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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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rshow55 - 05:34pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15625 of 15634)
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.

Jorian-s has posts in http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md501.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md502.htm - and those posts are close in time to some posts that have a good deal to do with problems I had with a "Roland Cook" - who I thought - perhaps incorrectly - was associated with the NYT - who engaged me for months in a "debriefing for the CIA" that was extremely awkward for me - and perhaps for him, as well. Anyway, that involved months of work for me - and about a 5" pile of correspondence. Again and again, I asked for a way to speak to Cook face to face - and the evasions were strong - and made me very uncomfortable. Cook eventually gave me what he said was an answer from the CIA - that I'd "been away too long" and there was no place for me - as I recall, without checking the exact words. From where I was, I felt I had to meet in some way with face to face contact - and knowledge of who I was dealing with. After a while, I had some questions about Cook's good faith - and his questions took so much of my time that I eventually asked for some help from a U. of Wisconsin Dean.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md510.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md511.htm I thought the comment from Kalter_rauch interesting. I wonder if anyone knew rauch - and found the matter interesting, too.

My guess is that Joran noticed these posts - but it is just a guess. If NYT people did (and of course, I can't be sure) - it seems to me to cast some extenuating light on the situation - maybe, considering everything, from everybody's point of view.

Here are some things from Roland Cook - who posted on 74 htmls I've saved from the old Consciousness and Black Holes forums.

CONSCIOUSNESS W. Roland Cook, Ph.D. http://www.mrshowalter.net/~wrcook.html

Ye Gods ! by Roland Cook http://www.soon.org.uk/stories/ye_gods.htm

lchic - 05:34pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15626 of 15634)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

NK .... progress http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/international/asia/26KORE.html

lchic - 05:36pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15627 of 15634)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Roland WRC ook

rshow55 - 05:38pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15628 of 15634)
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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/international/asia/26KORE.html looks great ! But discourse is unstable.

I'm trying to set things out that could move things toward a stable closure. Looks possible to me.

rshow55 - 05:40pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15629 of 15634)
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.

If Cook and Cooper are the same person - that would be interesting. There might be a tactful way to find out . . . it would fit some things, in spots, but I'm not saying that WRCook and WRCooper are the same person. It might account for strong feelings that I've not been able to understand.

But then, you never know.

lchic - 05:42pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15630 of 15634)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Knowing the players ... i'd have a different theory re Coo-k/per

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