[JRandomFreeper]

Our current (600 year old) view of it shows it contracting at about 1% per year. Contractions should(did) continue for some time and accelerate, with a tipping point that is/will be noticeable reached before we can safely say it exploded today(600 years ago).

We need a better time sense grammatical structure, that includes what we observe with the time lag of observation if we're going to discuss this in English. ;)

/johnny

[calex59]

Well I was speaking figuratively and just giving an example. All I meant to convey was that you probably won’t have to go through 600 more family reunions before this thing novas, or maybe you will. Good luck in that, you will probably feel quite old at that time if such is the case.

[UCANSEE2]

We need a better time sense grammatical structure,

Yes. How about, No one on this planet has a frickin clue ?