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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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bluestar23 - 05:13pm Oct 15, 2003 EST (# 15115 of 15127)

lchic:

do go away and be ridiculous elsewhere...

bluestar23 - 05:17pm Oct 15, 2003 EST (# 15116 of 15127)

"It would see that they're real." (suitcase Nukes)

But they are inoperative because they require a secret code to activate from the Kremlin itself. The system for doing so has been reportedly defunct for decades, there is no other way of detonating them.....they would only be useful for removing the fissile material for another type of Bomb, itself a very difficult task.....suitcase Nuke would only be dangerous if you dropped it on your toe..

lchic - 05:48pm Oct 15, 2003 EST (# 15117 of 15127)
TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Gisterme you asked for examples re MORALLY FORCING

Let's take another for instance from this board:

Just supposing it was possible to unlock the Chomskyian-black-box of mind.

Rather than having to look to outcomes (as related to inputs) into the working of the mind .... the working - how the brain works - (the white box) - was known.

The implications for the 'common good' in both educational and medical methodology would be huge.

Right rather hit and miss, approximate, then white-box-understood individual solutions might then occur.

Gisterme ... how does the poem go .... 'if you can keep your head while those about you are loosing theirs and blaming you' ... http://homepages.cyberhungary.net/user/poorsaxon/poems.htm ... that is a secret of success .... too many heads fall and are lost.

lchic - 05:50pm Oct 15, 2003 EST (# 15118 of 15127)
TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

China - a country most in need of sanitation - has the cash to spare to put a man in space .... whoopeee!!

rshow55 - 06:00pm Oct 15, 2003 EST (# 15119 of 15127)
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.

Kipling's "If" is very good - - and so are other poems of his.

3117 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.bEh3bokkOOI.2773798@.f28e622/3983 incuding especially on on planning - and "assumptions."

Mesopotamia .....1917 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee74d94/3625

Also - with respect to issues of "paradigm conflict" and "connecting the dots" Our Fathers of Old http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/241

I've spent a lot of the day thinking about gisterme's comment that I "like" being on this thread.

Well, it is better than some other things. And maybe gisterme is right that I can fight my way out of my problems - without Bush administration help - from where things are.

bluestar23 - 11:25pm Oct 15, 2003 EST (# 15120 of 15127)

No one about but the nutbars, as usual...

bluestar23 - 11:29pm Oct 15, 2003 EST (# 15121 of 15127)

Trying to stop the Showalter Blitzkrieg is like trying to stop the tide from coming in....mental illness combined with Asleep-at-the -Wheel Mods......is an unstopppable Force......

bluestar23 - 11:30pm Oct 15, 2003 EST (# 15122 of 15127)

post 15116 shows up weirdly late...

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