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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 - 05:07pm Oct 4, 2003 EST (# 14310 of 14328)

rshow55 - 03:45pm Oct 4, 2003 EST (# 14300 of 14302)

cont'd with overlap......

Cantabb objected to the illustration of multiple citation to these pieces. But I hope we agree that the pieces themselves are - focused - they do not "chase their tails." I think we have more to learn about how such focus comes into existence - and think we can learn more directly - proceeding along the lines of this thread. Cantabb doubts that. The issue involves convergence - and some questions about how dialog works that have been discussed - pretty steadily - for 2500 years. We now have new tools - and I think useful answers are within sight. Cantabb disagrees.

But I hope we do agree on the quality of the articles cited just above -in themselves.

You keep misrepresenting things. THis takes time to set right. One of the ways you distract the flow.

It’s YOU who, with an unverified fact-fiction mixture of “dots” and your insistence that going around in circles with them in a “loop test,” will be chasing your own tail. NOT others, including the cited authors.

lchic - 05:13pm Oct 4, 2003 EST (# 14311 of 14328)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

USA 1999 statistic - 1609 gun deaths in just the 18-19 age group http://www.tincher.to/deaths.htm

Raises the question -

Why does a 'bodybag' from war-related-death have such an impact on the American psyche as compared to a death in the gutter

Preference Ignore Cantabb

cantabb - 06:56pm Oct 4, 2003 EST (# 14312 of 14328)

lchic - 05:13pm Oct 4, 2003 EST (# 14311 of 14311)

USA 1999 statistic - 1609 gun deaths in just the 18-19 age group http://www.tincher.to/deaths.htm

Raises the question -

Why does a 'bodybag' from war-related-death have such an impact on the American psyche as compared to a death in the gutter

NOTHING to do with MD ! As usual.

Just dragging whatever you find in the yard does NOT necessarily belong here on MD. You probably didn't get the memo ?

Preference Ignore Cantabb

But YOU are not going to be "Ignored" !

jorian319 - 07:10pm Oct 4, 2003 EST (# 14313 of 14328)
"You know I'm an idiot like you know evolution is true" - - James Nienhuis

Hmmm.

Swirl of language indeed. A whirlwind of words. A vortex of verbiage. A tornado of tongues. A cyclone of semantics.

All in all, your posts, Robert, seem a hurricane of hubris.

rshow55 - 07:17pm Oct 4, 2003 EST (# 14314 of 14328)
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.

from the script of Casablanca http://6nescripts.free.fr/Casablanca.pdf p. 92

Rick comes quickly up to Renault.

. Rick: How can you close me up. On what grounds?

. Renault: I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!

This display of nerve leaves Rick at a loss.

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This thread has gone on a long time - http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm - and usages cannot be accidental.

In Casablanca - it isn't made clear whether gambling is in violation of some ordinance. But it is clear that, de facto - it has gone on a long time.

13323 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.Ez8CbUQ4LsY.624741@.f28e622/15013

bluestar23 - 07:29pm Oct 4, 2003 EST (# 14315 of 14328)

rshow55:

"This thread has gone on a long time - http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm - and usages cannot be accidental."

"In Casablanca - it isn't made clear whether gambling is in violation of some ordinance. But it is clear that, de facto - it has gone on a long time."

More from Neptune....."usages cannot be accidental"...."Casablanca"...? Well, I put paid to you, showalter; and informed the Mods. fully on your blatant hijacking of this Misssile Defense thread...

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