Analysts have predicted, pundits have professed, professors have lectured, companies have scurried to sell what they had, as SOA products — often missing the point that SOA is not a product.

Past history suggests that the Earth's biosphere resists the kind of run-away warming some experts' models have predicted, at least to a point.

The probe orbits the Earth's poles; the Lense-Thirring effect is predicted to shift, little by little, the point on the equator crossed by the spacecraft.