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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 - 01:06pm Jul 1, 2003 EST (# 12793 of 12803)
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.

12540 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.D1nVbHqklos.0@.f28e622/14196

I'm no more a Communist or "left winger" than Eisenhower was. Or than Berle or George Marshall was.

The information and speculation in 4427-8 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.D1nVbHqklos.0@.f28e622/5596 shouldn't be classified. It should be investigated. I should be free to ask for that investigation.

I should be free to ask for some other investigations, too. I believe that it is in the national interest that I get them.

12691 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.D1nVbHqklos.0@.f28e622/14359

Maybe I can respond a bit about "wholistic" aspects of energy production (and global warming control). We ought to solve these problems - and in a real sense, that's possible now .

There are times when I agree - partly - with the Bush administration - and it could be taking very good steps - steps compatible with really optimal solutions - about both energy (which in the end needs to involve a lot of hydrogen) and global warming. Both problems that need simple solutions - solved well and on the proper scale.

The word "proper" is a problem. On the plane back from San Francisco, spent some time reading Letittia Baldridge's Complete Guide to Executive Manners ( Ms. Baldridge was Jackie Kennedy's chief of Staff - and especially chief of protocol). And "propriety" is a problem when the solutions are large scale. "Good manners" and "protocol" and "politics as usual" and "national security concerns" can easily stand like iron bars - stopping change - and substituting "perfumed stagnation" for hope. These good things need not stand in the way of hope - but often do.

Sometimes, the solutions have to be identified and implemented on scales where "proprieties" stand in the way. Eisenhower worried about that.

To deal with awkwardness in a workable way - a sense of propriety is important. Jackie Kennedy and Letitia Baldridge must have known a great deal about JFK's relationship with Mimi Beardsley - dealt with it. I've never asked anyone to do anything that is illicit in the sense that Kennedy's relationshiop with Beardsley was illicit. But I do think it is fair to say that my situation has required "a certain tact."

I am doing just exactly what I promised D.D. Eisenhower and Bill Casey I'd try to do. Sometimes, it seems to me, it may be working in the essential ways they hoped it would.

rshow55 - 01:14pm Jul 1, 2003 EST (# 12794 of 12803)
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.

On tact, and some obligations I have to old investors, to myself, to other people I care about, and to my country:

11884 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.D1nVbHqklos.0@.f28e622/13505

bbbuck's 11883 is interesting, as bbbuck's work often is http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.D1nVbHqklos.0@.f28e622/13943

lchic - 04:01pm Jul 1, 2003 EST (# 12795 of 12803)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

... and i thought of buck as in bronco ...

fredmoore - 07:17pm Jul 1, 2003 EST (# 12796 of 12803)

Bbbuck had to go to the dentist but only had a dollar ....

So the dentist gave him .... buck teeth.

lchic - 09:56pm Jul 1, 2003 EST (# 12797 of 12803)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

rabbits to that

lchic - 11:16pm Jul 1, 2003 EST (# 12798 of 12803)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

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