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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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lchic - 07:32am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11966 of 11992)
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Were Dickens still alive, and were he to visit encampments holding prisoners, and military prisoners, and were he to witness the inhumanity within ....

In dickensian style

I wonder what and how he would write --- he usually 'got results' in terms of social reform ...

Is there any such media performer-writer today?

lchic - 09:10am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11967 of 11992)
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Democracy and human rights

http://www.shrc.org/english/index.shtml Syria http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/saudi/ Saudi

lchic - 09:21am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11968 of 11992)
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84000 pieces of Colombia ( 80% retrieved ) are shelved in a hanger at Kenedy Space Centre

lchic - 09:32am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11969 of 11992)
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The era of surrogate astronauts is over:

http://ham.spa.umn.edu/kris/animals.html

rshow55 - 09:38am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11970 of 11992)
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.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.AZ2nbOS2apJ.1795904@.f28e622/13591 Is there any such media performer-writer today?

Dickens had a disciplined heart - and he could be funny, too.

Matching Dickens today?

-- You might need a team. And a nearly movie sized budget. I'd nominate Mel Brooks or anyone he'd highly recommend as a substitute - consulting especially the people cited in Defending the Right Not to Have a Nice Day By WARREN ST. JOHN http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/25/fashion/25GRUM.html

But for the actual writing - you'd need an astounding artist - ideally, this time, a female one. With the intellect of Erica Goode, Emily Eakin, and Natalie Angier all rolled into one - and a lot of moxie and grace.

Wouldn't be easy to find.

Funny and graceful and in touch with a wide audience is hard.

Looking at Friedman's piece ME - looking for 'truth' Friedman's piece today http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/25/opinion/25FRIE.html I recall a quote delivered to me at a very painful time - when I'd screwed up, and there was no help for it. It was from Oscar Wilde, referring to a great hit of his day, Uncle Tom's Cabin :

"A man would have to have a heart of stone - - to read of the death of little Annie --- without laughing.

A new Dickens would have to see the humor of that - and stay warm.

jorian319 - 09:45am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11971 of 11992)

Wow, lunachick:

30 posts since yesterday. You sure have a lot to say. To SOMEONE....???

Quality vs. quantity - who's to judge?

I guess only the reader...

I usually scan this thread for posts by anyone other than the usual three suspects, and find a gratifyingly higher average quality.

lchic - 09:47am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11972 of 11992)
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Itemized database of approximately 43,000 Einstein and Einstein-related archival items: writings, professional & personal correspondence

http://www.alberteinstein.info/

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