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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 - 09:45am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17084 of 17106)
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'm groggy - didn't get much sleep last night.

I thought the National Conference on Media Reform went wonderfully well - and was fun, too.

After it broke up, around 1:30, I got a video media guy to come home for dinner with me -and by 6:00, had a couple of other video people from the conference. My wife got to show off her cooking, and our china and crystal - had a turkey, salad, a vegitarian lasagna (one of the guys was a veggie ) beer, a good bottle of Gundlach-Bundschu red wine - and a lot of talk. Got to look at a bunch of videos. The guys were the principles of

Earth Television

and

INN http://www.radiofreeamerica.tv/ .

Stayed up with one of the guys most of the night - he stayed over, and I got him to an early plane.

So I've got at lot of catching up to do (and some a nap to take ).

These guys were a lot farther to the left than I am about a lot of stuff - at heart, I'm basically an Eisenhower Republican . ( Just like chicks and imprinting, I guess. )

Still, one way or another it seems to me I learned about new possibilities for thanking and praising the New York Times for the massive effort and good faith that some people have gone to on this thread. With just a few reservations, as anybody would expect.

I started this year with this:

rshow55 - 08:20am Jan 1, 2003 EST (# 7177 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.AaDsbXtXWXy.2545918@.f28e622/8700

"I think this is a year where some lessons are going to have to be learned about stability and function of international systems, in terms of basic requirements of order , symmetry , and harmony - at the levels that make sense - and learned clearly and explicitly enough to produce systems that have these properties by design, not by chance."

Maybe there will be a chance to get some of that message out, anyway. With internet video coordinated with internet text and TV - some communication patterns are possible that didn't exist not long ago.

Off for a while _ I'm taking a nap. I appreciate the chance I've been given to post here.

cantabb - 10:14am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17085 of 17106)

lchic - 06:38am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17077 of 17084)

Nobody reads the Cantabbulator's gibberish - save your breath!

Apparently you STILL do. Or else, you wouldn't respond.

What happened to your on-again-off-again "Ignore" charade ?

It's your "gibberish" that was "exposed," so "save your breath," your S-P-A-M and let your over-worked link-machine rest !

cantabb - 10:20am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17086 of 17106)

lchic - 06:39am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17078 of 17085)

Common Provision - the need for - USA

lchic - 07:20am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17079 of 17085)

ECHO e c h o echo ECHO ....That was then --- this is now

lchic - 07:35am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17080 of 17085)

"This place is wretched enough -

lchic - 07:41am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17081 of 17085)

lchic - 07:51am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17082 of 17085)

lchic - 07:55am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17083 of 17085)

"" The bombing provoked near-universal outrage among Saudis,.... Until the late 1990s, it was occupied and sponsored by ...

More S-P-A-M.

It's over.... thanks to you & rshow !!

'Say Good Night, Gracie...'

cantabb - 10:23am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17087 of 17106)

rshow55 - 09:45am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17084 of 17086)

I'm groggy - didn't get much sleep last night. I thought the National Conference on Media Reform went wonderfully well - and was fun, too.........

Off for a while _ I'm taking a nap.

NOTHING of relevance here !

I appreciate the chance I've been given to post here.

Heard that hundreds of times before. And also threats to NYT. What an "oscillation" !

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