Feb. 17, 2009. Traditional analog broadcasts are to end that day. [....]" [Based on: News Services article (House OKs bill ending analog broadcasts), p. A8, S.L.P.D., 12/20/05]
2010 A.D
2010 - U.S. Budget Crisis? - "The government covers the deficit by borrowing. Last year [2003], that borrowing equaled $3,500 for every household in America. This year's borrowing [2004] will equal nearly 5 percent of everything the country produces (the gross domestic product). If it's not reined in soon, such astronomical debt will create drag on the economy, and interest payments will drain the government's ability to serve the next generation. The first major crisis could hit when the baby boomers begin cashing their Social Security checks in 2010." [Based on: St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, 01/04/04]
2010 - AIDS Orphans / Africa - "By 2010, about 20 million children in sub-Saharan Africa will have lost at least one parent to AIDS. The total number of orphans in the region will rise to 42 million." [A.P., 11/27/03]
2010 - Nuclear Facilities / Japan - Japan is dependent on nuclear fuel for nearly 35 percent of its energy supply, and a government blueprint calls for building 11 new plants and raising electricity output from nuclear facilities to nearly 40 percent of the national supply by 2010." [A.P., 08/10/04]
2010 - New Ray Gun? / U.S. Military - "Military [U.S.A.] demonstrates new ray gun [01/24/07] on people [that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire - expected to go into production in 2010]." [Based on: Title for News Services article, p. A3, S.L.P.D., 01/25/07]
2010 - Notes Due / Charter Communications - December 16th, 2010: "Charter Communications Inc. of Town and Country [Mo.] completed a $550 million issue of senior floating-rate debt in a private placement this week [12/16/04]. The notes, due in 2010, have an interest rate of 4.125 percent above the London Interbank rate, payable quarterly." [Based on: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. B2, 12/16/04]
*Trivia: "Charter Communications Inc. said its subsidiaries exchanged $6.86 billion of existing debt for new notes with longer maturities in a transaction completed Monday [09/26/05]. The subsidiaries had offered to exchange debt up to $8.43 billion. In the exchange, Charter took in $3.39 billion in notes that mature in 2009 and 2010 and $3.47 billion in notes that mature in 2011 and 2012. A subsidiary then issued $3.53 billion of new 11 percent notes due in 2015 and $2.53 billion of various series of notes due in 2014 and 2015. About $1.66 billion of the old notes will remain outstanding." [Based on: Business Page article, p. C2, S.L.P.D., 09/28/05]
2010 - Trivia / Mercury Emissions, U.S.A. - "A new rule [2005] cutting power plant mercury emissions in half in the next 15 years will likely face legal challenges, because environmental groups say the plan isn't strict enough. [....] Under the new regulations, utilities would be required to reduce mercury emissions frim the current 48 tons a year to 38 tons by 2010. This would be accomplished through air pollution controls required under the Clean Air Interstate Rule, a separate rule issued last week aimed at cutting fine particles from sulfur dioxide and smog-forming nitrogen oxides. In the second phase, starting in 2018, utilities would have to cut emissions down to 15 tons a year. The EPA designed a 'cap-and-trade' approach that sets a maximum on how much pollution should be allowed, then lets companies trade credits within those limits. Critics say that could lead to local 'hot spots' of mercury, and they want each plant to be required to install the 'maximum achievable' pollution controls. EPA said the rule would reduce emissions by 70 percent from current levels, but agency officials said Tuesday [03/15/05] it would be sometime after 2020 when that actually happened." [Based on: article by Sara Shipley, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 03/16/05]
2010 - Trivia / Lead Paint Removal, U.S.A. - "[....] The requirement will be for structures built before 1978. [NP] beginning in 2010, contractors must train workers on dealing with lead paint, post warning signs, contain lead-contaminated dust, and keep people and pets away from work areas. The EPA estimates the new requirement will add an average of $35 to the cost of projects." [Based on: Article (EPA toughens rules on lead paint removal), p A2, S.L.P.D., 04/01/08]
2010 - Growing / Southern & Western States, U.S.A. - "Southern and Western states are growing so much faster than the rest of the country that several are expected to grab House seats from the Northeast and Midwest when Congress is reapportioned in 2010. Demographers and political analysts project that Texas and Florida could each gain as many as three House seats. Ohio and New York could lose as many as two seats apiece. Several other states could gain or lose single seats. [....] The projections are based on state population estimates by the Census Bureau. The bureau releases its July 2005 estimates today, showing that Nevada grew at a faster rate than any other state for the 19th consecutive year, followed by Arizona, Idaho, Florida and Utah. Rhode Island, New York and Massachusetts lost population, as did the District of Columbia. The populations of North Dakota, Ohio and Michigan grew, but at a slower rate than others." [Based on: News Services article (South, West keep setting pace as people magnets), p. A5, S.L.P.D., 12/22/05]
2010 - 2010 Decision Date / 2nd Nuclear Reactor, Mo. - "2nd nuclear plant is back in play [2008] in Callaway County / 2010 DECISION DATE - But Amerenue, partner soon will seek construction, operating license for $6 billion plant. / BIG BARRIER REMAINS - Utility will seek reversal of Missouri ban on raising rates to cover construction of plants." [Based on: Title & Subtitles for Article, p. A1, S.L.P.D., 06/09/08]
2010 - Compliance? / Microscopic Particle Pollution Standards, U.S.A. - "The St. Louis region was included Friday [12/17/04] on a list of communities that flunk new air quality standards for microscopic particle pollution. [....] These fine particles, which are 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair, lodge deep in the lungs, causing thousands of cases each year of asthma, bronchitis and heart attacks. [....] Altogether, the regulation affects about 95 million people living in 225 counties in 20 states. States have three years to come up with a plan for meeting the new standard. They must be in compliance by 2010. [....]" [Based on: article by Sara Shipley, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/18/04]
2011 A.D
2011 - Cycle of Transformation - "Each period of the harmonic time wave, that is to say periods between major advances, is increasingly shorter in duration than the cycle which preceded it. Also, each respective period of the time wave is characterized by accelerated levels of new things happening faster and faster and in unprecedented, unpredictable ways. If we project this pattern of acceleration into the future, we find that the rate of ingression into novelty becomes mind-boggelingly exponentiated in a very short period of time. For instance, we can expect a 400 day cycle in 2011-2012 when we will experience more transformation than in all the previous cycles combined. Similarly, a 6 day cycle before the Dec 21, 2012 date will exhibit even more dramatic levels of hyper-accelerated transformations. There is a dwell point here in our near future which attracts everything like a Black Hole, indeed the conceptual interplay of various dimensions at the crossroads of 2012 seems to reflect the nature of a singularity. In the last 135 minutes before we encounter this singularity, 18 such transformations, comparable to the appearance of life and the invention of language will be crossed. Thirteen of these evolutionary quantum leaps will be crossed in the last 75 x 10 -4 seconds of the Great Cycle."
