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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 - 07:48pm Sep 30, 2002 EST (# 4693 of 4699)
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.

manjumicha , your posts
4653 manjumicha 9/29/02 8:05pm ... 4654 manjumicha 9/29/02 8:07pm
are great.

I've been a little off my feed, because I've lost my email contact with the world.
How easy it is, by pulling email, credit cards, and phone cards - to immobilize a person. . . .
After you've experienced that, as I have more than once - - you get a little less trusting.
My mamma (and Casey) both told me to be careful - and I've found that good advice sometimes.

But I'll answer your questions - in plain English, as you asked, early tomorrow.

Here's the short answer - - if tumbling is hard - - then a few more easy countermeasures
(especially a few easy countermeasures combined together) would be hopeless .

I'm sorry that THREATS TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS: The Sixteen Known Nuclear Crises
of the Cold War, 1946-1985 by David R. Morgan http://scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca/WorkingGroupsPage/NucWeaponsPage/Documents/ThreatsNucWea.html is off the web. It was cited 36 times on this MD thread before March 2, 2000,
and discussed in a good deal of detail.

Morgan's piece has also been cited since March 2 in these posts.

69 rshow55 3/2/02 8:34am

990 rshow55 3/31/02 10:13am

1762 rshow55 4/25/02 6:54pm

1999 rshow55 5/4/02 10:39am

and more recently, since 4687 rshow55 9/30/02 10:51am

I'm glad commondata found it from another souce commondata 9/30/02 1:15pm : http://vicpeace.ca/centre/readings/nukeuse.htm

Reflective Coatings http://www.phy.davidson.edu/jimn/Java/Coatings.htm was also much discussed,
and cited 35 times, before March 2 on the thread, and these times since:

1263 rshow55 4/11/02 3:24pm ... 1621 rshow55 4/21/02 7:52pm

Gold foil, a 5000 year old technology - and gold plated mylar - a 40 year old technology - are effective enough that more special reflective coatings wouldn't be needed to defeat lasar "weapons."

But the issues that http://www.phy.davidson.edu/jimn/Java/Coatings.htm dealt with did
illustrate a good deal about how very "special" and vulnerable our "stealth" technology really is
- - at a time when huge bets are being made on the assumption that it is invulnerable.

I have an idea that in a few years, junior high school kids will look back and laugh at that assumption - and wonder how anybody could have believed it.

I'll be back in the morning.

lchic - 01:34am Oct 1, 2002 EST (# 4694 of 4699)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Spoilt rich kids - the sons of oil - are a curse on the world.

BinLaden is responsible for raising the costs of travel and general insurance.

He elevated Bush.

He will ( by not being declared 'dead' ) assist Bush in the forthcoming elections.

BinLaden is anti-world.

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Russia & Chetnya have had disputes for over a thousand years.

In the current dispute the statistical evidence seems to suggest that 'male' Chetnyan guys have been 'wiped'.

If Russia wants to be seen as a 'great' country - then - why can't it reconcile with Chetyna - do a report on grievances ... and try to work them through.

lchic - 03:10am Oct 1, 2002 EST (# 4695 of 4699)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

If the culture of the world were compared to the life cycle ... at which points in the life cycle would the human most likely resort to violence?

When will intra-national culture mature to wisdom?

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