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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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rshow55 - 05:44pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15631 of 15636)
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.

Judging from kalter.rauch - 05:47am Nov 20, 2000 EST (#511 of 525) Earth vs <^> <^> <^>

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md511.htm there would seem to be some connection between rauch and "Cook" - whoever he is. I had the distinct feeling that Cook wasn't who he said he was - - and when a NYT writer did show up at the University of Wisconsin - there were some awkwardnesses - and some strange correspondence, very voluminous - and technically none too completent correspondence from Patrick Gunkel - who some may remember - a poster I never believed existed. -

rshow55 - 05:46pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15632 of 15636)
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 the NYT as an organization participated in contacts between me, the CIA, and Cook - it could acknowledge that fact without divulging any specific sources - and without acknowledging any more government contact than it more-or-less routinely acknowledges in the newspaper.

lchic - 05:46pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15633 of 15636)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Interesting how the plural of dice is rarely used

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    rshow55 - 05:49pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15634 of 15636)
    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 the CIA could find no records of me - which wouldn't surprise me - there might be a great deal of extenuation all around. I had information that I felt I had to deliver face to face, after establishing some rapport. That didn't seem so difficult or unreasonable back then - or now. But it has been difficult.

    rshow55 - 05:57pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15635 of 15636)
    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.

    rshow55 - 07:11am Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15452 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.xbUSbyLqRyN.4817858@.f28e622/17165 reads in part:

    In complicated systems - there is no sensible alternative - as experience and problems accumulate - to some exception handling and some resorting and reframing.

    "Both Eisenhowers and Bill Casey felt that very strongly.

    " I was assigned to work on exception handling patterns that neither the formal intelligence apparatus, nor the private sector as it was, nor the academic community could handle - in ways that I thought then, and still think, made sense in the overall national interest - and in the interest of our capitalistic system, our political system - and the academy.

    "In an effort not to leak - but also to live my life - and make contributions I had a right to make - consistent with the national interest as well as my own - I have tried to "come in through the New York Times" - as Casey had instructed. It has worked well in some ways - awkwardly for others.

    - - - -

    There's a lot of support to my story - though I have no pictures of me standing beside Casey or Eisenhower - ( for the same reasons that I don't expect Mimi Beardsley to have pictures with Kennedy - though she may have them ). Whether you happen to "call me Ishmael" or happen to believe my story - I think things are worth checking - and think I've long deserved a face-to-face hearing.

    lchic - 05:57pm Oct 25, 2003 EST (# 15636 of 15636)
    ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

    As in a face-to-face with a brain behind it and abilities attributed http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episode4/index.html

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