2011 - Trivia / Southern Sudan - "Africa's longest-running conflict officially ended Sunday [01/09/05] as representatives of the Sudanese government and rebel forces signed a comprehensive peace accord in Nairobi, Kenya. [....] The two-decade civil war pitted the Islamic government against rebels based in the mostly animist and Christian south. It left 2 million people dead, primarily from famine and disease, and 4 million homeless. Under the accord, Islamic law will apply to the north but not the south. The south will have a six-year interim period of self-rule, after which [2011?] it will vote in a referendum on whether to remain part of Sudan or secede. [....]" [Based on: News Services, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. A5, 01/10/05]
2011 - Messenger Probe / Mercury - "The spacecraft Messenger rocketed away Tuesday [08/03/04] on a long quest to reveal the secrets of Mercury, the sun's nearest planet. The journey will take 6 1/2 years, covering nearly 5 billion miles on a roundabout ramble through the inner solar system. The probe should reach Mercury by March 2011, then spend a year gathering data." [News Services, 08/04/04]
2011 - More Soldiers to Fight? / U.S. Army - "The Army has embarked on a six-year plan to boost its combat power by 40,000 troops while reducing the number of noncombat jobs. The changes would essentially give the nation more forces to deploy without a costly increase in the active-duty Army's authorized strength of 482,000. Under the plan, the Army would increase its deployable combat forces by 40,000 up to 355,000 in 2011. It intends to achieve this by reducing the number of non-combat, 'institutional' Army jobs from 104,000 to 75,000 and by changing training and other procedures, Army secretary Francis Harvey said. But the plan is based on two key conditions that remain far from certain: *That no major new demand will arise for U.S. soldiers at home or abroad. *That the Army will be able to recruit 75,000 to 80,000 new soldiers each year through 2011 - a target the service missed this fiscal year when 73,400 signed up. [....]" [Based on: Washington Post article (Army wants more of its soldiers to fight), p. A12, S.L.P.D., 10/07/05]
2012 - Astronomic Configuration - January 1st, 2012: "Sun [9 Capricorn], Moon [7 Aries], Mercury [19 Sagittarius], Venus [13 Aquarius], Mars [20 Virgo], Jupiter [0 Taurus], Saturn [28 Libra], Uranus [0 Aries], Neptune [28 Aquarius], Pluto [7 Capricorn]."
[Based on: http://www.astro.com/swisseph/ae/2000/ae_2112.pdf]
2012 - Deadline / Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty - "More than 1,600 tons of the country's [U.S.A.] stockpiled mustard agent has been destroyed [2005] to meet the terms of a chemical weapons treaty, an Army spokesman said Friday [03/11/05] The mustard agent was the last batch stored at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, 35 miles northeast of Baltimore, and represented about 5 percent of the nation's total stockpile, said the spokesman. The banned liquid blisters the eyes, skin and lungs. It had been stockpiled at Aberdeen since World War II. The mustard agent was destroyed to help meet the 2012 Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty deadline for destroying chemical weapons." [Based on: News Services, S.L.P.D., p. 28, 03/12/05]
2012 - Solar Eclipse - May 20th, 2012: "To add to the growing list of novel occurrences, there will be two solar eclipses in 2012. During the first eclipse, which will occur on May 20, the Sun and moon will conjunct the Pleiades. The second eclipse, which will occur on November 13, marks a conjunction between the Sun, the moon, the constellation Serpens, or the serpent. Interestingly, the Pleiades was often associated with the rattle of a snake. The Mayan word for rattle is tzab, and is the same word used for the Pleiades cluster. These two eclipses which will occur in 2012 physically reflect the cosmic orobouros, which is the primordial serpent of eternity represented as a snake swallowing it’s own tail."
*Trivia: "In the area of Chichen Itza, the Classic Maya constructed the Pyramid of Kukulkan. This magnificent structure was specially designed so that every year, on the spring equinox, the sun creates a shadow along the steps of the pyramid which gives the illusion of a huge serpent descending from the sky. This event commemorates the prophetic return of Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent. The Pyramid also symbolizes the zenith passage of the sun which takes place over Chichen Itza on May 20, exactly 60 days after the spring equinox. On May 20, 2012, the zenith passage of the sun coincides with a solar eclipse which conjuncts the Pleiades, as mentioned above. This day on the Tzolkin is 10 Chicchan, which means serpent. These highlights concerning physical events which will occur in 2012 indicate the concrescence of novelty, a factor which signals the forthcoming ascension of the entire Earth, including the human race, into higher-dimensional levels of synchronic resonance."
