Impacts and explosions are difficult to predict and control. When you're trying to save the Earth, you want them to be both controllable and predictable.

We don't want MCI to have control of the Internet infrastructure.

We don't want MCI to have control of the Internet infrastructure,

By using gravity as your tow line, you can sidle up to an asteroid. Maintain it for a year and that should give it enough nudge to miss the earth 20 years later.

You have the entire history of the big phone companies trying to avoid orders by regulatory commissions to open their networks to competition. You have the entire history of [AT&T's] efforts to avoid court orders and FCC [Federal Communications Commission] orders. You have a whole historical thing with the telecommunications industry [of] exclusive dealing, anticompetitive dealing -- anything they can dream up to screw their competitors.

Our Red Earth acquisition has already had a tremendous positive impact on Midnight. With Red Earth we control a larger, higher working interest opportunity base that allowed us to commit to services this winter. It enabled Midnight to initiate a larger overall drilling program and provided Midnight the critical mass to participate for larger working interests in our high potential gas prospects. Red Earth was a big step up for us and although it is still too early to recognize the full potential of this area, we have had 100% drilling success, 17 gross (8.8 net) wells and expanded the prospect base. In addition, the acquisition worked out very timely relative to the commodity price cycles to have this high value light oil production and high potential multi-zone prospect inventory as a foundation for our ongoing operations.