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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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lchic - 05:05pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14138 of 14145)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

in real-life engineering, YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE THINGS BIGGER! (JORIAN)

Because ....

fredmoore - 05:14pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14139 of 14145)

bbbuck - 11:21am Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14119 of 14136)

"People marvel at this forum. They say 'what and the hell is this sht?'.

And they say other things."

I am curious ... what people ... what is your sample space pray tell?

Also, are the Science forums really going to pot or are anti terror measures taking their toll on Science reporting?

"I will reference my dot-connecting/checking manual and will get back to you next tuesday."

Look forward to C U Next Tuesday.

jorian319 - 05:16pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14140 of 14145)
The dogmatism is all on the side that maintains there is no global climate effect ...Anyone who has visited a city like LA on a nice smog filled day knows that's not true. -amzingdrx

Because when you engineer something in small form, then "just make it bigger" it will often not work well, or fail catastrophically, or something in between.

Lchic, you might want to read up on Langley's aerodrome -"just make it bigger" is exactly what he did, and you know what it got him (besides an AFB named after him)? Wet.

cantabb - 05:19pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14141 of 14145)

rshow55 - 04:07pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14135 of 14138)

Your unfocused rambling continues....

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/483 includes some petty pictures - and dialog about them Fractal Images ............ Control systems out of adjustment oscillate uncontrollably or .......... Problem is, when people face complicated circumstances - often they do things backwards - and things explode.

And, YOU do things the right way ?

- Cantabb - jorian - you've mastered the "art" of hitting things with a big hammer - to make sure nothing can converge.

I can't speak for jorian. However, blaming others for your own deficiencies is NO way to 'resolve' any problem. "Check" your 'conflict resolution' text, and see if it stands up to the "Loop Test" [Bridgman or Orwell's '1984'].

As I've said, asking specific straightfoward questions is NOT a 'fight' or "hitting" "with a big hammer." This should have helped you focus and "converge." But it's your inability to tell us what you say you have been doing on this thread and what have you achieved so far that can't lead to any understanding, much less 'convergence'.

I'm not sure you could do better if you tried.

I know. NOT unless YOU, and you alone, can focus on what you think you are trying to do and can 'converge' (rather than remain so very scattered) toward an approach to resolve the global problems you say you and your dedicated collaborator have been working on this thread for so long.

The problem lies with you and you alone.

I'm out for a little while.

Thanks for keeping us with your schedule !

cantabb - 05:25pm Sep 29, 2003 EST (# 14142 of 14145)

"Thanks for keeping us posted with your schedule !": to rshow55.

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