2012 - Venus Transit - June 6th, 2012: "Europe, the Middle East and much of Asia and Africa will offer prime viewing next month [06/08/04] for an astronomical event that has not occurred for 122 years - the transit of the planet Venus across the sun. Weather permitting, for six hours on June 8 [2004] astronomers and the public will be able to see the planet named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty passing directly between Earth and the sun. The event has been billed as a once in a lifetime experience because the last transit was on December 6, 1882 and the next one will not occur until June 6, 2012, but will not be visible in Britain and other parts of Europe." [Reuters, 05/12/04]
*Trivia: "In the context of interesting physical phenomena and alignments, there are several other novel occurrences which we can expect during the year 2012. One will be a very rare solar transit of Venus. That is, on June 5-6, 2012, the planet Venus will pass directly in front of the Sun. Transits of this type occur in pairs every 120 years or so. [....] The Venus transit in 2012 will occur directly through the center of the sun over a period of about eight hours. Also in 2012, Venus will conjunct with Alcyone, which is the central star of the Pleiades system, also known as the Seven Sisters. The Pleiades were an important aspect of the Mayan Civilization. Coincidentally, there is a star in the Pleiades known as Maia."
2012 - Solar Max Period - September-October? 2012: "Have we really seen the outermost limits of what the sun can do? We can't be sure. But by the time the next solar max rolls around [the most recent solar max ended in 2001] - seven or so years from now ['now' is 2004. Add 'about' seven years to that, and you get ... 2012?] - a new generation of solar observatories will be watching our stormy star, building on an era that for solar physicists has amounted to 20 years of good seeing." [National Geographic Magazine, July 2004, p. 33]
*Trivia: " 'Contrary to popular belief,' says Hathaway [Solar physicist David Hathaway], 'the solar cycle is not precisely 11 years long.' Its length, measured from minimum to minimum, varies: 'The shortest cycles are 9 years, and the longest ones are about 14 years.' What makes a cycle long or short? Researchers aren't sure. 'We won't even know if the current cycle is long or short - until it's over,' he says." [NASA News]
*Trivia: "This week in Boulder, Colorado, a group of leading solar physicists met to compare and discuss their predictions for the next solar maximum. On April 25th they held a press conference and announced ... a split decision. One camp holds that Solar Cycle 24 will be intense and peak in 2011; a second group predicts a much weaker maximum in 2012. [....]" [Based on: http://spaceweather.com/] - [04/28/07]
2012 - Solar Eclipse - November 13th, 2012: "To add to the growing list of novel occurrences, there will be two solar eclipses in 2012. During the first eclipse, which will occur on May 20, the Sun and moon will conjunct the Pleiades. The second eclipse, which will occur on November 13, marks a conjunction between the Sun, the moon, the constellation Serpens, or the serpent. Interestingly, the Pleiades was often associated with the rattle of a snake. The Mayan word for rattle is tzab, and is the same word used for the Pleiades cluster. These two eclipses which will occur in 2012 physically reflect the cosmic orobouros, which is the primordial serpent of eternity represented as a snake swallowing it’s own tail."
2012 - Astronomic Configuration - December 21st, 2012: "Sun [28 Sagittarius], Moon [8 Aries], Mercury [14 Sagittarius], Venus [6 Sagittarius], Mars [26 Capricorn], Jupiter [8 Gemini R], Saturn [8 Scorpio], Uranus [4 Aries], Neptune [0 Pisces], Pluto [8 Capricorn]."
2012 - Mayan Calendar Cycle End - December 23rd, 2012: "[....] The last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigesimal places. There were an infinitely larger number of units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), it is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the larger units are evidently supposed to be 13s in all larger places. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0, and the larger places are nowhere near the 13s that would match the end of the last creation.
This is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on October 13, 4772. The Classic Period Maya obviously did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. There will be a Baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 400 year period, but not the end of the age. [....]" [See: What else Mayanists say:]
[Based on: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread183760/pg]
*Trivia: "Interpreted by the modern dating system, the Mayan calendars not only depict the length of each of the 'suns' and nature of each of the catastrophes, but they also calculate the end of the present, fifth sun. The day will be 4 Ahau 3 Kankin, and it will be ruled by the Sun God, or ninth Lord of the Night. The moon will be eight days old, and it will be the third lunation in a series of six. The date corresponds to 23 December AD 2012. Modern astrologers who have charted the Mayan date for the end of the Fifth Sun calculate that there will be a most peculiar arrangement of planets at the time, indeed an arrangement so peculiar that it can only occur once in 45,200 years. [....] From this extraordinary pattern we might well expect an extraordinary effect." [Link: 1]
Trivia: "This cycle, also called the Great Cycle, lasts exactly 1,872,000 kin, 260 katun, 5200 tun, or approximately 5125.36 years. After years of considering data from archeology, ethnography, iconography, and astronomy, Mayanologists have determined that the date 0.0.0.0.0 corresponds to the Julian date 854283, which equates to August 11, 3114 BC in the Gregorian calendar. [....] The end date, 13.0.0.0.0 corresponds to the date December 21, 2012 AD. [....] The Maya considered the period of this Great Cycle to be equivalent to a World Age, or Sun, and thus the 5200 tun Long Count reflects a creation epoch. [....] The purpose of this cycle, which the Maya calibrated and mapped as the Long Count, was specially engineered to raise the frequency of vibration of humanity, the planet, and the solar system through a quickening and transformation of matter. This cycle climaxes when the entire historic process converges in the direction of the now, beyond the third dimension. As the Earth moves into a higher vibrational state, our collective reality will phase into synchronization with the larger galactic frame of reference. [....] The most well known prophetic icon in Mesoamerican culture is the sunstone calendar which depicts the five ages. Along the circumference of this image we find the twenty day glyphs that we’ve been talking about. The four square boxes located around the center circle symbolize the four previous ages. The figure in the center represents the present fifth and final age. As described in the previous section, a world age can be represented by the 5200 tun Great Cycle. Five Great Cycles (5 x 5200) equals one Grand Cycle of 26000 tun (remember 1 tun equals 360 days). The details of the creation and dissolution of these five ages are summarized in the Popul Vu creation myth. This cycle, slightly less than 26000 years, is specifically related to the precession of the equinoxes, which is caused by the 23 degree tilt in the Earth’s axis. [....] From this perspective, we are not only nearing the end of the Great Cycle of history, but we are about to close out an entire 26000 year Grand Cycle period of evolution. [....] The relevant connection between the Sun, the Sacred Tree, and the Mayan Calendar is shockingly simple. Researchers have discovered that the end of the Mayan Long Count coincides with a rare alignment between the Earth, the Sun, and the Galaxy. Specifically, the alignment we are talking about occurs when the winter solstice Sun of the year 2012 AD conjuncts the Sacred Tree (formed by the intersection of the ecliptic and the Milky Way). To be more precise, the solstice Sun aligns with the ecliptic and the galactic equator, which is the imaginary line that marks the center of the Milky Way band. Presently, the Milky Way crosses the ecliptic through the constellation of Sagittarius, which also happens to be the direction of Galactic Center. In other words, on the morning of Dec 12, 2012, we will witness the heliacal rising of the Galactic Center with the winter solstice Sun as they emerge together over the Eastern horizon. This convergence is determined by precession. It should be noted that the Sun conjuncts the Sacred Tree on December 3, 755 AD; however, precession has caused the conjunction date to approach the winter solstice. [....] The end of the 5th Sun was interpreted by the Maya to be the time of the release of the soul from the density of matter through a cosmic awakening of the divine plan."
