Was reading this Wikipedia article the other day, very interesting

Timeline of the far future

Link didn’t work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Only 50,000 years left to see Niagara Falls.

“The Big Island becomes the last of the current Hawaiian Islands to sink beneath the surface of the ocean”

Erosion? Clash of plates? Godzilla?

Erosion and isostatic settling.

The weight of the island pushes the thin oceanic crust down. This process will continue for some time after the next new volcano in the chain starts. (The plate is moving north-ish over a nearly stationary hot spot – a mantle plume – which generates volcanism.)

So I’m trying to digest “isostatic settling” and I must have had a faraway look in my eyes.

Customer: You thinkin’ ‘bout lunch?
Me: No, I was actually thinking about the isostatic settling of the Hawaiian islands.
Customer: *blank look *

Does that mean the crust collapses (for lack of better term), allowing the island to submerge?

Subsidence – isostatic settling

scroll down a bit to isostatic settling

Divine Angel said:

So I’m trying to digest “isostatic settling” and I must have had a faraway look in my eyes.

Customer: You thinkin’ ‘bout lunch?
Me: No, I was actually thinking about the isostatic settling of the Hawaiian islands.
Customer: *blank look *

:)

Divine Angel said:

Does that mean the crust collapses (for lack of better term), allowing the island to submerge?

The crust is (slowly) warped downwards by the heavy weight of the volcano.

MacOS-X is funny. I opened a terminal window and typed a command quickly, but nothing happened for a few seconds. When the text I’d typed showed up on-screen all the characters I’d typed were there, but sorted into ASCII order.

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

Does that mean the crust collapses (for lack of better term), allowing the island to submerge?

The crust is (slowly) warped downwards by the heavy weight of the volcano.

Also, the crust has been rising in North America (and elsewhere) since the continental glaciers melted at the end of the last ice age.

btm said:

MacOS-X is funny. I opened a terminal window and typed a command quickly, but nothing happened for a few seconds. When the text I’d typed showed up on-screen all the characters I’d typed were there, but sorted into ASCII order.

<sigh> At least it didn’t put it into the wrong thread. That was my fault.

It’s all far in the future when I’ll be dead & buried / cremated / reanimated.

Timeline of the near future.
https://xkcd.com/887/

Timeline of the universe. This link isnt working properly.
http://www.halcyonmaps.com/timeline-of-the-universe/

You don’t have to wait for 2100 for the razor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gStI9ysPrhs

Michael V said:

Also, the crust has been rising in North America (and elsewhere) since the continental glaciers melted at the end of the last ice age.

rising or thickening?

rising. the weight of the ice has gone and so they are rebounding.

Never mind, I found the answer.

I had no idea there was an asthenosphere.

Divine Angel said:

I had no idea there was an asthenosphere.

now you do.

Divine Angel said:

I had no idea there was an asthenosphere.

Ah yes the asthenosphere.
Off the top of my head without looking anything up the asthenosphere (from Greek ἀσθενής asthenḗs ‘weak’ + “sphere”) is the highly viscous, mechanically weak and ductilely deforming region of the upper mantle of the Earth. It lies below the lithosphere, at depths between approximately 80 and 200 km (50 and 120 miles) below the surface.

I’ll check it out in Google later.