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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 - 07:39pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14451 of 14457)

jorian319 - 07:32pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14448 of 14449)

Yeah. I admit to having fun posting pseudoprofundities and watching him go after them like carp on flakes. But it gets old, ....

I've seen you do that. You devil :)

I think you're doing the right thing. Who knows? Maybe even saving the world. :-)

I just asked him two basic questions: What he thinks he has been doing here with his "world asset," lchic, and where's the evidence of his claims ? And this has got him spinning in agony. Imagine.

cantabb - 07:40pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14452 of 14457)

mazza9 - 07:33pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14450 of 14451)

Cantabb: Accepted!

Thanks, Lou !

BTW Nemesis was an excellent novel!

:)

lchic - 07:47pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14453 of 14457)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

I read a logic somewhere on the board that went:

Military Complex

Commissions (from)

(to) Foundations

(to) right wing foundation 'education'

(to) rote drivel brain washing

(to) career path through academia via right wing 'foundation' funding

(to) Power positions in right-wing establishment

(to) commission 'thinking'

(to) rejection of a wider world viewpoint

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Raises the quesiton that if much of the right wing educational way pertains back to Nazzi drivel ....

Would that be a valid reason to check on the history of establishment of some of these foundations (tax-payer paid 'commission') and redirect the financial base into areas of common provision - eg improved Health/Education chances 'poor' families.

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Re-jig the 'system' for the national 'good' ... sounds logical and would benefit the whole of society.

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