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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 07:24pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8565 of 8568)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Query:

If you had a format for representing differential equations; and that format lent itself to rapid updating based on data; and if it was in polynomial form; with integration and differentiation mechanical and easy; and if the format happened, automatically, to keep track of boundary conditions; and if the system lent itself to noise filtration, and autocalibration . . . . what more, mathematically, could you ask for?

http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/pap2

A: You could ask to have the de's set up right in the first place. That take correction of an error in dimensional analysis, that Steve Kline and I did. Still, for an empirical fit scheme, it would be pretty good. I've had this on the web at UW for nearly a decade, and have been left hanging.

rshowalter - 08:18pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8566 of 8568)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Quite a lot of the expense of "missile defense" (note quotes) involves computer programming -- an unforgiving business.

Partly because of a fundamental (and explosively unstable) error in the finite integration algorithm people are using all through the "missile defense" code, and partly for other reasons

" the system is "Questionable"

(word choice for mixed company, and all ages -- other word choice considered.)

"Missile defense" (note quotes) is a fraud -- for a number of reasons, but here is a sufficient reason:

For a system so touchy that everything should be checked, practically nothing is checked.

Anybody with a name and a face want to take me on and contest this?

If not, what integrity does the military industrial complex, so long after Eisenhower's warning, have left?

rshowalter - 08:20pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8567 of 8568)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

My guess is, precious little, when you check.

Americans should be ashamed.

And our allies should be careful about trusting what the American military says, on any subject at all where corruption might pay a divident to some American.

rshowalter - 08:37pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8568 of 8568)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

For practical and ceremonial reasons, this makes sense to me:

MD266 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:32am ... MD267 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:33am
MD268 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:35am ... MD269 rshowalt 9/25/00 7:36am

If we did it this way, people would remember. And whatever else happened, the world would not end by nuclear explosion.

Now, it could.

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