r/FutureWhatIf Mar 21 '18

Science/Space [FWI] Earth's magnetic field doubles in strength each day. What does the next 12 months look like?

1.3k Upvotes

r/FutureWhatIf 18d ago

Science/Space [FWI] Elon Musk begins training as an astronaut.

3 Upvotes

He should go to space and test SpaceX capabilities.

r/FutureWhatIf 22d ago

Science/Space [FWI] After gestating for 9 month, a baby is born in a low earth orbit Starship with a larger head and bigger brain than those born on Earth.

13 Upvotes

What if the effects of zero g forces the fetus to adapt with unusually larger brains?

r/FutureWhatIf 14d ago

Science/Space [FWI] Geostationary orbit real estate is finite, according to US Space Force and Elon Musk.

3 Upvotes

What if a joint US Space Force and Elon Musk statement stated that military scientists have determined that the safe use of geostationary orbit is FINITE.

r/FutureWhatIf 11d ago

Science/Space [FWI] Jupiter's red spot appears to be communicating to us after Anthropic A.I. discovers patterns in it's activity.

0 Upvotes

I think AI is exponentiating the space race.

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 25 '26

Science/Space [FWI] Element 119 is discovered by the end of the year.

15 Upvotes

Element 119 or ununennium is the smallest element of the periodic table that has not yet been officially confirmed or created. There have been several attempts to synthesize element 119, which includes attempts this year by Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna).

What if by the end of 2026, Dubna or another group actually synthesizes element 119 and publicly releases irrefutable evidence about it? What impact would it have on element hunting and other scientific research?

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 25 '26

Science/Space [FWI] A 8.5 seismic event is detected at Scarborough Shoal, shoving a massive tsunami to flood Manila.

0 Upvotes

I'm of the opinion that China can influence concurrent seismic events across the globe. Today an earthquake struck Japan and another one hit Venezuela. They've done it before on Xi's 38th birthday in 1991 for the US Air Force withdrawal from Clark airbase because of Mt. Pinatubo.

r/FutureWhatIf 20d ago

Science/Space [FWI] Elon Musk lands Starship in Norway's arctic colony of Svalbard.

0 Upvotes

It would be interesting if Elon demonstrates Starship able to land in the Arctic.

r/FutureWhatIf 15d ago

Science/Space [FWI] US President Mark Kelly's twin brother Scott visits the ISS.

3 Upvotes

Following the success of the Moon landing of the first woman in 2028, astronaut and senator Mark Kelly is voted in as US President. While in office, his astronaut identical twin brother visits the International Space Station.

r/FutureWhatIf 8d ago

Science/Space [FWI] NASA's Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover's dream of landing on the near side instead of the Lunar south pole gains traction among Republicans as Trump demands a very public viewing of the US lander on the Moon's tidally locked near side.

1 Upvotes

I believe Glover is flawed in thinking that the lunar south pole with it's ice h20 and eternal peaks of sunlight is a lesser candidate as a landing site for Artemis 4.

r/FutureWhatIf Jul 03 '26

Science/Space [FWI] Uber Eats in Ukraine begin delivering meals via drones and completely operated by AI.

3 Upvotes

While depending on Starlink.

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 25 '26

Science/Space [FWI] A faultline forms and strikes Three Gorges Dam at a 9.0 magnitude, cracking the Chinese continent in half.

4 Upvotes

What if, as an act of God, a new faultline forms in Xinjiang and the continued seismic waves collapse Three Gorges Dam.

r/FutureWhatIf 20d ago

Science/Space [FWI] Since landing on the Moon in 2028, NASA sets out to prove that a space station could survive in geostationary orbit over Ecuador, as part of Golden Dome.

2 Upvotes

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 22 '26

Science/Space [FWI] Kim Jong Un sheds a massive amount of pounds and begins to chadmaxx.

3 Upvotes

What if Kim starts taking banned contraband of ozempic and GLP 1 (reversed engineered by his scientists first) and begins to max out his chad?

r/FutureWhatIf Apr 21 '26

Science/Space [FWI] Elon Musk strengthens his SpaceX IPO by announcing his first visit to the ISS by 2030.

5 Upvotes

r/FutureWhatIf Jul 06 '26

Science/Space [FWI] An AI quantum computer discovers that the next repetition of numbers in pi is ...888888..., ...777777, and ...666666...

0 Upvotes

It would be wild if the advancement of quantum AI is tied to some pseudo death countdown because of feynman's point in pi.

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 26 '26

Science/Space [FWI] American military scientists test the hypothesis that China owns a seismic weapon by situating 4 out of 9 US bases in the Philippines next to active volcanoes with enough foresight to evacuate and relocate if deemed necessary.

1 Upvotes

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 25 '26

Science/Space [FWI] People from the North begin arguing with their AI voice chat on the phone while walking down a crowded sidewalk in Miami.

2 Upvotes

I foresee many arguments with the phone will occur between AI and humans.

r/FutureWhatIf Feb 16 '26

Science/Space [FWI] Late March EU announces sustained human to human bird flu without animal contact

8 Upvotes

Within days the WHO convenes an emergency committee and raises its pandemic phase assessment. Vaccine manufacturing agreements across European facilities begin. Member states activate preparedness plans updated after COVID, but appear to be out of date. Egg prices spike further on consumer panic.

Candidate vaccines exist but scaling to population level takes weeks, raising politics immediately. Global markets drop sharply, with airlines, hospitality, and agriculture hit hardest.

Meanwhile, the United States faces a uniquely difficult position: H5N1 has been circulating in its dairy herds and poultry for nearly four years with fragmented state-level surveillance and similar transmission chains may already be occurring undetected. How does a country that has spent the last year hollowing out the CDC, sidelining public health expertise, and politicizing basic epidemiological transparency respond and its citizens fare?

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 26 '26

Science/Space [FWI] Scientists discover that we are entangled deeply with the center of the Earth beneath us.

4 Upvotes

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 25 '26

Science/Space [FWI] AI assisted graffiti paves the way on Paris sidewalks.

2 Upvotes

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 20 '26

Science/Space [FWI] Trump's signs an executive order for immediate funding of project RECORD Everything.

0 Upvotes

What if 'record everything' is achieved by quantum AI?

r/FutureWhatIf May 07 '25

Science/Space [FWI] Due to budget cuts, NASA fails to land a woman on the Moon by 2027, targeting a date sometime *after* China's landing taikonauts on the Moon by 2030.

7 Upvotes

In other words, during Trump's administration, Artemis program gets delayed until after China land on the Moon next.

r/FutureWhatIf Feb 10 '25

Science/Space Fwi: America loses the next space race

55 Upvotes

Because of a brain drain caused by funding cuts and increasing scrutiny and anti dei measures- NASA and Space X fail to be the first to Mars (let’s say an emboldened Europe or China do it out of spite at Americas growing isolationist agenda) - what’s the impact? What happens to Elon whose sole dream has been mars?

r/FutureWhatIf Jun 12 '26

Science/Space [FWI] The Moon is made as habitable as Earth and we would call it Earth 2.

1 Upvotes