Yet so many of the geniuses here.......find it perfectly plausible.

Even after so much face-egg has been washed off in the past.

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O.K., I'll bite. If that is what the situation was, ya, the story as it has been released so far does not seem plausible.

"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson

Note to self: Never ask an old Fogey how he is doing today.
Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.