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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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rshow55 - 01:46pm Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14270 of 14280)
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.

Wishing Won't Make Star Wars So http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/opinion/03FRI3.html was a fine editorial, and on topic.

This thread has had a lot of technical discussion about missile defense -and one way to see that is to look at searchs - including old ones that relate to old citations archived at http://www.mrshowalter.net/

http://www.mrshowalter.net/optics_01.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/optics_02.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/optics_03.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/optics_04.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/optics_05.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/optics_06.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/optics_07.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/lasar_02.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/lasar_03.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/lasar_04.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/lasar_05.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/lasar_06.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/lasar_07.htm

This thread has covered a lot of ground about specifically technical issues in missile defense. It has also clarified disagreements about logic that seem to engage the emotions - and that are very practical. Applications of latent semantic analysis, a logically connected topic - are now multibillion dollar industries. .

12878 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.naIpbzZNL7W.380916@.f28e622/14554

84 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.naIpbzZNL7W.380916@.f28e622/99

Everybody has to worry about disagreements - and what others think and feel - and I do, but there are limits.

. What, Me Worry About Insults? By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA http://www.mrshowalter.net/What,%20Me%20Worry%20About%20Insults.htm

On checking questions of fact, I still think this is good. http://www.mrshowalter.net/ScienceInTheNewsJan4_2000.htm

I'm taking a rest, for a little while.

lchic - 04:11pm Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14271 of 14280)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Phew!

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