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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 - 11:03am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11620 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 ideals - deeply felt ones - but also felt that it was often necessary to make compromises - including compromises that might involve lies and murder, and sometimes did.

He "played God." Sometimes badly. But, in my opinion, not always badly.

He wasn't alone in that.

Casey hoped that, after the Cold War ended, a lot could be set right.

And he knew that there were basic, unsolved problems that needed to be solved.

rshow55 - 11:05am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11621 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.

A lot of those problems look soluble now.

In my opinion - a lot of those problems would be a lot closer to getting solved in practice if the New York Times would actually set its own house in order - in ways consistent with its own ideals, and its own "brand" committments.

lchic - 11:06am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11622 of 11631)
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Ah! So Casey was a 'visionary' of the Twentieth Century ... in what ways? ... and who (if any) are the new visionaries (Showalter excepted) of the Twenty-First Century?

lchic - 11:08am May 12, 2003 EST (# 11623 of 11631)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Early Tuesday my way .... Nite!

fredmoore - 10:12pm May 12, 2003 EST (# 11624 of 11631)

Rshow ...

You are correct the comments of #11594 were directed to Rob K.

Out.

fredmoore - 10:16pm May 12, 2003 EST (# 11625 of 11631)

Rshow ...

Your comments around the following qoute attracted my attention.

" He who troubleth his own house will inherit the wind." ........ Proverbs 11 29

My take: Sometimes it is better to inherit the wind than go down with the ship. It reminds me of a story . " A moth got bored with all the local gas lights and when he told his brothers and sisters he wanted to fly around the moon instead, they all laughed at him. Well one day in disgust he set off for the moon. He never reached the moon but had many adventures and one day decided to return to his home. To his grief all his family were dead in the bottom of the local lamps. After a while, he set off again feeling grateful that he was still alive."

One thing about our future seems certain: without a Kyoto Alternative Energy Treaty as I have posted on previously, we all may end up at the bottom of the lamp.

lchic - 10:21pm May 12, 2003 EST (# 11626 of 11631)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Rummy - there's a call to 'Make 'em behave in Baghdad .... these guys are a disappointment to themselves!

Oil @ 4cents a litre and these nations failed to power-up!

Interesting that it's necessary to go in and 'knock a nation over' just so the rest of the world can scramble for the 'built it back up' contracts! So very very strange! As if there weren't things to be done to provide infrastructure and a better life - everywhere!

So who and where are the C21 visionaries and how deep are they prepared to put their hands in their pockets to gain improved means of production to make it a better world.

Why are there kids sleeping in sewers in West Africe?

Why are there kids dying needlessly?

Why are there such huge differences in living standards between the 'haveNOTS' and the 'haves'?

If there are BIG ISSUES -- why aren't they being discussed, worked on and solved?

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Notch-up the 4th world to become a 2nd world --- then there are trading partners for a wider and more sophisticated range of goods.

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5000+ acknowledged cases of SARS in China --- will NK be sealing the border with China?

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