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    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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rshow55 - 08:10am May 24, 2003 EST (# 11903 of 11903)
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 appreciate lchic in her entirety - and I'm grateful and proud to work with her.

I don't just appreciate her as an "ineffectual intellectual" - she's one of the most effectual and incisive intellectuals I've ever known - and my guess is one of the most valuable minds alive. I appreciate her as a whole person - as she is - in her entirety.

And we have a deep and binding relationship - that has been important to both of us. We're intellectual partners and collaborators. I care desperately about that - and hope it continues. Steve Kline was my partner before. There were some awkwardnesses in my relationship with Steve (both his wife and his department at Stanford were sometimes jealous of Steve's attentions to me) - but it was easier, in some key ways, because Steve was male.

I'd add that my wife, my parents and (a little later, my sibs) have been pretty fully informed about my relationship with, and feelings about lchic since middle to late 2000. As informed as they wish to be, I think. And they can be just as informed as they wish to be - by asking - and looking at records where those records exist. On balance, by workable human standards, I feel justified in everything I've done or thought about doing with lchic - and think she's had very good reasons - by reasonable human standards - for the things she's done and thought about doing with me.

Fredmoore's 11892 contains this:

Now in many many ways that is quite beautiful but in others ... in ways that really matter, ugly.

Maybe so - but providing reasonable weights on what has happened - I think lchic has done superbly well - and been just as honorable as a human being can realistically asked to be - with human limitations and primate facts as they are - and social complications as they are.

I'd hope others might have similar judgements about me - if they took the trouble to learn enough to judge.

I think both of us have been doing the very best we can - and deserve enough backing that we can do the good things we've shown we can do better.

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