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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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rshow55 - 04:38pm Oct 11, 2003 EST (# 14790 of 14792)
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.

I know I'm in trouble when I think maybe some progress is being made. A look back at things tried six months ago on this board can give some perspective Mankind's Inhumanity to Man and Woman - As natural as human goodness? 468-470 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b085/515

Thinking back to September 2000 offers more perspective. ( Search "James Bond" ) and had an awkward attempt at a meeting. http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/MD8393.HTM

My involvement with the Missile Defense board started with discussion about nuclear weapons on the old NYT Favorite Poetry board.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet_6222_Sep21_2000_PoetryAbtNks.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet6229_Set22_2000_SeeNukes_DowrnInOrder.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet6237_Sep23_2000_SeeWillyNilly.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet6242_MRSnWillyNilly.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet_6250_SeeLunarchick.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet_6259_Sep24_2000_KateSaysGoToMD.htm ends with this:

. kate_nyt - 01:27pm Sep 24, 2000 EST (#6264 of 6739) Community Producer, NYTimes.com

Afternoon, all-

This forum is for poetry only. Please move any discussion of nuclear weapons to the Missile Defense forum in the Science area. It could use the help!

Have a good Sunday, Kate

My involvement with the Missile Defense thread began on a Monday, at 07:32am Sep 25, 2000 EST (#266) Ridding the world of nuclear weapons, this year or next year. What would have to happen? rshowalt 9/25/00 7:32am . For the rest of that day, I had a discussion with "becq," who I have often thought might have been President Clinton,

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md266.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md273.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md280.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md290.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md300.htm

ending at #304, which is worth reading in itself ... rshowalt 9/25/00 5:28pm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md304.htm Based on things discussed in http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/MD8393.HTM and some other things that were happening to me - it didn't seem certain - but it also didn't seem far-fetched - that becq might be Clinton - or somebody close to him.

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