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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 - 09:09am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15781 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. Perhaps I was wrong - and I know it has been denied - but I guessed that people with serious connections the the New York Times were corresponding with me - and with interest.

15491 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296053@.f28e622/17204

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15545 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296053@.f28e622/17258

On an issue of precedents: 15548 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296053@.f28e622/17261

On a "game that is not a game" - stabilization of complex cooperations. 15559 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.bKWsbjPwSqx.5296053@.f28e622/17272

A simple acknowlegement of what happened, to the degree the TIMES knows it and can say so without revealing names - would be very useful to me if the NYT could make that acknowlegement, and make it honestly. If I had this information - it would be easier for me to ask for some clarifications and considerations from the government that I believe I deserve - and it would be easier to explain much about the way my life has gone since that correspondence initiated in 1999. If this particular request isn't possible, I'll understand.

Does anybody doubt

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