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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 - 12:31am Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14613 of 14620)

fredmoore - 11:11pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14611 of 14612) fredmoore - 11:16pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14612 of 14612)

The Definition of obsession:

cantabb - 08:16pm Oct 7, 2010 EST (# 514594 of 514610)

klsanford0 - 07:53pm Oct 7, 2003 EST (# 14590 of 14592)

[to WRCooper] Yes, it does ["to fight Showalter"]...it might keep people like Showalter from continuing to perpetrate his scandalous behaviour....Showalter is committing daily crimes of every sort against the Forum.....your position is like that of one who will not catch the burglar who is robbing your house.. See my response to WRCooper above !

Too laid-back to catch "the burglar who is robbing your house" ? :)

SO, expecting someone to call the cops when a neighbors or friends house is being burglarized -- totally out of the question ? Chilling, even as an idle thought !

FIRST, know what "obsession" really means to help you find an appropriate example. Second, at least correctly SHOW who said what to whom ? Your quote mixed it all up.

You have NOT done either ! You've NOT even bothered to sort out the quotes ! You seem to have let your attitude toward me keep clouding your logic and judgment!

YOUR example of "obsession" : A brief exchange between a poster who has been here for the past 20 days and another who came just a day or so ago.

And NOT rshow & lchic who have been here for 2+ years and consumed lot of Forum space for thousands of non-topic posts? Or any one else, including you ?

There is a better way ... POST ON TOPIC.

TELL rshow55 & lchic, FIRST -- the worst offenders. And then others, including you, who have participated in exchanges with the duo MUCH more often than me or Klsanford !

Had you seen things clearly and well, you'd have noticed that, in the past 20 days, I've been responding to posts directed to ME or to comments about ME -- starting with your juvenile personal attacks.

What happened to your KAEP link to MD (as defined in the forum header). Other than your lame attempts at poetry, and your exchanges with rshow55 & lchic, what else do you think you have posted here that conformed to your recent interest in the Forum header -- BEFORE my reminder 20 days ago ??

lchic - 04:17am Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14614 of 14620)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

RU 2002 - 100 missiles overhauled (life to 2014)

Satan missiles are land-based, allowing several to be launched simultaneously from the same place, thus increasing their chance of evading a defence system.

Their prolonged existence is a significant issue in Washington, which is at pains to justify and expedite the creation of a missile defence shield http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,777379,00.html

lchic - 04:27am Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14615 of 14620)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

He (Arnie) then added, creepily: "I was always fascinated by people in control of other people." http://www.ergogenics.org/arnold4.html

Reagan's films famously inspired his administrations' policies. There has been widespread speculation that senile Reagan got his idea for a nuclear missile defence shield from a 1950s B-movie he starred in. What would President Schwarzenegger do? Send robotic Terminators into Afghanistan to police the streets of LA? Have California's kindergartens manned by six-foot undercover cops who win the hearts of the aggravating little brats?

lchic - 04:42am Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14616 of 14620)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Naked in Baghdad (book)

NPR senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels (author)

(audio) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html 7thOCT2003

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