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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 - 06:00pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14575 of 14616)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

WRT Missile Defence - the role of 'the humble, dot like, eyelet' is yet to be acknowledged. It's cousin the 'O' ring once got star billing.

rshow55 - 06:10pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14576 of 14616)
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.

I think, overall - that my favorite Jorian post is this one.

#13925 - jorian319 Sep 24, 2003 07:58 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117282@.f28e622/15630

They probably elected to keep MD because it had a low post count at the time - if it ain't broke, why fix it?

But I reread them all - and there were 3 with (fairly tangential) allusions to missile defense - out of hundreds.

The rereading was worthwhile - because it facilitated rethinking and reorganization - and I think of Jorian319 significantly differently now.

Rereading does cause some rearranging - I did this work in 1991-2 - http://www.mrshowalter.net/pap2/ and I'm reading some other things done in the same period. A bittersweet experience. But it is clear how much progress I've made - on things I've been working my whole life to do - since I started talking and corresponding with Lchic.

And it does seem to me that this information is important for national defense - including missile defense. 14144 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117282@.f28e622/15851

It is material I'm clearer about - and far more able to put across than I was before - because of the gift of lchic's time.

14511-2 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117282@.f28e622/16221 DO deal with Missile Defense - and matters of negotiation that have been central to this board

(and central to Jorian319's involvement in it. )

klsanford0 - 06:12pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14577 of 14616)

cantabb:

"No matter how much and how often they complain about rshow55 and his ways on this forums, the 'regulars' can't seem to stand anyone else question the Forum, and they're too ready to attack the newbies (I've been seeing it for the past 20 days)."

I agree, the regulars have been pathetically wishy-washy for a war....and since Showalter chooses to declare war on this forum and on myself, a normal participant, he should be prepared....for war...

klsanford0 - 06:14pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14578 of 14616)

Showalter....leave this Forum and cease your attacks on the New York Times now...

cantabb - 06:16pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14579 of 14616)

lchic - 06:00pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14575 of 14577)

WRT Missile Defence - the role of 'the humble, dot like, eyelet' is yet to be acknowledged. It's cousin the 'O' ring once got star billing.

Another faux-Zen cryptogram. Meaningless.

"DOT" = A verifiable Fact [Not fiction or opinion, or a custom-blend ]

klsanford0 - 06:18pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14580 of 14616)

Insane-as-Showalter-chic:

"Missile Defence - the role of 'the humble, dot like, eyelet' is yet to be acknowledged. It's cousin the 'O' ring once got star billing."

I told you once already to post on MD or Get Lost...I mean it....no more games with you and Showalter, it's over, don't you get it..?

klsanford0 - 06:19pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14581 of 14616)

cantabb...Ditto posts...great minds think alike....

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