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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    Missile Defense

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?

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almarst2003 - 08:59pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10379 of 10412)

"Gee, where's all the weapons of mass destruction???"

Who cares at a time we bring a Peace and Democracy to those "backward arabs" sitting on a Gold Mine and waiting for us to show them what "business" really means.

It is quite simple cycle:

First abstraction (Evil), then destruction, then reconstruction and back to the start agan.

The most importand thing not to loose sight of the target - the $shiny$ City on the Hill, preferebly in Bahamas or Bermudas.

jorian319 - 09:09pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10380 of 10412)

Rob! Thanks for finally showing your wacko face! would you like me to start dismantling your site's contents piece by piece, or did you have a favorite delusion you'd like us to concentrate upon?

fredmoore - 09:42pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10381 of 10412)

Almarst ...

You are hitting your straps! I appreciate your points and the sense of indignation they carry.

As for:

"It is quite simple cycle:

First abstraction (Evil), then destruction, then reconstruction and back to the start agan. "

You have just described a Thermodynamic process.

More often than not, the solution to REAL and difficult problems of all genres is in ABSTRACTION. What greater abstraction than Thermodynamics at such a time?

You know Congress called in an independent specialist in thermodynamics to assess the shuttle disaster. It might not be a bad idea to do the same in Iraq.

PS Am I the only one who finds the CIA acknowledgement of 'channeling' as great a 'shock and awe' as the bombing campaign?

almarst2003 - 10:33pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10382 of 10412)

I fully share your view about 'channeling'. It was design to allow to kill the people while war is designed to carry it out.

On the other note - The "liberators" are "welcome"

"We don't want Americans here. This is Iraq."

One group of Iraqi boys on the side of the road smiled and waved as a convoy of British tanks and trucks rolled by.

But once it had passed, leaving a trail of dust and grit in its wake, their smiles turned to scowls.

"We don't want them here," said 17-year-old Fouad, looking angrily up at the plumes of gray smoke rising from Basra.

He pulled a piece of paper from the waistband of his trousers. Unfolding it, he held up a picture of Saddam, showing the Iraqi leader sitting on a throne with a benign smile.

"Saddam is our leader," he said defiantly. "Saddam is good."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15003-2003Mar23.html

Well. A year is 1812, a place is Russia. And the memories are still fresh.

bbbuck - 10:45pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10383 of 10412)

you're an idiot.

almarst2003 - 11:02pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10384 of 10412)

Looking at a sky I see some good signs... and some bad ones... and some that are just "black holes"

almarst2003 - 11:06pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10385 of 10412)

"humanitarians at hard work" - Many of the buildings that were targeted in last night’s bombardment are cheek-by-jowl with high-rise apartments. Though we couldn’t see directly, it seems certain that there were significant numbers of civilian casualties. http://www.msnbc.com/news/889282.asp?0dm=N14TO

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