To be clear, we've been off the charts now for several years. Which is to say, all bets have been off, and it's anyone's game, to fling a few more idioms into the trope.
The closest analogy might be a space probe continuing to return data long after any theory of matter, space and time would seem to allow it to do so. The control room, remaining calm, but necessarily at some distance from the usual discourse of their fellows, has merely been attempting to parse the data and respond appropriately, while keeping the pizza budget at a minimum, going teetotal, and putting in an industrial-strength coffee machine.