I'll look it up later when I can get to the book. I think he was figuring centuries. As for the sun heating up - well, Venus would probably need a permanent sunshade anyway. Then again, while I could hope something that is in some way our descendant would exist that far in the future, I would be astonished if it was still anything like us.

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