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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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bbbuck - 09:56am May 27, 2003 EST (# 12078 of 12078)

I once had a black and blue frisky little dog called smuckers[No, I had not heard of the jam, though ,later in life,I used to buy it, and it was pretty good]. The blue was a result of melting every blue and indigo crayon within a 3 mile radius. The crayons were sometimes purchased but when the money ran out I had to threaten smaller children with force to divest of their blue crayons. The kids bigger than me I let alone.

The crayons were then melted and just before they cooled too much, smuckers was dipped into the gooey liquid. This caused much laughter. Smuckers did not like it.

Anyway one day smuckers and I we're walking thru Komodo country on our way to a softball game between the Sydney Sweethearts and the Melbourne Mudbabbers, when we spied a beautiful canyon. Looking down on the canyon there was a huge silver object at the bottom of the canyon.

I thought my gosh I'm rich I've stumbled upon some giant nugget of silver. Smuckers went running down to the silver object to investigate and nudged it.

The object blew up.

So did smuckers.

The sky was painted blue.

Later I found out the nipsters had sent bombs over in hot air balloons and some of them had fallen and not exploded. O if smuckers had only been given proper unexploded bomb recognition training this tradegy may have been averted. But alas we were poor people and could not afford this luxury.

So long smuckers you were the best blue and black dog I ever owned. I miss you.

http://watch-out-smuckers.com/ or

http://gosh-look-at-that.com/ .

http://my-home-page.com/

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