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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

rshowalter - 08:57pm Oct 9, 2001 EST (#10218 of 10219)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I'd like a chance to take anyone with real stature to the Patent Office, and get them to see how, for fundamental, inescapable reasons, hope requires that bad ideas die.

I'm for charity to people. I'm for mercy and accomodation for people. But sometimes, when it matters enough, bad ideas (and programs based on them) need to get it right between the eyes.

Even if that means that the President of the United States has to be shown, very occasionally, to be as fallible as the rest of us.

rshowalter - 09:04pm Oct 9, 2001 EST (#10219 of 10219)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

nomenclature 10/9/01 8:50pm . . . . I've had a stressy day, and I'm on beer #4, and so I hate to be thinking about hard stuff.

But here is easy stuff. Paradigm conflicts have in fact happened, and the consequences, in human terms, have sometimes been devastating.

Dawn Riley and I have dealt with that in some detail in Paradigm Shift .... whose getting there? http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/0

Out for tonight.

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