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    Missile Defense

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 - 06:38am Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14619 of 14623)
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.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.f8qTbXRILaq.0@.f28e622/16222 includes:

Fredmoore - on actually building a missile defense system that stood a good chance against NK stuff: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.f8qTbXRILaq.0@.f28e622/16220

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. http://www.mrshowalter.net/pap2/ 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 - with enough flexibility that people could actually use my stuff. Some of the insights have to be taught - not just "presented" as bad math professors often "present things" - leaving the people who are supposed to learn the material baffled.

People who call me "crazy" - and say my story was constructed recently - just to make a story-line for this thread might look at the discussion of code issues in http://www.mrshowalter.net/pap2/ - there is quite a lot of other material - more than 12 years old now - that I wrote involving codes http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.f8qTbXRILaq.0@.f28e622/16114 .

This thread has largely been about a subject Almarst and Lchic and I have discussed frequently.

"News and the Culture of Lying"

A nice search topic. If the NYT doesn't ever have an obligation to get to the truth - what is the paper selling?

lchic - 06:52am Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14620 of 14623)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

MD/starwars - so the CIA guy said (above) is 95% LIES

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