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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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lchic - 08:48am May 10, 2003 EST (# 11554 of 11566)
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fredmoore - 09:13am May 10, 2003 EST (# 11555 of 11566)

Hang the T-shirt ... Love that 90 Ferrari F50 .... Brmmm Brmmm .... Oooh yeah!!

lchic - 09:13am May 10, 2003 EST (# 11556 of 11566)
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lchic - 09:34am May 10, 2003 EST (# 11557 of 11566)
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It's interesting to note how 'public figures' who have satisfied their own needs take the time to look to the needs of others - Buffet (Edu), Gates (Vaccinations/Edu), Turner (Peace), Newman -- Spaghetti sauce :)

It seems that Casey set Showalter on a problem solving course that was ultimately designed to show how it was possible to give the 'free world' higher improved living standards - as compared to the then closed world of communism.

Raised baseline standards haven't yet come to pass. When answers are possible, then, the question is why hasn't the world worked together to raise 'the lot' of humanity.

Showalter would say that the (Casey) 'will' to give all the people of the world a higher, decent baseline of existence has to be regenerated.

Perhaps all nations need to take out an R&D_insurance_policy that they pay into for a couple of decades in the expectation that at the end of that time improvements of provision can be attained via optimal engineering with the implementation of economies of scale, to give affordable energy, adequate shelter and food with a clean and plentiful water supply.

Showalter assures us that the solutions are to hand - needing funding for technical development - from Governments and private sources. So why isn't it happening?

lchic - 09:43am May 10, 2003 EST (# 11558 of 11566)
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The economy that's growing fastest in the world today is __________________

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rshow55 - 11:21am May 10, 2003 EST (# 11559 of 11566)
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.

As a minimum, I'd need an agreement, in writing or otherwise usable in bureacratic circumstances, about what the government would let me use of my work, and what it would restrict.

If I could get past that - there might be fairly straighforward answers to

So why isn't it happening?

Based on my past experience, that level of clearance might be enough.

lchic - 11:29am May 10, 2003 EST (# 11560 of 11566)
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Showalter - much of your output has been financed by yourself, family, wife, with encouragement and assistance from intellectual partners ....

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