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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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fredmoore - 10:46am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14257 of 14270)

"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? "

This mandate, logically speking, leaves the door open to a wide range of relevant multidisiplinary scientific approaches to DEFENSE. As I pointed out the single question 'Is milatarised space inevitable?' alone, makes KAEP a relevant topic.

Your gradual backsliding to your own schoolyard tactics of personal taunts shows all on this forum that I have touched a raw nerve. It highlights your hipocracy. It makes your continued presence on this forum laughable (unless you post on topic of course).

Mission complete!

fredmoore - 10:52am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14258 of 14270)

Cantabb,

"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? "

This mandate, logically speaking, leaves the door open to a wide range of relevant multidisiplinary scientific approaches to DEFENSE. As I pointed out the single question 'Is milatarised space inevitable?' alone, makes KAEP a relevant topic.

Your gradual backsliding to your own schoolyard tactics of personal taunts shows all on this forum that I have touched a raw nerve. It highlights your hipocracy. It makes your continued presence on this forum laughable (unless you post on topic of course).

Mission complete!

rshow55 - 10:52am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14259 of 14270)
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.

KAEP is a relevant topic !

rshow55 - 11:01am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14260 of 14270)
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.

I'm saying that

To sort things out well - you need both synthesis from associations - "connecting the dots" - and "going around and around, different ways - to establish internal and external consistency - loop tests.

and Cantabb calls that "nonsense."

Here's an analogy ( not exact in every way ) that deals with a lot of human experience.

Grinding is a partly statistical process - an abrasive geometry "goes round and round" to shape and polish another object.

People have been grinding glass from ancient Egyptian times - grinding lenses for many centuries - and grinding telescopes - both refractive and reflective - for centuries. Newton was interested in the process -and a master of it.

In precision grinding - for instance for lenses -or precision metallic machinery or components - there's a great deal of " going round and round" smoothing out objects with respect to themselves - and there is also some periodic checking to external standards.

Both statistical processes and matching are involved.

In the brain - analogous things go on. Without them - our humanity and culture could't exist. For example - we share something like 100,0000 definitions of words - - almost all of which we "figured out for ourselves" in a guided guessing process involving both statistics and matching - that converges very often on sharp logic.

fredmoore - 11:03am Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14261 of 14270)

Thank you Robert.

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