2025
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2025 (MMXXV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian Calendar.
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 1 – The character of Popeye, though not necessarily the media based on him, will enter the public domain in the United States, assuming no further extensions to copyright terms become law. Note that the character is already public domain in many countries, including EU members.[1]
- January 1 - The FAA will have been implementing a new system of GPS called NextGen that will be fully functional by this year [2]
March
- March 31 – Yolanda Saldívar will be eligible for parole after the 30th anniversary of the murder of American singer Selena, which Saldivar committed in 1995.[3]
Date unknown
- Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have sufficient electrical power to operate their radio transmitters until at least 2025.[4]
- Deep underground cities in Japan, new forms of plants and animals from genetic engineering, an artificial liver, and the extension of the human life span to over 100 are all predicted for 2025.[5]
- Possible Chinese manned mission to the Moon.[6]
- The Sukhoi PAK FA stealth fighter is expected to be available for export in 2025.
- Masdar City is expected to be completed by 2025.
In fiction
Film
- Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
- Repo Men (2010)
- Uchū Kyōdai (2012)[7]
Television
- Transformers: Victory (1989)
- Six Feet Under ("Everyone's Waiting", 2005): Ruth Fisher dies in a hospital, surrounded by her family, and the ghosts of her husband and son.
- Power Rangers S.P.D. takes place in this year, where humans are introduced to aliens, which is dated to be 20 years after 2005, the year of the television series' production.
- On the sketch show The Armstrong and Miller Show, the sketch that mocks UK children's show Blue Peter, refers to a time capsule, to be dug up in the year 2025.
- In the TV Series Ben 10, the events of Ben 10,000 take place on Grandpa Max's birthday in 2005 (60) and 2025 (80). (2006)
- Eureka Seven: AO (2012) The storyline of the series takes place in April 2025.
Computer and video games
- Gley Lancer (1992)
- Impossible Mission 2025 (1994)
- L.A. Machine Guns: Rage of the Machines (1998)
- Segagaga (2001)
- F.E.A.R. (2005)
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007)
- Haze (2008)[8]
- MAG
- Trauma Center: New Blood (2008)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012)
Books
- The Running Man (1982) by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
- 334 (1972) by Thomas M. Disch
See also
References
- ^ Quinn, Gene (January 5, 2009). "Popeye Falls into Public Domain in Europe". IPWatchdog.com. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
- ^ Gugliotta, Guy (November 17, 2009). "An Air-Traffic Upgrade to Improve Travel by Plane". The New York Times.
- ^ "Selena's killer receives life sentence". CNN. October 26, 1995. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
- ^ "Voyager – Spacecraft – Spacecraft Lifetime". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. January 14, 2003. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2007.
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- ^ Tania Branigan (2010-9-20). "China could make moon landing in 2025". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-1-27.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - ^ Todd Rigney (2012-2-8). "Poster and a Trailer for the Japanese Astronaut Flick Space Brothers". BeyondHollywood.com. Retrieved 2012-2-9.
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