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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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rshow55 - 12:04pm Aug 10, 2003 EST (# 13280 of 13283)
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.

12603 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h6dUbdhZxsO.2793738@.f28e622/14261 includes some interesting references, and this:

A reader of this thread might guess that people care about it. 1235-7 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h6dUbdhZxsO.2793738@.f28e622/1581

I sometimes wonder why, after the postcard described here was sent, things weren't handled more directly.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/LtToSenateStffrWSulzbergerNoteXd.html

A media stock analyst (or a customer - or prospective stock holder) might as such questions too. For a news organization - playing it straight - sending in clear - is generally safer - better - and better business.

- - - - - -

But there are other considerations, for an organization as complex, and multiply connected as the TIMES, and perhaps some might be related to this fine article:

Has Stanley Williams Left the Gang? By KIMBERLEY SEVCIK http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/10WILLIAMS.html includes this:

The arc of his life raises fundamental, perennial questions about human nature: . . . . . Can a person who is capable of tremendous harm also be capable of tremendous good?

Obviously the answer is yes, and people should have sense enough to know that.

There are people making decisions about Stanley Williams who may not wish to kill him, may appreciate some things he's doing, may not doubt the essence of anything he says, but don't want him "running around loose" either.

There seem to be some significant analogies to my situation - but some significant differences as well. I haven't killed anybody. I've been honest, hardworking, and constructive.

I was commandeered by Dwight D. Eisenhower , in 1967 - and if my work was illicit in some ways - I believe there were very good reasons for what I did, and what I was asked to do. 12402-12403 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h6dUbdhZxsO.2793738@.f28e622/14055

This thread contains some fine search topics:

Eisenhower, briefing, commandeer, AEA, exception handling, poetry

are some good ones.

Gisterme asked some questions about exception handling. 11721 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.h6dUbdhZxsO.2793738@.f28e622/13331

I've sometimes played "in a rough league" - and I sometimes suspect that lchic has, too.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/see281_SendInClearNCryfrHelp.htm

fredmoore - 08:09am Aug 11, 2003 EST (# 13281 of 13283)

It's a pity

KAEP, every city

earthy planet comes alive

but for egos

hungry dingoes

scrounging meals to survive.

FM 2468A

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