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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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cantabb - 04:06pm Sep 28, 2003 EST (# 14098 of 14102)

lchic - 03:35pm Sep 28, 2003 EST (# 14092 of 14097)

'Ignore' (see preferences button) can be used to take out monikers that are non-contributory to the header above in either the narrow or wider senses. It's a useful device - I'm employing it currently.

Here it's AGAIN, the MD Forum Header:

"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?"

Going by your description ["non-contributory to the header above in either the narrow or wider senses"], do you think most of the posting by your collaborator and yourself [including 1-2 after your post on this] for years have been relevant here and 'contributory' to the MD forum header ?

I doubt it.

But I agree with you : "It got understood and exposed."

rshow55 - 08:02pm Sep 28, 2003 EST (# 14099 of 14102)
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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Theo Kogan, formerly of the Lunachicks and now a solo artist, rocks on in a floor-length latex dress, $477. At DeMask, 135 West 22nd Street.

No Lunachick can be as beautiful as lunarchick - ( who changed her name to lchic ) !

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md9000s/md9804.htm has fine posts from our lunarchick - and

06:23am Sep 24, 2001 EST (#9808 Robert Showalter

The world is interconnected, and one issue recurs with monotonous, but deadly serious regularity.

It is that sequences where lies are involved are likely to go wrong in ugly, expensive, unjust, unpredictable ways.

It is a point made, clearly, with respect to financial matters, in Thomas Friedman's THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE , a fine (even beautiful) but incomplete book. Because, for the information flows needed, Friedman doesn't explain enough. I'm doing the best I can to explain what is missing. Is my stuff incomplete, too? No doubt. But if people knew what I could teach them, if I was permitted to do so, lots of things would go better than they're going today.

Unless we check better, and clean up messes where lies are important, many of them embarrassing, it is my professional opinion, repeated often here, that the world is likely to end.

It seems to me that a rather vivid demonstration of our current vulnerabilities -- which we cannot escape, but must deal with, was presented on September 11th, and in the unravellings our sociotechnical and moral system has shown since.

We have too many vulnerabilities, by thousands and millions of times, to defend against them all, unless we do so as part of a working world community.

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bbbuck - 08:07pm Sep 28, 2003 EST (# 14100 of 14102)

'baby doll' is a movie by elia kazan.

It consists of karl malden fixing his fixer-up home and carol baker sucking her thumb.

It's a beautiful movie.

Regrettably they don't mention 'missile defense'.

cantabb - 08:28pm Sep 28, 2003 EST (# 14101 of 14102)

rshow55 - 08:02pm Sep 28, 2003 EST (# 14099 of 14100)

Rubber Maids By WILLIAM NORWICH ................... We have too many vulnerabilities, by thousands and millions of times, to defend against them all, unless we do so as part of a working world community.

Totally irrelevant, as XXX = Lunarchick = lchic should have reminded you: ".... non-contributory to the header above in either the narrow or wider senses..."

"It got understood and exposed" : But NOT enough ????

lchic - 09:01pm Sep 28, 2003 EST (# 14102 of 14102)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

"Non No regrets" Little Sparrow

re: bbb post 4100

Regrettably they don't mention 'missile defense'

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