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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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robkettenburg01 - 08:01pm Oct 14, 2002 EST (# 4884 of 4902)

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rshow55 - 08:03pm Oct 14, 2002 EST (# 4885 of 4902)
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.

Me, I've been arguing for interdiction - - when it matters enough - since September 25, 2000.

1596-97 rshow55 4/21/02 3:14pm

A person could check that.

Some matters of humanity and context might be of interest. We're in a mess that we hope will be remembered for thousands of years - and we want the solutions to make human sense - - and to be simple.

Out.

gisterme - 08:04pm Oct 14, 2002 EST (# 4886 of 4902)

davemc53 10/14/02 7:57pm

"...It seems to me you have spent a great deal of time belaboring the obvious..."

Well said, davemc53. Sometimes it seems that certain posters on this thread rely on the ignroance of others to float their boats. Isn't that that modus operandi of any con artist?

gisterme - 08:09pm Oct 14, 2002 EST (# 4887 of 4902)

rshow55 10/14/02 8:03pm

"...Me, I've been arguing for interdiction - - when it matters enough - since September 25, 2000..."

Yes you have, Robert. I suspect that if your arguement was with respect to evil dictators, you're about to get your wish.

p.o.d. - 08:11pm Oct 14, 2002 EST (# 4888 of 4902)
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manjumicha 10/14/02 7:57pm

Well, yeah, a good point, at least with Bush we got nifty t.v. aerials of smart bombs sporting down chutes, whereas with Clinton, just a stained blue dress, so I guess his broad band missile control wasn't very accurate?

We've a built-in human deficit in calculating war algorithms, history isn't written by first strikes, aka Pearl Harbor. The Prez with the most moves wins, even if they are dumb ones, swimmingly along. How about turbulent natural systems, like weather, being our final rue? Irradiate jet streams, orbiting reactors, whatever? Prediction? We will know what spit us out when it gets done chewing on us. But, your point is well taken.

rshow55 - 08:11pm Oct 14, 2002 EST (# 4889 of 4902)
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.

gisterme 10/14/02 8:01pm - - gisterme - - can you read?

There are a lot of things that can be checked - - some that depend on my "story" - - and many that do not - and you can access some of them by clicking " rshow55 " in the upper left hand corner of my postings.

It would be "simple" for me to walk into Langley and state my case - but people claiming to be from CIA called me up and specifically forbid me to do so, on pain of arrest.

Called up my wife, too.

A good deal of context about that conversation, and other matters, is set out in email correspondence with NYT columnists - - my guess is that you can check that.

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