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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 - 04:49am Oct 3, 2002 EST (# 4730 of 4738)
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250,000 deaths was a figure floated re hand to hand fighting through Bagdhad. If most of the casualites turned out to be American - then how would America cope.

Russia lost 'millions' to war.

America lost 2000+ last September.

Were there large casualties in the Middle East, then, how would 'America' cope .... ?

Every death is hits a family, the effects with them perhaps for six or seven decades.

The pain and suffering that Americans experienced this past year --- happen 'elsewhere' too!

lchic - 05:05am Oct 3, 2002 EST (# 4731 of 4738)
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Drinking water / Fresh water is noted by this respected NYT poster Jacks80 "Future Energy Sources" 10/3/02 1:35am, as being one of the world's great challenges.

Showalter - have the CIA sent you that letter yet - enabling you to move on with your work and life?

It may be as Gisterme points out to Alex, the US Government consists of so many boxes and departments (without cohesive policy) that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Did anyone from the US Parliament become 'chief' over the CIA mob - yet? Had these guys someone to answer to - they might get themselves into sufficient shape to meet the demands and requirements of citizens ... even type your letter.

lchic - 05:12am Oct 3, 2002 EST (# 4732 of 4738)
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Blackpool-Labour ""Just as I'm thinking that it's time to be somewhere else, enjoying corporately funded titbits and Shiraz - somewhere showing a bit of private finance initiative in short - the place goes into an uproar, a dozen security men the shape of sugar cubes appear from nowhere, and Tony and Cherie Blair arrive in company with Bill Clinton. And not only that but Bill Clinton's hand is out and my hand is in it. Grown men and women of principle and restraint are said to lose their heads when they come within a mile of Clinton, so I reckon there must be something ..."

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour2002/comment/0,12294,803498,00.html

lchic - 05:15am Oct 3, 2002 EST (# 4733 of 4738)
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UK - Trident - "" The government should immediately announce that Britain will abandon nuclear weapons when the Trident missile system reaches the end of its life, a group of eminent scientists say today. A report by the Pugwash group to mark the 50th anniversary of the first British nuclear test - on the island of Montebello, in the Indian ocean off Australia - says such a move would not jeopardise the country's security yet would put pressure on other nuclear states to disarm.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,803316,00.html

lchic - 07:29am Oct 3, 2002 EST (# 4734 of 4738)
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Checking and Truth Boeing Fuel Tanks

lchic - 07:37am Oct 3, 2002 EST (# 4735 of 4738)
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""In the field of design, people come from three very different backgrounds. They come from art and architecture schools and they know how to make attractive things. Or they trained in computer science and psychology and they know how to make usable things but they don't know how to build anything, they're just good at finding flaws. Or they come from ethnography, and they are superb at understanding what people really need, but don't know how to translate that into products. So all this has to come together, otherwise no decent products will result.

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Nukes are 'quite unusable' ..... on moral and ethical grounds ... also legal grounds when 'damage' has to be paid for .... so what team got together to dream them up?

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