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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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fredmoore - 11:29am Sep 4, 2003 EST (# 13495 of 13513)

Gisterme,

The biggest factor in Germany's coherence in WWII was the Pumping of the population. It was pumped by WWI defeat, careless Jewish financiers, starvation, and particularly by overt threats from stalinist expansionism. Hitler acted as the mirror that reflected quanta (thoughts and ideas) back into the population which allowed stimulated emissions of thoughts and subsequent actions to become a sustainable coherent output. There is no doubt that Hitler was not just a passive mirror as in conventional lasers bur nonetheless he was a reflector of the thoughts aroused by a population of severely stressed individuals.

I offer no mitigation for the actions that transpired in Germany but it is a useful case study to build on some theories of why current Islamic terrorists are the way they are.

I think the biggest pump in the islamic world is the wealth that oil brings to the middle east and the frustrating denial of power that ought not normally go along with that wealth. The Islamic nations are geographically very poor and when put alongside the fact that they control a significant portion of world capital it is easy to see the frustration that the populations in those areas feel. Israel exacerbates the situation by capitalising on the Islamic poverty to steal lands and water under the assumption of intellectual and moral superiority. I make no judgement on Israel but rightly or wrongly they are helping to pump a neigbouring population to a point where a small number of single minded focussed individuals can reflect quanta (thoughts and ideas) back into the stressed population and create a sustainable coherent output (terrorism). Being the great physicists that they are, it would be in the interests of the Israelis to find ways of removing simple stresses from neighbouring populations, perhaps by assisting in water projects and farming assistance whilst returning stolen lands. Perhaps if they realise they are dealing with a principle of physics here and not some ancient religious dogma they might be able to find a way to lower the pump pressure in a historically and geographically very stressed populational area.

The US to its credit has tried to address these issues but at the same time they continue (along with other nations) to buy mid-east oil without any conditions that pertain to sharing the wealth among islamic populations with the intent of lowering populational stresses in the Islamic nations.

Of course if you want a real demonstration of the human laser in operation... just leave things as they are in the middle east .. I'm of the opinion based on history and the size, poverty and hardships of the Islamic peoples that the best/worst is yet to come.

I hasten to add that I base these conclusions on Physics and Historical reference and not on politics, religion or ideology.

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