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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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lchic - 10:06am Sep 29, 2002 EST (# 4640 of 4647)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

I was musing over Rice running for president (above) ... what stops someone ordinary becoming great ... the hindrance may be failure to adhere to simplicity.

Know the simple rules, take the obvious and simple steps.

Know what won't work.

Know what will!

This involves developing an understanding of what, who, people are - and arn't.

rshow55 - 12:00pm Sep 29, 2002 EST (# 4641 of 4647)
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.

Rice could be great - - if she figured out to explain, subject to academically decent cross-examination - how she thought the high ideals in "The National Security Strategy of the United States," http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/politics/20STEXT_FULL.html could be made real - in the world as it is -- and could be made consistent with what people all over the world see as contradictions.

One thing's clear - if she was on the ticket as VP, it would be a lot harder to taunt the ticket as "stupid" - - because she surely isn't !

Obvious facts:
4364-7 rshow55 9/18/02 7:42am ... 4369-70 rshow55 9/18/02 11:11am

I'm for her, in some ways, because I feel like I know her a little. I've guessed that Rice is gisterme - - and gisterme has posted on this Missile Defense thread more than 700 times. Sometimes making sense, though we haven't always agreed.

rshow55 - 12:12pm Sep 29, 2002 EST (# 4642 of 4647)
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.

We have some other things in common -- we were both "picked kids" by senior government people - at about the same age for each of us - before we were 20. And that fact has deeply influenced both our lives ever since.

mazza9 - 02:31pm Sep 29, 2002 EST (# 4643 of 4647)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

lchic:

Who asked you? I have my rights and you can't prevent my postings given your penchant for puerile postings. My, my three "Ps"! How erudite!

I'm not Johnson! Your ignorance is showing once again. But heck, that's to be expected. Okay, now it's your turn to say something else stupid!(adjective and noun! Wonderful, telgraphic syntax)

mazza9 - 02:37pm Sep 29, 2002 EST (# 4644 of 4647)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Robert

Can you connect the dots? Enriched uranium marked "made in W. Germany" is found in a lead container under the seat of a taxi in southeast Turkey. Where is it heading?

1. Terra del Fuego?

2..The Ivory Coast?

3 Iraq.

4. None of the above.

5. I haven't the math skills to solve this navigation question.

Howsa 'bout an answer?

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