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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 - 06:35pm May 10, 2003 EST (# 11574 of 11584)
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.

Commondata and Lchic have asked me some very good questions - and I'm working on putting them in a context that I feel could be, and should be checked. Not that high ranking people such as Howell Raines ever look at this thread - but if such people did - I'd want them to be able to look at the response, and be interested.

In the car last trip, I listened to the audiotape of A Civil Action by Johathan Harr ( Vintage Books )

By the courtroom standards so well depicted in that book - especially with the resources I can command - and the special advantages classification gives the government - I have to ask -

"What could I prove about my relation to Casey, that would stand up in court?

The answer is "not much."

That's giving me pause.

I'm also asking how easy, by court usages, it would be to discredit me. Maybe pretty easy.

That's also giving me pause.

Going through my personal history since 1966 also includes some wrenching things - and I'm not proud of everything I've done - not by a long shot. That's also giving me pause.

Though I'm proud of a good deal - including a lot of the work on this thread.

The points I'd most like to make are independent of my relationship with Casey.

Perhaps people want to "call me Ismael".

Basic points on this thread remain.

rshow55 - 06:37pm May 10, 2003 EST (# 11575 of 11584)
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.

Lchic , I can't get to your email today, which is unusual. Mine is still blocked.

I'm off for the night, for a movie and a meal.

Tried to call, and missed you.

rshow55 - 06:40pm May 10, 2003 EST (# 11576 of 11584)
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.

lchic cites

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1763552

The days of silicon-based memory may be numbered.

And silicon-based memory is already very good - in terms of what people need memory for. If 100 - 1000 - 10000 times more memory becomes available - the difference in what people can do won't increase nearly in proportion. We have very good answers memory problems now.

mazza9 - 07:04pm May 10, 2003 EST (# 11577 of 11584)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

North Korea did not live up to the "agreement" fashioned by Clinton and Carter. They lied and cheated!

North Korea has been the one to issue bellicose statements about nucing US cities and testing, using and exporting WMDs. I, for one, would rather that mankind proceed in an intellectual fashion. My thoughts at the Space Exploration forum are very explicit about where my values reside.

North Korea does not deserve anymore respect and understanding than the common, ordinary street mugger! I don't belong to the NRA but the example of the kook mother that took her own son hostage shows how the issue should be dealt with. If you threaten my child, you're toast!

lchic - 07:22pm May 10, 2003 EST (# 11578 of 11584)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

China can deal with NK - wave the pointed finger ... meaningfully.

Seems China is NK's BIG supplier.

Thinking of SARS - how well would NK cope were it to run riot?

Mazza what's a KOOKED_MOTHER ... is May 11th KookedMother'sDay down your way? How weird are the cultural_customs in Texas?

lchic - 07:27pm May 10, 2003 EST (# 11579 of 11584)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Remembering Saddam --- the sensible thing for him to have done would have been to QUIT -- he didn't ... rather his love of his country was such that he preferred to see it stormed, burnt, ravaged along with many many unnecessary deaths. Logic and reason failed to penetrate his 'brain'.

So the question with NK is whether, or not, it can move into modernity along a smooth course - rather than via CHAOS and shambles!

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