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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
- 08:10am Dec 22, 2002 EST (#
6924 of 6930)
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.
Sometime last night -- some postings were deleted. Maybe
not so big a loss, but worth noticing. I notice in my records
that
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rshow55 - 08:40pm Dec 21, 2002 EST (# 6915 of 6916)
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.
I wonder how our "missile defenses" will do against
missiles from unknown sources? If we're dealing with stealth
delivery - why use a missile at all?
_ _ _ _ _ became
rshow55 - 08:40pm Dec 21, 2002 EST (# 6901 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.
I wonder how our "missile defenses" will do against
missiles from unknown sources? If we're dealing with stealth
delivery - why use a missile at all?
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- - - - In a thread this large, with comments as off-hand
as comments often are, some deletions make sense. Though I
think a lot of the text here is worth keeping.
And worth searching. I'm sorry to see the search facility
gone, though I know there are plenty of maintenance jobs to
do.
lunarchick
- 08:11am Dec 22, 2002 EST (#
6925 of 6930)
http://www.independent.co.uk/
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/
http://www.observer.co.uk/
rshow55
- 08:57am Dec 22, 2002 EST (#
6926 of 6930)
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.
I've been working on this thread since September 25, 2000
rshow55
4/21/02 2:11pm where I had an all-day meeting on the web
with an authoritative figure.
A recounting of what this Missile Defense thread has done
since then is set out in Psychwar, Casablance - - and
terror from #151 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/159
on. Links before March 1, 2002 are no longer on the web, but
are available on CD. Discussion of this thread continues from
#265 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/281
If you want a sense of how good this thread is -- sample
lchic's work ! - (search lchic , if the search facility
returns) - - . You'll find a wealth of thoughtful,
wide-ranging citations. I think she's the most valuable
mind I've ever encountered. Search lchic on other NYT
threads and on the Guardian Talk threads, too. You'll be
impressed. i Lchic and I are partners on this thread - and she
is much the better half.
I think we're both proud of the accomplishments described
and put in context in MD1999 rshow55
5/4/02 9:39am
That work involved great contributions from "stand-ins" who
have taken the role of senior Russian and American officials -
- a role that has continued since March 1, 2000 #207 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/218
. . .
Some time ago, I made a guess that lunarchick and I
are cutting the risk of death from war in the world - in an
actuarial sense, by something like 1000 lives/hour we work.
That's still my guess. I think some things are going
interestingly, and well.
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