2012 - Status? / Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty - "U.S. and Russia sign [05/24/02] the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty. Each nation agrees to cut its deployed strategic arsenal to 2,200 warheads by the end of 2012." [Based on: N.G.M., August 2005, p. 113]
2013 A.D
2013 - UFO's? - "[....] A date of 2013 was given as the time for official disclosure and/or when extraterrestrials show up in an unambiguous way. In the interim there will be acclimation related releases of information. Importantly, the source revealed that the events leading up to official disclosure will involve more ethically oriented extraterrestrials, and they will not pose a military threat to the world. [....] Overall, it appears that a countdown is underway to official disclosure around 2013, and that nation states and the UN are being briefed. The acclimation process will accelerate over the next five years as UFO sightings increase around the globe forcing governments to make public policy statements on UFOs and extraterrestrial life."
[Based on: Article (Source at U.N. tells of secret UFO meeting February 12, 2008 - (posted) February 13, 2008 at 19:47:46, by by Michael Salla, Ph.D.] For the purpose of this timeline, see: *Color Code
*Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__080213_source_at_u_n__tells.htm - [T.D. - 02/16/08]
2013 - Age of Aquarius? - According to one report: "Because there is no line in the heavens between the star constellations of the Zodiac, we find all the different shamans of the planet quoting us a different time for the start of our impending new age. Most people who are 'into' this esoteric knowledge point to the year A.D. 2000, plus or minus 40 years, as the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. According to one report, 'we will be fully into Aquarius, one degree, around the year 2013. Interestingly enough, the Mayan Calendar and many of the ancient dating systems on the planet actually end the cycle of this age in the year 2012'. Other reported dates for the Age of Aquarius include: 2,050, and 2,376 A.D."
2013 - Fiscal Irresponsibility / United States - "... Last week [October, 2003], three organizations joined at the Press Club to issue their first-ever joint statement on fiscal policy. The Committee for Economic Development, a group of business and education leaders; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning research and advocacy group; and the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan organization focussed on sound fiscal policy, called the current budgetary situation [2003] 'the most fiscally irresponsible' in American history. Staff members of the three groups said that a realistic picture of the next decade shows that it is likely that annual deficits will rise from current levels of $400 billion to more than $600 billion and total $5 trillion between 2004 and 2013, even assuming a quick return to healthy economic growth and lower unemployment. What this means - if current policies continue - is that balancing the budget by 2013 would require raising individual and corporate income taxes by 27 percent, cutting Social Security by 60 percent, cutting defense by 73 percent, or cutting all programs - except defense, homeland security, Social Security and Medicare - by 40 percent. And after 2013, the reality is that things will get worse." [Based on: article by David Broder, WASHINGTON]
2013 - Trivia / U.N. Global Warming Conference - "A U.N. conference on global warming ended Saturday [12/10/05] with more than 150 nations agreeing to open talks on mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases after 2012. The United States refused to go along. But the Americans accepted a second, weaker conference decision by agreeing to join an explatory global 'dialogue' on future steps to combat climate change. [....]" [Based on: A.P. article by Charles J. Hanley (U.S. to join 'dialogue' on climate), p. A15, S.L.P.D., 12/11/05]
2014 A.D
2014 - Rosetta Spacecraft - "A European spacecraft sped away from Earth's gravity Tuesday [03/02/04] after a flawless launch, beginning a 10-year journey to land on an icy comet [2014] in search of answers about the birth of the solar system and the origins of life on Earth." [News Services]
2014 - Future Combat System / U.S.A. - "Boeing said the first fully equipped FCS [Future Combat System] unit will be ready by 2014." [Based on: article by Tim McLaughlin, St Louis Post-Dispatch, 08/10/04]
*Trivia: "The Army's new system of digitally connected manned vehicles, robots and drones [FCS] is now projected to cost as much as $133 billion - up 45 percent from its earlier estimate of $92 billion. [....] Boeing Co., the world's largest aircraft maker, manages the system for the Army. The system won't be fully ready for combat until 2016 and must compete for funds with other Army demands: [....] The FCS is the Pentagon's second-most-expensive weapons system. Lockheed Martin Corp's Joint Strike Fighter, at $244 billion, is the costliest." [Based on: News Services, 03/15/05]
*Trivia: - "A St. Louis physicist [Stephen Thaler] created a computer program called the Creativity Machine that simulates what goes on in the human brain. It has invented new products, composed music, coined new words and frightened some who fear such self-aware machines could take over the world. [....] Thaler, too, is engineering independent robots. A glossy, black, plastic cockroach named H3 could be the prototype for swarms of bunker-busting robots that could seek out, explore and use collective intelligence to defeat an enemy target. The U.S. Air Force has contracted Thaler to create such robots. [....] Thaler's first contact with the Air Force used a Creativity Machine to help design warheads that reconfigure the pattern of schrapnel scattering. That's important to limit collateral damage and to save money by tailoring bombs to destroy a target in one hit. [....] Spy agencies want to use Thaler's technology to map the Internet and detect unusual behavior. [....] Sci-fi fans see similarity between Thaler's thinking machines and Skynet. There's even an eerie coincidence between the fictional satellite's Judgement Day - August 29th, 1997 - and the date the patent for Creativity Machine became final - August 19th, 1997." [Based on: article by Tina Hesman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 01/25/2004]
2015 A.D
2015 - Trivia / Muslim Minority, Europe - "The minimum birthrate necessary to keep a society going is 2.1 children per woman. Europe's birthrate [2004] is 1.5 and falling. The immigrants who are taking the place of Germans, Italians, French and others are largely Muslim. It is estimated that in England, Muslim worshippers at mosques already [2004] outnumber congregrants of the Church of England every weekend.
