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 [F] 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?

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robkettenburg03 - 10:41am May 18, 2003 EST (# 11757 of 11762)

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rshow55 - 10:52am May 18, 2003 EST (# 11758 of 11762)
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 anybody who reads this thread knows, lchic is smarter than I am - and a lot more succinct. I started this year feeling optimistic ( 7177) and lchic came back with a devastatingly good question:

lunarchick - 09:27am Jan 1, 2003 EST (# 7178 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.vyaGaW8WaNH.327031@.f28e622/8701

If the 'future' can be seen to be fine .... what went wrong with the present?

I ended my response to lchic's great question with a point that Publisher Sulzberger and other high-shots like Raines and some other people might find useful - and yet scary.

And here's a pet peeve of mine. People set up exception handling to work well once - in ways that set it up backwards after the first use - so that a lot of systems, at all levels, that people think are set up right, are dead wrong - scattering sign errors all through the logical system. In nuke controls, and some other spots, that one scares me particularly - especially after I found another propogating error in those systems, a while back.

fredmoore - 10:58am May 18, 2003 EST (# 11759 of 11762)

Rshow ...

'fredmoore - to modify the systems that we have working now so that they could solve the world's energy problem, and do a lot else - would cost a lot less than that. '

How much less ... do you have any costings?

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