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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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lchic - 02:47pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17122 of 17142)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

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cantabb - 02:47pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17123 of 17142)

bluestar:

'Fluid bias', Mark Twain once said about the 'ink' with which history is written.

And it's often written by the victors and those stay on the longest (and buy ink by the gallon)!

cantabb - 02:49pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17124 of 17142)

lchic - 02:47pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17122 of 17123)

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That's paraphrasing Rumsfeld ?

bluestar23 - 02:51pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17125 of 17142)

"And it's often written by the victors and those stay on the longest"

that is most certainly true.....I'm surprised rshow55 isn't making full use of these last hours.....there is no more time to "rest" or "nap" or "eat lunch"....

bbbuck - 02:51pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17126 of 17142)

I once knew a nun - from the 'sisters of the unkown womb'.

As far as I know none of the nuns are coming to the picnic.

Though of course they are invited.

We will have some biblical readings from 'bennie hill' and then a short devotional program. Drinking beverages will commence after that with hot dog grilling commencing at the same time.

lchic - 02:52pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17127 of 17142)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

... who mimicked Churchill

cantabb - 02:53pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17128 of 17142)

But he's resting up for the BIG PUSH, well co-ordinated with lchic's time difference (16 hours ?).

bluestar23 - 02:54pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17129 of 17142)

"the future 'history'"

But don't astrologers and card readers claim to understand all of humanity's time on this earth...and claim to "understand" by some "system" the totality of human experience....

cantabb - 02:55pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17130 of 17142)

lchic - 02:52pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17127 of 17128)

... who mimicked Churchill

And, congrats, you did it better than I've seen before.

bluestar23 - 02:57pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17131 of 17142)

Eg...if I ask an Astrologer why Napoleon met Josephine, I will be told it was because of the interaction of two or more heavenly bodies...

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