New York Times Forums
The New York Times

Home
Job Market
Real Estate
Automobiles
News
International
National
Washington
Business
Technology
Science
Health
Sports
New York Region
Education
Weather
Obituaries
NYT Front Page
Corrections
Opinion
Editorials/Op-Ed
Readers' Opinions


Features
Arts
Books
Movies
Travel
Dining & Wine
Home & Garden
Fashion & Style
Crossword/Games
Cartoons
Magazine
Week in Review
Multimedia
College
Learning Network
Services
Archive
Classifieds
Book a Trip
Personals
Theater Tickets
Premium Products
NYT Store
NYT Mobile
E-Cards & More
About NYTDigital
Jobs at NYTDigital
Online Media Kit
Our Advertisers
Member_Center
Your Profile
E-Mail Preferences
News Tracker
Premium Account
Site Help
Privacy Policy
Newspaper
Home Delivery
Customer Service
Electronic Edition
Media Kit
Community Affairs
Text Version
TipsGo to Advanced Search
Search Options divide
go to Member Center Log Out
  

 [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?

Read Debates, a new Web-only feature culled from Readers' Opinions, published every Thursday.


Earliest Messages Previous Messages Recent Messages Outline (17388 previous messages)

manjumicha20 - 10:25am Nov 12, 2003 EST (# 17389 of 17395)

As someone who have peeked into this site from time to time, I do find it regretable that this site won't be available for Bob Showalter and Ichic despite my past disagreements on your paradigm-shifting views-- can't say the same for the rest of the characters. So Bob & Ichic please e-mail me the alternative forum to which you will migrate. I won't be able to respond or contirbute much but I do like ot keep trackof your "public" discourse if I can.

e-mail: mcho@capstoneag.com

rshow55 - 10:42am Nov 12, 2003 EST (# 17390 of 17395)
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.

Thanks manjumicha20 ! I'm grateful for your email adress .

I posted this on the Guardian today:

There have been about 1,330 postings on the NYT Missile Defense forum since I last posted here - and I'm grateful to have a this chance to post again. Many of those 1,330 posts are mine and Lchic's - the rest, perhaps 900, are being done by people entirely unconnected to The New York Times Company ( judging from what these posters themselves say. )

The forum will be closing down Friday - after more than 3 years and more than 28,000 posts. It will not be archived - but I have most of it on http://www.mrshowalter.net/ - and will get the rest up.

I posted this yesterday:

There's nothing I can write, just now, any better than the extensive collection of good stuff in http://www.mrshowalter.net/Reader_Discussion_'Repress_Yourself'.htm taken from Reader Discussion: 'Repress Yourself'

As of now, that is linked to the MD board - but soon, it will be relinked to the same links (about 12 mb in all) on http://www.mrshowalter.net/

I've put up the full threads of

Guardian: Psychwarfare, Casablanca . . . and terror http://www.mrshowalter.net/Psychwar1_Recent.htm

Guardian: Paradigm Shift - whose getting there? http://www.mrshowalter.net/Paradigm1_Recent.htm

Guardian: Mankind's Inhumanity to Man http://www.mrshowalter.net/MankindsInhumanity1_Recent.htm

Guardian: Detail, and the Golden Rule http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/DetailNGR.htm

on http://www.mrshowalter.net/ - and links in these thread collections will be updated to http://www.mrshowalter.net/ as time permits.

After the MD thread ends, I'll have some time to summarize. And condense, in a way that isn't possible in the heat of what has too often been a battle. I'm looking forward to that. I deeply appreciate these Guardian Talk threads, and think that they have influenced people in power, and close to power. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

More Messages Recent Messages (5 following messages)

 Read Subscriptions  Subscribe  Search  Post Message
 Your Preferences

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