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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 - 08:37pm Sep 12, 2003 EST (# 13626 of 13636)
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.

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I've broken my promises to Eisenhower and others - I promised that I would never, under any circumstances, reveal my relationship with Eisenhower except face to face to a proper authority. The time finally came where it seemed to me that, to keep faith with the things I promised Eisenhower I'd try to do, I had to break that promise. Perhaps I simply ran out of strength.

Was that cheating ?

I broke my promise here:

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I was selected to work on problems that former President Eisenhower felt, and others felt, were of essential national interest - and difficult.

A lot of people were outraged by that - but I tried, and others tried, to do it in ways that were unusual, but were not cheating.

I worked on these posts - mostly from January and February - and could present them in ways that would save many lives - and assist in the defense of the United States - if I could find a way to do so that was effective and yet was not cheating from the point of view of people with power to stop me.

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sequences and loop counting 7597-99 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.mDHEbbSRF7G.8890102@.f28e622/9120

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Oscillatory solutions among the birds: 7749-51 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.mDHEbbSRF7G.8890102@.f28e622/9274

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Gisterme 7882 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.mDHEbbSRF7G.8890102@.f28e622/9407

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Gisterme 7937 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.mDHEbbSRF7G.8890102@.f28e622/9462

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In mid-January, I got a certain way along talking about "oscillatory" solutions, and backed off, mainly because key people didn't seem ready to hear a key fact - that there is a lot of unconscious processing, a l

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