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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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rshow55 - 06:31pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14582 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.

Cantabb says:

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

Really?

Is that how your mind works? How anybody's mind works?

How many verifiable facts do you have to work with - and what fraction of the word count you swim in represents them?

Odds are you hear or read 20,000 + words a day. How many involve plainly verifiable, crosschecked facts? How many can.

Cantabb , you connect the notions that you happen to take in - that happen to feel right - like everybody else.

That's how members of the human species process information.

Then you check them - for internal consistency - and against external standards.

Unless you do something stupid - like make a quick-shot status decision - and reject everything from someone you don't like out of hand.

Both consciously and unconsciously.

That's the human condition.

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These are "inputs" at various levels of discourse involving missile defense and closely related topics involving missile defense.

14144 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117293@.f28e622/15851

14511-2 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.97ZObps8LS2.1117293@.f28e622/16221

cantabb - 06:31pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14583 of 14616)

rshow55 - 06:10pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14576 of 14577)

Rereading does cause some rearranging - I did this work in 1991-2 - ...... 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.

Then, why should it be SO very difficult for you to tell us: What have been working specifically on this forum.

Things you have been working on your "whole life" -- NOT of any interst or relevance to the Forum. UNLESS it does really deal with it, NOT just your unsubstantiated opinion of it.

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.

EFFECTIVE communication requires clarity --- NOT intentional ambiguity, lack of fous, dodging important questions, or frequent wanderings far, far off-field. Or, some or all of the above.

Topic is MD. NOT anything else you want to make of it, or a way to resolve your personal difficulties !

klsanford0 - 06:46pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14584 of 14616)

Ichic:

"showing footage of veggies that are 25% larger than norm ... with the implication that 'space travel' will increase agri-eco-output by a quarter."

It's too bad things have fallen, to such an anti-intellectual degree, and such sheer idiocy, as this statement and so many others by these two lunatic clowns...

fredmoore - 06:46pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14585 of 14616)

Robert,

Let's play "Spot The Dry Drunk" shall we?

It's a game the whole MD family can play.

Get your cheat sheet free, here: http://www.addictions.net/drydrunk.htm

Games are useful in all kinds of ways and endeavours. Game theory often brings convergence and saner solutions to technical problems ... such as understanding Tier-3 of MD for example.

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