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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 - 12:20am Sep 12, 2003 EST (# 13618 of 13624)

"...For instance - there are a number of people - not ruled out by anything I actually know. Among them, peole who I'd be proud to find out were posting as gisterme .

David Sanger, for instance. Or Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Or Maureen Dowd. Or Bill Keller. Not that I think any of these people post as gisterme..."

As I've said before, Robert, I believe that the reason that you want sombody that you think is important to be gisterme is to justify the time you've spent on this board. You're just unable to face up to the possibility that nobody like that cares or even knows about this board and certainly nobody like that posts. Nothing you know rules that out either. You certainly would be "proud" if some folks like those did care because that would at least add a tiny shred of credibility to your imagined vast powers of intuition.

Sorry, but I'm not any of those people, Robert, nor do I know any of them personally.

"...But if gisterme does have close connections to Bush - it seems likely that some or all of the people listed above know it..."

I have no such connections close, distant or otherwise to the President. I do see him on TV from time to time just like you do. That's why I don't know any of those people you list (or others in similar circles) and they don't know me.

The only people whom I've told that I post as "gisterme" are my own mother and my daughter. Frankly, I doubt that either of them places much significance on that knowledge. Having read a few of your posts and my responses they mostly just laughed.

My mom's comment was that you couldn't seem to figure out what it was that you were trying to say. That was during your "oscillitory solutions" phase. None of your statements made any more sense to her than they did to me.

A bit later on when I showed some of this to my daughter, she thought it was hilarious that you first thought I was Condoleeza Rice and then the President. We both laughed ourselves to tears.

They both said they think you're a nut. My daughter thinks I'm nuts for even bothering with you. I know my mom doesn't follow what I post and I doubt that my daughter does (but don't know for sure since she lives in a different city). If she does, she's never said anything about it. That's the simple truth, Robert.

"...Gisterme , I'm not sure who you are - ..."

So you say. Frankly, I don't think you really want to know. That would end your dream.

"...though I suspect you're closely connected to the Bush administration - ..."

That's an entirely erronious suspicion.

"...and I think the matter should be checked..."

So check. I'm certainly not stopping you. You'd have to face a lot of facts about the quality of your own intuition if you did so successfully. As I've said before, I doubt you can face the simple truth for that reason. That's why I don't think you really want to know who I am. After all, the simple truth is planely stated above. You refuse to accept it. All the checking in the world would reveal nothing different. The results of such checking, if published, would just make you look silly.

I'm quite certain you wouldn't publish such results if you had them.

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