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the year is 2289. Russia fully occupies Venus. USA controls most parts of Mars. China has an estimated ownership of 80% of all astroids in our planetary system.
by holoduke 6y ago
the year is 2289. Russia fully occupies Venus. USA controls most parts of Mars. China has an estimated ownership of 80% of all astroids in our planetary system.
Europe is still not aligned on budgeting and long term planning.
- adrianN 6y agoYou're very optimistic if you believe today's political structures will have anything to do with what we'll have in 250 years.
- maze-le 6y ago> the year is 2289. Gazprom fully occupies Venus. Walmart controls most parts of Mars. Cosco has an estimated ownership of 80% of all astroids in our planetary system. Volkswagen is still not aligned on budgeting and long term planning.
- extrememacaroni 6y ago> spaceship software runs on Electron
- josefx 6y agoA total of three hundred instances split over twenty Kubernetes clusters. A set of specifically trained A.I. monitors their output to derive action plans from their completely random and constant disagreement. It is the age of the congress class supercomputers.
- LarvaFX 6y agoIt kinda does already. The displays in SpaceX capsule are chrome based...
- jacobush 6y agoOh dear.
- alecco 6y agoWelcome to Costco, I love you.
- Aperocky 6y agotbh asteroids are where the moneys at. The larger planets have too much gravity to ship anything from/to. Asteroids on the other hand can facilitate interplanetary trade and mining with minimum energy expenditure.
- throwaway2048 6y agoNot such a wild guess, Today's structures have plenty to do with those from 250 years ago.
- pjc50 6y agoThe year is 1770. The Qianlong Emperor rules the Qing dynasty China, roughly corresponding to its modern borders. The British Empire has just captured Bengal from the Mughal Empire. The United States has yet to become independent, and consists of thirteen colonies on the eastern coast. A future president is defending the accused in a police shooting case in Boston. Spain is still a world power. The Holy Roman Empire still exists; modern Germany does not. Russia is suffering from a pandemic.
- throwaway2048 6y agoYet China, Russia, the UK and the Spanish world still all exist and are major players on the world stage.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoThe year is 2020. Emperor Xi of the communist dynasty rule China. After ruling a good chunk of the world the British have forgone their empire in favor of just being really good friends with the ones who have the most money and natural resources much to the same effect. The HRE has been replaced with a different conglomeration of peoples in the same general area. Russia is ruled by what's basically a czar/emperor and suffering a pandemic. National borders and systems of government in mainland Europe have been somewhat unstable ever since 486AD. I don't see why the difference between the HRE and Germany matters. The point is there's a strong central European power. Other than a few upstarts being added to the list of "countries other countries have to take seriously" things have been pretty much the same.
- qayxc 6y ago> don't see why the difference between the HRE and Germany matters. The point is there's a strong central European power. The HRE was neither a "strong power" by any means nor a (German-) nation state. The only ones that referred to the HRE as "The First Reich" were the Nazis for propaganda reasons. In reality the so called "empire" was a decentralised, loose association of kingdoms and duchies struggling against each other for power. The was no nation state, no central government and no standing army. The HRE had more in common with the Commonwealth of Nations than a single state.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoDespite some players coming and going from the table and re-drawing of lines inside Europe things haven't changed that much. The big change was going from agrarian societies with supporting industry to industrialized societies with supporting agriculture.