I have started the clock – put my little ear right up to the darn thing to make certain it was ticking – and now . . . I wait. You are waiting with me.

Here we go:
16 chimes.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine . . . . YES!!!!!

I can rest more easily now, knowing that had this been something to do with a spaceship and controls gone bad, I would have managed to get the ship to slingshot around the moon and head back to earth. Of course, then there would be the landing part. Okay, let me think of another analogy . . . It may take awhile.