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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
- 04:01pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (#
15819 of 15842) 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.
Or a weaker request - for example a request for NYT to
identify which posters are NYT employees or officers - or
controlled by them - and which are not?
cantabb
- 04:06pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (#
15820 of 15842)
rshow55 - 03:30pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15814 of
15817)
For the amount of work and expense the NYT
has gone to keeping me down - you could have solved my key
problems long ago. And they are problems a lot broader than
my own interest.
Since you have NOT substantiated any of this, it's hard for
me to imagine anyone (except lchic & fredmoore)
accepting any of this -- just one-sided personal version of
your personal situation WITH nothing from the other side !
rshow55
- 04:07pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (#
15821 of 15842) 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.
15667-9 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.vTlPbdpASbQ.5427816@.f28e622/17380
seem simple enough - and worth repeating.
Here's a basic standard:
" What would this look like, and how would
it be judged, if it was written up, in detail, in THE NEW
YORK TIMES ? "
Not that it would be. But there are community standards. I
think everybody involved here wants to meet those standards. I
know that I do.
wrcooper
- 04:09pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (#
15822 of 15842)
Inre: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.vTlPbdpASbQ.5427816@.f28e622/17512
bluestar23
The link also made clear that
A) Sensor technology is not ready for deployment, and
B) GBXs will not be able to discriminate certain decoys.
Neither will infrared sensors be able to discriminate
certain decoys from actual warheads, because heat signatures
can be easily mimicked with heaters.
The case for the NMD is absurdly weak. The phrase
"multi-layered" defense is really a synonym for "every branch
of the armed forces stands to get a piece of the NMD pie".
Boost phase--Air Force and Navy. Midcourse phase--Air Force.
Terminal phase--Army and Air Force. It's a Rube Goldbergian
scheme that has not proven itself capable of working at any
phase.
The link also included prominent links to the Union of
Concerned Scientists and the critical report "Pushing the
Limit". Therefore, I am surprised you liked it so much.
Basically, it was not a pro-NMD site.
rshow55
- 04:11pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (#
15823 of 15842) 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.
Cantabb - you requote this phrase of mine:
For the amount of work and expense the NYT
has gone to keeping me down - you could have solved my key
problems long ago. And they are problems a lot broader than
my own interest.
That's simply true. Cantabb, will you deny again, for the
record, as you have before, that you work for The New York
Times ?
rshow55
- 04:11pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (#
15824 of 15842) 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.
Jorian , will you deny again, for the record, as you
have before, that you work for The New York Times ?
cantabb
- 04:12pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (#
15825 of 15842)
rshow55 - 03:59pm Oct 28, 2003 EST (# 15818 of
15821)
That's common ground. But there are things
that the NYT knows.
SO ? That's between you & NYT (even if there's any
evidence of it) !
What's that got to with this thread ?
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