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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 - 02:47pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6385 of 6395)

Journal of American Scientists ...
Rules for Hide and Seek in Iraq
archive/index
http://www.fas.org/faspir/

_{'Alistair' may read :)}

lunarchick - 02:52pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6386 of 6395)

" The real limitation of inspections, however, is not that they might fail to find an ongoing Iraqi program. It is that even perfect inspections will not reveal Saddam's long term intentions.
http://www.fas.org/faspir/2002/v55n4/iraq.htm "

So what would Tyrant-Saddam believe 'his' endgame to be?

Raises the point that there is a need for Iraqi's, free to do so, to benchmark and monitor this guy+son's effect on the Iraqi common people.

commondata - 02:59pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6387 of 6395)

Britain Lays Out Arguments for Missile Defense

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=1874847

It looks like the missile defense debate is cleared for take off in the UK. Geoff Hoon, our defense secretary, is doing the media rounds thisevening. Predictably hawkish, he and his 600 fellow MP's would probably benefit from a little learning on the subject. A suitably presented and linked CD of the Missile Defense forum, with a carefully crafted editorial that accurately presented the arguments for and against shouldn't be beyond the considerable talents of rshow and lchic. An accompanying edited thread, containing only the serious argument pertaining directly to missile defense, may help busy people through the material. Delivering such a CD to all British MPs would be a heroic and beaufitul act. Just a thought.

bbbuck - 03:16pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6388 of 6395)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

ahahahahaha. good one.

commondata - 03:18pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6389 of 6395)

What are your chances of ever making it to the edited version, bbbuck? And choose your own editor.

lunarchick - 04:05pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6390 of 6395)

see

bbbuck - 04:22pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6391 of 6395)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

What am I supposed to see?
Mein furher, I can see.
[apologies to dr. strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.]
For editor I pick Winona Ryder or Paula Poundstone.

lunarchick - 06:50pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6392 of 6395)

UK

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lunarchick - 06:54pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6393 of 6395)

UK missile search on same

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