2070s

Notable predictions and known events

2070

• February – An Active SETI message called Teen Age Message sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, HD 197076 star.

2071

• The Prospero satellite, also known as the X-3, is expected to fall to Earth.^{[citation needed]}

2072

• The full results of the 2000 United States Census will become available for public viewing.

2074

• The Green Wall of China is scheduled to be completed.

2076

• Sedna—In 2076, around May 31, the planetoid 90377 Sedna is expected to reach its perihelion, its closest point to the Sun. It is expected to reach a distance of 76 AU, or 76 times the distance Earth is from the Sun. Sedna has a highly elliptical orbit, thus it is difficult to locate —at its aphelion, it reaches about 942 AU. This date is subject to adjustment as Sedna's orbit is still being refined.

2079

• On May 1, 2079, a total solar eclipse is predicted for Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada.
• On June 6, 2079 the smalldatetime fields in SQL-Server databases will wrap around to January 1, 1900.
• August 11, 2079, Mercury occults Mars first time since 578. Difficult to observe, but best observable occultation of a planet by an other in the 21st century.

Religious references

• Bede computed that the world would end in 2076, extrapolating from Biblical references and the year of Jesus' birth.^[1]

Fictional references

• The 1970s cartoon, Jabberjaw, is set in an underwater civilization in 2076.
• The game Forsaken takes place in 2077.
• The 4th Edition of Shadowrun takes place in the 2070s.
• The animated film Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip has some scenes that take place in 2070.
• In Judge Dredd (in the comic 2000 AD) 2070 was the year President Robert L. Booth started the Atomic Wars. Booth, last president of the United States, was deposed. The following year the Battle of Armageddon took place, leading to the defeat of Booth's forces.^[2]
• The events of the anime series Cowboy Bebop take place in 2071. The events of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie takes place during Halloween of that year.
• The computer game System Shock begins on November 6, 2072, and the computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War also occurs in this year.
• The film Equilibrium takes place in 2072.
• The Evil Dexter clone from Dexter's Laboratory as mentioned in the episode "Over Labbing" will destroy Dexter in 2072.
• The back-story to Antihero for Hire lists 2075 as the year Canada invaded the United States with an army of genetically modified dinosaurs.
• The manga and anime series Planetes takes place in the year 2075.
• In Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar Declaration of Independence is sent to Earth on July 4, 2076; much of the book takes place in 2076.
• Chou Ninja Tai Inazuma! is set in the year 2076. Its sequel SPARK is set in the following year.
• In the computer game series Fallout a nuclear world war takes place on October 23, 2077.
• Screamers is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film released in 1995 and set 83 years later in 2078.
• The film Cyborg 2 starring Angelina Jolie is set in 2074.
• Judge Dredd graduates from the Academy of Law.
• The events that set the novel Ender's Game into motion take place in 2070.
• The Sega Saturn video game Gun Griffon: The Eurasian Conflict takes place in the year 2074.
• In commercials for the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation 9 was said to be released in 2078.
• The Nickleodeon cartoon series My Life as a Teenage Robot takes place in 2072. This is determined when title character Jenny reveals she was activated five years previously, prompting her friend Brad to ask if that meant she did not remember Super Bowl 100.
• The novel Rash by Pete Hautman takes place in the year 2074.
• In the Fallout (series) of video games, the Great War, two hours of nuclear war that led to the devastation of Earth, happened in 2077.

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