Statistics for Events in the Far Future

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Years from Now	Event Description	Answer	% Correct
24,110	This place in Eastern Europe will return to normal radiation levels	Chernobyl Exclusion Zone	100%
15,000	This large desert will regain a tropical climate	Sahara Desert	100%
50 million	This planet will have experienced a collision with its moon Phobos	Mars	92%
5.4 billion	This near and dear star will exhaust its hydrogen supply and swell into a red giant	The Sun	92%
50 million	The African plate will collide with the Eurasian plate, and this sea will disappear	Mediterranean Sea	85%
50,000	This North American waterfall will completely erode and cease to exist	Niagara Falls	85%
1,100	Gamma Cephei will replace Polaris as this	North Star	85%
50,000	A day on Earth is expected to be one ______ longer than at present	Second	85%
250,000	The newest island of this Pacific Ocean archipelago will have risen up	Hawaiian Islands	77%
600 million	The moon will move far enough from the Earth that these shadowy phenomenon will not be possible anymore	Solar Eclipses	69%
1 million	This Egyptian landmark will erode into unrecognizablility	Great Pyramid of Giza	62%
7.5 billion	As their star expands, Earth and Mars could become tidally ______, with only one of their sides facing the star	Locked	62%
1 billion	The Golden Records above these spacecraft will be unplayable	Voyager spacecraft	54%
10,000	The Svalbard Global Seed _____ is expected to last this long	Vault	46%
500,000	This national park in South Dakota will erode completely	Badlands National Park	31%