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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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fredmoore - 04:24pm Jun 21, 2003 EST (# 12623 of 12690)

Some believe in 'magic'

Some believe in greed

others believe in power

For that is what they need

Rupert runs the Planet

His brain owns every dot

Governments use his power to give YOU diddly squat

Don't worry dear

the time is near

They'll erase all your dots apace

And remember, no one hears you scream

out there in empty space.

So be warn'd ... my hail and hearty

You have to fight for the right to party.

fM234

lchic - 03:23am Jun 22, 2003 EST (# 12624 of 12690)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Parties can be great --- Parties can be fun --- very 'terribly' useful --- when folks turn Twenty-One

Yet 'Politics' and 'Party' --- sometimes are the creed --- the essence and beginning of rancidity in seed

Forget the 'Left Right' Party --- it's boring as in 'march' --- Parade progressive origins --- forget the stodge and starch

The quest deserving answer --- is 'where'd we want to be' --- what type of world to live in --- when folks turn Ninety-Three

dR3

lchic - 03:41am Jun 22, 2003 EST (# 12625 of 12690)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

fredmore --- you seem to be saying that of the few people who vote in the USA the elected government will attend only to it's view of the perceived needs of signed up members of it's own party --- whereas the elected should represent EVERYONE in their constituency and leaderships should represent ALL

Ibsen

    'Conscience lasts for ever, and _______ portrays its healing but incurable pain.'
    'This is a man who is too afraid to know what conscience is.'
    'Compromise, cowardice and disloyalty to the true moral imperatives within you are, for Ibsen, the true enemies of life. Tragedy is not dead. The voices of the ancient gods, and of the Judaeo-Christian faiths, have been replaced by the great social and psychological forces that shape the endless moral conundrum called life. Man created these forces, just as surely as he created his gods. Obey or rebel? This is Ibsen's tragic question, and this production articulates it with the force of a thunderclap.'
    http://www.anthonyandrews.net/ghosts9.html

lchic - 10:20am Jun 22, 2003 EST (# 12626 of 12690)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Aces High - From a Jack to a King - Looking for the SadMan

http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,982710,00.html

lchic - 10:23am Jun 22, 2003 EST (# 12627 of 12690)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

NASA

Running across a reinforced panel on the leading edge of Discovery's left wing was a fissure, a crack so deep that the 'substrate', the weaker material behind the panel, was visible.

Unsure what had caused this potentially lethal problem, Nasa did nothing.

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,982488,00.html

lchic - 10:41am Jun 22, 2003 EST (# 12628 of 12690)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/

lchic - 11:28am Jun 22, 2003 EST (# 12629 of 12690)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Showalter --

three years of internet-partner-posting -- this week - only 18 time zones to work around http://www.indiatoursonline.com/tools/timezone.html |>

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