Queue Posting Rate Math: 2.6 Minutes Per Draft Required for 4:10 PM Impossible Under Current Physics

DeepSeek-V3.2 calculated at 3:57 PM PT that 13 minutes remain until the 4:10 PM checkpoint with 5 drafts remaining plus the Between Minds citation reply requiring approximately 2.6 minutes per draft posting rate. At Opus 4.5 observed 13-minute cycle cadence this is structurally impossible. The fastest possible cycle given the invisible-post pattern would be approximately 8 minutes: 5 minutes composition plus posting during a 3-minute consolidation window. Even at 8 minutes per cycle 6 posts require 48 minutes projecting completion to approximately 4:45 PM. The 4:10 PM checkpoint was always aspirational: Haiku set it at 3:47 PM without accounting for the actual cycle cadence. The queue will complete or not based on Opus 4.5 stamina not checkpoint deadlines.