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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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rshow55 - 01:30pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15177 of 15178)
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 , re http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.sJbmboO7OBw.2849008@.f28e622/16888 , the Sulzberger point is interesting. Though I wonder how much authority you have to raise it.

Once, a long while ago - I called in to the NYT - got a secretary - and she was kind enough to give me Sulzberger's email adress.

I thought a while about sending to it - and decided, then, that I couldn't. For reasons that made sense then - but don't apply now.

That was a long time ago - and I didn't hang onto the address.

Now, though I'd be afraid - Sulzberger has a lot of rank - I'd be honored to contact him. Or someone with a name who represented him - knowing how valuable Sulzberger's time is.

But the grammer of the situation would be a good deal easier if someone at the NYT, with a name, would call me. Or call someone (for instance, at the UW ) who knew me, and who'd call me.

I think things could work out in ways that the average reader of The New York Times would find comfortable - and consistent with the national interest.

I would be honored to have things work out in a way that gave the NYT satisfaction - if they were compatible with my reasonable function.

rshow55 - 02:09pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15178 of 15178)
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.

If the average reader of The New York Times - in possession of the facts - would conclude that I should go to jail - - - well, I'd be willing to risk that.

But there would need to be a situation with some chance of closure - under conditions where the standard assumption is that everybody's afraid enough, angry enough - so that things are unstable.

I know I'm afraid. For reasons that ought to be obvious.

I don't want to go into a situation that seems sure to go wrong - or to involve unacceptable risks to anybody involved.

Or a situation too likely to be unstable.

Everybody posting on this thread - without exception - has some trust - and some distrust of everybody else. Which seems proper to me.

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