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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 - 04:34pm May 27, 2003 EST (# 12097 of 12132)
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A 'news_count' of world problems today - as compared to Ike's days in the sun -- much of the world still runs like a horror movie!

lchic - 04:39pm May 27, 2003 EST (# 12098 of 12132)
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I live in a Tourist-Mecca ... a picture postcard downUnder wonderland ... deserts, mountains, seas ... until tourism globally got all SARS'd out ... one little virus put the question

'Is your journey really necessary'

into travel logs!

lchic - 04:42pm May 27, 2003 EST (# 12099 of 12132)
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"A conneticutt Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Mark Twain

lchic - 04:58pm May 27, 2003 EST (# 12100 of 12132)
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Still looking for the 'postcard' Showalter?

A docco on HK and SARS that followed the epidemic begs an important question on foot-controls ... why aren't flushing systems, hand basins, door-openings .... all done via either beams or footcontrols ... noted too that HK plumbing standards had a sewage pipe (rusted/leaking) actually running down the kitchen wall within a meter of the 'cooking' ... the film also showed the virusFertile meat (live/dead) of S. China.

rshow55 - 05:05pm May 27, 2003 EST (# 12101 of 12132)
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.

Simple issues that are matters of life and death.

"Simple" once they are seen and understood.

Most public health issues are like that.

rshow55 - 05:15pm May 27, 2003 EST (# 12102 of 12132)
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.

lchic - 12092 makes a fair comment - more important than the postcard:

Showalter - hard to imagine 'YOU' condensing-down to a small postcard :)

I can be succinct at times. But I'm nowhere near as good at condensing ideas - and doing it gracefully - as lchic - and I don't know anybody else who is.

Maybe the NYT has a whole stable full of writers who are as good as she is at that - but somehow, if they do - I've missed it.

lchic - 05:31pm May 27, 2003 EST (# 12103 of 12132)
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Showalter --- those NYTguys are paid by the word ... to elaborate!

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