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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?

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rshow55 - 08:16am Mar 26, 2003 EST (# 10516 of 10527)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Just glanced at http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~welsh/book.htm

At the level of a glance, it fits a lot that happened to me - - but I was isolated - and being used actually breaking key codes.

When the time came that I had answers that could be used - I wasn't permitted to "come in" - and I've been stuck in a very awkward situation with respect to classification.

But there's some hope.

I think that if some leaders of nation states insisted that some of the key things on this board be checked - enough would emerge - and become orderly - that the world could do much better - in general human terms - and in terms of the reasonable interest of "the average reader of The New York Times " - an exemplary notion Casey sometimes referred to - and decent nations all over the world.

Checking the details about missile defense - knowing what we should know about human behavior, from the recent NASA problems and much else - we could sort out a lot.

It would fit the purpose of the United Nations very well.

We need to make individual human freedom possible, in the ways it is possible - by learning some key things about "what it means to be a human being" - and not denying those key things.

We have to be responsible for ourselves, for people we care about - and when it matters enough - responsible enough to face facts that matter to us, those we care about, and those we have to care about.

lchic - 08:21am Mar 26, 2003 EST (# 10517 of 10527)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

A small point on psychoWarfare everyone's noticed re Iraq

The US habitually 'lies'

Remember the story of the sheperd-boy who cried 'WOLF' .... when it really did appear ... no one rushed to assist

http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html

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rshow55 - 08:33am Mar 26, 2003 EST (# 10518 of 10527)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

10292 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.S5Z7aet75T8.1557732@.f28e622/11838

Sometimes I've written poems to try to make simple points - and lchic collected some at 2599 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.S5Z7aet75T8.1557732@.f28e622/3237

In Clear rshowalter "Science News Poetry" 2/14/01 7:18am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.S5Z7aet75T8.1557732@.f1983fb/409

In Clear ends with a message we need to learn:

In clear: Lying is more dangerous than people think, and soaks up more attention than people know. We can do less of it. We can send in clear - the message, almost always, will be peaceful. And complex cooperation, now so often terminated with deceptive sequences, could happen more often.

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