--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: <snip>
I liked Chuck's suggestion of The Day the Earth Stood Still . . . . With all that's going on in the world just now, it seems somehow fitting to show a movie that touches on how the UN "handles" a crisis.
Since the movie choice is going off-astronomy-topic, just wanted to wrap with a note that a week or so before your movie, on Sept. 21, 2006, is United Nations International Peace Day a.k.a. Global Ceasefire Day. It's the day that the rest off us try to convince those in armed conflict areas across the world to take one day a year off from killing each other for the reason of [insert favorite stupid excuse for having a war]. Int'l Peace Day Org http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/un.htm Union Resolution 55/282 http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/res-55-282.pdf Gotta start somewhere, and one day out of 365 is a good a place to start as anywhere else. Sept. 21 is also the autumnal equinox. Knew there was an astronomy hook in there somewhere. -:) - Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com