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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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cantabb - 09:11am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15782 of 15787)

jorian319 - 08:40am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15775 of 15780)

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

I think a veld-barnyard is NOT the same as one in So. CO !

rshow55 - 09:12am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15783 of 15787)
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.

Does anybody doubt that I'd bend over backwards to give the NYT all the credit I honestly could (a lot) if my needs were met as well?

And meet any of their needs that they could explain to me?

Does anybody doubt that the NYT has a serious interest in this thread - and an interest that is intertwined with things concerning me? http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

Here's a general fact. I'd be overjoyed to sort the "MD board" mess out in a way that was to the maximum possible advantage to the NYT. We don't have to be in a conflict - but for any resolution that isn't a conflict - I have to be dealt with as a full human being - for the purposes of the limited communication involved.

fredmoore - 09:13am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15784 of 15787)

Cantabb,

I've touched a raw nerve again eh?

BTW You've Made another Cantabb Blooper: Can't tell the difference between intrigued and obsessed!

You'll just have to go back to telling Rshow for the 1000th time how he is off topic. BORING juvenalia which requires all the brainpower of a chook pecking for grain in the ol' barnyard.

If you want to feel useful, ask some sensible questions about KAEP.

rshow55 - 09:18am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15785 of 15787)
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.

I think that many "average readers of the New York Times" would be interested in these posting - both in the ways they involve science - the way they involve literature we share in a common culture - and the way they link to interesting posts by fredmoore.

14286 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.dKOtb4r6SdB.0@.f28e622/15996

14287 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.dKOtb4r6SdB.0@.f28e622/15997

14288 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.dKOtb4r6SdB.0@.f28e622/15998

fredmoore , Shakespeare, and politics.

12982 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.dKOtb4r6SdB.0@.f28e622/14658

13003-6 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.dKOtb4r6SdB.0@.f28e622/14679

We should move from farce and tragedy to happy endings. They wouldn't be hard to get from here.

cantabb - 09:26am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15786 of 15787)

fredmoore - 09:13am Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15784 of 15784)

Cantabb, I've touched a raw nerve again eh?

No, you're just parroting things, as usual ! [including 'raw nerve' comment]

BTW You've Made another Cantabb Blooper: Can't tell the difference between intrigued and obsessed!

What "another" "Blooper" ?

If you were "intrigued" you wouldn't act this "obsessively," would you ?

Just because YOU call it (self-servingly) "intrigued" doesn't mean that's how it comes across, does it ?

"Intrigued" would imply at least some curiosity. What you've shown (with lame verses and personal attacks) is pure and simple schoolyard "obsession" -- right from your very first response to me !

Look up: "blooper"; "intrigued" & "obsession" !

You'll just have to go back to telling Rshow for the 1000th time how he is off topic. BORING juvenalia which requires all the brainpower of a chook pecking for grain in the ol' barnyard.

Forcing a poster to address the questions he has been dodging. VERY different from your blindly following the piper !

"Juvenilia": parroting again ?

If you want to feel useful, ask some sensible questions about KAEP.

YOUR One-trick pony -- little or nothing to do with MD.

Can you talk about anything else ?

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