That wasn’t a pun. It was a double entendre.
William Mandella and his fellow soldiers won’t return from their second encounter with the Taurans until 2024. It didn’t go well.
The war continues for another eleven centuries, Earth time.
In the backstory of the anime series Yuki Yuna is a Hero, the goddess Amaterasu turns the entire world outside of Shikoku into a fiery hellscape in the year 2019. However, we may have dodged this bullet already given that I don’t recall human society being largely destroyed by an onslaught of divine monsters in the year 2015.
Too late. The Earth was already ravaged by the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.
Wait, I think I see what you did there…
According to Babylon 5, San Diego will be destroyed by a nuclear weapon in an act of terrorism in 2157.
We got a long ways to go to see if man is still alive in the year 2525
In his 1976 sf novel Imperial Earth, which I just reread (set in 2276), Arthur C. Clarke wrote that the Gondwana reactor was destroyed due to sabotage “in the early twenty-first century.”