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And the orbit is slowly decaying with each passing million year or so. It's hard to notice with the naked eye, though.

Thanks, Dean; very interesting.

This is pretty neat.

When it comes to thermodynamics, I know nothing!

Yes but the whole red giant thing is still going to ruin our day long before that. However, I doubt the human race will survive long enough to see it.

Pessimist!

The human race will abolish itself, that's for sure.

I'm more concerned right now about the "other" red giant...the Chinese economy.

The Chinese economy isn’t the real problem it’s the seemingly inevitable internal decay of all “successful” cultures as they always turn inward and protectionist with everyone seeking a bigger piece of the pie for themselves rather than making the pie bigger so everyone benefits. Every society in history has gone through this cycle there is no reason ours should be an exception. The only thing that breaks out of this cycle is social/economic upheaval . . . hence as Jefferson said “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

Realist.

I was going to say that .