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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 - 08:01pm Sep 24, 2003 EST (# 13926 of 13958)
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.

I started today at 13899 - and I'm proud of what I wrote at 13900- 13903 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.wu9EbmPGIUp.1670503@.f28e622/15603 - - and I feel like resting now.

This thread is not an accident - and the fact that I'm posting here involves more than "wrongheadedness" on my part. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

cantabb - 08:22pm Sep 24, 2003 EST (# 13927 of 13958)

jorian319 - 07:56pm Sep 24, 2003 EST (# 13924 of 13926)

And that's what counts, right? They are our hosts, after all... ... ...

Sure, they are our hosts. But do we have to abuse the Forum opportunity.

jorian319 - 07:58pm Sep 24, 2003 EST (# 13925 of 13926)

They probably elected to keep MD because it had a low post count at the time - if it ain't broke, why fix it?

Don't know why it was kept, or why they allowed it to be abused apparently for unclear personal purposes.

cantabb - 08:35pm Sep 24, 2003 EST (# 13928 of 13958)

rshow55 - 08:01pm Sep 24, 2003 EST (# 13926 of 13926)

I started today at 13899 - and I'm proud of what I wrote at 13900- 13903 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.wu9EbmPGIUp.1670503@.f28e622/15603 - - and I feel like resting now.

Good to know what you're proud of.

This thread is not an accident - and the fact that I'm posting here involves more than "wrongheadedness" on my part. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

What is it that you're posting here for ? The purpose ? What you want to accomplish ? and How ? And did you accomplish anything so far? None of this made clear yet !

All we got was an unending stream of incoherence on everything under the sun, with a big dose of biographgical details, arm chair psycho-analysis and conspiracies. A soap box !

fredmoore - 09:27pm Sep 24, 2003 EST (# 13929 of 13958)

'What's fair' and 'what's cheating' don't seem to cover the realities. Perhaps, in ways that transmute to something tangible and something that really matters to juries and to those concerned with connecting dots in order to achieve symmetry outside of the kitchen sink, the following story (retold) reaches the heart of the matter:

There was an ant in the jungle who fancied an elephant. So one day he climbed all the way up her back legs to take out his satisfaction on her. A Monkey in a nearby tree saw this and was disgusted, incensed and secretly very jealous. So the Monkey picked up a coconut and threw it at the ant. However, his aim was poor and he hit the elephant on the head and the elephant let out a sharp cry. The ant hearing this yelled out "take it baby, take it!!"

Will the Monkey hit the ant or will he run out of coconuts ... or will the whole darned forest burn to the ground in a firestorm? Will the ant pick up a coconut and hit the monkey? These and all your other questions will be answered in coming episodes:

Roger Ramjet, He's our man

Hero of the Nation

For his adventures just be sure

To stay tuned to this station.

commondata - 10:02pm Sep 24, 2003 EST (# 13930 of 13958)

I've just looked in for a brief moment and it's good to you're still at it Rshow. Cantabb, Jorian, you really are the most boring people ... block Rshow if you don't want to read him or go somewhere else. Yawn.

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