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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 - 08:55am Jun 19, 2003 EST (# 12596 of 12606)
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://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md10000s/md10200_10206new5.htm includes this:

"But when it matters enough, everybody has to be subject to checking. Even the President of the United States. Even clergymen, no matter how well intended or exalted. Even elected officials. Or firemen. Or elected officials who are also volunteer fireman, like Weldon.

How on earth can you be sure you have right anwers unless you check?

"It would be like "pulling youself out of your own as*hole" . . . something a very good soldier explained to me that I couldn't even think about doing.

rshowalter - 12:13pm Oct 9, 2001 EST (#10204

"I usually don't go back and look about how postings can change - instead, I usually read them in downloaded form. But old postings can change - for instance, a poster can change contact information.

"I notice that kangdawei now has a "contact heading" of

http://www.uclick.com/client/cap/ac/2001/09/26/index.html

"which connect(ed)s to Ann Coulter . Now that isn't certain evidence that kangdawei is Coulter - but it is a connection -- and I expect, after a little thought, to contact Ann Coulter and see if we have something to talk about.

"I'd like to do that for a lot of reasons -- including some mixed motives - - she's a good looking lady -- maybe even better looking than Ms Rice !

"Coulter's writings are entertaining, too. And well written in ways that I wouldn't know how to match, though it would be fun to learn, except that it might get too complicated, everything considered . . . .

rshowalter - 01:10pm Oct 9, 2001 EST (#10205

But maybe we could have a date. I could take her to the Patent Office, for a day of real searching - - on something specific - - maybe two days. So she could learn what "impossible" means . .

and what hope means, too, in technical fields.

Just a thought. I need to read some of her stuff, and collect my courage, before I call her - - then, just my luck, she'll be unavailable.

( She was. )

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md10000s/md10205_10208new5.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md11000s/md11479.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_3000s/3640.htm

. http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8LCubOV2htx.213312@.f28e622/4586 contains some dates that can be checked via http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm

Fredmoore , I'd be glad for a chance to take you to the Patent Office - whether you're male or female - for a the same sort of "date" - to get you clearer on what hope is and isn't. I'm hopeful - but ideas have to be tested - and they have to work in all the ways that actually matter.

rshow55 - 09:01am Jun 19, 2003 EST (# 12597 of 12606)
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.

The issues in G.O.P. Dismisses Questions on Banned Arms Proof in Iraq By DAVID E. SANGER and CARL HULSE (NYT) News http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/politics/18WEAP.html matter enormously.

They matter economically, socially and morally - because we have to make decisions in an unimaginably complex world - - things I said on complexity - in my attempt to "brief" Putin - ought to make it clear that lies - especially lies that are not cleared up - not clarified - lies that accumulate - are dangerous, expensive, and shut off not only decency - but all kinds of practical hope. http://www.mrshowalter.net/PutinBriefing.html

If the Republicans identify themselves as " the party of teamwork and lying" - - the Democrats might concievably do better.

I'd suggest they try to combine teamwork and truth.

fredmoore - 09:16am Jun 19, 2003 EST (# 12598 of 12606)

Robert ...

I asked the following question hoping you could apply some genius to a suitable solution to the problem posed:

"It has just been brought to my attention that multinational KAEP research will involve space and nanotech technology transfers to participating countries. There is concern that these transfers could be abused, even under a well meaning KAEP umbrella. Do you have a solution to this problem? "

Your answer is ??:

Fredmoore , I'd be glad for a chance to take you to the Patent Office - whether you're male or female - for a the same sort of "date" - to get you clearer on what hope is and isn't. I'm hopeful - but ideas have to be tested - and they have to work in all the ways that actually matter.

I am still hopeful you can solve the problem with your powers of checking and network interconnection (to courtroom standards of course).

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