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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 - 06:54am Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13956 of 13963)
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.

lchic - 06:45am Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13955

How do we measure 'better'?

In many senses ( the scientific senses are easier) a great deal was sorted out on the question

How do we measure better?

by Percy Bridgman - the Nobel Prize winner and high pressure engineering specialist.

Internal consistency is a vital standard and loop tests - with both internal referncing - and references to known standards - can do a lot. In fact - the most essential advances in our scientific instruments are based on that.

For moral issues of what's better - internal consistency also counts for a lot.

Yesterday morning - before a lot of fencing - I was preparing stuff about Bridgman's work . . I'll get it ready in a while.

lchic - 07:17am Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13957 of 13963)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

ON SCIENTIFIC METHOD

by Percy W. Bridgman (From: Reflections of a Physicist, 1955)

http://hackensackhigh.org/~nelsonb/bridgman.html

cantabb - 10:06am Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13958 of 13963)

gisterme - 03:02am Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13939 of 13958)

cantabb, bluestar - Well, gents, they've intervened from time to time over the years. Both Showalter and Lunarchick have been banned before but were shortly allowed to resume with new monikers. Go figure.

The last 20 posts or so confirm my point.

The only thing that makes sense to me is that the NYT folks find something about this forum that they like.

I think 'by default'.

It's become a sort of fusion of science potpourii and a soap opera. Maybe we could call the forum 'Science Soapourii'. :)

More like a soap opera. Little or No Science.

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