"About 5 percent of the European Union [2004] is Muslim, and historian Bernard Lewis told a German newspaper that Europe would be majority Islamic by the end of the century 'at the latest.' As Timothy Savage has noted in The Washington Quarterly, the United nation's estimates that Europe's native population will decline by 100 million or more in the next 50 years [2004-2054?]. The Muslim minority in Europe is quite fecund, however, and will double in size by 2015." [Based on: Mona Charen, Creators Syndicate, 10/04/04]2015 - Trivia / Health Care Costs, U.S.A. - February 22nd, 2006: "Within a decade, an aging America will spend one of every five dollars on health care, government analysts say. The nation's total health care bill by 2015 will total more than $4 trillion, they say. Consumers will foot about half the bill, the government the rest. [....]" [Based on: A.P. article (Health care cost put at $4 trillion by 2015), p. A3, S.L.P.D., 02/22/06]
*Trivia: "Overall health care spending in the United States will double over the next ten years to more than $4 trillion in 2015, according to a new snapshot prepared by the federal government. That's $4 trillion, with a T. At that rate, it would account for about $1 of every $5 in the economy. That's untenable. If preliminary government figures are correct, our national heath care bill for 2005 will be $6,700 for every man, woman and child. Even so, about 45 million people were uninsured. Per person spending is projected to rise to $12,300 by 2015. [....] To put those staggering figures in perspective, consider that American health spending didn't reach $1 trillion until 1996. Over the course of 20 years, with aging boomers needing more and more health care, it will be quadruple. [....] American business should be leading the charge for a national health plan. Instead, many companies have joined state and national politicians trying to shift more and more of rising health costs onto the shoulders of workers. Millions of retirees will have no company-paid health care at all. [....]" [Based on: Opinion Page article (Future shock: $4,000,000,000,000 in 2015), p. C12, S.L.P.D., 02/24/06]
2015 - Trivia / Military Health Care, U.S.A. - "[....] The Defense Department's escalating health care costs - estimated at $37 billion this year [2006] - threaten to cut into funds used to train and equip U.S. troops, Rumsfeld told the Armed Services Committee. [....] The defense department's health care costs have almost doubled from $19 billion in 2001. Rumsfeld said a big culprit is the escalation of benefits added by Congress, often without hearings. [....] Using what Rumsfeld called a conservative projection, military health care costs likely will reach $64 billion in fiscal 2015, accounting for 12 percent of the Pentagon's budget. Health care costs were 4.5 percent of the Pentagon's budget in 1990. [....] Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs of Staff agree that the current military health care system is unsustainable and propose that military retirees pay higher premiums and more for certain out-of-pocket expenses. Any cutbacks face stiff opposition in Congress, where paring benefits for soldiers in a time of war is potential political suicide. Earlier this week, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., criticized proposed increases for military retiree healthcare. [....]" [Based on: Article (Military health care plan eases pressure), p. C2, S.L.P.D., 02/09/06]
2018 A.D
2018 - Trivia / Mercury Emissions, U.S.A. - "A new rule [2005] cutting power plant mercury emissions in half in the next 15 years will likely face legal challenges, because environmental groups say the plan isn't strict enough. [....] Under the new regulations, utilities would be required to reduce mercury emissions frim the current 48 tons a year to 38 tons by 2010. This would be accomplished through air pollution controls required under the Clean Air Interstate Rule, a separate rule issued last week aimed at cutting fine particles from sulfur dioxide and smog-forming nitrogen oxides. In the second phase, starting in 2018, utilities would have to cut emissions down to 15 tons a year. The EPA designed a 'cap-and-trade' approach that sets a maximum on how much pollution should be allowed, then lets companies trade credits within those limits. Critics say that could lead to local 'hot spots' of mercury, and they want each plant to be required to install the 'maximum achievable' pollution controls. EPA said the rule would reduce emissions by 70 percent from current levels, but agency officials said Tuesday [03/15/05] it would be sometime after 2020 when that actually happened." [Based on: article by Sara Shipley, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 03/16/05]
2018 - Solvent? / Medicare Trust Fund, U.S.A. - "The trustees for the government's two biggest benefit programs said Monday [05/01/06] that the trust fund for Social Security would be depleted in 2040 - a year earlier than expected - and that Medicare would exhaust its trust fund just 12 years from now. [....] The trust funds contain the equivalent of government IOUs. To raise the actual cash to meet obligations, the government must either borrow more money from the public by issuing marketable Treasury securities, raise taxes or cut spending in other programs. [....]" [Based on: A.P. article (Solvency shortened for Social Security, Medicare), p. A3, S.L.P.D., 05/02/06]
2018 - Status? / Social Security Trust Fund, U.S.A. - "Social security is projected to fall into the red in 2018 and to use up its surplus in 2042." [Knight Ridder Newspapers article by Ken Moritsugu, March 2004]
2019 A.D
2019 - Medicare Status / United States - "WASHINGTON - Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly, will fall into deficit this year [2004] and exhaust its surplus funds by 2019, seven years earlier than expected, according to new projections released Tuesday [03/23/04]." [Knight Ridder Newspapers]
