Originally Posted by Celestial Mechanic

When I wrote the above in post #8 of this thread, I was also hoping that this thread would die a timely and well-deserved death shortly thereafter. It almost worked, too: nobody posted to this thread for nine hours after that post.

Given the contentious direction(s) that this thread has taken, it is still my wish that this thread die. All it takes is for the "smart people" to stop posting to this thread. I will stop with this post; won't you help me? Please?