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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
- 02:57pm May 18, 2003 EST (#
11764 of 11764) 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.
Real, sustained work between people and organizations is
only stable and comfortable with a reasonable balancing of
books in terms of status and money.
If a project needed political support - as an essential
fact - how would people involved in the project reasonably pay
and praise people who helped with the political power
involved?
Is there an answer, in the 21st century, that would not be
called "corrupt"? Is there an answer, in the 21st century that
"the average reader of The New York Times" would approve of?
The answers that Leland Stanford would have known, and felt
reasonably comfortable with, have now all been forbidden.
How would you build a railroad system - or some other
enterprise with similar problems - today?
Unless there are affirmative answers that can actually
apply to large scale conduct - a great deal that might
otherwise be possible is classified out of existence.
Issues of social control, and fairness, and transparency
are essential here - and better answers than the ones involved
in the building of the railroads need to be found if some
otherwise "easy" jobs are to get done.
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