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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 - 07:22pm Nov 21, 2002 EST (# 6075 of 6083)
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.

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This thread is a historical achievement -- we've come a long way since Muddle in Moscow http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=533129 - - and there's reason to hope that some things can be checked.

wordspayy - 07:22pm Nov 21, 2002 EST (# 6076 of 6083)

Lunarchick you bipolar freak

I am not am member of the Bush administration. I do not EVEN SUPPORT NMD you sad mental defect of a person.. And that is what bothers me the most, You and your behavior, MOCK those who actually take the time to fight against and write about and defend this nations ability to say "NO! We do not WANT NMD!!""

You have not taken any chance over the last year to LEARN ANYTHING!!! All you have done is be a source of scorn...You are like a kid in a gang who chants when everybody else does.. YET, WHEN THEY PULL YOU TO THE CORNER AND ASK YOU WHY YOUR CHANTING

YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!

wordspayy - 07:25pm Nov 21, 2002 EST (# 6077 of 6083)

You guys are an absolute mess!!

lunarchick - 07:27pm Nov 21, 2002 EST (# 6078 of 6083)

in the singular 'idea'

in the plural 'ideas'

.......

Judd's moving the posts along ... must be something worthwhile ... back awhile ... that's upsetting this puppy and his master!

lunarchick - 07:29pm Nov 21, 2002 EST (# 6079 of 6083)

an absolute mess!!

is this referring to a social, mathematical, or the international context .... Dr Strangelove in the Physics lab..

lunarchick - 07:30pm Nov 21, 2002 EST (# 6080 of 6083)

wordsavvy uses 'we' quite often ... tell us more about your wee team savvy!

wordspayy - 07:35pm Nov 21, 2002 EST (# 6081 of 6083)

Listen Lunarchick,

Throw it down right now..I dare you... If you can keep focus in an arguement for at least 15 posts then I'll leave you alone.. If you however for one post-deflect from the other persons post or fail to post positions in your own orginal position- then you get your ass on a bus back to the next mental clinic.,.

wordspayy - 07:44pm Nov 21, 2002 EST (# 6082 of 6083)

Lunar,

Lets start:)

If nuclear weapons are just applied knowledge then why not think the same for NMD? For example, if I am the largest hegemonic power in the region and everybody else has nuclear weapons-and time has shown that such weapons proliferate, why would I NOT invest in NMD?

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