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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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lchic - 08:00am Oct 27, 2003 EST (# 15733 of 15734)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

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rshow55 - 09:01am Oct 27, 2003 EST (# 15734 of 15734)
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.

Will have to go back and read the board. Been up looking at movies.

One I've been reviewing is Guys and Dolls - and there are some scenes in West Side Story ( an old, old story ) that I'm reviewing, too. Especially the scene where Anita is beaten up by the Jets - trying to give a message to the Jets for Maria - after her own love has been killed. Anita tries as hard as she can - but after she's degraded and hurt - she tells a lie that gets Tony killed.

Will catch up later.

Samuel Goldwyn thought Guys and Dolls was the best movie he ever made - maybe the best ever - better than Casablanca - but it didn't do as well as people hoped at the box office.

I think maybe Goldwyn had a point - but that there are some perceptual problems about what good solutions in the real world look like http://www.mrshowalter.net/PiagetCognitiveLimits.htm

The movie has interesting scenes about dice, statistics - and especially special dice with no spots on them that only one "gambler" can read.

Back later . .

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