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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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gisterme - 09:02pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15191 of 15196)

"...It would be interesting to collect Jorians 'wager' postings on this and other threads .... he's a sure-bet risk taker ....

Not with any bets he's proposed on this thread.

"...has to be or he'd be walking around with his pockets turned-out :)..."

Not if he only makes bets like those proposed on this thread. :-) The secret to winning bets it to not take risks.

lchic - 09:02pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15192 of 15196)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Poor ... yet rich

Middle English riche, from Old French (of Germanic origin), and from Old English rce, strong, powerful

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=rich

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=poor

lchic - 10:17pm Oct 16, 2003 EST (# 15193 of 15196)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Rupert's mob

The more you watch, the more you'll get things wrong.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27061-2003Oct14.html

polling firm, have spent the better part of the year tracking the public's misperceptions of major news events and polling people to find out just where they go to get things so balled up. This month they released their findings, which go a long way toward explaining why there's so little common ground in American politics today: People are proceeding from radically different sets of facts, some so different that they're altogether fiction.

lchic - 03:15am Oct 17, 2003 EST (# 15194 of 15196)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Putin RU --- 20m muslims live in Russia

Putin center-stage at Muslim Asia Conference

seen as a spokesperson by/for Muslim world ...

able to put viewpoints to USA

lchic - 03:16am Oct 17, 2003 EST (# 15195 of 15196)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

NK SK talks - stalemate

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s969443.htm

lchic - 03:37am Oct 17, 2003 EST (# 15196 of 15196)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Rupert - backs down at AGM

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s967828.htm

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