You must articulacy say you are remaining silent. Just being silent is not the same. The cops questioned a murder suspect for 2 hours as he sat silent. The courts ruled that he must SAY he is remaining silent. I am not a lawyer.

The Sir Adam Beck Generating Station for Niagara Falls. The Boston Science Museum, the lightening show is always worth it. Some of the Big Science Museums have reciprocity memberships with others across the country, perhaps joining one will save you $ on the entrance fees. Get some books on CD for your trip. Brief History of Time, and Robert Heinlein, star ship troopers, the moon is a harsh mistress are nice and long. And get her a diamond ring! Any girl friend who is willing to go on a long car trip to see science stuff is wife material!

I teach high school. I run on economics lessons that demonstrates that the types of bill that get passed have the following characteristic. Benefits now cost are later. That benefits are to a few, people but cost are wide spread. The U.S sugar tariff is an example of this. Bill that are unlikely to pass are the reveres. High costs now benefits much later. Radioactive storage, global warming. High tax on a few, small benefits to many. The death tax affects only 0.05% of the population.

Currently the U.S spends the largest amount of it's Gross Domestic Product on health care 15%, then any other country. The next largest spender is Switzerland at 11%. So the U.S. spends 4% on health care then next largest spender. With this additional spending does this mean that the U.S. has a higher life expectancy, then any other country? No. The U.S life expectancy is ranked 50th in the world. The current system does not produce good results. Other systems do, and it is good that the USA is going to change to a better system.

Sex with everyone, drugs, making fun of organized religion sex while on drugs in church. This book will get you fired. Check out if you school library has it first, then if the book title comes up say how will the story is excellent the subjects might offend some high school students and their parents, but it is in the school library. Watch kids run to the library to read a dangerous book. Smile.

Get Grokking the Future for story choices and Get from the Great Courses on Tape, the course on science fiction, which give a nice historical overview. I start with the difference between science fiction and other writing styles. I use short stories because they quickly teach a theme, and if a kid does not like the story, it will be over quickly. I start with Thinking Machines with 3 themes, Robot as God, Robot disobey, Robot kills. with the Story Answer. I then have several short stories about how the robots do he wrong things without human intervention, and there is a discussion of free will vs. Robot control. I introduce the 3 laws and we discuss how the previous stories would change if the 3 laws were built into the machines. We discussu how the 3 laws are impossible to make, or for the Robots to use. Would a 3 laws Robot let your mother remove a splinter from your finger. She might cut you and you might get an infection. We have war and read Starship Troopers. I have the students put the chapters into order and the first chapter is out of order. They read Hero (a short story version of the Forever War) and a short story version of Ender's game. We compare the heroes and what makes a hero. We do social control with Soylant Green, and compare it to A Happy Day in the Year (I don't remember but there is a moderate Sex alert), and Golden Acres and others. We do first contact with the Drake equasion and Fermin's paradox, we read the Road not taken, a game of Meyhen, A TNG star trek first contact story. And we watch to Serve Man. and see 2001, which can be use in the Robot Section. We discuss the social changes of what will happen. If you can show 2001 on school's theater big screen it is AMAZING. Some movie have to be shown on the widest screen possible. Please e-mail me and I will share with you my detailed lesson plans, with more stories, and the questions that go with the stories. Do not read Stranger in a Strange Land. You will get fired. Telling the students this will cause them to read said story.

SPOILER ALERT! Old man's war and the Ghost Brigades do not ask a key point. What does it mean to be human? Considering the concsisious transfere to some rather exotic bodies, what does it mean to be human? THis is conviently avoided with "THe colonial union has no position on this. Please consult the traveling religouus group." And no chartcer questions what it means to be human. There is so much that can be played with but the arthur dose not. Are turtles that live in space really human? Yet I greatly enjoyed these stories. They are excellent military sci-fi. THey are rip roarisg adventures that should be made into a movie. Yet will the audinec buy a group a green soliders? Also a good story is Agent to the Stars, an intresting take on first contact. If I was an alien I would do this to the humans.

The argument that we are unique life forms is that Earth has not encountered a self-repulicating space ship. An advanced civilization would send one out, at the next solar system, it makes 2 copies, and repeats. This is a highly effective and cheap way to explore the universe. And solves the problem of not having a biological entity travel along or go the speed of light problem. But we have not found a von newman machine or an old mine to make a new machine or remains of the machine left behind, to monitor the system.