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OK, call me blind, but what's the difference between the two? I really don't see a difference. Likewise, both images appear pixel-for-pixel identical? Sorry....

Oddly enough, I've also been searched EVERY TIME I fly. Maybe it's how I look (olive colored skin, dark hair, rarely smile) but I always get picked for a "random" search. I also fly internationally a lot, so that might have something to do with it.

When I moved back from Japan last year with my family, my whole family got searched - including my 1-year-old son. It's sad that it's actually necessary to check a kid for bombs and such, but it happens...

I used to live in Japan, and I had several emergency kits. I kept one at home (in a

backpack in case I needed to vacate the house), and one in my office. Nearly everyone else had an "earthquake kit" as well since earthquakes were a part of life, and nobobody could predict the next major one.

I thought that humans didn't posess the strength to do the neck pinch, which explains why McCoy couldn't do it in STIII, even though he probably possessed the knowledge. However, that makes it confusing to me as to why Picard was able to do it.

I was right in the middle of the blackout when it happened - as I imagine ~25% of

everyone on this board were. It frightened a lot of people by its magnitude. I found it interesting (in a perverse sort of way) as it was another testament to

human arrogance. No major damage was done (though some injuries and I

believe one very sad death), but nobody understands it yet and Canada and

the U.S. are blaming each other. Why do humans always want to blame somebody?

I have a hard time imagining actually paying personally for internet use.

I really don't have a favorite, but I used to always laugh at how they happened:

Kirk: Bones, you and Scotty investigate that tower on that ridge over there. Sulu and Chekov, I want you to look at that wreckage that showed up on the scanners. Spock and I will examine this building. Oh.... Ensign Jones.... Go look behind that rock!

(Which was always where the monster/alien/death machine was.)

I can't think of anything more frightening than what the Borg do to people -

taking lives away without really killing them. Scary.... The Borg are a fiercely formidable adversary.

I just had a son, and my wife named him after me, but reversed the first and middle names, so he

wasn't a junior, but carried my namesake. I consider it a great honor bestowed upon me by my wife.

I managed to pass the written part by leafing through the manual while waiting in line at the BMV - not too tough. I suppose you depend on where you live. In Michigan, they give licenses to practically anyone. In Ohio, the test is a bit tougher, and if you don't pass, they TAKE your out-of-state license away! In Tokyo, Japan, you have to prove that you have a parking place to get a license....

Didn't McCoy wear whatever the heck he wanted in TNG? He was an admiral, right?

...or.... what if you go into the holodeck, change your clothes, forget you're wearing hologram clothing, and then leave the holodeck... with your clothing behind.

I like Guinan too, and am glad she survived the saucer crash. However, now I'm wondering if she

survived Enterprise ramming into Shinzon's ship. She couldn't possibly have survived if Ten-Forward is

at the front of the saucer, unless, of course, she was elsewhere - but where else would she be?

Me and my Hoshi........ 16%

Me and any of several supermodels..... 12%-28%

Me and the Borg queen..... 29%

Me and Uhura....... 33%

Me and T'Pol....... 11%

Me and Porthos..... 68% (riiiiiiight!)

Me and a green '79 Chrysler Newport..... 76%

Me and a Cuisinart food processor........ 88%

Me and a cheap Radio Shack solar-powered calculator...... 98%

Talk about looking for love in all the wrong places.... Guess I'd better ask out some inanimate objects.

"However, Dr Rolf Ewers, chairman of the Vienna's University Hospital of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, who led the team of surgeons, told Reuters there was still a risk the tongue would be

rejected."

----That makes for a nice picture in my head - somebody spitting out their dead, rotted tongue because the transplant didn't take.

Lollypop, you certainly have a talent for finding the unusual.

I would not visit the future because I love the thrill of not knowing what's there and discovering it. However, I'd really be tempted to visit the past - maybe the American revolution or something.

The doors on either side of the viewscreen are probably the mens' and womens' head.

I was never forced to memorize it, but I've read it enough that I do have that portion committed to

memory. The same is true for Hamlet.

In my job, I am currently researching two topics that aren't directly medical related, but will have

tremendous impact on the medical field if they come to fruition. One will enable doctors to perform

non-invasive imaging on a cellular level (i.e., see individual cells without cutting the person open or sticking

anything into that person). The other may enable to doctors to selectively alter biochemisty on an atomic

level. Pretty cool stuff, and we may see it in a decade.

As much as I'd like to say, forget them, I think that the U.S. should maintain the same level of integrity and compassion that it's had since it's inception, the U.S. should take the high road and extend the olive branch to as many as will receive it. Because of events prior to WWI, the U.S. has chosen not to maintain itself in isolationism, and I guess that if it suddenly became isolationist, there would still be those who complained.

Here's something interesting that happened to me recently. I was in Philidelphia a few

weeks ago at a conference, and I decided to see the city. As a freedom-loving-eating-drinking-breathing American, I really enjoyed seeing the city where this

"great experiment" all began. Standing in front of Independence Hall were a some French people. Since I speak French, I could hear that they were insulting the place. It's tough to

forget something like that, and I do hope that they are the victims of propaganda, and know no better....

I think the U.S. is capable of rising above it all. It won't be the first time. That's why I love this country so much.

it is like the U.S. marines. they beleive they are the best in the world, but the army rangers think they are the best in the world but SAS thinks it is best in the world and of coures the navy seals think theya re the best in the world. it is part of training to build confifdence in the troops

They do that in the U.S. Navy, too. Every office and seaman thinks his vessel is the best. The guys on destroyers think of carriers as floating parking lots, but to a submariner, they're both

just "targets." However, objectively, all naval officers and seamen are the best.

Lot's of fence-riders so far on this one..... interesting...

I'd definitely watch it. Captain Archer seems like a cowboy to me, and I love sci-fi shows that are like westerns - the main characters rush around fearlessly shooting everything that moves. Pretty primitive, but relaxing.

Running, reading, judo, and my job.

The set designers probably used one of those store-bought plastic models and spray-painted it gold. The saucer and engineering

sections separate in those models, so it would make a natural break easy.

I'm a discoverer... interesting.