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[edit] Notable predictions and known events

[edit] 2082

• All classified information held by the British Government about the Falklands War is to be released to the public.^{[citation needed]}
• The returns from the 2010 United States Census are due to be released to the public.

[edit] 2084

• 26 October - Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.
• 10 November - Transit of Earth as seen from Mars.

[edit] 2089

• May–June - Magicicada broods X (17-year) and XIX (13-year) will emerge simultaneously.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Fictional references

• Philip K. Dick's The Crack in Space is set on an overpopulated future Earth circa 2080.
• The events of the Sega Mega Drive strategy game The Hybrid Front start during this decade.
• 2081: The year in which Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut takes place.
• the XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association global season tournament is supposed to take place
• According to the storyline of the 1982 video arcade game Robotron: 2084, in 2084 man perfects the Robotrons, a robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation.
• In the X-COM Storyline, the Fourth Alien War (AW-IV) starts in 2084.
• Second American Civil War (2083 to 2086) in Judge Dredd
• The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and Thunderbirds 2086 are both set in this year, 100 years after their 1986 premieres.
• Claire Fisher, fictional artist in the HBO television series, Six Feet Under, dies in 2085 in Manhattan. She is 101 years old.
• The events described by a fictional version of Evel Knievel in the Midnight Brown song 2084. Including things like the TV series "Dog Monkey vs. Monkey Dog" and streets made of syrup.
• The Sci-Fi film Total Recall is set in 2084.
• A TV series called The Secret Show takes place in 2082.
• The Doctor Who story Warriors of the Deep takes place in 2084.
• The movie The Adventures of Pluto Nash takes place in 2087.
• A war in Ayreon's universe is set in 2084, said to be the "Sixth Extinction" by the "Forever" aliens (the "Fifth Extinction" was that of the dinosaurs 65 million years prior), causing the extinction of mankind save for the colony on Mars. Due to Mars' incapacity to support life, the Mars colony is effectively doomed, and after the death of its last inhabitant, the last human being, he is re-created as a new soul, the new Universal Migrator.
• The first year of the Universal Century, the time line in which the 1979 anime series Mobile Suit Gundam and many of its sequels takes place, coincides with 2081.
• Surviving Antarctica takes place in 2083.
• 2080 is referenced in a song with the same name by the band Yeasayer. The song calls attention to different possibilities for the future.
• Ōban Star-Racers takes place in 2082.
• There will be a gay candidate for US president in 2084, according to The Simpsons.