Star wars is not sci fi
It depends on your point of view and how strict you are about a genre.
If your a hard science purist, then nothing with psychic powers or faster-than-light travel will be science-fiction, because they depart from established science fact. If your looser with the definition, then you can include FTL on the basis of science that hasn't been invented yet, and psychic or mystical content on the basis of a stretching of science in the face of some logical framework that allows more subjective material to be studied.
In fact George Lucas moved Star Wars away from (at least) the mystical by inventing metaclorins and, in-effect, turning the force (which was mystical and sort of eastern) into a biomedical phenomenon (which is kinda western).
I'm not the type to wear blue face paint, stick pointy ears on, or know the Klingon alphabet. But I've seen every single Trek movie. I've watched all the shows, time permitting. I even endured 'Enterprise'.
wow...so you're the next level. I just couldn't take Enterprise, it actually physically hurt.
I've always thought Moon-Mars was a cynical political ploy to win a slice of the nerd vote
There's a nerd vote? cool!
in a free market education should be consumer driven (like anything else). schools providing better students will reap the benefits of higher royalties
...and in thirty years everyone will be studying advertising, 'cause it pays better than science ever will.
it'd be nice to attend just to see them eating their words because they are the type that rabidly supported rudd during the election
They did support Labor in preference to Liberal, but I could hardly describe their support as rabid, more like highly qualified. I was bailed up by a green Left seller in the street, who informed me as part of an argument against voting Labor, that it was Labor that introduced mandatory detention as a response to the refugee influx. So yeah, they're not rabid believers of Rudd and co.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood