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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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gisterme - 06:21pm Sep 5, 2003 EST (# 13533 of 13537)

Jorian -

I'm important in exactly the same way that every other human is important. There. How's that? :-)

As for the Viagra...ummm, thanfully, I'm not quite there yet. I mentally focus on the late Sen. Strom Thrumond as the example to follow to postpone needs in that department. If he could do it, surely I can too! ;-)

rshow55 - 07:22pm Sep 5, 2003 EST (# 13534 of 13537)
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.

Assessing Watergate 30 Years Later By RICHARD REEVES http://www.mrshowalter.net/Assessing%20Watergate%2030%20Years%20Later.htm

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

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

What I think isn't so important - and what anonymous posters think is only so important - but people can look for themselves - and some people are more important than others. If people with real power wanted to find out who gisterme is - they could.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.uZ5Lb5qvDnj.0@.f28e622/15032

Stories start "once upon a time" - and involve context. How a Story Is shaped http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/ducksoup/555/storyshape.html

My story is a long story, in some ways - and it starts when a guy with some of the gentleness, sweetness, casualness, and trustfulness of Brig. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (but with more rank) scooped me up from an undergraduate program and made me into an "experimental animal" - or a soldier - or even an intellectual ( you can take your pick - the story works in a lot of ways ).

Eisenhower, like Groves, was "playing God." But this was six years after Eisenhower's FAREWELL ADDRESS of January 17, 1961 http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/ikefw.htm and Eisenhower had sense enough to be scared, and concerned, as he was "playing God." 13316-7 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.uZ5Lb5qvDnj.0@.f28e622/15004 includes this:

"Eisenhower and others thought that it was either likely, or certain, that the world would end unless some problems got solved. The Rand corporation was stumped.

Maybe gisterme doesn't like the story. But look around you.

The things Eisenhower warned against in his FAREWELL ADDRESS of January 17, 1961 http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/ikefw.htm have happened.

There are problems to fix. If some leaders of nation states actually asked who gisterme was - they could find out. And I think a lot of useful things might stem from that.

I think this board is working reasonably well.

Wish I was faster. Some notions fredmoore raised about human lasers are interesting. I want to respond in ways that are useful - and lead to stability - not things blowing up.

But I don't want to move too fast. I notice that gisterme does respond to the board - sometimes pretty quickly, considering.

Gisterme denies that he wants people to think he's a powerful personage. People can click http://www.mrshowalter.net/PostsBy_Gisterme.htm - look at the links, and judge for themselves.

There's a lot on http://www.mrshowalter.net/ - including http://www.mrshowalter.net/CoreStory.html - I wonder what the founding fathers would have thought about the possibility of that "story" being put out - and (looking at the odds) plainly read by journalists and government types - yet not checked .

I think they'd be amazed. And ashamed.

There are problems to fix - and a lot of them would be easier to fix if leaders insisted on finding out who gisterme is.

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