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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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jorian319 - 11:32am Oct 30, 2003 EST (# 15933 of 15933)

In some situations, there are problems that can only be confronted by a concerted effort to focus on the win-win aspect of proposed solutions. Solutions must solve, and the definition of "solve" must be agreed upon by those for whom the effort is important. Without such agreement, the solution will be unstable and likely not scalable to the application as required by constrictive circumstance. Unstable solutions are well known to blow up in people's faces from time to time, often at great cost to innocents to whom neither the problem nor its solution is important. Discussion of the relationship of those working on solutions to those tring to focus on defining the problem is itself problematic for the third party - the one injured by actions taken by people either involved in the process of definition or in pursuit of the win-win solution required for amenable resolution. This human dynamic is seen to be ubiquitous throughout every arena wherein conflict seeks an equilibrium instead of real resolution, which can be recognized by a good faith examination of the various aspects of thoughtfulness that reflects the genesis of the problem itself. For the past several centuries, since my intitial involvement with Descartes in the development of Principles of Philosophy, certain parties with whom I hade contracted verbally have failed to deliver on their parts of the underlying agreement. I am being held hostage in my own skull and am seeking resolution through a seance whereby I might get a face-to-face meeting with the perpetrator(s), one of whom I suspect to be part of the Bluestar clan, which I have long thought to have obsconded with the balance of the Descartes estate. There are principles at stake, as well as students and teachers, and this should be important for all readers of this forum to keep in mind as we pursue the greater good for Humankind, and, hopefully long overdue justice for the wrongs done me in the past.

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