2047

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2047 (MMXLVII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2047th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 47th year of the 3rd millennium, the 47th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2040s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

In fiction

• In the Command and Conquer universe, the Third Tiberium War is started when the Brotherhood of Nod destroys the Global Defense Initiative's orbital command centre, the Philadelphia, using a nuclear missile.
• In the Star Trek universe the city of Los Angeles is struck by the Hermosa Earthquake Archived 2011-05-06 at the Wayback Machine causing parts of the city to fall into the sea.
• In Event Horizon (film), a search-and-rescue team is sent to a decaying space ship orbiting Neptune where an unimaginable horror awaits them.
• The English localization of Snatcher for the Sega CD, an adventure game originally released in Japan for various platforms, moved the setting from 2042 to 2047.
• In the SimCity video game, floodings hit Rio de Janeiro due to global warming.
• A Balkanized India enters a water war in the Postcyberpunk Hugo award-winning novel, River of Gods by Ian McDonald
• Voices of a Distant Star, a Japanese anime, is set in 2047.
• Crysis 3 is set in this year, where an enormous dome is placed over New York City to stop the expansion of the Ceph. Inside, the abandoned city is overrun with vegetation and the alien invaders. The game's protagonist, Alcatraz, has remained in the city ever since the end of Crysis 2

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