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 [F] 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?

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rshow55 - 10:44am Nov 6, 2002 EST (# 5507 of 5508) Delete Message
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.

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?11@@.ee7726f link doesn't work.

I'm VERY interested in the piece on spines Misshaped 'spines' suggest new schizophrenia theory http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993013 . . . I've suggested that spines are memory logic elements - and resonsant geometry would be key to function.

Laser weapon destroys artillery fire 13:53 06 November 02 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993022 . . . shows impressive results.

rshow55 - 10:56am Nov 6, 2002 EST (# 5508 of 5508) Delete Message
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 11/6/02 10:33am . . what's the "that" you're referring to?

If it is about the technical point set out in rshow55 11/6/02 8:24am . . the guardian link has much detail.

Point is that it is easy to get very high resolution radio ranging (data inputs) - - and also easy to solve differential equations useful for target interception - good enough to approximate the performance of animals like bats. With that, military technology that's forty years old can be MUCH more effective - something much on some senior people's minds in the '60's - when it was clear (and reasonably so) that cracking the differential equations of tracking could completely shift the balances of military power with the Russians. Details are set out from http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/355 - - with logic before and after.

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