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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?

amacd - 09:48pm Dec 13, 2001 EST (#10377 of 10657)
ENRONGATE, who knew what, and when?

Bush and his 'old economy' corporate crooks are crazy to be wasting good money on NMD (national missile defense).

What they really need to invest in is a good PEM (Ponzi escape module) that could carry them all safely beyond the ENRON crook's hide-out in Brazil.

wbtake1 - 10:10pm Dec 13, 2001 EST (#10378 of 10657)

I just got off the phone with my friend in Moscow who happens to be a child hood friend and church mate with Mr. Putin. BTW- Pres. Putin is a devout Christian and goes to mass EVERY Sunday even if he is sick. Anyway Nataliya says that Mr. Putin is privately ambivalent about the the USA backing out of the ABM. Publicly he has to put on a facade of disappointment. I trust Nataliya's word because last summer on a trip to Moscow I got to have dinner with Nataliya's family and Mr. Putin's family. I know fluent Russia and Ukrainian so I was able to converse with him about things. I liked him and I got the impression he was an honest man.

edward982 - 01:21am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10379 of 10657)

It is a sad state to see so many of us wanting to be heard. We write and wait, and still the world happens around.

vhurtado - 10:26am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10380 of 10657)

For every new technology, there's a new counter technology. History has proven that repeatedly. NMD will be nothing more than expensive obsolete trash. And then we'll all wonder what was the point.

Never the less the UCSF ICN now has 29 of them at a tune of $75,000.00 a pop!

Is it any wonder why healthcare is getting unmanageable and very expensive in the U.S.?

wbtake1 - 10:37am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10381 of 10657)

Without this unit people will die. This unit gives early warnings to desats. Don't you think it is worth it... even if it saves lives? I do! I am sure you do too... I am sure you would be begging for the technology when it can save your life. I can see you now in the ER saying don't use that device it cost too much and was developed from SDI and MDA technology!

wanderer85us - 10:40am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10382 of 10657)
I hear voices, and they don't like the GOP.

NMD will be monumental waste of money that will do little good against any realistic future attacks that might be launched.

The timing of NMD is horrible, as we have MANY, MANY more pressing concerns that need to be funded, but will be neglected under the new BUsh warhawkish agenda.

wbtake1 - 10:42am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10383 of 10657)

My family pays $142.85 total per month with a $5.00 co-pay for the best health care system in the world. Go to Russia and the Ukraine for you socialized heath care and see what kind of care you get there! After all they are the people that came up with it! If you are really sick you will more then likely die!

general_slocum - 11:11am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10384 of 10657)

Just wandered in here and saw some grievous errors here. Just setting the record straight.

Gore wins under six of nine scenarios

general_slocum - 11:27am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10385 of 10657)

BTW, it's really very simple to defeat NMD with low technology and help from nature. Lasers, which is a significant component of NMD, cannot penetrate clouds or fog. And it's very easy to use decoys to thwart any NMD targets. There has to be a better way, like diplomacy, or threat of massive retaliation?(has worked in the past). Unfortunately for Bush and Cheney's contributors, it won't make them any money.

wbtake1 - 11:46am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10386 of 10657)

General Slocum,

Your link goes no place so what record?

So here is a real source:

Date: April 4, 2001, Wednesday Analysis of Florida Ballots Proves Favorable to Bush

A newspaper review of Florida's ''undervote'' ballots concludes that President Bush would almost certainly have still won the... Source: The New York Times Section: National Desk

If you like diplomacy so much then I will buy you a first class ticket to Afghanistan to meet with the Talaban and Bin Ladan to come up with a diplomatic solution to him attacking us! Go for it man! I would just wonder how many holes you will be riddled with when you come back?

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