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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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kalter.rauch - 05:46am Nov 24, 2002 EST (# 6242 of 6246)
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rshow55 11/22/02 7:37pm

Anybody who thinks that

"If the missile's guidance system can "see" the target the target will almost always be hit even if it is maneuvering. " would dismiss that as a coincidence.

If gisterme , or anybody else, can find an engineer, with a name and an engineering ticket to put at risk, who'd say

"If the missile's guidance system can "see" the target the target will almost always be hit even if it is maneuvering. "

and say that subject to crossexamination - I'd be quite surprised. The statement is grossly false.

Rshow......SHUT UP!!! Your point is, within the limits of technical failure......MOOT...MOOT...MOOT!!!

Your point was made practically irrelevant with even the primitive German photoelectric targeting systems in WWII.

Face it, Mr. Demagogue, your interregnum is about at an end. All you have to rely on anymore is the laziness of your gullible disciples in not pushing a few buttons to find out the truth for themselves .

lunarchick - 08:02am Nov 24, 2002 EST (# 6243 of 6246)

:) SARANDON - will SHE run for PRESIDENT ????

What do you think - Janet!?

The country (USA) was founded on QUESTIONING

With her Rocky-Horror qualification ... she might well make a good President ... 'It's Time' a smart woman had Office ... Time too that MeatLoaf hit the Charts again!

almarst2002 - 02:19pm Nov 24, 2002 EST (# 6244 of 6246)

Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' - http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html

lunarchick - 02:33pm Nov 24, 2002 EST (# 6245 of 6246)

Not a visionary phrase within it as to how all the rhetoric would move to make the Arab Economy rise .... keep the oil bin ... fill up the camel and forget the foreign exchange !

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