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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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lchic
- 04:41pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16223 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Techno Report interactive link
bluestar23
- 04:44pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16224 of 16302)
lchic:
"how would bluestar over his lifetime have become an
'expert' in Zipperheadery?"
by reading your posts...of course...
bluestar23
- 04:46pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16225 of 16302)
lchic's stupidity and sheer vacuousness are amazing....what
a superficial mind...like a child with a keyboard...
lchic
- 04:51pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16226 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Lieberman says that the way the brain feels pain is likely
to be more complicated than we can imagine. The traditional
theory is that pain is a linear alarm system. Your hand
touches something hot or sharp and triggers the pain nerves in
your skin to send electrical signals through your spinal cord
up to the brain to warn that you are in danger.
But in the 1960s, researchers found that the brain didn't
always get the warning. Signals from other nerves that feel
sensations such as light touch could, if triggered, block the
pain nerves. This is why, if you bump your elbow and rub it,
it doesn't hurt as much. Modern imaging techniques that
measure blood flow to the brain have further challenged our
understanding of pain by showing that all sorts of brain areas
light up in response to pain.
The traditional view is that it is caused by tissue damage.
How much pain you feel should, therefore, be related to how
bad your injury is. But again, this often isn't the case. "The
degree to which you feel pain is influenced by many impulses
reaching the brain," says Dr Cathy Stannard, a consultant in
pain medicine at Frenchay hospital, Bristol. "In fact, the
onward transmission of pain from the spinal cord is modified
by impulses coming down from the brain as well as activity in
other nerves that don't carry pain messages. Your culture,
gender, beliefs about pain and the social context all modify
how much pain you feel."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1062560,00.html
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Missiles - how much 'pain' have people felt wrt missiles?
lchic
- 04:55pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16227 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Zippy-blue perhaps you could parachute in from outer space
and comment re:
Missiles - how much 'pain' have people felt wrt missiles?
cantabb
- 04:57pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16228 of 16302)
lchic - 04:51pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (# 16226 of 16226)
Missiles - how much 'pain' have people felt
wrt missiles?
Not nearly as much as you and rshow have ! Supposedly a
couple of people in whose capable hands peace and stability of
the whole world lies, and would lie only if one of them is
"permitted to function."
lchic
- 05:07pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16229 of 16302)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Zippy-blue still on the way down .....
No comment re the MD postings just above ....
Why are you guys on this board ...
?
bluestar23
- 05:28pm Nov 2, 2003 EST (#
16230 of 16302)
lchic:
"how much 'pain' have people felt wrt missiles? "
Not even a Hydrogen Bomb blast could do the sort of pain
and damage YOU and Showalter inflict on this innocent Forum
every day.....
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