Thank you, Sir.
In my old office we had an individual who always wanted the furniture moved in such a way that it was clear she thought of it as bendable.
Same here. If something is gone it is gone. If it's still around it is still around.
Actually, the question arose in the first thread ~ people who knew rockets said "Hey, that's not a rocket. They are entirely too fast to hang around for 10 minutes". Folks who didn't really know rockets started talking about Stage 1 and Stage 2 somehow bending the rules of nature in some perverse nature making it possible for us to see a rocket for 10 minutes or so.