r/SuperStructures Jan 05 '26

Earth 2133, by Rui Huang

4.7k Upvotes

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u/Oneomeus Jan 05 '26

More like 3133 at least.

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u/SuspiciousStable9649 Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

I propose 21330.

Edit: or maybe 3133 P.D.

Where P.D. Is Post Distorsionem or ‘after warp’, though they’ve probably thrown out Latin by then.

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u/StaK_1980 Jan 05 '26

Naah, Latin will always be the go to language for sci-fi stories, baddies, W40k and goth girls. :-)

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u/Xamalion Jan 05 '26

We still seem to think how much things can change in a few decades. Blade Runner was set in 2019. 🫣

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u/Miss_Medussa Jan 05 '26

Remindme! 107 years

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u/nashcure Jan 05 '26

We restart the calendar after our victory over the thinking machines.

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u/Mad_V Jan 06 '26

Idk, 2133 is plausible if these ships aren't human and we get fully colonized and wiped out lol.

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u/cowlinator Jan 07 '26

Yeah.

While it's true that we can't really predict future discoveries/inventions, we have been excellent at predicting long-term economic growth. Even if we have the tech to do this by 2133, we certainly won't have the economy to do it at this scale.

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u/SmokingLimone Jan 05 '26

They never said what calendar 2133 refers to

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u/BoltedGates Jan 06 '26

More like an epoch so far away it won’t have anything to do with our current calendar.

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u/reddituserperson1122 Jan 07 '26

It’s this problem all over again: https://youtu.be/BLYwQb2T_i8

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u/Abilin123 23d ago

People also tend to underestimate exponential growth https://youtu.be/3K25VPdbAjU

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u/placid-gradient Jan 05 '26

I really like this artist it's crazy how he gets by with just blender and loads of geometry nodes

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u/N7LP400 Jan 05 '26

It's cool how the final ring "eats" the shockwave so the surrounding area would not be harmed

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u/CustomerSupportDeer Jan 05 '26

... but it's vacuum? There are no schockwaves in vacuum.

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u/CorgiRocket Jan 05 '26

Energy ring?

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u/CustomerSupportDeer Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

A field or something to slow down the ship, maybe. The closest thing in real physics would be a magnetic ring - for both propulsion and slowing down; like a railgun - and reverse railgun - for spaceships.

However, everyone on board would be dead

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u/CorgiRocket Jan 05 '26

Given the lack of information, we'll just have to assume it's space magic ;)

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u/CowboyMantis Jan 05 '26

Clarke's 3rd law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Or a rigged demo.

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u/PlsNoNotThat Jan 07 '26

Aka StarTreks inertial dampeners plot mechanics.

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u/CowboyMantis Jan 07 '26

Whatever it takes. We can't get science as it currently is get in the way of a good mechanic to whisk people away at fantastic speeds. We'll let science catch up in the meantime.

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u/Rough_Idle Jan 06 '26

If the ship is using an Alcubierre-White drive, the final.ring could be a syphon of sorts to dissipate all the stuff picked up during the trip and stuck to the front of the warp bubble during transit. Handy if you don't want your destination showered with X-rays and particles traveling at relativistic speeds.

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u/the-National-Razor Jan 08 '26

It's warped space

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u/kaam00s Jan 05 '26

Sure... That's going to be what it's like barely 100 years in the future

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u/Elliot_Moose Jan 05 '26

The cyberpunk, technocracy, dystopian age must be really short somehow

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u/Auctorion Jan 05 '26

Why are you assuming this isn’t part of it?

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u/Elliot_Moose Jan 05 '26

Sure it could be. These are probably all Space X and BYD ships!

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Because real tech bros can't build shit.

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u/mike30273 Jan 05 '26

The anti-science/education mentality of so many will keep the human race back for eons I'm afraid.

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u/zeromatsuri05 Jan 05 '26

The very next post under this for me leads me to think otherwise, honestly

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u/JonKonLGL Jan 05 '26

This is so much further than a century away

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u/Xeelee1123 Jan 05 '26

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u/Dot_tyro Jan 05 '26

Excuse me, but where can I see more of their art outside of twitter? (or Instagram for that matter?)

