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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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cantabb - 09:47am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17248 of 17271)

bluestar23 - 09:42am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17243 of 17246)

"So I can actually act"

I thought his was already an 'act' !

lchic - 09:48am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17249 of 17271)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

War is a HEALTH HAZARD - Iraq - longer term future

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3259489.stm

Environmental degradation and smoke from oil fires are adding to the health problems of Iraqis, it reports.

Continuing insecurity in Iraq, along with the breakdown of public health services, are exacerbating the problem.

Death toll

Entitled Continuing Collateral Damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq, the report estimates that between 22,000 and 55,000 people - mainly Iraqi soldiers and civilians - died as a direct result of the war.

cantabb - 09:51am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17250 of 17271)

fredmoore - 09:46am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17247 of 17248)

Barntabb the delusional arrogater.

Parroting again, freddie"Irregardless"moore ?

Is it supposed to make sense, outside your veld barn ?

See, I can demolish you in just 2 lines. You miss the point in 9.

Looks like you demolished yourself -- IF that was possible after all those self-inflicted wounds !

You had NO "point" -- for me to miss !

Continued bleating from freddiemoore ! In the final days -- you'll out of your misery soon !

lchic - 09:55am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17251 of 17271)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

“A nation apart”, the very phrase “American exceptionalism” that is so often heard these days was first coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835-40, when that brilliant Frenchman wrote his “Democracy in America”. Many of the things he pointed out then as profound differences between America and other countries continue to be remarked upon today—its vociferous democracy, its decentralisation, its liking for voluntary associations, the intensity of its people's religious belief. Even during the cold war, which critics like now to describe as a time when fear of the Soviet Union acted as a bond between Americans and others, today's sorts of worries were commonplace. Graham Greene's “The Quiet American” (1955) complained that naive American idealists did more damage than good. Countless films, whether made by Americans or by foreigners, raised worries about a sinister military-industrial complex, about reds-under-the-bed obsessiveness, about zealotry.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2189509

lchic - 10:01am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17252 of 17271)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Why does the NYT have half a dozen guys sitting on this thread ?

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This little thread

'they say' unread

is 'monitored'

until

it's dead!?!

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cantabb - 10:25am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17253 of 17271)

lchic - 10:01am Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17252 of 17252)

Why does the NYT have half a dozen guys sitting on this thread ?

It was NICE, wasn't it, with just rshow and you -- along with 'Clinton' & 'Putin'?

This little thread 'they say' unread is 'monitored' until it's dead!?!

This "little" thread [the so-called "Corpus"] is now more than 17,250 posts, mostly full of the non-science, political and personal problems -- ALL rehashed, periodically. More posts here than in any other Science forum.

If you think there are at least half a dozen NYT guys 'monitoring' -- may be to observe the 'last rites' and elegiac outpouring ?

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