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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
- 07:43am Mar 31, 2003 EST (#
10826 of 10832)
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.
We have things to fix. With the stakes as they are - and
with people scared, and paying attention - it doesn't look so
hard to get things sorted out better than they are. Well
enough for much better results, and much better stability.
Some things are very orderly, for fundamental
reasons - and we need to understand that, and build on that.
People investigating fractals have come up with many beautiful
examples. Pictorially, many of the downloads here are
beautiful.
Fractal art, note cards, prints The Fractal Farm
-Iterations http://thefractalfarm.homestead.com/Iterations.html
Cynthia Lanius' unit on Fractal Properties is
intellectually beautiful. http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractals/self.html
"Cats, canaries, or kangaroos are similar if
they are alike in some way. In geometry though, similar
means something very specific. Geometric figures are similar
if they have the same shape. I don't mean two rectangles or
two triangles, but really the same shape."
She offers beautiful examples.
Order, disorder, similarity and difference coexist for
basic and inescapable reasons.
Human being shape the patterns of order they live
with and live in.
How do we sort out what matters enough so
that we can avoid fighting?
Intellectually that isn't hard, from where we are.
It would take a little discipline - and acknowledgement that
we have to get beyond some old, stupidly invariable rules -
and deal with some exception handling when we clearly
have to.
Bush and Blair have some very valid concerns. There's no
contradiction to say that many Arab concerns are valid, too.
What are we fighting about? If we were clear - clearer than
we are - we could get better resolutions than we're getting.
There are fights that have to be fought. We better
be clear about exactly what they are - and where they
are - in enough detail so that workable, just resolutions are
possible.
This thread has some similarities to a fractal. And some
similarities to a beach. They aren't accidental.
People wouldn't have to be a lot more disciplined and
honest than they are to do a lot better than we're
doing.
lchic
- 08:10am Mar 31, 2003 EST (#
10827 of 10832) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Val-de-ri--Val-de-ra-
Val-de-ri--Val-de ha ha ha ha ha ha
Val-de-ri--Val-de-ra.
My knapsack on my back.
Oh, may I go a-wandering
Until the day I die!
http://www.djmorton.demon.co.uk/scouting/songs/wanderer.htm
lchic
- 08:13am Mar 31, 2003 EST (#
10828 of 10832) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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It seems the Aussies and the Brits know
how to go a-wandering Along the desert track
Carrying with them rations, along with mini stove, to give
self-sufficiency
So sayest one from the ANU defense academy
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