New York Times on the Web Forums Science

Missile Defense

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?

Read Debates, a new Web-only feature culled from Readers' Opinions, published every Thursday.

rshow55 - 06:00pm May 14, 2003 EST (# 11661 of 11661)
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.

Maybe I'm a bit of a weakling, but I'm also in a position with certain vulnerabilities, and I've been looking at the Feb 24 edition of Newsweek - which has ANXIETY AND YOUR BRAIN: How Living With Fear Affects the Mind and Body by Geoffrey Cowley as its cover story.

There's another interesting piece in that Newsweek.

The Hard Times in Silicon Valley , an interview by Brad Stone of Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins.

It has some quotes involved with issued of concern to Casey (and Dwight and Milton Eisenhower, and many other people.

. Stone: You've said the VC industry is driven by greed and fear. Where are we now.

. Khosla: The capital allocation system in this country is driven by those two emotions. Its a little bit like democracy. There's lots of things wrong with it, but there isn't a better system . When an investment area becomes attractive, everybody rushes into it. So you get overinvestment. . . .

Casey wanted to find modifications, that were rational, controllable, and fitting, that could make a better system. So did Eisehower and a lot of other people who knew what had worked in WWII.

They didn't regard that as unamerican.

New York Times on the Web Forums Science Missile Defense