Next Halley’s Comet visit will be 2061. If I’m alive I’ll be 87 🤔
Who else watched it in 1986?
I’m trying to make a list of historic events I’m very sure will happen in the future within my lifetime if I’m still alive, and this is literally the only thing I can think of.
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I saw it... had made a small telescope at home, specifically to watch it :)
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I tried! Stood in my back yard with binoculars and a telescope night after night. Never managed to see it myself, but I wasn't the world's greatest 9-year-old astronomer, either.
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It was not easy seeing, since it was kinda at an angle close to the sun or something iirc... I only saw it as a dim fuzzy ball. No glorious tail.
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There are lots of astronomical events, but nearer term, the 2020 election and the next bitcoin halfening. Longer term, the 2038 Unix timestamp rollover - and that's the only human-influenced one I'd be sure about that far out.
(I'm guessing we won't move Halley's comet, but...?)
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Well astronomical you have to pick somewhat charismatic ones that are close in and have some human history significance
I guess we can bet on a few Unix computers being around in 2038 preserved by the zombie resistance force
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“Within my lifetime if I’m still alive”. If I had a baby elephant I’d get it to wash my car if I had a car.
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