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						Today, some friends of mine and I took some much needed time off and went to the <a href="http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/">California Science Center</a> to see the Science of <em>Star Wars</em> exhibit. It was fun and they had quite a few very interesting exhibits including several models from the movies -- the Millennium Falcon, Star Destroyer, X-Wing -- and also the full-sized Landspeeder used by Luke Skywalker during the filming of <em>Star Wars</em>.

						Plus, a whole bunch of other stuff well worth the price of admission. More, in fact, because the exhibit is actually free. Yes, I said free. The place was mostly filled with school kids on field trips but there were a few older kids around (like us) who had also decided that <em>Star Wars</em> was more important than work today. As we walked around I wondered if the kids looking at all the exhibits felt the same way about the Star Wars films as I did when I first saw them.

						Many of the kids were probably close to the same age I was when i first saw <em>Star Wars</em>. Although, <em>Star Wars</em> probably wasn't their first exposure to the universe. It was probably <em>Phantom Menace</em> or the other of the the newer films. If that's true that's kinda too bad for them. To me, the first trilogy will always be the best one and the subsequent three films will always be sub-standard.

						Even <em>Revenge of the Sith</em>, which is by far the best of the three left something to be desired when I saw it. I just had to wonder as I looked around today if any of those kids had ever seen the first films or had only seen the second trilogy. If they had only been exposed to <em>Star Wars</em> by watching the second three films I hope someday they find out what they're missing.

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						In a completely unrelated story (except that Fox was the studio that released the <em>Star Wars</em> films) I love it when Fox News just decides to make stuff up instead of reporting the actual news. Seriously, what passes for "journalism" these days, especially at places like Fox News, amazes me. How do these people sleep at night? Sadly, probably better than I do.