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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 - 06:56pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3456 of 3489)

Mazza, getting this matter of identities straight is worth a lot of money, I believe.

Perhaps not to me directly, but to the AEA investors and creditors, who were innnocent bystanders (and mostly Republican innocent bystanders) when Casey pulled the plug on the AEA financing.

Johns Hopkins lost a lot of money, too.

Considering interest accrued, something more than 30 million dollars is involved. Enough for me to pay attention to. A matter of honor, as well.

Enough, perhaps, even to give you an interest in setting out the truth. Depending on how you're being motivated and (I'd guess) compenstated.

Here are references that you've perhaps seen before.

MD3387 rshow55 8/1/02 1:53pm

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lchic - 06:58pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3457 of 3489)

Isn't he looking at PATTERNS - a sort of maths approach

..... using data from a variety of similarly-situated societies, seeking relationships that vary systematically between countries, statically and over time.

lchic - 07:01pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3458 of 3489)

Thinking about the 'pattern' of the USA wrt government -- is it really a replacement of 'King and Court' with 'President and Administration' .. this sets it apart from democracies where the President is most often a figurehead and the real work, real control, real auditing and accounting, are done in Parliament that has direct response to the people.

Just a thought!

wrcooper - 07:07pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3459 of 3489)

I don't want to steal Lou's thunder, but I suspect the site he posted was for the Texas chapter of the National Space Society, of which he is the president.

Click http://www.nssnt.org/.

Scroll down the page where you will see his name and contact information.

wrcooper - 07:11pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3460 of 3489)

BTW, Lou wrote an interesting proposal for a national space university that was published in Ad Astra. Read it at

http://www.nssnt.org/SpaceU2001.htm.

lchic - 07:18pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3461 of 3489)

"" a key political problem in dominant-power countries is the blurring of the line between the state and the ruling party (or ruling political forces). The state's main assets--that is to say, the state as a source of money, jobs, public information (via state media), and police power--are gradually put in the direct service of the ruling party .... / Carothers

transition paradigm
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/jod/13.1carothers.html#authbio
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/jod/13.1carothers.html

~~~~~~~~~~~

Where on the road to democracy lies the USA?

wrcooper - 07:23pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3462 of 3489)

I hope you didn't mind my posting this, Lou, but you've provided links before to the North Texas NSS chapter site and to your article, so I figured, what the hell?

I've also posted my email address, but neither Showalter or his shadow bothered to test it by emailing me. Figures. They prefer living in their delusional fantasy world, I think. I also gave them a way to verify that I was in Chicago, because my email address @21stcentury.net is available only to cable subscribers of RCN Chicago. Maybe they think that that elusive "mind-effing" International Man of Mystery, George Johnson, is a super spook who maintains false identities across the country.

Hey, you aren't really me, are you? Are we George Johnson? Kalter? Are you we, too? Diract, are you us?

I'll probably go to hell for making fun of this guy. He needs help, not heckling.

lchic - 07:25pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3463 of 3489)

Showalter was all set to call in at RCN HQ Chicago ... then WRCOOPER had to admit he didn't work there -- was only an email subscriber -- Cooper is a fiction.

Showalter hasn't been on the board to say he got that call from mAzzA today - as yet - one has therefore to assume that the moniker mAzzA is fictional - and the person(s) behind it are less than genuine.

wrcooper - 07:28pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3464 of 3489)

You moron. I never said I worked at RCN Chicago. I said I'm a television and Internet cable subscriber of RCN Chicago. That means I have to live in Chicago, which I do, and I'm no fiction. Though I do write some fiction. You'd make a good character for a story. The psycho Internet geek.

lchic - 07:36pm Aug 3, 2002 EST (#3465 of 3489)

Your 'corrected' post said as you say (above) - your inital post (later 'cut' by you) said as I say!

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