Anyone who was in Canberra around 2003 is going to find this spookily familiar. The Mount Stromlo Observatory was pretty much destroyed by a bush fire in that year. It was especially sad because it could have been saved except that the firefighters were focused on Canberra suburbs and towns like Tharwa. Also, a CCD they were building for an international telescope got left behind in the panic. Stromlo was historically important but past its best as an observational sight by that time.

Perhaps I used the wrong link, and yes, it entered a ballistic trajectory after the thrust unit tore off. But prior to that, it was reentering without its heatshield forward. Currently, they do think they have the problem fixed, but they've yet to find the original cause. Interesting article here: http://www.aiaa.org/Aerospace/images/articleimages/pdf/Soyuz_JUN2009.pdf

Actually, the issue with detaching the thrust unit is that one of a number of bolts didn't fire. The unit ended up tearing itself off due to aerodynamic drag, but there's evidence this issue has been around since the first Soyuz missions. There was a pretty good article on it in the June 2009 AIAA magazine. PDF here: http://www.aiaa.org/Aerospace/images/articleimages/pdf/Soyuz_JUN2009.pdf

Really reliable except for a series of Soyuz spacecraft that nearly burned up on reentry, due to the thrust unit not being released properly. They still have no idea what is causing it. See for example: http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/20/soyuz-crew-safe-after-a-violent-re-entry-and-landing-400km-off-target/

And I disagree with you. Blizzard has alienated a large number of us "casual" players who do not have three and four hours a night to spend running end-game content. They have obviously recognized this problem with the last patch allowing the extension of resets so content can be cleared at a much more casual pace. I've been playing for almost 2 years and I've probably seen less than 20% of the game content. My first character hit L60 and got MC attuned a week before TBC came out. I've still never been to MC. Determined to not let that happen again, I spent most of TBC leveling my main to L70 and trying to get my other toons there as well. I wasn't even close when WotLK came out. It's now a race to get everyone up to L80 before the next XPac. And when I do, I'll have a stable of characters - only one of which has every run a pre-TBC dungeon, and none of which have run any TBC dungeons at all. And forget playing both races. Were it not for the TBC quests for Alliance, I wouldn't even know what the major Horde cities look like. I've paid for a whole bunch of content I will never get a chance to see or experience. And that kinda sucks.

I only play text adventures, you inconsiderate clod!

The second states that company "B" won't call up people they know who work for company "A" and offer them jobs.

An agreement not to do that would be redundant, since that's already illegal.

That's the past. Death Knights, as you know, start playing open world content at about level 60.

I don't play WOW, but is there an option for Death Knights to start at level 1? For example, a new player might wanna be a Death Knight, but may not want to skip all the early content.

You sir, need a vpn. No more school filters there! I wouldn't be speaking from experience. No sir...

BugMeNot has blocked the site, so the google trick is your best bet right now.

Hey now, that was Indiana, not Illinois. At least we respect basic mathematical fact, even if our legislators are a bit on the retarded side.