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'tunia, in your absence, I want you to know that I will volunteer to keep my eye on these two. As you can see, substitute1 has already made a blanket apology and a threat. This does not bode well for the site, but so long as I am able, for the integrity of what you have built here at APOD, I VOW to maintain an eye on them. Have a WONDERFUL vacation and DON'T worry about a thing. My motherly and teacherly instincts are honed to the nth degree. I will use them in defense of APOD so you can vacation assured that things will be FINE here. There will be NO sleepovers or liquor allowed ... Hide the keys to family van. Everything will be JUST as you left it when you return. We'll even mow the lawn, collect the mail and bring in the newspaper. Send us a postcard. Bon voyage. &;-)

A protocol that permits setting 2Trievers up as the mature watchdog for this thread is well described by an old Dutch expression that translates quite nicely as

"Tying the HAM to the CAT"!

2T! Put Down that Phone! You are NOT calling NASA and asking if they have Prince Albert in the emergency reentry pod on ISS!!! Or "is there an Astronaut on board named Seymour Butts!" This is SCIENCE! And no matter how big you write Light off your Retrorockets on the high school football field, the ISS will NOT be able to resolve the image and comply before they have passed over head! These calculations take TIME and the propellent has a low luminosity, besides! (feelings of dread feelings of dread...P7 come back soon!!!;-D