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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 - 10:13am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11613 of 11631)
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Failure to check fact(s) equates with an eventual 'built-in obsolecence'

• companies fail
• governments fall

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lchic - 10:19am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11614 of 11631)
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obsolescence

n : the property of being out of date and not current

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Truth

Truth is a comprehensive term that in all of its nuances implies accuracy and honesty

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=truth

lchic - 10:26am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11615 of 11631)
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How's daddy doing?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=553&ncid=751&e=10&u=/ap/20030509/ap_wo_en_he/na_pol_us_people_ronald_reagan

p.s.

who actually 'ran' the US when this guy was president?

lchic - 10:48am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11616 of 11631)
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fred asked Showalter to elaborate

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.PldeaM5X975.0@.f28e622/13187

Showalter obliged

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.PldeaM5X975.0@.f28e622/13188

rshow55 - 10:53am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11617 of 11631)
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.

Casey had a big part. And he was subject to political compromises, and circumstantial binds - that frustrated him.

Judging, at least, from the text of

Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances Fitzgerald Simon and Schuster, 2000

and similar references. The world described is a world where the relations between fact and decision were not as clear as they might have been.

lchic - 10:57am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11618 of 11631)
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Cassey had 'ideals' ?

rshow55 - 10:59am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11619 of 11631)
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.

I interpreted fred's request for elaboratation in

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.PldeaM5X975.0@.f28e622/13187

as directed to RobKettenberg. But Fred, and Lchic, and Commondata have asked me some good questions - and I've not responded completely - I'm trying to do so in ways that can be effective - and with material that can be checked as far as it goes.

No one has time enough to tell "the whole truth" about everything - nor would anyone want to bother to attend to the telling. I am trying to set out things fairly - and in ways that can be of use. Giving some thought to my own fallibilities, too.

I've sometimes thought that this thread has been noticed - and useful. That's something that could be checked. But from where I stand - it is only an inference.

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