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I feel so much better knowing that our solar system is stable and that all we have to look forward to is the sun potentially swelling up like a giant balloon and swallowing us. That's super comforting. /s.
Then again, by the time something like that occurs, I suspect if humanity is still around that we will have the ability to control the star itself by mining metals off of it and therefore reducing its mass and making it smaller or move the earth further out and then back in once it's done expanding.
Humanity already has the science and knowledge to go about actually doing these things. We just don't currently have the technology.
Take a look at the show, Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. One of his phrases is that if brute force isn't working, you're just not using enough of it.
By then we will probably be inhabiting multiple solar systems and all of earths resources will be used up. Of course that's assuming we don't nuke ourselves first.