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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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fredmoore - 09:31am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15136 of 15144)

Rather than being too 'pro-active' outside it's boundaries, the US has not been 'pro-active' enough. If they were truly pro-active, they would have had at least a dozen Lionel Richie concerts in Baghdad by now and half the death toll.

How's that for a morally forced reality Lcheck .... Lchic?

lchic - 09:39am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15137 of 15144)
TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

But 'who are you' ... what's your status ... why should anyone listen to your opinion and what you have to say?

lchic - 09:41am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15138 of 15144)
TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Mission : To raise and improve the quality and standards of 'checking' of facts, their linkages and relationshps, to enable clearer-truer information - that can be weighted and aasigned for use in problem solving.

(First Mission-statement might be re-written)

cantabb - 09:41am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15139 of 15144)

Well over 100 posts in ~2 days. rshow55 not feeling well ? But lchic did come through.

More of the same, for the nth time.

Since he has been evading questions about his activity and I see really nothing to contradict this impression, I am going to have to assume [not surprisingly] that:

rshow55 does NOT know what he has been doing here for the past 3 years, and has accomplished nothing to justify his claims -- even with help from a 'world asset', the incomparable lchic !

Unless they can prove me wrong with supporting evidence, I'd continue to assume the above, with with increasing confidence.

Telegraphic lchic & logorrheic rshow55: what a combination!

I'd get to the posts addressed to me and the comments about me, as soon as I stop laughing at a few things.

lchic - 09:43am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15140 of 15144)
TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

But 'who are you' ... what's your status ... why should anyone listen to your opinion and what you have to say?

lchic - 09:50am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15141 of 15144)
TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Cantabb / Moore --- what mission are you on, who's sent you, what do expect not to accomplish and why?

rshow55 - 09:53am Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15142 of 15144)
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 , one of the things we've done is build a corpus - with a lot of interesting stuff in it. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@@.f28e622/16303

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.iFYhbEo6Ope.2793334@.f28e622/16006

14826_7 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.iFYhbEo6Ope.2793334@.f28e622/15996

Oh - and another objective we've had - to model the associative logic of the brain - and connect scientific discourse to literature.

Of course sorting - and choosing is a problem.

The "muddle" of this thread might look much clearer and more coherent if it was sorted in many different ways - for instance, by mission statement.

A lot of resorting for specific purposes has to happen in the brain. And might usefully happen, as a demonstration - on a large corpus of text such as this one. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

Another objective of this thread has been to present a lot of interconnected information on missile defense - with ways of getting more.

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