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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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lchic - 04:36pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15294 of 15312)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

The comment (above) that Cantabb is 'short on long' implied that Cantabb has 'dot-dash' focus ... along the yesterday | today| tomorrow continuum line ---

byte dot-dash data word sentence paragraph concept knowledge wisdom

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WRT to knowledge the encyclopaedic names can often be seen to have unconcovered knowledge within the limits of their age (era).

The names stand on the shoulders of others, and in turn, their shoulders are the fundamental-base for knowledge much to be moved on and taken further.

Showalter has an appreciation of the status-quo of a selected given body of knowledge ...

can make value judgements regarding it's strengths and weaknesses

The weakness, limit zone, may be an area that can (with work and effort) be subject to further strengthening ....

The value of the new is that of a tool - available to all to advance further human endeavours.

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lchic - 04:46pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15295 of 15312)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

re #15293 sentence 3 - strike from the record

rshow55 - 05:11pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15296 of 15312)
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.

Can't erase.

lchic - 05:45pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15297 of 15312)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

readership not writership

wrcooper - 05:53pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15298 of 15312)

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.DriIbm83Q32.0@.f28e622/16994

You still do not see the utter lack of a logical interconnect between Forum posters using "ignore" function and new posters who are surfing and will NOT HAVE "Ignore" function "ON" and who therefore WILL SEE showalter's and lchic's posts ANYWAY....geddit...????

That is why I posted the message I did. They'll read that in addition to rshow55's. Hopefully, they'll then put him on their "Ignore Posts list". Get it?

lchic - 06:00pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15299 of 15312)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Now where's that dah dah plain ... In Spain ... In Spain

One day he'll get it ... One day he'll get it

lchic - 06:05pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 15300 of 15312)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

.... according to the APS Study Group co-chair Frederick Lamb.

Simply put, it is physically impossible to intercept fast ICBMs in their boost phase, because the boost phase is too short, the interceptor basing locations are ineffective, and decision-making would need to be nearly instantaneous. The Study Group investigated all of the boost-phase programs in development or in consideration for development, including land-, sea-, air-based interceptors, space-based interceptors, and the Airborne Laser. One by one, they each fail.

Land-based and sea-based interceptors need to be too close to the enemy--for North Korea, actually based inside North Korea itself. Space-based interceptors would require a "fleet of a thousand or more orbiting satellites just to intercept a single missile." Airborne Laser would not be able to "disable solid-propellant ICBMs at ranges useful for defending the United States."

Despite these conclusions, the Missile Defense Agency will spend nearly $1 billion in 2004 on boost-phase missile defense, and the October 2004 deployment announced by President Bush includes "up to 20 sea-based interceptors employed on existing Aegis ships to intercept ballistic missiles in the first few minutes after they are launched, during the boost and ascent phases of flight." ....

http://es.oneworld.net/article/view/64254/1/

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