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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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fredmoore - 09:49pm Apr 4, 2003 EST (# 11105 of 11119)

Almarst ... That be 'small nation' .... with world class hi-tech weapons infrastructure and a hard, well hidden core of weapons which threaten your very existence.

But you have to ask yourself Almarst .... Do you feel lucky ? Well, do you?

I'll give you another example. ONE MAN, a geneticist with the 'code' to wipe out or enslave all human life except his own select family, would be more powerful than all the armaments on the planet!

almarst2003 - 10:17pm Apr 4, 2003 EST (# 11106 of 11119)

"Do you feel lucky ?"

No.

mazza9 - 12:25am Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11107 of 11119)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Fredmoore:

Ever Read Frank Herbert's "The White Plague"?

At Amazon:At the height of rush hour in Dublin, a car bomb explodes, killing and injuring scores of passers-by. Among them are the wife and children of John Roe O'Neill, an American biophysicist, who swears revenge on those responsible. O'Neill secretly develops a deadly virus - the White Plague - and unleashes it on Ireland, England, and also on Libya, where the terrorists received training and arms. Inevitably, the plague spreads until the whole world is affected. And then O'Neill returns to Ireland to see firsthand the effects of his revenge..

One man nearly destroys the world because of his anger and desire for revenge. The scenario is so today. This is why we must keep WMDs out of the hands of the Saddam's of the world!!

1234565480 - 03:35am Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11108 of 11119)

The End of the Concept of “Time”

The Greatest Discovery Ever Made in Scientific History!

THE VORTEX THEORY, by RUSSELL G. MOON,USA,Florida

http://www.thevortextheory.com/

The most of basic and fundamental principles in physical science that are used to explain everything for all and somebody else in the universe are themselves are do mysteries! Although this shocking fact seems unbelievable, it is absolutely true. The fundamental principles of physical science – that are also used in: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, and Philosophy and everything else we encounter in the entire physical universe – are “fundamental unknowns”. The first and most important of these “fundamental unknowns” are: distance, mass, time, energy and dimension, the concept of itself.

For those who have forgotten, or for those who never knew, mass & distance & time are the single most important scientific characteristic of matter. It is the one characteristic of matter that is used in all of the formulas of physics and engineering to explain the motions of matter. And yet, mass is a mystery. It is a mystery because although science knows what mass does, it does not know what mass is.

Up until the latter half of the 20th Century, it was believed that the mass of matter and the volume of matter were directly related. For example, the more matter that is packed into a constant volume the more massive it is. However, with the discovery of quarks within protons and neutrons, this idea is no longer valid.

Mass attracts mass and mass resists acceleration. The attraction is supposedly explained by the existence of a particle called the graviton, yet nobody has ever seen one. Nor has matter’s resistance to acceleration ever been explained. Nobody has ever explained the conflict created by the observation that mass attracts mass, creating movement, yet resists movement when a force tries to accelerate it.

Why motion is created in one instance yet resisted in the next is not explained or defined even in the definition of mass. Mass is defined as, “an inherent property of matter that is a measure of the amount of matter present in a body”; yet what this inherent property of matter is, or why it exists is [until now] unknown.

Hundreds of years ago, Sir Isaac Newton discovered the famous mathematical relationship that describes the attraction of one mass for another mass. He called it the Law of Gravity. And even though he used the principle of mass to discover this great law of physics, not even this greatest of all scientists could explain what mass was. The Law of Gravity only explains what mass does, it cannot explain what mass is.

Another great scientist, Albert Einstein, discovered the relationship between mass and energy and used it in his famous equation. But not even the great Albert Einstein knew what mass was. This use of the concept of mass, despite the failure to understand what it is, is most disturbing. For when we realize just how important to the science of physics the concept of mass really is, the failure to explain what it is, is multiplied every time it is used in another equation to explain something else. And mass is used many times in many equations in every branch of science. In fact, mass is used in almost every equation of major importance in physics, engineering, and astronomy. Mass is used in the formulas that are used to explain force, momentum, inertia, acceleration, energy, work, kinetic energy, power, torque, and many more. In fact, practically every essential equation used to explain the workings of the universe uses mass. This great irony of science is most disturbing when we realize that the most well educated and pragmatic men of this era are using a total and complete mystery of the universe in their attempt to explain the other mysteries of the universe. If this failure were but an isolated incident, its importance might be diminished. But it is not – it increases dramatically when

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