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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 - 06:42am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6914 of 6914)

MOSHING in the MOSH PIT

Gisterme had a confetti trail of dots back-while that were deteriorating in the rain - Macartha Park and Cake Jimmy Webb et al

Rain creates mud, and mud's what the mosh pit's all about .....

If the LEADER is high on the shoulders of others - let's call them THE OLD GUARD and can not move either forwards or backwards without their assent .... and fears falling downwards where he will be trampled in the mud underfoot ...

The road map to modernity is a blue print the leader might want to follow ... but the question is how the leader and the people can move towards that when hindered by 'the old guard' who have their retro-greed-power agenda.

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