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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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wrcooper - 06:17pm Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15369 of 15389)

In re: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.lE1Zb8m1QnQ.0@.f28e622/17068

jorian319

You wrote [to rshow55]:

Try posting some responsive, on-topic material sans self referential links and platitudinous sweepers, and see what happens.

Surely you jest. You're suggesting the leopard change his spots. The only way that will happen with Show Bob is to melt him down and ref*ck him.

After all, that would be the true test of your allegations of covert purpose, would it not?

Bob paranoically sees conspiracies in every bush. Whoever disagrees with him must, of necessity, be somebody big and important conspiring to keep him down. That's how he's defined his world. This forum has become his life. I'm just wondering how many more years of it he can sustain--the guy's surely well in his fifties, I'd guess, by his physical appearance. At some point he'll reach normal retirement age, still declaring to any who'll listen that he's under house arrest in Madison. Wisconsin, based on some misunderstanding or other that took place when he was a twenty-something. Some day he'll have to admit that there's probably nobody around who remembers or who cares anymore. Science and technology have already sped around him, making anything he worked on then irrelevant or passé. Yet he clings to the belief that gret eminences and shadowy powers that be want to shut him up.

He's a sad case, but it's not as if people haven't tried to help him. I know for a fact that people in the scientific community have given him chances to present his biological conductance theories. They didn't buy it. He wouldn't be the first scientist who cracked up when his ideas couldn't gain currency. But I suspect, judging himn unprofessionally, that he's clinically ill in some way, based on the paranoic ramblings and hypergraphia we've witnessed in this forum. I wish he'd get proper help. He says his shrink doesn't think he's bonkers, but I wonder if he's shown his shrink the various posts in which he's accused various posters here of being high government officials despite their denials. I wonder if he's really bared his suspicions and conspiracy theories to his shrink.

Anyway, everybody who wants to discuss missile defense, I suggest...again...

Put rshow55, lchic and cantabb on your "Ignore Posts list"! It's amazing how much clutter is thereby removed.

Hey, it works!

rshow55 - 08:00pm Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15370 of 15389)
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.

Only 57 posts so far today, starting with http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.lE1Zb8m1QnQ.0@.f28e622/17025 - - but still, I've had enough till tomorrow. I thought some postings by Jorain in response to my 15354 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.lE1Zb8m1QnQ.0@.f28e622/17067 were especially interesting. I'll close referring to 15357 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.lE1Zb8m1QnQ.0@.f28e622/17070

15367 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.lE1Zb8m1QnQ.0@.f28e622/17080

It seems to me that this board may be worthwhile, from a lot of points of view.

lchic - 09:42pm Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15371 of 15389)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Cooper treats this thread like a moot-house!

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