they haven t been too bad. they ve been good about moving information along. that does account for possibly some of the delay. another check, david, on optimism here. even if everything lines up the right way and this is what they re hoping it is, that does not make this an easy task at all. how big an area? how small an object? what would this be like in terms of setting out to find something like this? you re talking 1400 miles from perth. so even just getting the ships there you re talking about a long time to try to get there. they re only going to go 20, 30 knots if they re flank speed they could go better than. that they re not going to go flank sea because they burn up too much fuel. seven time as much fuel when at flank speed. flank speed is high speed. they have to consider how do we get back? that s right. all right. and just in terms of the vastness of the area and how small the object is. we ve been trying to find metaphors about this. the original search area is