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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 - 08:44am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15776 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.

Negotation links from the Missile Defense thread between 5:05 pm and 10:45 pm - October 23, 2003. Set out a simple approach - all I asked was some explanations that NYT knows very well how to give - to things NYT actually knows, or could find out - on a sheet of paper.

15491 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17204">rshow55 10/23/03 5:05pm</a>

15492 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17205">rshow55 10/23/03 5:22pm</a>

15494 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17207">jorian319 10/23/03 5:41pm</a>

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15499 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17212">jorian319 10/23/03 6:01pm</a>

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15504 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17217">jorian319 10/23/03 6:14pm</a>

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15506 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17219">rshow55 10/23/03 6:20pm</a>

15507 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17220">jorian319 10/23/03 6:21pm</a>

15508 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17221">rshow55 10/23/03 6:27pm</a>

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15512 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17225">jorian319 10/23/03 7:04pm</a>

15513 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17226">rshow55 10/23/03 7:09pm</a>

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15517 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17230">lchic 10/23/03 7:31pm</a>

15518 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17231">lchic 10/23/03 7:34pm</a>

15519 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17232">rshow55 10/23/03 7:36pm</a>

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15524 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17237">jorian319 10/23/03 7:51pm</a>

15528 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17241">rshow55 10/23/03 7:54pm</a>

15529 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17242">jorian319 10/23/03 7:54pm</a>

15530 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17243">rshow55 10/23/03 8:01pm</a>

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15541 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17254">jorian319 10/23/03 8:38pm</a>

15545 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17258">rshow55 10/23/03 9:04pm</a>

On an issue of precedents: 15548 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296027@.f28e622/17261">bluestar23 10/23/03 9:53pm</a>

On

cantabb - 08:50am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15777 of 15786)

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

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?

"Irregardless," right your very first response to me here (let alone an exchange on 'Science in the News' on your veld-view of freedom of expression in the US), it grew into a full fledged "obsession" before you could say cantabb.

What "Truth" are you talking about ? Something 'generic' that your fellow-travelers lchic and rshow also talking about ? One-"Truth"-fits-ALL ? And, who do you think is standing far apart from "IT" -- and in a Veld schoolyard-barnyard, or in a land of conspiracies ?

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

Fits you better.

Wouldn't know what a veld barnyard looks like, IF you weren't here to 'educate' us about !

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