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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    Missile Defense

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) Delete Message
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?

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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) Delete Message
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

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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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