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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 - 06:41pm Sep 16, 2003 EST (# 13696 of 13824)
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.

Gisterme - did you actually read what I wrote in

13660 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gKfQbUHeHtB.971546@.f28e622/15353

13661 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gKfQbUHeHtB.971546@.f28e622/15354

13663 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gKfQbUHeHtB.971546@.f28e622/15355

? ? ? ? ?

You got some key points backwards - or if you didn't - you're just picking a fight to relieve yourself of the need to be honest or think.

Your phrase

" If you think that those words describe gisterme

has a big if - do you see where the "if" connects to what I actually said ?

I do think the it would be good if people would read the posts we've both made on this forum - and I think yours are the more important. I think Almarst's are also more important than mine. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

You missed a point I was trying to make. And I do think you ought to be checked.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gKfQbUHeHtB.971546@.f28e622/15356

jorian319 - 06:57pm Sep 16, 2003 EST (# 13697 of 13824)

I think Almarst's are also more important than mine

It is revealing that even Robert thinks that the moanings of a professional victim-type are more important than his own posts. Maybe he is actually learning something.

Not that I take much stock in Robert's Index of Importance, but at least he's finding out that there is life after VIP audiences.

rshow55 - 07:27pm Sep 16, 2003 EST (# 13698 of 13824)
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.

From 9003 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gKfQbUHeHtB.971546@.f28e622/10529 to 90012 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gKfQbUHeHtB.971546@.f28e622/10539 summarizes a good deal of this thread before March 1, 2001 - and an interesting thing, to me, is how few postings I made before Almarst came on the scene. (about 400 over 5 months )

I got more excited when Dawn Riley brought "Muddle in Moscow" http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=533129 ) to my attention.

Back then, I was convinced that, one way or another - lchic had connections to the real skinny in journalism.

Boy, was I gullible . .

I was also impressed, maybe wrongly by dialog with our "Bush administration stand-in" gisterme , starting with a powerful one in his first posting .. MD2997 gisterme 5/2/01 1:09pm ...

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md2000s/md2993.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md2000s/md2998.htm

- - and the sad truth is that I've been so deluded that I've mostly worked trying to help get communication going between those two.

MD1999 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gKfQbUHeHtB.971546@.f28e622/2484

That work involved great contributions from "stand-ins" who have taken the role of senior Russian and American officials - - a role that has continued since March 1, 2000 207 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/218

And yes, I have felt that both gisterme and Almarst have been important - if only in a "simulated" role. Much more important - by role, and posting-for-posting, than I've been.

rshow55 - 07:40pm Sep 16, 2003 EST (# 13699 of 13824)
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.

An aunt died - my mother's last living sibling - and I'll be flying out tomorrow early to be with my parents and help with the memorial service, and odds and ends. Will be posting less the next few days.

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