2020 A.D
2020 - Status? / Voyager 1 - "NASA's venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have reached the edge of the solar system 28 years after its launching [1977], scientists said Tuesday [05/24/05]. [....] When it entered the heliosheath, Voyager 1 was 8.7 billion miles away - the farthest any manmade object has ever traveled. Its speed is 46,000 mph. The craft is expected to operate until 2020, when its battery will fail. [....]" [Based on: News Services, 05/25/05]
2020 - End? / Atomic Energy, Germany - "In Germany Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder agreed with heads of the nuclear power industry to end the use of atomic energy. With an expected life span of 32 years closure would occur by 2020." [S.L.P.D., 06/14/00]
2020 - Trivia / Mercury Emissions, U.S.A. - "A new rule [2005] cutting power plant mercury emissions in half in the next 15 years will likely face legal challenges, because environmental groups say the plan isn't strict enough. [....] Under the new regulations, utilities would be required to reduce mercury emissions frim the current 48 tons a year to 38 tons by 2010. This would be accomplished through air pollution controls required under the Clean Air Interstate Rule, a separate rule issued last week aimed at cutting fine particles from sulfur dioxide and smog-forming nitrogen oxides. In the second phase, starting in 2018, utilities would have to cut emissions down to 15 tons a year. The EPA designed a 'cap-and-trade' approach that sets a maximum on how much pollution should be allowed, then lets companies trade credits within those limits. Critics say that could lead to local 'hot spots' of mercury, and they want each plant to be required to install the 'maximum achievable' pollution controls. EPA said the rule would reduce emissions by 70 percent from current levels, but agency officials said Tuesday [03/15/05] it would be sometime after 2020 when that actually happened." [Based on: article by Sara Shipley, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 03/16/05]
2020 - Trivia / Greenhouse Gases, U.S.A. - March 4th, 2007: "By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases that lead to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies. [NP] That projection comes from an internal draft report from the Bush administration that is more than a year overdue at the United Nations. The Associated Press obtained a copy Saturday [03/03/07]. [NP] The United States already is responsible for about one-quarter of the world's carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for global warming. [NP] The draft report, which still is being completed, projects that the Bush administration's climate policy would result in the emission of 9.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases in 2020, a 19 percent increase from 7.7 billion tons in 2000. [....]" [Based on: A.P. article (U.S. projected to spew more greenhouse gases) by John Heilprin, p. A1, S.L.P.D., 03/04/07]
2025 A.D
2025 - AIDS Toll? / Africa - "More than 80 million Africans might die from AIDS by 2025, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday [03/03/05]. And infections could soar to 90 million - or more than 10 percent of the continent's population - if more isn't done soon to fight the disease, the report said. More than 25 million Africans have been infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. UNAIDS estimated that nearly $200 billion is needed to save 16 million people from death and 43 million people from becoming infected, but donors have pledged nowhere near that amount. [....]" [Based on: News Services, S.L.P.D., p. A4, 03/04/05]
2025 - Power Over Oil / Middle East - "The U.S. government's Energy Information Administration projects that in 20 years [2025?], the Persian Gulf will supply between one-half and two-thirds of the oil on the world market - the same percentage as before the 1973 embargo. Fifty years later, in other words, the Middle East will have regained all its old power over oil - and the U.S. government knows it. Whether or not Washington's war in Iraq was directly motivated by oil, American planners clearly hoped it would lay the groundwork for a stable, democratic Middle East - which, among other benefits, would in Washington's view put the world's oil supply in more trustworthy hands." [National Geographic Magazine, p. 108, June 2004]
2026 A.D
2026 - Shortage of Soldiers? / Europe - "Europe's declining population will leave its armed forces facing a manpower shortage in 20 years, forcing governments to shrink their armies, develop more robot weapons or outsource military tasks, according to a report. [....]" [Based on: News Services article (Study says Europe will face shortage of soldiers), p. A11, S.L.P.D., 10/03/06]
2029 A.D
2029 - Near Earth Asteroid? / 2004 MN4 - April 13th, 2029: "An asteroid expected to fly past Earth in 2029 will be visible to the naked eye .... [....] The rock, catalogued as 2004 MN4, was discovered last June [2004]. It was seen again in December, and for a time scientists said it had the highest odds of hitting Earth ever given to a space rock. Subsequent observations refined the future path and eliminated those odds for the 2029 flyby. It won't hit the Moon, either. This week [February 2005] , NASA scientists used new observations from the Arecibo Observatory to further pin down the track of 2004 MN4. On April 13, 2029, it will be about 22,600 miles (36,350 kilometers) from Earth's center. That is just below the altitude of geosynchronous satellites, which hover in fixed perches above the planet to communicate with and collect data on half the globe at all times. [....]"
