No, MerlTurkin has it right. Meteors are cold while they're out in space. When they hit the atmostphere, the surface heats up quickly, and the heated parts chip off because of temperature shear and create an ablative barrier to further heating. The surface of a meteor is warm, but not hot when it hits the ground, and the inside is still frozen.

Of course, Mrs. O'Leary's cow wasn't very hot when it hit the lantern and it still burned down Chicago. No telling what was in that warehouse from the posted story.

The speed of most meteorites is almost always based on the speed of the earth flying through meteor clouds, not the speed of the meteor clouds, so it's fairly consistent.

Go through Freenet. There are so many addresses available that they give them away without effort:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5988

I'm wondering how far behind the popular adoption of IPv6, the nay-say'ers admissions that they were wrong will lag.

Progress will never happen. Things will always be the way they are now. There's no reason to change now, and there never will be. Pshaw.

Just because I logically couldn't doesn't mean that I wouldn't want to try, especially if someone else was footing the bill for my efforts.

I can understand why they might want to do this. As a software developer, I often think to myself "I'm SURE I could write something more responsive than this" while playing Second Life. If I had an infinite amount of free time, I'd probably even give it a whack just to see if I can figure out what the big issue is.

I'll second the ghost-town effect. The other day I was shopping in a fairly large store, and there were an entire eight people in the store at the same time. I was thinking "wow, this place is popular!" Most of the time it's like wandering through a deserted museum.

The primary problem I found with second life scripting was that any script that interacts with other scripts runs into serious issues with lag and undelivered information packets. There are no internal mechanisms for dealing with this, and writing delivery reliability code into your scripts is very resource intensive.

That doesn't work. Letting the free market provide balance presumes that there isn't a built-in bias. Fox news is a perfect example. It was purchased and continues to be operated as a conservative news network. They accumulate viewers who agree with them, and perpetuate that agreement by feeding them appropriately biased information. They do this specifically for the purpose of creating a population that's better educated on their point of view.

Similar to your typical monopolistic practices, it's possible to spend money in order to expand your customer base. It happens again and again.

For news agencies, however, it only matters if they claim to be an unbiased news source. At that point, they are obligated to maintain a certain level of neutrality. The Washington Post is identifying that they breached their own moral code to an extent.

Not that I blame them. Not only was McCain negative, he was boring. He just didn't do much that was newsworthy.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/top_story_on_john_mccain_run_out

Sorry, no, that doesn't follow. That line of logic suggests that, every time I open my mouth about a subject I'm required to spend equal time arguing for my opponent's view point. If there are more people who want to vote for someone, you have to expect that more people will write positively about that person. You can't fight math.