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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 - 07:18am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6919 of 6923)
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.

For example, work of mine, originally discussed at length on a NYT Science Forum, and set out in http://www.mrshowalter.net/bhmath sets out a coherent set of arguments - made much better as the result of discussion and the back-and-forth of dialog between informed minds.

( http://www.mrshowalter.net/bhmath , a link that was removed by someone other than me, and then reinstated, is only partly tangential to this thread - it was and is involved in efforts to accomplish one of the jobs I was given by the government in the early 1970's - and strongly encouraged to do by Casey. This thread is a big part of my effort to accomplish other parts - involved with issues of international stability and negotiation. )

There are "stumps" and inflexibilities in our systems - we're at a time "when the foundations are shaking" http://www.mrshowalter.net/sermon.html - - but some of the inflexibilities are softening - and some problems that matter a lot, in a lot of ways, seem like they may be getting solved.

lunarchick - 07:23am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6920 of 6923)

Afghanistan - women are being shown too little respect AGAIN ... after all it's the very same culture that fostered the Taliban .... the way to give women respect is to put access to women's bank loans their way!

AlQ's mob are said to be developing a 'dirty nuke bomb' on the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan .... now that's a worry ...

lunarchick - 07:30am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6921 of 6923)

Good to know that your 'paper' was reinstated on your own web site ... which country did you say you lived in?!

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Interesting discussions happening in Europe wrt the American powers over people's communication links.

In Europe - people have the right to demand that 'false information' about them is corrected - but not in the USA. That's why Europe debates some of the terroism measures closely.

In the USA apparently people who the authorities wanted to interview - for a range of reasons not all bad - after 9/11 ... seemed to have been picked up and put on a blacklist ... causing them (guilty of nothing) much trouble when trying to function in the now!

lunarchick - 07:34am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6922 of 6923)

Johnson said he was on the lookout for a secretary ... quills at the ready!

lunarchick - 07:39am Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6923 of 6923)

Iraq ... leaflets are falling on their heads ...

Wonder if there's any information of value in them.

Were there benchmarking of leadership - then - the leaflet ephemera could checklist the current shortfalls ... what is/isn't in the national-interest?

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