--- title: Reddit TIME Magazine Cover Headlines Thread: Real Examples description: A popular Reddit thread has solicited possible TIME cover lines for the next 500 days — and some submissions aren't too far from reality canonical: https://time.com/3452618/reddit-time-headlines/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-01T17:04:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:48.075Z article:section: History og:title: Reddit TIME Magazine Cover Headlines Thread: Real Examples og:description: A popular Reddit thread has solicited possible TIME cover lines for the next 500 days og:url: https://time.com/3452618/reddit-time-headlines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte73c5e4e634b0969/6986a66213c79f2bf71942d2/reddit-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2363 og:image:height: 1329 og:image:alt: Time Magazine Reddit Cover og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Reddit TIME Magazine Cover Headlines Thread: Real Examples twitter:description: A popular Reddit thread has solicited possible TIME cover lines for the next 500 days twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte73c5e4e634b0969/6986a66213c79f2bf71942d2/reddit-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hey, Reddit: You're Not All That Far Off > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Elizabeth Ferrao](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) and [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) Oct 1, 2014 5:04 PM UTC  TIME by [Elizabeth Ferrao](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) and [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) Oct 1, 2014 5:04 PM UTC It’s a fascinating hypothetical: what TIME cover headline could you imagine appearing in the next 500 days that would be remembered in 500 years? Five centuries is a long time, but this magazine’s history is full of indelible headlines and covers, from [“Is God Dead?”](http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19660408,00.html) to a [crossed-out Hitler](http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19450507,00.html). When 2514 does come around, we may well come up with another one for the ages. (We already mocked up what it might look like, at right.) So, when a Redditor [asked that question](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2hw0vu/which%5Fbelievable%5Fheadline%5Fcould%5Fbe%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fcover/) on Tuesday, the answers flooded in. Lots of them were actually pretty feasible. In fact, many were _so_ feasible that we’re already on it. For example: One user [proposed ](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2hw0vu/which%5Fbelievable%5Fheadline%5Fcould%5Fbe%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fcover/ckwkorc)the headline “Google Extends Human Life Expectancy By About 400 Years; Enjoy It While It Lasts.” Here’s our cover from Sept. 30, 2013:  TIME Someone else [suggested](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2hw0vu/which%5Fbelievable%5Fheadline%5Fcould%5Fbe%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fcover/ckwpe1l) “The Extinction of Bees” — and here’s our cover from Aug. 19, 2013, another example of looking forward to the possibility of the event in the hypothetical headline:  PHOTOGRAPH BY HANNAH WHITAKER FOR TIME As for what the [Mars Rover might find](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2hw0vu/which%5Fbelievable%5Fheadline%5Fcould%5Fbe%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fcover/ckwj1la), we’ve wondered that for a while:  TIME. Credits from Left: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA; Ed Gabel; Photo Illustration by Joe Zeff And then there’s the matter of history repeating itself. Lots of the suggestions are about possible events — “nuclear accident/disaster” or “Middle East Crisis!” or “Americans Riot” — that have had earlier incarnations, all of which we’ve covered:  TIME covers from May 12, 1986; Apr. 12, 1976; and Aug. 4, 1967 TIME. Photo credits (L-R): NBC News;Catharine Leroy—Gamma/Liaison; Scott Olson–Getty Images Finally, many of the suggestions have been addressed inside the magazine or online, if not on the cover. The top suggestion is about an asteroid on a collision course with Earth; in April, we wrote about [how common that actually is](http://time.com/73181/asteroids-earth-atomic-bombs/). Many popular comments involved the discovery of alien life; we think that’s [going to happen in 2040](http://time.com/alien-life/) — more than 500 days away, but still relatively soon. As for the spread of Ebola, we have an[ interactive map](http://time.com/3089810/ebola-map/) for that. Bitcoin values jumping? [Been there](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2140782,00.html). Area 51? Even [the President is on that](http://swampland.time.com/2013/12/08/obama-area-51/). Which is not to say that there was nothing surprising in the list of Redditors’ suggestions. After all, not _everyone_ paid attention to the instruction to keep the headlines believable. Sorry, person who thinks the dodo bird will come back before 2015 is over — but hey, if there’s one thing the history of headlines can teach us about the future, it’s that you never really know what’s coming. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3452618/reddit-time-headlines/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3452618/reddit-time-headlines/"},"headline":"Hey, Reddit: You're Not All That Far Off","datePublished":"2014-10-01T17:04:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:50:48.075Z","description":"A popular Reddit thread has solicited possible TIME cover lines for the next 500 days — and some submissions aren't too far from reality","url":"https://time.com/3452618/reddit-time-headlines/","keywords":["Media","Technology","reddit","covers","Archives"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte73c5e4e634b0969/6986a66213c79f2bf71942d2/reddit-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth Ferrao"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte73c5e4e634b0969/6986a66213c79f2bf71942d2/reddit-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Time Magazine Reddit Cover","caption":"Time Magazine Reddit Cover","creditText":"TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/media/","name":"Media"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3452618/reddit-time-headlines/","name":"Hey, Reddit: You're Not All That Far Off"}}]}] ```