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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 - 04:50pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14687 of 14704)

rshow55 - 03:32pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14680 of 14684)

We connect a lot of dots. Make a lot of guesses. Reject a lot of muddles. Come to clarity about a lot of things. For such reasons - the native Engish speakers reading this thread will agree - usually to great precision - about the meanings and associations involved with more than 50,000 words and more than 100,000 definitions of these words.

Communication skills. Precision and clarity in language. Obfuscation, deliberate, pathological or a matter of habit is unhelpful to the process.

The idea that "things can be similar in some ways, but different in others" ought to be common ground. To an astonishing degree - it isn't.

Depends on the type and nature and significance of the similarities. That’s why one is careful to define the similarities and dissimilarities and weighs them before making any conclusion. NOT all 4-legged creatures are alike, nor all dogs are dachshunds.

cantabb - 05:05pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14688 of 14704)

rshow55 - 03:40pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14683 of 14687)

Unless logical competence at the simple level discussed in the last few posts becomes better than it now is - there is no solution for most of the problems that cause us problems.

Last few posts ? Weren't they MD-related ? Or by rshow55 himself ?

May be my posts ? I know they also cause "problems," and that their 'logical competence' may be not at par with rshow's, according to rshow55 himself. That explains some more of the problem.

cantabb - 05:07pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14689 of 14704)

rshow55 - 03:40pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14683 of 14687)

Unless logical competence at the simple level discussed in the last few posts becomes better than it now is - there is no solution for most of the problems that cause us problems.

Last few posts ? Weren't they MD-related ? Or by rshow himself ?

May be my own posts ? I know they also cause "problems," and that their 'logical competence' may be not at par with rshow's, according to rshow himself. That explains some more of the problem.

cantabb - 05:09pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14690 of 14704)

Sorry, # 14, 689 was repeated. Dunno why ?

fredmoore - 07:07pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14691 of 14704)

cantabb - 01:43pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14666 of 14690

He's gradually getting understood and overexposed

PSOT! Not just your usual tiresome BS FISKING.

(PSOT: Post Something On Topic)

fredmoore - 07:27pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14692 of 14704)

Will,

Thanks for reading the link I posted (http://www.cdi.org/hotspots/issuebrief/ch4/ ). I'll still do some more research before getting back.

The cost of deploying effective decoys seems to be one area where decoy strategies are vulnerable.

wrcooper - 07:44pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14693 of 14704)

fredmoore

The cost of deploying effective decoys seems to be one area where decoy strategies are vulnerable.

Maybe for boost phase interception, but that's not evident in anything I've read. I would be willing to wager that the cost of countermeasures would still be a lot cheaper than the cost of effective interceptors.

lchic - 09:07pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14694 of 14704)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

In that dense terrain of brain

Decoys hide those thoughts again

Masking out connected dots

Gives way to comment - akka Clots!

Seeing - yet not seeing - truth

Stubborn mind - truncated - strewth!

ti: colour blind thinking dR3

http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/museum/holmgren.htm

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