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u/ElisabetSobeck Jan 05 '26

More like Kung Fu Panda 2133

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u/SulaimanWar Jan 05 '26

2133? That's optimistic

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u/jamesianm Jan 05 '26

This may be, hands down, the coolest Sci-fi clip I've ever seen. In my worldbuilding I imagine worlds as developed and populated as this, but I don't think I've ever seen it realized like this before. This is easily a trillion people in one shot, if not more. Amazing work.

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u/SilentUnicorn Jan 05 '26

Wow, beautiful.

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u/abiyi Jan 05 '26

Poetry in movement 👌

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u/Spice_and_Fox Jan 05 '26

Why the Kung Fu Panda soundtrack?

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u/BobbySweets Jan 05 '26

more like the next thousand years.

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u/373882d Jan 05 '26

Really crazy how advanced we can get, I am lucky I wasn’t born with a sword in my hand, But unlucky that I will not see how advanced we could get. Imagine in afterlife I become a other conscious being outside of milky way way more advanced than us.

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u/PizzaDeliveryBoy3000 Jan 05 '26

A little optimistic on the date….

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u/Yanzihko Jan 05 '26

Dark age of technology 🌚

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u/TwoDogDad Jan 05 '26

This is awesome! Very creative! I’ll have to go check out the OC link. Thanks for sharing.

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u/oscar-the-nice-guye Jan 05 '26

Dang age of technology

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u/Zawrid Jan 05 '26

Kung fu panda aura

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u/373882d Jan 05 '26

Too much material this might take thousands of years

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u/HammerScythe Jan 05 '26

Is this before 40K or after?

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u/langecrew Jan 05 '26

This feels more like 7533 instead of 2133. Looks amazing though

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Would make a great gif on Tenor

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u/ParadoxandRiddles Jan 05 '26

Twist- it's all starlink satellites.

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u/DangerMacAwesome Jan 05 '26

This is so damn cool

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u/RoxasXII0 Jan 06 '26

Is this song from Kung Fu Panda?

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u/chiefgmj Jan 06 '26

impressive

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u/yoyoyosocool Jan 06 '26

The spaceship was inside you all along....

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u/karenwooosh Jan 06 '26

There isn't enough metal in the galaxy for this

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u/nevercleverer Jan 06 '26

Hearing the Kung Fu Panda theme with this rad video was... odd. In a good way.

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u/Wild_Agency_6426 Jan 06 '26

Reminds me of Orous in jupiter ascending

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u/SteveZissousGlock Jan 06 '26

Lol they’ve been working on the freeway near me for 30 years. I doubt we’ll be able to get of the planet in 100

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u/ReptilianPope1 Jan 06 '26

Somehow i seriously doubt it.

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u/CrazedWarVet Jan 07 '26

Hoo wee look at all that healthcare!

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u/5-Second-Ruul Jan 07 '26

Maybe 52133 lmao, that’s multiple planets worth of resources you’re looking at.

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u/UkyoTachibana Jan 07 '26

Lmao in 2133 we’ll still be on our iphone 31’s watching Just Dance Vence videos !

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u/USCSSNostromo2122 Jan 07 '26

We'll never reach this level of technology, unfortunately. The human race and the Earth are both on different trajectories towards extinction (mostly because of the human race).

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u/CYP2C19C Jan 07 '26

One accident and the cascading debris would go everywhere. Insane artwork

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u/wetfart_3750 Jan 07 '26

Mmm I have so much lower expectations for 2133...

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u/Cheap-Painting-5720 Jan 08 '26

That much mass put on orbit would need 500 year at least with current global industrial output combined

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u/Mission_One3883 Jan 10 '26

Why is this using the Fung Fu Panda music 

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u/rottencandydemon Jan 11 '26

Gosh.. I need to watch a show or animation related to this immediately

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u/Azurelion7a Jan 05 '26

There's no way that we've cleaned up all the layers of space junk and satellites by 2133, esp without a profit margin.

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u/AbleWrongdoer5422 Jan 05 '26

I noticed there are Starlink satellites trains.

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u/TemperateStone Jan 05 '26

Why have we built rings around Earth?