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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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bluestar23
- 11:28pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
17214 of 17221)
This thread is dying out with a whimper, not a bang as I
hoped for....perhaps Showalter is still saving up for a
Spectacular Send-Off...
fredmoore
- 11:35pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
17215 of 17221)
Come on Barntabb you only have 4 days left to FISK
us up to 20,000 posts. Snap to it! No good coming here
to relax.
Bbbuck,
Will we be having KFC at the picnic? I'm sure kiki would
enjoy that. How do Komodos go on barbecues? Ooops ... I mean
AT barbecues.
bbbuck
- 11:53pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
17216 of 17221)
first off blue-dimbulb rshow could post your dck in dirt
without even using both hands.
I remember a posting stream in july of 1991 when showalter
not only single-handedly connected 20,000 disharmonious dots
together but provided recipes for 500 native animal dishes.
[sadly these posts were lost in the great purge of 1992]
And yes we can provide kfc if that is what you
want[fredmoore]. After all it's 'our' picnic. It will be as
good or as bad as each of us harmonizes[hopefully we will all
be harmonizing symmetrically] .
Don't forget to bring beach balls, tennis racquets and your
swimming suit.
Chester doesn't have a holidome but we've got a tarp tent
over a neighbors pool and we're reading the swimming pool heat
mechanism as I post. Hopefully we'll be able to figure it out
by tomorrow.
Party on, defenseniks!
fredmoore
- 01:39am Nov 11, 2003 EST (#
17217 of 17221)
Bbbuck,
Bob Hope says he wants to come to the picnic but he says
that if you bring Chester, he wants to bring Phyllis.
He tells me he may have to anchor himself to the tent pole
.... he's still having trouble with his left wing.
Oh and he says that the Columbia Astronauts have given him
some great ideas for the barbecue ..... he'd be willing to
share them if you can get him an Oscar.
cantabb
- 02:00am Nov 11, 2003 EST (#
17218 of 17221)
bbbuck - 06:27pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17187 of 17213)
What's a pusil?
rshow55 - 07:28pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17188 of 17213)
What's a pusil? A base from which
pussilanimous derives.
lchic called me that ['Pusil'], twice. Never saw it used
that way, rshow & bbuck. Something negative in
Oz-speak, was my first impression !
Using a word and using it correctly are two different
things: But why should she (like fred'irregardless'moore)
worry about such little niceties ? NOT the first or only time.
People who take people ON, and single-handedly at that, are
far from being pusillanimous (= timid) ! Is that how it's seen
in Oz & referred to in Oz-speak ? [One 's' and 2 'l's,
rshow55] !
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