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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 - 03:25pm Sep 9, 2003 EST (# 13582 of 13598)
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.

These links provide some background, about problems considered, and progress that's been made, and can be made.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1011_1017.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1172.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md2000s/md2629.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md2000s/md2692.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5070.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5180.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5909.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6485.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md9000s/md9467.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md9000s/md9477.htm

6084 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.iUwVbOB7EHX.0@.f28e622/7559

8542 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.iUwVbOB7EHX.0@.f28e622/10068

13301 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.iUwVbOB7EHX.0@.f28e622/14987

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1011_1017.htm

rshowalter - 08:23am Mar 15, 2001 EST (#1016

. . . -- the most fundamental logical operator, I was taught by a very wise monster long ago, is not

. X implies Y and its opposite

but

. X is consistent with Y and it's opposite.

Put enough consistencies and inconsistencies together, in a tight structure, and you come as close to proof as human beings can come. This is standard procedure in court -- and now, for more than a decade, most of the evidence has been "hiding in plain sight."

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http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1172.htm

rshowalter - 11:09am Mar 19, 2001 EST (#1173

Under circumstances of much misunderstanding, and particularly in cases were deceptions may occur . . .

(i) What are the credible data from ALL sources?

ii) How can we formulate a model or solution that is consistent with all the credible data?

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http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md2000s/md2629.htm md2629-30

Findings of consistency, again and again, from many statistically and causally independent connections, can "nail something down." Our trial law practice is based on this, and in competently conducted jury trials it very often works.

But only if deceptions do not stump us.

That means that we must be prepared to consider deception, including the possibility of widespread deception, rather than defer to it.

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http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5070.htm

A major source of credible information, though only one of many, is the output of THE NEW YORK TIMES.

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