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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 - 02:48pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14416 of 14433)
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.

Where Or When by Rogers and Hart http://www.roxyrama.com/lyrics/lyrics_whereorwhen.html

" It seems we stood and talked like this, before . . We looked at each other in the same way then . . But I can't remember where or when

Statements on frequently important subjects are interesting. And a NYT columnist knows a lot about them - has probably "heard them all before" - here's an interesting book by Safire and Safir - Words of Wisdom http://www.rbookshop.com/authors/s/WIlliam_Safire/WORDS_OF_WISDOM_0671695878.htm

( On inspection, it seems worth owning - my platidudinous college president sister owns a copy and uses it - or maybe it is her pleasant but platitudinous husband who owns it and uses it - though their discourses interdigitate . . so it could be hard to tell who used it more . . )

I got that warm, fuzzy feeling when jorian 319 posted 13678 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gQaWbH6yL0E.844971@.f28e622/15371 - which expressed ideas I hoped jorian319 was ready to set out clearly . . 14114 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gQaWbH6yL0E.844971@.f28e622/15820

and got another hopeful feeling when Jorian319 posted 14411 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gQaWbH6yL0E.844971@.f28e622/16121

You guys slow me down - since 14200 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.gQaWbH6yL0E.844971@.f28e622/15910 and before I've been trying to do a technical posting - on the connection of latent semantic analysis - statistics - logic - and schema - and the importance of loop tests.

And because of your distractions - I haven't finished it yet !

But I'm having some fun, at that. Though right now - I'm going off and getting sweaty. - - Though I'll think about you while I'm gone.

cantabb - 03:00pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14417 of 14433)

rshow55 - 02:48pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14416 of 14416)

More irrelevance dragged in....

Where Or When by Rogers and Hart ...

You guys slow me down - since 14200... and before I've been trying to do a technical posting - on the connection of latent semantic analysis - statistics - logic - and schema - and the importance of loop tests.

That supposedly "technical" writing: Would it have even a hint of relevance to MD science and related issues ? The title you mentioned does NOT sound so.

And because of your distractions - I haven't finished it yet !

Reminders [to answer basic questions asked]. Not "distraction" -- not in the same class as most of your postings here.

But I'm having some fun, at that.

Couldn't be anywhere near as much as I've been having !

Though right now - I'm going off and getting sweaty. - - Though I'll think about you while I'm gone.

Think questions, still unanswered.

Also think of lchic: "It got understood and exposed."

jorian319 - 03:01pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14418 of 14433)
"You know I'm an idiot like you know evolution is true" - - James Nienhuis

Thanks for the litany of bodily secretions - the world is much safer now.

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