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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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cantabb - 10:41am Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15607 of 15608)

rshow55 - 10:33am Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15605 of 15606)

Re being Armed to Excess

If at every step you ask "what's the best I can do assuming my adversary does his worst to me?" - and that is all that is considered - without looking at interactions at different scales - you have stasis - explosive instabilities - and a lot of the problems we have now.

I think you are your own "adversary."

"to cantabb" might become a verb - for a general pattern for messing up anything and everything.

"For a general pattern for messing up anything and everything" FOR YOU, may be !

rshow55 - 10:58am Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15608 of 15608)
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.

On ANYTHING specific?

I'm being specific.

And I'll try to remember a specific context that some at the New York Times seem to want to kill me for. Based on old but I thought compelling instructions - I commandeered some resources of the New York Times - under circumstances where it seemed to me that I was asking for very little - a few phone calls, at the most. It has turned out to be more complicated than that. And I've ended up being tied up - but at the same time I end up having commandeered more resources than I ever intended when I started. With some success, too. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

When resources are commandeered - you not only need to give good reasons - you need to do what you can to arrange compensation, too. Or that's the convention.

In this case, I think a demonstration according to the high and much respected ideals of the New York Times might be appropritate. And if there was a way to get the Times money compensation in any reasonable way, I'd surely try.

But unfortunately, we seem to be involved in another kind of demonstration.

I'm being as specific as I can in my letter to the top dog - but the main request - at his level - is that I be permitted to meet with a NYT representative who has authority to actually talk to me - and actually will - to sort out as near to a "win-win" solution as can be arranged.

Jorian thinks that should be easy to get - but he doesn't work for the NYT.

Any way I can figure out to be deferential - I'd like to be. I'd kiss the man's a** if that was in anyway useful - and gratefully, too, if I could only figure out how to do it to his satisfaction .

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