[Based on: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/050204_2004_mn4.html]
2030 A.D
2030 - Wind Power? / U.S.A. - "Report [U.S. Energy Department - 05/12/08] forsees wind providing 21 pct. of U.S. energy by 2030 / House is expected to consider extending credits to renewable energy companies." [Based on: Title & Subtitle for Cox News Service article by Bob Keefe, p A5, S.L.P.D., 05/13/08]
2030 - No. 3 Cause of Death Worldwide / HIV/AIDS? - "Within the next 25 years, AIDS is predicted to join heart disease and stroke as one of the top causes of death worldwide, according to a study published online Monday [11/17/06]. [....] Currently ranked fourth behind heart disease, stroke and respiratory infections, AIDS is set to become No. 3, say researchers in a new report in the Public Library of Science's Medicine journal. [....]" [Based on: A.P. article (AIDS may climb to No. 3 global cause of death) by Maria Cheng, p. A4, S.L.P.D., 11/28/06]
*Trivia: "HIV/AIDS ranking - A Public Library of Science Medicine journal report indicates HIV/AIDS may surpass lower respiratory infections to become the third leading cause of death. Causes: Heart disease 2002 (1), 2030 (1); Cerebrovascular disease 2002 (2), 2030 (2); Lower respiratory infections 2002 (3), 2030 (5); HIV/AIDS 2002 (4), 2030 (3); Bronchitis, emphysema 2002 (5), 2030 (4); Perinatal conditions 2002 (6), 2030 (9); Diarrheal diseases 2002 (7), 2030 (16); Tuberculosis 2002 (8), 2030 (23); Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers 2002 (9), 2030 (6); Road traffic accidents 2002 (10), 2030 (8). [Based on: Illustrated chart for A.P. article (AIDS may climb to No. 3 global cause of death) by Maria Cheng, p. A4, S.L.P.D., 11/28/06] - [Source: Public Library of Science Medicine Journal / AP]
2035 A.D
2035 - Trivia / U.S. Retirement Benefits - "Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday [08/27/04] that the country will face 'abrupt and painful' choices if Congress does not move quickly to trim the Social Security and Medicare benefits that have been promised to the baby boom generation. [....] In his remarks, Greenspan said that the projected doubling of the U.S. population over the age of 65 by 2035 would add to the government's budget deficit problems. [....] Greenspan acknowledged that any decisions to trim benefits or boost payroll taxes could be difficult politically, but he said those decisions must be made and made quickly to give baby boomers time to adjust." [Based on: A.P. article by Martin Crutsinger, 08/28/04]
2039 A.D
2039 - Social Security Cuts? / U.S.A. - "Social Security benefits promised to retirees would have to be cut by nearly a third by 2039 if no changes are made to the system to keep it afloat, congressional investigators said Tuesday [8/29/03]." [Based on: The Associated Press]
2040 A.D
2040 - Solvent? / Social Security Trust Fund, U.S.A. - "The trustees for the government's two biggest benefit programs said Monday [05/01/06] that the trust fund for Social Security would be depleted in 2040 - a year earlier than expected - and that Medicare would exhaust its trust fund just 12 years from now. [....] The trust funds contain the equivalent of government IOUs. To raise the actual cash to meet obligations, the government must either borrow more money from the public by issuing marketable Treasury securities, raise taxes or cut spending in other programs. [....]" [Based on: A.P. article (Solvency shortened for Social Security, Medicare), p. A3, S.L.P.D., 05/02/06]
2042 A.D
2042 - Social Security Surplus? / U.S.A. - "Social security is projected to fall into the red in 2018 and to use up its surplus in 2042." [Based on: article by Ken Moritsugu, Knight Ridder Newspapers, March 2004]
2046 A.D
2046 - Astronomic Configuration - Uranus-Pluto [Virgo/Pisces] opposition [2046-2048]. 1965 Uranus-Pluto conjunctions and oppositions might bring sudden and radical changes, like a cathartic diarrhoea, yet their full integration takes ages."
2050 A.D
2050 - Status / Alpine Glaciers - "Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europe's environmental agency warned Wednesday [08/18/04]. The European Environment Agency said much more needs to be done - and fast. Climate change 'will considerably affect our societies and environments for decades and centuries to come,' its 107-page report says. It says rising temperatures could eliminate three-quarters of the Alpine glaciers by 2050. [....]" [By Jan M. Olsen, A.P., 08/19/04]
*Trivia: "Report warns of glaciers' loss / They may be gone from the Alps in less than 50 years, experts predict" [Based on: Title & Subtitle for A.P. article, p. A8, S.L.P.D., 01/23/07]
2050 - World Population Forecast - "A Census Bureau report [March 2004] forecasted that there would be 9.1 billion people by 2050, a nearly 50 percent increase from the 6.2 billion in 2002."
*Trivia: "The next 40 to 45 years will be the most important in human history because all of the arable land will be settled and countries like China and India will become industrialized, a leading analyst of global agricultural issues said Tuesday [05/17/05]. With an estimated world population of 9.6 billion by mid-century, 'We will have completed the taking of this Earth,' said Frank Tugwell, chairman and chief executive of Winrock International, a nonprofit that works in energy, environment and rural development. 'There will be one human being per arable acre,' Tugwell told participants on the second day of the three-day World Agricultural Forum at the Chase Park Plaza hotel [St. Louis, Mo.]. [....] In an interview, Tugwell stressed that with about 3.6 billion more people on the planet by 2050, 'We'll see the end of the fossil-fuel economy. We know the population will increase by 50 percent, so we'll need to produce 50 percent more food because people want to eat better.' [....] Tolman [chief executive of the National Corn Growers Association, Rick Tolman] and other panelists noted that U.S. automakers haven't made it easy for motorists to use ethanol in their cars because they haven't installed devices that allow the vehicles to burn 85 percent ethanol fuel. Major oil companies also have been reluctant to add ethanol to their gasoline, panelists said, even though no harm is known to be caused by the corn-based fuel. [....]" [Based on: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 05/18/05]
*Trivia: "[....] Last year [2004], the Census Bureau [U.S.A.] projected that whites and minority groups overall would be roughly equal in number [in U.S.A.] by 2050." [Based on: A.P., 06/09/05]
2050 - Trivia / Alzheimer's Disease - "More than 26 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease, and a new forecast says the number will quadruple by 2050. [NP] At that rate, one in 85 people will have the brain-destroying disease in 40 years, researchers at Johns Hopkins University say. [NP] A recent U.S. study estimated that this nation's Alzheimer's toll will reach 16 million by 2050, compared with more than 5 million today." [Based on: Title for News Services article (Alzheimer's cases expected to rise sharply), p A3, S.L.P.D., 06/10/07]
2050 - Most Populous Country / India? - "According to Carl Haub, a demographer with the Population Reference Bureau [March 2004], The population of India is expected to rise more than 50 percent to 1.6 billion in 2050, surpassing China as the most populous country."
