New York Times on the Web Forums Science

Missile Defense

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?

Read Debates, a new Web-only feature culled from Readers' Opinions, published every Thursday.

lchic - 08:54am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5338 of 5341)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

I, said the Sparrow,

with my bow and arrow

Simple - it's that simple - to get to truth.

In the case of getting to the truth wrt who killed Kennedy - then

All known information

Additional information

Validation of it

has all to be sorted ... what fits where ... what doesn't fit and should be jettisoned

In 1963 - there wasn't the assistance of a computer database - everything was longhand

Something got missed

So who killed KENNEDY - why doesn't America find out - who killed him and WHAT was in it for them?

All the birds of the air

fell a-sighing and a-sobbing,

when they heard the bell toll

for ___________________________ RIP 1963

lchic - 09:00am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5339 of 5341)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

LOOK at the KING !!!!
LOOK at the KING !!!!
LOOK at the KING !!!!

The small boy in the MOSCOW theatre saw the naked terror of a man being beaten by those holding hostages in the MoscowTheatre and HAD TO SPEAK OUT!

The boy checked them - wanting the violence to STOP!!

His action precipitated the end of the seige.

lchic - 09:03am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5340 of 5341)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

The child had a VALUE SYSTEM - the child knew adults were acting badly!

lchic - 09:13am Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5341 of 5341)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Cutting communication

Isolating parties

Preventing people from 'sharing space'

From sharing and advancing ideas

are Nazi tools of trade!

New York Times on the Web Forums Science Missile Defense