September 3, 2650 : The distance between Mars and the Earth will reach a remarkable new minimum of 55,651,582.118 km. It will be a slightly closer encounter by perihelic opposition than the previous one of the August 28, 2287. The following closer encounter will be on September 8, 2729.
2655/2656: Triple conjunction Jupiter-Saturn.
2663: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn.
2699/2700: Triple conjunctions between Mars-Jupiter, Mars-Neptune and Jupiter-Neptune.
Art and culture
The 639 year long performance of John Cage's organ work As Slow As Possible is scheduled to finish at the St. Burchardi Church inHalberstadt, Germany on September 5, 2640.
The prologue and epilogue of Battle for the Planet of the Apes take place in 2670.
Jerzy Żuławski's classic trilogy of novels The Lunar Trilogy are set in the 27th century in which a race of moon dwarves search for a route back to Earth through spiritual enlightenment. Written in 1901–1911, the trilogy is one of the greatest works of Polish science fiction.
The Night's Dawn Trilogy books by Peter F. Hamilton, consisting of The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God, are set in the year 2611.
Roberto Bolaño in his novel Los Detectives Salvajes, through one of the main characters, Cesarea Tinajero envisions the 27th century as a time when some dark events will happen in the north of Mexico. In 2666, Bolaño's last novel, he describes hundreds of rapes and murders in the north of Mexico, most likely linked with the events written in Los Detectives Salvajes.
In the video game seriesWing Commander, the Terran Confederation, following five years of raids against their shipping by the Kilrathi, officially declares war on July 5, 2634. The war continues until 2669, with the Confederation emerging as the victor. In 2681 the insectoid enemy Nephilim appear and war breaks out, with the Confederation again the victor. The events detailed in the games take place from the mid to late 27th century.
Most of the F-Zero series, one of Nintendo's video game franchises, take place during the early 27th century.
In the Bill & Ted movies, the "future scenes" take place in 2688 and 2691, respectively.
Several characters in the Star Trek universe originate from this century.
The Contra series of video games is set during this century. The original American localizations of the titles prior to ' changed the setting from the future to the present.
The video gameEarthsiege 2 begins in the year 2624, with the Earth having been in a major global war against a self-controlled AI called "Prometheus".
The events of the video game series AquaNox take place in the mid-27th century.
The events of the Xbox 360 video game Project Sylpheed take place in 2632.
In The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov, it is in the late 27th century that the researches of Jan Verdeer and the mathematician Antoine Lefebvre realize the exploitation of "temporal field" technology some three centuries after its mysterious empirical discovery by an eccentric inventor in the 24th. Temporal engineers could now generate a field of "physiotime", or Eternity, a realm outside of normal time, large enough to enclose men and equipment, and use it to reach into the future. This, coupled with the discovery that they could secretly alter the course of human events without affecting themselves, enables their control over the next 69,973 centuries of human history.
In the Futurama episode "When Aliens Attack", Leela states that in the early 2600s the State of New York elected a super villain as governor. He spent most of his time stealing famous world monuments and even added his face to Mount Rushmore. Also, in the episode "A Big Piece of Garbage", the Professor says that in 2620, astronomers renamed Uranus "Urectum" to end "the stupid Uranus joke once and for all". Also, in 2636, Mars University is founded on the planet Mars.
In ''Fringes fifth-season episode "The Boy Must Live", the character Windmark time travels to Manhattan in the year 2609, depicted as a bleak, dystopian world populated by an evolved race of highly intelligent but emotionless humans deemed "the Observers" by the show's protagonists.
