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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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rshow55 - 08:37am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15773 of 15786)
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.

Maybe these links are windy, but I tried to make them clear.

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. 1624 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1793

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A key point that I'd like to get across is that "games" which are inherently unstable, and now tend to explode can be stabilized if they are put into assemblies of games that are interconnected - and, on balance, acceptable to all the parties.

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For that, you need facts held in common - and enough knowledge for clear scorekeeping ( people don't have to keep score the same - but they have to know enough for stable and reasonable ansers.

As a technical matter, diplomats don't know how to do this now, in complex cases, even when they desperately want to. I think that, if I were permitted to sort my situation with the NYT out on a win-win basis - I could go a long way toward showing them how to do so.

I promised to try to do that - but it seems to me that the NYT ought to want that, too.

That's a technical issue - and if I could get "out of jail" I think I could show it in a way that would be to the advantage of the NYT - and the whole world - and with much lower costs to the NYT in every respect I can think of than the costs the organization is paying already.

fredmoore - 08:38am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15774 of 15786)

Cantabb,

I am intrigued but not obsessed with anything that can stand up so straight for so long when so far removed from any kind of Truth or significant purpose?

You are quite a character .. in a barnyard sort of way.

jorian319 - 08:40am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15775 of 15786)
The earth spin rate is slowing 2 msc/day as evidenced by the additon of a leap second every 500 days - James "I failed math" Nienhuis

I object to the use of "barnyard" as a derogatory adjective.

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