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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 - 09:08am 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.

I'm wrong about things, sometimes. Working on techniques of problem solving - and showing them in action - I expect that. I make mistakes, and so do others. Even when they "tell a story" that has a lot of coherence.

People are never "entirly right" from every point of view when they are making broad predictions - and almarst was partly wrong on April 1 - but partly right. http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.sNwab5qDyCK.3456222@.f28e622/12446

" This war was LOST even BEFORE it actually started. "

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.sNwab5qDyCK.3456222@.f28e622/12446 was wrong in key spots - but worth attending to - asking - "how could this be right - how wrong" - as a step in decision making. Almarst has often said things very much worth attending to.

. We're in a mess now. Have to fix it. From where we are. It doesn't help to fantasize - when we should face things.

For real messes, the only hope is to fully understand the things that need to be done - as they are - and what happened - as it actually happened. Nothing else has any reasonable chance - barring miracles.

Yesterday's editorial had a lot straight:

White House Fantasies on Iraq http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/opinion/14THU1.html

An implausibly upbeat White House progress report on Iraq ignores the reality of continued insecurity, failing basic services and painstakingly slow political progress.

Without good judgement - complex interconnected problems that start going bad usually go from bad to worse. Unless and until they are adequately understood, and sensibly dealt with.

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