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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    Missile Defense

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 - 08:26am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14400 of 14411)
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.

In the order of things - this post is going to be buried with others quickly - but sometimes people look at postings ending in 00 - or 01 as this one should - and I hope if they do they might be interested in postings from 14394 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773740@.f28e622/16104 on. I was asked a key question - and tried to answer clearly.

And perhaps also http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773740@.f28e622/15534 and

Chain breakers http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/618

13622 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.VL69bErnLKQ.773740@.f28e622/15315

Suggestion: search "Chain Breakers" or "Secular Redemption" or "Byrd" - for themselves - and as examples that may illustrate how association and logic are connected in discourse.

cantabb - 08:31am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14401 of 14411)

rshow55 - 06:58am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14394 of 14398)

cantabb - occasionally writes something worthwhile, and to the point

Coming from a person who can’t do either, what a weird comment !

- and he did so in 14370 …. which I'm excerpting. Cantabb quotes bluestar23………….The excerpted points above, as excerpted, are fair summaries. Fair to both me and the NYT, as far as they go.

Don’t you think people can READ what’s already in 2 brief posts recently – without your ‘excerpts?

You didn’t think that my more recent post about “Mistaken identities: Looks like a "Loop Test"” was “worthwhile” and “to the point” ? May be not comfortable for you !

rshow55 - 07:01am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14395 of 14398)

There are promises one makes that one doesn't have to keep. Everybody knows it - or should - and the culture tries to teach that point from an early age. ………A classic of that teaching - with limitations that have concerned me and lchic - is Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr Seuss 1940

NO relevance to MD. Whether or not you keep the promises you said you made to others ? Your personal matters, absolutely of NO interest or relevance here.

I'm here because I choose to be here - and because, considering everything - I think it is my duty to be here. Some people with power agree, at least partially - and they are doing their duty as they see it, too - at least partially.

Your “duty” and that of “some people with power” : Also of NO relevance here !

rshow55 - 07:07am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14396 of 14398)

On the last day of last year, I posted 7145-6 …Lunarchick and I have been worrying some about control theory - and related matters with close connections to life and death, peace and war, prosperity and muddle. …….or situationally inappropriate responses that require a higher level of control.

Meaningless self-references. Tiresome re-hash of something irrelevant to begin with.

rshow55 - 07:11am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14397 of 14398)

Things sort themselves out into levels - the image in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs by William G. Huitt Essay and Image :

More of the same irrelevance !

I'm here for good reasons - because I choose to be. I have good reasons to believe that unless some key things - as hard as shoe-tying - are learned - the world is likely to end - and is certain to be much poorer, more dangerous - and uglier than it has to be.

And, you’re here to save the world. Messiah complex ? Incoherent, delusional nonsense ! “It got understood and exposed.”

I'm here for a number of other reasons. One is that I think there are times when even The New York Times has compelling duties. Another is that at least some people at The New York Times seem to agree - at least some of the time. This thread hasn't happened by accident. It is a big effort - and not only mine and lchic's.

Rather, a “big” pile of inane hodge-podge: A “big” waste !

cantabb - 08:32am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14402 of 14411)

lchic - 07:29am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14398 of 14398)

.... who just might be Tudor-Bill re-incarnate ....

Another cryptogram. Coordinated with rshow’s ? Riddles to go with inanities !

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