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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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lchic - 03:31pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14425 of 14433)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

"Ann Coulter has turned the struggle over historical memory about Soviet clandestine activities in the U.S. into a comic-book morality play about good Americans and bad aliens" Stephen Schwartz

Good Americans and bad ________'s

GOD Americans v Dark Satanic Other

American Empire v 'The World'

Simplicity v Complexity

jorian319 - 03:34pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14426 of 14433)
"You know I'm an idiot like you know evolution is true" - - James Nienhuis

"Statements on frequently important subjects are interesting." -rshow55

What more need be said?

(Not to worry - if there is anything, it's already been said here about a million times.)

lchic - 03:38pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14427 of 14433)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Simple Team v Complex World

Either you're with us --- or against us

TEAM SPIRIT v Worldliness

Winning Team v Losing World

Losing Team v Winning World

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In 'electoral' terms and numbers .... few are 'on' the elected winning team ... fewer and fewer if it falls from grace

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cantabb - 03:51pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14428 of 14433)

rshow55 - 03:30pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14424 of 14427)

From rshow tag-line: Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES.

BUT have you ? Yet ? Or just too busy trying to fight your way out of your self-created cobwebs ?

Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Still do NOT know on what "things" ! All we saw was lchic's faux-Zen tag-line: "It got understood and exposed" I think "it" did.

The point is super important - and people like you systematically downgrade the point - in ways that impoverish us all.

But what exactly was/is the "point" ?

Just as the denial of the fact that deception is much more common than people admit impoverishes us all.

I, for one, can't say that: I see plenty of it right here !

Very often frequency of use is the most important measure of significance in use.

Repeating questionable "things" often enough does not make them true or "facts."

We saw that tried 60+years ago in Europe, we read it in "1984."

And often the most missed - usually for status reasons.

"Reason" ? YES, that's what I 'miss' in your posts.

bluestar23 - 04:21pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14429 of 14433)

"The point is super important - and people like you systematically downgrade the point - in ways that impoverish us all."

The point is that Showalter is getting hassled and he doesn't like it, so this is his way of defending himself.....

So, let's ask Showalter a direct question on MD....What, Mr. Showalter (in response to a post of mine yesterday about MD) is your opinion of the "Third Tier" of MD research at this point...? Progressing or failing..? I have an informed opinion...do you...?

bluestar23 - 04:24pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14430 of 14433)

So Showalter is no longer associated with the University of Wisconsin (perhaps).....he might be too crazy for them too....

lchic - 04:27pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14431 of 14433)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Truth Lies (making up 'news') Suicide

Forlong, who had worked for Sky News for 10 years, resigned after it emerged elements of a report he filed in March, purporting to show a cruise missile being launched from a Royal Navy submarine in the Gulf, were faked.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1057106,00.html

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