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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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cantabb - 07:47am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16312 of 16345)

Link-machine in over-drive !

Make sure you don't leave anything anti-American out !

cantabb - 07:50am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16313 of 16345)

Q: Can't a 'parrot' live in a barn ?

Am sure it can, for entertaining the stable, the coop etc.

But not having been in one, what does Polly say ? Want a cracker ?

lchic - 07:53am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16314 of 16345)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Define 'anti-american' ...

Information is information

bluestar23 - 07:55am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16315 of 16345)

lchic's links aren't even to an MD website, which she lures you in with her post of an MD Test...then click link, and get...a Hate-George-Bush site...not even MD....you stupid little twerp......

bluestar23 - 07:56am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16316 of 16345)

"Define 'anti-american' ..."

You. Blithering fruitcake....

lchic - 07:59am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16317 of 16345)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

The premise of the game you develop ... is similar to Missile Command in that you're defending helpless cities against an incoming threat.

In this case, however, the threat is giant meteors, not nuclear warheads. The Meteor Defense game employs a game play strategy similar to Missile Command in that you fire missiles at the incoming meteors to stop them from destroying the cities below.

As you'll find out, the critical skill to becoming a good player at Meteor Defense (and Missile Command as well) is learning how to target a meteor and give a missile time to get there.

In other words, you often have to lead a meteor by a certain distance to give the missile time to get there and make contact.

http://www.informit.com/isapi/product_id~{071A0CA2-9B6E-469B-915E-4B499126647E}/content/index.asp

If the meteor/missile proliferates -- what then?

cantabb - 08:03am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16318 of 16345)

lchic - 07:53am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16314 of 16314)

Define 'anti-american' ...

Most of your posts, as I mentioned before !

[cf. Anti-Australian, from, say, Indonesia]

Information is information

And, highly 'selective' information is highly 'selective' information.

Neither balanced nor put in proper perspective: Just personal bias !

Similarly, one could easily post ONLY "selective" pro-American stuff to highlight !

You may think so, but such bias is NOT the way to find "Truth" (not even from your neighborhood "Truth Dispenser").

Like selective "truth":

"ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation"

cantabb - 08:07am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16319 of 16345)

Bluestar: She's just being a loyal follower, with a search-copy-post link-machine -- while the tired search-save-file-post-repost-repost(n)machine is in repair.

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