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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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lchic - 09:40pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14699 of 14718)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

With a budget imbalance of $US38b will Arnie (DemoRepub) plump for the boondoggle solution ... don't think so ... not if he's trying to balance the books.

Yet on the National level the boondoggle is the chosen route.

State Logic and National Logics .... differ .... with an intersting question as to 'why so?'

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lchic - 09:48pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14700 of 14718)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

'' Peace activists seek new idiom: Taking a page from the right, they're wrapping protests in patriotism 6/12/01

By Dorothy Korber http://www.avot.org/stories/storyReader$128

-- A merging of ideas and the politically unlikeminded

lchic - 10:08pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14701 of 14718)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

'' Revolutionary scientific thinking requires an playful, insightful, and creative mind.

    "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... Henry David Thoreau"

lchic - 10:24pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14702 of 14718)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

The term 'living life to the full' relates to people maximising their chances and enjoyment of it, reaching potentials -- pushing through them and beyond, and most often people have a desire to please and contribute to the society they live in.

The concept of military defense is on the one hand to shoot down intruders, and on the other, to 'make safe' within a boundary.

To make a 'better world' depends on the effort of every individual within it, but moreso key decision and policy making.

Raises the question

    'Is the TRIGGER in the hand or the mind?'
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cantabb - 10:30pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14703 of 14718)

lchic - 09:07pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14694 of 14700)

lchic - 09:18pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14695 of 14700)

lchic - 09:35pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14698 of 14700)

lchic - 09:40pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14699 of 14700)

lchic - 09:48pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14700 of 14700)

lchic - 10:08pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14701 of 14702)

lchic - 10:24pm Oct 8, 2003 EST (# 14702 of 14702)

Another 7 posts, absolutely nothing to do with MD.

NB: You'ree NOT being ignored !

"It got understood and exposed"

rshow55 - 06:44am Oct 9, 2003 EST (# 14704 of 14718)
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 , you're not being completely ignored, either. I did some summary posts

Guardian Talk International Psychwarfare, Casablanca -- and terror http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/485 448-50

That posting cites http://www.mrshowalter.net/Cantabb_Srch_to10_4.htm

Lchic's postings are fine - and are a good deal more often associated directly with Missile Defense than Jorian319's .

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