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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 - 09:16am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14251 of 14256)

rshow55 - 08:05am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14248 of 14250)

rshow55 Tag-line: "Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES.

Better Question: Can YOU & lchic do that ? Answer ????

Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread."

Do we really have to, after ALL the self-recycled self-references, ad nauseam ? More of it doesn't make it different: Just a bigger PILE of it.

This is an important piece: ....

Another hodge-podge of links to articles.

This thread has been about details, and context - of national defense - including missile defense.

This thread is about "Missile Defense" and scientific and related details on it and its place in the context of national security.

Most of the stuff you post here, first, is too cliche-infested to make much sense and has nothing to do with MD [Mere mention of MD, as seen in your recent posts, doesn't amount to posting on-topic].

rshow55 - 08:11am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14249 of 14250)

Another rehash. Another series of slf-referencing links.

I've done a great deal of work on this thread, with lchic , since Sept 25, 2000 - some summarize from 9003-9 ...

The part of this thread prior to March 1, 2002 is archived ...

I think readers may be interested in ....

Questions WERE: What specifically have YOU done here [NB: Trying to achieve world peace IS life finding the meaning of life], and can YOU substantiate the claims you have made ?

"YOU" -- not "We" [unless you mean, you + lchic].

We need to know what is hopeless -- so we can have a chance of finding practical hope.

Speak for yourself !

Too many "constraints" mean "no solution as posed."

Your "constraints" are different from NATIONAL constraints; and the "solution," your and family's concern. Nothing to do with national security or anything remotely related to it, your constant insinuations to the contrary.

Lots of math problems, as posed, clearly have "no solution." That's true of lots of engineering problems, as well. In these (very common) cases, satisfying some of the conditions rules out the possibility of satsifying others.

SO ? Don't we know that already [about 'math problems'] ?

For human survival, we need solutions ithat people can "live with." .... ("Live with" in every sense of the phrase.)

Another cliche ! Followed by more of the very same.

rshow55 - 08:15am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14250 of 14250)

This thread was set up about Missile Defense - but it has evolved to involve more, with plenty of assistance from the NYT.

"Evolved to involve more" of totally UNRELATED and personal biographical material ! With "plenty of assistance from the NYT"? In what way ? Allowing/ignoring the abuse to continue ?

This thread has been based on the "fiction" that staffed organizations were looking at it - and has prototyped patterns that staffed organizations could use. Sometimes I've hoped some staffs have looked at it.

You opinion, not fact.

To sort out technical problems - in missile defense and elsewhere - we face logical problems - and lchic and I have been working on them - with a great deal of able assistance

Again, What "technical problems" in MD ? Anything to with "science" ? And what "logical problems" you and lchic face ? Could it be BAD nebulous logic, based on BADLY "checked" fiction-facts ?

- including some recent assistance, regarding perturbation and damping, from Cantabb .

ASKING you to tell us what you think you have been doing here on the Forum for 2+ years [working so 'hard] AND for substantiation of ther global claims you have been making : May be "perturbation and damping" for YOU -- beca

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