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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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lunarchick - 02:09pm Dec 7, 2002 EST (# 6360 of 6377)

RAIN

- 40% of Palestines water is 'taken' by Israel
- Scientific research should look to rainmaking
- Via same, 25% of world's water could be rained over and stored in arid areas
- low lying land including TheNetherlands and PacificIslands would then be less at risk

lunarchick - 02:22pm Dec 7, 2002 EST (# 6361 of 6377)

America has a lense that's 10' across used to look at the heavens .... Europe has ordered the same at ten times that diameter -- 100' across.

A tall order?

A better way?

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The NYT 'DELETE function' - isn't functional!

If the USA can't organise a delete function ... is there still hope for the world?

lunarchick - 02:40pm Dec 7, 2002 EST (# 6362 of 6377)

GU Talk: _{Double Standards: Republicans hound Kerry for expensive haircut while their boy George wears $14,000 cashmere coats.}

lunarchick - 04:09pm Dec 7, 2002 EST (# 6363 of 6377)

UN report Arab Economies

http://www.undp.org/rbas/ahdr/

Falling further and further behind ...
http://www.nzz.ch/english/background/2002/07/18_arab_countries.html

more ..

gisterme - 05:52pm Dec 7, 2002 EST (# 6364 of 6377)

rshow55 12/6/02 9:22am

"...Someone with rank could call Dawn Riley (she wouldn't be hard to find) - negotiate a letter for status and some money for her (nothing unreasonable) and she could organize a lot safer, smoother resolution of a lot of messes - including those in N. Korea and Iraq, than seem to be happening now..."

Gee, Robert...has Dawn been holding back those solutions for all this time just because nobody's sent her any money yet? I didn't realize that she was such a mercinary. I'd always given her credit for at least having the heart to believe in what she was posting regardless of how silly it might seem to me. I'm dissapointed to hear such troubling news.

If somebody sent her money would she stop posting all that stuff that has nothing to do with missile defense? Hmmm. Might be worth the investment. :-)

She should contact Bill Clinton at his New York office...no wait...Bill doesn't have rank any more. Dawn should try Hillary at the Senate. I'm sure Hillary would welcome Dawn's well-focused guidance; but, I'm not so sure she would want to pay for it. Actually, Hillary would probably want to be paid to listen.

I don't suppose that would put a potato in Dawn's pot. A more practical approach, if Dawn wants to clean up messes, might be to get a job as a housekeeper...there is money in that. I'm quite sure Dawn would need staffing to clean up all the messes in North Korea and Iraq in a timely manner. Of course there's always the risk of torture, starvation and/or not getting paid when working with clients like those.

lunarchick - 10:34pm Dec 7, 2002 EST (# 6365 of 6377)

Who's Gee?

_{Who's Bill? Who's Robert? Who's Gisterme? Who's Hillary? Who's Dawn?}
Where's North Korea?
What's a missile?
Why does it need defending?
When will the missiles come down?
How will it all end?

lunarchick - 10:53pm Dec 7, 2002 EST (# 6366 of 6377)

Off topic | On topic

When is a topic a topic?

If salt is 'the salt of the earth' - then what's water?

If missiles aren't mind - then what's peace and what's war?

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