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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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cantabb - 09:15am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15336 of 15346)

lchic - 09:06am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15335 of 15335)

OH! You found yourself in the 'hot' seat :)

Not for me. I was talking about you and "your interest":

"I can understand your interest in that: THIS thread getting too 'warm' ?" cantabb

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Re 'Other poster' on 'Science in the News'

wangzhong0 - 08:21pm Oct 20, 2003 EST (# 2615 of 2615) to cantabb

was they published their research in English? how about short memory can be permantely memory , if you want to wrote more about short memory, you should explained how could temporary memory become permantly memory in human brain. how could old man decays his permantly memory into temporary memory? it depandent on how many words that you need in your eassy. http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?1@13.VsacbHF1QsQ.3832947@.f2e4e35/2851

As soon as I can decipher it..... [I know I have disappointed that poster. That reminds me of the backlog from the same poster, to be deciphered. Life's much too short for such tasks.]

lchic - 09:16am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15337 of 15346)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Harry Truman quote:

“I never give them hell . . . I just tell them the truth and they think it’s hell.”

cantabb - 09:18am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15338 of 15346)

lchic - 09:16am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15337 of 15337)

Harry Truman quote: “I never give them hell . . . I just tell them the truth and they think it’s hell.”

Right !

wrcooper - 09:19am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15339 of 15346)

Iran agrees to halt enrichment of uranium.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iran-Nuclear.html?hp

This is an example of effective missile defense, as opposed to Bush's NMD program.

lchic - 09:23am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15340 of 15346)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Harry Stonecipher quote:

If you are seeking radical change or improvement, you won’t get there by trying to do the same things better; you have to do things differently.

lchic - 09:26am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15341 of 15346)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Jim Albaugh quote:

How do we stop North Korea or another rogue nation from attacking our cities with missiles?

The answer, quite simply, is to build a credible missile defense system.

note the use of the word credible

lchic - 09:28am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15342 of 15346)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Lincoln quote:

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present"

cantabb - 09:31am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15343 of 15346)

lchic - 09:23am Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15340 of 15340)

Harry Stonecipher quote: If you are seeking radical change or improvement, you won’t get there by trying to do the same things better; you have to do things differently.

Or, same things over and over again. And, you have to atleast know what you are working on [and has been done on it-- what worked, what did not], so that you can figure out a new way to achieve/accomplish what you needed to. Or, you continue to grope around in the fog on a dark night by the sea.

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