2050 - Status / Natural Disaster Insurance - "A 2002 report issued by reinsurance behemoth Munich Re Group notes that insurance payouts for natural disasters are rising as climate change kicks in and more people in disaster-prone areas buy policies. If the trend continues, by 2050 payments will exceed the combined current GNP of every nation on the planet, no asteroid required." [Wired News, April 2004]
2050 - Minority Population / United States - "WASHINGTON - For as long as there has been an America, whites have made up a clear majority. But that will change by 2050, when minority groups will be 49.9 percent of the population, the Census Bureau says." [Genarco C. Armas, A.P., 03/18/2004]
2050 - Endangered Coral / Great Barrier Reef - "A new report warns that rising ocean temperatures will kill most of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef by 2050, an official said Sunday [02/22/04]." [A.P.]
2050 - Looming Funding Crisis? / British Pension System - "The British government said Wednesday [11/30/05] it would consider raising the retirement age as high as 69 as recommended by a panel commissioned to avert a looming funding crisis in the state pension system as people live longer and have fewer children. The Pensions Commission, appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2002, also said the state pension should be increased and proposed creating a National Pension Savings System in which every worker would be enrolled automatically. [....] But Hutton [Work & Pensions Secretary, John Hutton] said changes have to be made. He noted there will be 50 percent more pensioners by 2050 and said nearly 10 million people of working age are not saving enough for their retirement. Britain's state pension, currently [2005?] paid to women beginning at age 60 and men at 65, is $138 a week." [Based on: A.P. article (Britain may raise retirement age), p. A9, S.L.P.D., 12/01/05]
2078 A.D
2078 - Astronomic Configuration - "Uranus-Neptune [Capricorn/Cancer] opposition [2078-2081]."
22nd Century A.D
2100 - PH Status / Earth's Oceans - "Whether or not carbon dioxide contributes to global warming, it is turning the oceans acidic, Britain's leading scientific organization warned Thursday [06/30/05]. [....] The burning of fossil fuels by cars and power plants releases more than 25 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year. Roughly a third of that is absorbed by the oceans, where the gas undergoes chemical reactions that produce carbonic acid, which is corrosive to shells. [....] Depending on the rate of fossil fuel burning, the PH of ocean water near the surface is expected to drop to 7.7 to 7.9 by 2100, lower than any time in the last 420,000 years, the Royal Society report said." [Based on: New York Times, 07/01/05]
2104 - Astronomic Configuration - "Uranus-Pluto [Taurus] conjunction. Uranus-Pluto conjunctions and oppositions might bring sudden and radical changes, like a cathartic diarrhoea, yet their full integration takes ages."
2154 - Astronomic Configuration - Uranus-Pluto [Sagattarius/Gemini] opposition [2154-2155]. Uranus-Pluto conjunctions and oppositions might bring sudden and radical changes, like a cathartic diarrhoea, yet their full integration takes ages."
2061 - Perihelion? / Halley's Comet - July 28th, 2061 A.D.: "Next perihelion predicted 28 July 2061"
[Based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet] - [T.D. - 06/12/07]
2165 - Astronomic Configuration - "Uranus-Neptune [Aquarius] conjunction. Uranus-Neptune energies work surreptitiously. They influence awareness and the inner movies playing within the world psyche."
23rd Century A.D
2200 - Age of Aquarius? - According to one report: "The Age of Pisces ends and the Age of Aquarius begins." [Links: 1, 2]
24th Century A.D
2376 - Age of Aquarius? - "Vernal Equinox enters the constellation of Aquarius as defined by the sidereal zodiac of Fagan and Bradley."
2384 - Configuration - "Neptune-Pluto [11-12 Gemini] conjunction. Neptune-Pluto cycles last about 495 years - half a millennium. They characterise an underlying driving-force behind history, an undertow of reality which marries the inevitable ram-force of Pluto with the imaginal, ideational power of Neptune. This combined force helps us define our underlying historical reality on a collective-unconscious level - this world-view and body of collective experience being a combination of actualities and perceptions." [Link: 1]
34th Century A.D
3370 - Astronomic Configuration - "A Stellium, includes three or more planets conjunct each other within close succession. Amongst the outermost planets, this happened only once in recorded history, in the 570s BCE - though within only three years. 1989 saw a stellium involving Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and stelliums of this kind are more common. A stellium represents a tremendous ending and new beginning, a concurrence of three or more cycles. The past is lost, and a journey into a wide-open future follows.
121st Century A.D
12,004 - Trivia / Nuclear Waste, United States - "Scientists agree that some radionuclides to be kept at Yucca Mountain would reach their peak of danger well beyond 10,000 years. But the EPA maintained that computer models for any time beyond that are unreliable and essentially useless." [Based on: H. Josef Hebert, A.P.,07/10/04]
1546th Century A.D
154,587 - Trivia / Mayan Calendar - November 22nd, 154,587: "According to one report, the Mayan calendar does not end on December 23, 2012, but continues on until the date November 22, 154,587 A.D."
4289th Century A.D
428,898 - Maha Yuga - "Theoretical date for the end of the current Maha Yuga, or Great World Age. The end of this cycle will reportedly initiate another 4,320,000-year great [Maha] cycle [Yuga]. According to tradition, the ages alternate between cosmic 'Days' and 'Nights' where each cycle [Manvantara?] represents a multiple of 4,320,000 years." [Link: 1]
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