11.   Long seconds pass.

12.   Several seconds passed.

13.   Seconds passed, then minutes, and then even more minutes.

14.   Ten more seconds passed.

15.   The aircraft then made a second pass over the zone seven minutes later and dropped four more bundles.

16.   The list of things we will do for the last time in this century and this millennium grows shorter and shorter as the minutes and seconds pass.

17.   A few seconds passed.

18.   A few seconds passed before booms, flashes of flames and billowing gray smoke erupted at the bases of two launch towers.