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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 - 10:30am Oct 9, 2003 EST (# 14728 of 14730)

rshow55 - 09:09am Oct 9, 2003 EST (# 14722 of 14727)

Mere verbiage -- dismissed before:

Sometimes - for basic human reasons - and logical reasons - it is useful to switch between different perspectives - construct a shared space by comparing notes about comparison and contrast.

May be “reasons” that sound “logical” to you – and that doesn’t say or amount to much, does it ?

One can STILL ‘switch’ between perspectives on THE SAME specific issue, if one were focused and wanted to make a rational point. This gobbledygook doesn’t even make sense. And, why worry ?

That's ordinary human behavior - but is goes wrong in perverse ways – and people get into fights.

Not quite. Perhaps it shows the perverse ways in which whatever is meant by “ordinary humans behavior” does go wrong !

Are you still imagining your teen-year “fights” ? Nice coincidence that one of your loyal supporters also can’t get out of the school yard – even though he seems to seen light (only partially and just recently) and now, under some recent pressure, is desperately trying to go on-topic – something he rarely ever did before. [I’d call the pressure, a service to the forum at least in this case, if he tries to leave his school yard behind. ]

I was assigned to sort out how the fights happened - and how to reduce their incidence.

You’re NOT talking about being “assigned” to do it here on NYT’s MD forum , are you ? You think “fights" don’t happen on other forums ?

rshow55 - 09:13am Oct 9, 2003 EST (# 14723 of 14727)

The notions that people are able to use well, or at all, are characterized by patterns of order, symmettry, and fit to purpose (harmony) - and practically always what orders, relates, and fits in one way does not in most others. So you can always get into a fight about anything you choose. OR You can choose to construct more "shared space" - and actually build it. UNLESS Someone wants to fight.

Anything to do with MD science & related issues ? Specifically ? Or, are you re-visiting your teen-year fighting ?

rshow55 - 09:17am Oct 9, 2003 EST (# 14724 of 14727)

Why do people - in general and specifically - want to fight? ….

You gonna tell us again, right ? Still re-living your teen-year fighting ?

What's cheating? is a very good question - and it needs to be answered in ways that fit real human needs and vulnerabilities.

Ahem, to change the subject ?

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