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My daughter came home from school yesterday with a STAR Reading Diagnostic Report, which seems to indicate a reading level of 11th-12th Grade. I know she's an excellent reader, well above grade level, but that seems crazy considering she's just starting 3rd Grade. Anyone know anything about...

How does anyone on the Enterprise get any work done with all those fully functioning Holodecks to play in? Seriously, I don't remember the exact quote, but someone said if we invented something like a Holodeck, it would be humanity's last invention.

Ok, so this is not new news, but I find it interesting. I did a brief search on the forums and did not see a mention of it, at least not for awhile. However, I find it quite interesting that there is some evidence, mostly statistical, that our Sun might be part of a binary star with another...

OK - so it's my 666th post and I thought I ought to find something religion-shattering for this celebration, but alas.... I've read about folks looking for comets, super-novae, and other celestial signs that announced the birth of JC, and caused the wise men to visit with pressies, but have now...

http://ooze.com/toolofsatan/ It's true.

http://www.ooze.com/toolofsatan/ it's no joke, apparently. ;)

Article Fascinating stuff.

I'm just listening to Randi's latest appearance on "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe." Excellent interview. Update on his bypass. Some Benny Hinn debunking. Cars with water-only engines. Fox News reports on the water car. Oh-Oh... Randi: The announcer actually says, "He generates from...

Can someone help explain to me the thoughts of the bethlehem star. If there were a star in the night sky that one wanted to follow, you would follow it until it was directly over head. To determine the precise location on the earth's surface where the star would be directly over would be near...

Let's see .... Which do you prefer, Star Trek or Star Wars? For me, Trek. Mainly because I've watched it since 1966; it's the show that got me hooked on Sci-Fi in the first place.

I tried to find the original thread about this incident, but I couldn't. There was much squawking about how rotten the US was for letting this marine get away with this, despite pleas to wait for the investigation. Well, he has been charged with negligent homicide...

What do you all think about this. I can say wow. I really hope it works and soon.

In the past 20 tests of this $500 billion monument to Ronald Reagan it has failed to shoot down our own missiles 17 times! President Clinton was right.

I just got this in my email, and wanted to share it with you. (Note: paraphrased from the original e-mail) Star Trek Guide to Neo-Paganism Gene Rodenberry went to his grave, telling stories that, although they supposedly happened light years away, were relevant to our every day lives. From...

http://stargate.collection.free.fr/Elements/news.php3 A parapsychology based web site that features declassified government documents and historical conspiracies. And nuttiness.

I know that it's called the Sun. We assume that it is the star that is closest to the Earth. The question is: given the entire astronomical universe of stars, what can we say, without referring to the Earth, to identify the one star that is closest to the Earth?

http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/g152154a.html Amazing how draconian the Republicans are about election laws when they keep Libertarians off (winess the fiasco in NC recently with the Electoral Fairness Act) but turn the tables and all of a sudden they want exceptions to the law! So, why...

omnipotence in god must be false if life has meaning for an individual. if god is all powerfull, then god must determine all events, therefore we make no decisions and only follow the path which god has directed us to take. please begin proving me wrong now.