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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 - 09:30am Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7314 of 7314)
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.

To be very good about something, you have to be unsatisfactory in other ways.

Some tolerance - even of the intolerable - is necessary.

Except sometimes. Mary Poppins is a very good movie.

The argument that "there has to be a fight - here" is a basic, primordial argument.

Death is necessary, lies are necessary, ugliness is necessary and sometimes unavoidable, but I feel that we could do better than we're doing.

I hope lunarchick calls me - I need her desperately, a lot of the time - and hope she calls me anytime she feels like doing it. I'm in love with her. All the same, there are times I can't pay perfect attention to what she's saying. Other times, when I'm paying the best attention I can - she thinks I'm ignoring her. Often, but not always, that's right.

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