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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 - 10:30pm Oct 2, 2003 EST (# 14239 of 14245)

fredmoore - 10:05pm Oct 2, 2003 EST (# 14237 of 14237)

Preposterous Nonsense!

NOTHING original, is it ? Repeating what you were told and shown, and didn't like it much ?

If you knew what you were talking about ...

Something I've not only said to you a few times, but demonstrated WHY ?

That's how it's done -- NOT by just parrotting what you heard, WITHOUT any substantiation. May be that's how you do things on this Forum and elsewhere.

Go back and "check" if you want the details. Too much to refer to here.

this forum would have moved or closed

Still time...

But tell us what the heck YOU think you had been doing here wityh other regulsrs [anything on MD?], before Sept 17. We know, though, how you reacted to my posts since !

AND Mme Defarge would be Knitting instead of mumbling silly questions to Carton (instead of knitting) as La Guillotine descends AND you would be asking serious questions about KAEP (on Topic).

YOU were the one who brought her UP here -- more perhaps, out of ignorance rather than for any point you had wanted to make, even remotely.

But what have you really done or posted on-topic for as long as you have been here ? Even 20% (overly-generous estimate by your friend, rshow55) ????

How do you expect to be taken seriously?

Obviously NOT in the school yard ! You do better there, no question.

TRY to do something constructive for a change -- for the sake of the Forum you want to keep alive, despite the abuse to which it has been subjected by some of the regulars (including YOU) for so long.

cantabb - 10:33pm Oct 2, 2003 EST (# 14240 of 14245)

fredmoore - 10:14pm Oct 2, 2003 EST (# 14238 of 14239)

Ooops, Erratum:

Please delete (instead of knitting) and replace with (nitting) in the above post.

ASKING questions on what rshow55 and you have been doing ON-topic for this long is neither "knitting" nor "nitting": Apparently, embarrassingly uncomfortable for you and other regulars, still floundering around to answer two simple straightforward questions !

Try to find something constructive you can to do !

fredmoore - 11:16pm Oct 2, 2003 EST (# 14241 of 14245)

So nitpicking Rshow is constructive and an 'on Topic KAEP' is not?

That's like saying a grain of dust is more valuable than a diamond mine.

Really!

Further, KAEP is on Topic because a militarized space is Not inevitable, is Unnecessary, although not impossible and I believe I the philosophy I have expounded in KAEP has shown why. Hint ... that's part of the forum header's mandate.

fredmoore - 11:28pm Oct 2, 2003 EST (# 14242 of 14245)

"Try to find something constructive you can to do ! "

That is of the schoolyard for the schoolyard and by the schoolyard. You contradict yourself once again. Where does this end? Is there anything people on this forum can take seriously in what you say?

Nevertheless allow me to answer:

So nitpicking Rshow is constructive and an 'on Topic KAEP' is not?

That's like saying a grain of dust is more valuable than a diamond mine.

Really!

Further, KAEP is on Topic because a militarized space is Not inevitable, is Unnecessary, although not impossible and I believe the philosophy I have expounded in KAEP has shown why. Hint ... that's part of the forum header's mandate.

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