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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 - 12:40pm Apr 7, 2003 EST (# 11191 of 11192)
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.

systems of deceptions and halftruths...

#116 - rshow55 Mar 2, 2002 05:34 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/137 Here are some references, to the Riley-Showalter paradigm thread, Paradigm Shift .... whose getting there? ...

#374 - manjumicha2001 Mar 11, 2002 01:28 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/459

#453 - rshow55 Mar 13, 2002 01:49 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/557 We have to understand some basic things about how fights work, for intervention to be very workable. As of now, people don't know how to make peace very well.

#793 - rshow55 Mar 23, 2002 10:40 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/998

#822 - manjumicha2001 Mar 25, 2002 05:06 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1036

#904 - gisterme Mar 28, 2002 02:41 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1148

#918 - rshow55 Mar 28, 2002 05:57 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1162

#1028 - rshow55 Apr 3, 2002 12:36 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1308

#1033 - rshow55 Apr 3, 2002 03:38 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1314

#1187 - rshow55 Apr 8, 2002 04:39 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1514

#1321 - lchic Apr 12, 2002 11:31 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1681

#1342 - lchic Apr 13, 2002 04:10 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1711

#1566 - rshow55 Apr 20, 2002 03:07 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1970

#1567 - rshow55 Apr 20, 2002 03:11 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/1971

#1785 - rshow55 Apr 26, 2002 10:19 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/2237

#1792 - rshow55 Apr 26, 2002 02:05 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/2244

#1941 - rshow55 May 1, 2002 07:42 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/2420

#2103 - rshow55 May 8, 2002 08:16 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/2608

#2161 - rshow55 May 11, 2002 11:58 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/2687

#2370 - rshow55 May 23, 2002 11:04 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/2948

#2380 - mazza9 May 24, 2002 12:12 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/2958

#2437 - rshow55 Jun 2, 2002 03:55 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/3043

#2474 - rshow55 Jun 6, 2002 08:33 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/3096

#2594 - rshow55 Jun 17, 2002 12:57 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/3238

#2738 - rshow55 Jun 27, 2002 09:25 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/3410

#3065 - rshow55 Jul 15, 2002 07:42 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/3829

#3177 - rshowalt Jul 20, 2002 07:25 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.897324@.f28e622/3983

Partly, but only partly because the Science in the News thread is being rebooted, I want to post this: MD506 rshow55 3/13/02 11:28pm MD130 rshow55 3/2/02 6:59pm rshow55 3/2/02 7:59pm

On soldiers and responsibility: rshowalter "Science in the News" 8/29/00 7:26am ... rshowalter "Science in the News" 8/29/00 7:27am

THE 'EATHEN by Rudyard Kipling rshowalter "Science in the News" 8/29/00 7:56am ...rshowalter "Science in the News" 8/29/00 8:00am ... rshowalter "Science in the News" 8/29/00 8:01am

rshowalter "Science in the News" 8/29/00 8:03am

More Kipling: Mesopotamia .....1917 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee74d94/3625

Soldier an' Sailor Too http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee7

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