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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 - 01:58pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14521 of 14529)

rshow55 - 08:14am Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14511 of 14515)

There's a point I've been trying to teach - not live through - that is relevant here.

What you have NOT learned yet, you can’t even think of teaching. Cart before the horse ? Can only go in ‘reverse’ not forward !

To get fully workable cooperations - based on knowledge - it often happens that the actors involved have to get to the edge of a fight .....I hate to see the point illustrated by a misfire here. It is something I wanted to teach, face to face, to responsible people in the government.....

"I would like to be able to set up something very much like AEA again - and do it honestly - and work with Lchic in that format.

"I'd like to be able to do that with people involved in AEA fully informed, and satisfied to the extent that was reasonably possible.

"In ways that were reasonably satisfactory to my wife, her husband, the New York Times, other members of families involved, the federal government, and other people more-or-less connected. In ways that most people at the UN, if they happened to notice, might think fair.

Platitudes, with a pie-in-the-sky !

With clarity on fundamentals - it should be possible.

Since you don’t seem to yet have this kind of “clarity” or of what you have been working on, you under cut yourself and your ‘fond’ hopes.

We ought to sort things out. …it will be a while before it sets up that way again.

YOU “ought” to do that ! Which you haven’t shown you can. Continued lack of focus and scattered approach aren’t going to bring you closer to it, either.

rshow55 - 08:47am Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14512 of 14515)

Polynomial processing is a way of "connecting the dots" - - I put out the key result - in as close to the form Casey suggested as I could, it seemed to me - in the early 1990's. .....and in my judgement, the work I was assigned to do - and did do - could be of material assistance in defending the US. But I'd have to be talked to ......leaving the people who are supposed to learn the material baffled.

You need "the dots" [verifiable facts], before trying to “connect” them. The "dots” sorted out from personal opinion & fiction. BUT, you don’t have “the dots” you need and can’t seem to find that needle in your haystack !

“It got understood and exposed.” But you have to "fight," because you like to !

lchic - 02:01pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14522 of 14529)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

A blooper from Cooper

puts him on ignore

along with Cantabb

who was put there before

additionally blue-y

who don't contribute

Which opens the page

and Robert - The Sage

jorian319 - 02:05pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14523 of 14529)
"Statements on frequently important subjects are interesting." -rshow55

I guess Robert doesn't like turnabout, or consider it fair play. After months and months of monopolizing this forum to no discernable end, and boring us to tears with endless self-referencing links to other self referencing links, now he gets his panties all in a twist about a couple of days during which others' posts outnumber his own. Pooooooor Bobby.

Too bad, Robert, but it got understood and exposed.

Are you a conspiracy of 1(1½ including loonie), now uncovered to its own chagrin? Or the innocent victim of a malicious attempt to keep your vital message from getting out?

It is awfully difficult to keep from laughing at your implication that recent efforts by the sum of reasonable posters, is intended to silence your message. It's not. It's about silencing your condescending, overbearing, self important, incoherent voice. If you HAD any message, there would be more than one loonie eager to hear it. But you do not, so your voice deserves to be outshouted by whatever means can be summoned to the task.

Kudos to cantabb, blue, fred, coop and all other contributors to the increasing diversity of this thread!

rshow55 - 02:08pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14524 of 14529)
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.

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