Weston shook his head. "We have no way of knowing whether the rescued
ship left the foundered spacecraft before or after the lost one. Nor at
what celestial angle. Nor at what speed. Okay?"
Manning nodded, then added to Wilson, "The answer to that, Commodore,
is that the position of the rescued lifeship has no bearing on the lost
one. Just as the turn of heads in a toss has any effect upon the turn
of the next toss."