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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 - 08:24am Aug 15, 2003 EST (# 13310 of 13310)
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.

Gisterme may be "unconnected with the government" - but I have a right to wonder about that - and have reservations about what he says. Though there's been some waffling, Gisterme has continued to function as a "stand-in" for the Bush administration on this thread since the middle of 2001.

If somebody in the Bush administration was doing that, without GWB's approval - my guess is that that someone would have been stopped by now.

My guess is that anyone in the United States would have been contacted, and asked to stop, if Bush had disapproved. The US government has to know exactly who gisterme is.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md3000s/md3367.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md3000s/md3460.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md3000s/md3465.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md3000s/md3471.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md3000s/md3478.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4386.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4553.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5133.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5893.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5897.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6831.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6838.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7217.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7655.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8062.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8553.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md12000s/12490.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md12000s/12491.htm

Others may be able to figure out "the odds of that" better than I can. People have to think for themselves, at some basic levels.

Decision making/tree, expert systems ... often a decision is common sense .. when a framework is required then : http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.BH8QbYYuywy.3406099@.f28e622/828

I've been trying to do my duty. So has lchic. I think we're both proud of the accomplishments described and put in context in MD1999 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.BH8QbYYuywy.3406099@.f28e622/2484 If you want to trace a lot of detail about gisterme's contributions since March 1, 2000 , click 207 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/218 , read it, and then search "gisterme" and "stand in or stand-in"

Leaders make mistakes , and in the real world, it is impossible to avoid that. But leaders are responsible , and are expected to do their duty.

It seems to me that if the people involved on this thread act so that what they do (whether it "comes out" or not) could be "written up in The New York Times" in ways that "the average reader of the New York Times" would respect - a lot of things that are now very dangerous could be much safer and go much better.

I'm trying to meet that standard.

Nobody has to be a saint. But lies are unstable - for decent action - and stability - there needs to be good information, and right answers.

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