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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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bluestar23 - 05:36pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14440 of 14457)

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.ee7a163/483

Showalter's Guardian Newspapers thread....once again...read it for fun....

jorian319 - 05:54pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14441 of 14457)
"Statements on frequently important subjects are interesting." -rshow55

Yo, Robert!!! RED ALERT!!

You are needed at the HumOr forum, where some fundie idiot is trying to convince people that the earth has slowed so much that days are more than two minutes longer now than they were 170 years ago. Please bring your math skills!

mazza9 - 06:03pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14442 of 14457)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Bluestar:

Long Long ago in a forum far far away Robert stated that applying mirror finishes to ICBM would render the ABL ineffective!!!

Actually, his smoke and mirrors has defeated any intelligent, logical postings on this forum. I once visited his website at U of Wisc and read some of his blather. As with other current members of Academe he is long on words and short on substance. I've read that it isn't unusual for current "intellectual tomes" to have one sentence paragraphs that run to 500 words in length!!! this gives a whole new meaning to obfuscate!!!!

He admits to talking to me on the phone but didn't elaborate on the viscious attack he leveled within minutes of our phone conversation. Another poster actually traveled to Chicago or Milwaukee to meet Robert face to face. WR Cooper fared no better.

He's a kook and I fear that Cantabb is his alter ego since, although I blocked Robert with the ignore preference, I am still bombarded by his drivel since Cantabb seems bound and determined to repost Robert's posts!

jorian319 - 06:14pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14443 of 14457)
"Statements on frequently important subjects are interesting." -rshow55

Cantabb seems bound and determined to repost Robert's posts!

Lou,

That is the price that must be paid for the unpleasant job of dissembling Rshow's er... uh... R-show. A high price, I agree, but I still think it's worth it, as one of the few possible avenues to a brighter future for this forum.

In honor of Canabb's herculean effort, I'm changing my sigline...

bluestar23 - 06:35pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14444 of 14457)

Showalter complains:

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

Good....to be honest, I was hoping to inform University of Wisconsin about their esteemed staff member's activities, now I see he may not be associated with this university any more....the Google results show nothing newer than 1999.... no published work that I can see....perhaps showalter sits @ Home all day with his tinfoil Hat on by now...

bluestar23 - 06:39pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14445 of 14457)

Jorian319:

"That is the price that must be paid for the unpleasant job of dissembling Rshow's..."

You are correct...."dismembering.". the Weblog term is "fisking", after the leftwing British journalist Robert Fisk....

Cantabb is using the same piece-by-piece "fisking" formula....

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