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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 - 04:17pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7323 of 7331) 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.

almarst2002 1/4/03 4:00pm - - but the world has to be policed - and if Russia and China did a more responsible job from their points of view - and the points of view others can reasonably have of their responsibilities - sorting things out would be a whole lot easier.

If the alternative is between chaos, and hegemony - I'd choose hegemony. But we can do a lot better than that. rshow55 12/12/02 8:14am - - have Russians and Chinese leaders thought hard about their responsibilities with respect to Iraq and North Korea? Not forgetting anything the US has done, if they remembered their own responsibilities - with some decenct sense of orderliness in terms of what actually was done, and symmetry - and made an effort to avoid ugliness that they should be ashamed of, a lot more would be possible.

Looking at the situation from the Russian point of view exclusively - I think that Russia could do a lot better - and ought to be ashamed of some things. I'd say the same about the Chinese.

If the Russians and Chinese were doing a better job, George Bush would have to - and could.

Right now, a lot looks fixable to me - if people keep tempers under control and take ther time - and especially if the big powers who ought to be responsible did a better job of being so.

My eyes hurt, and I'll be taking a nap - but I'll be back in a couple hours - and will see if I can think of some suggestions.

It seems to me that damn little thoughtful action from Russia and China might make a lot of things better than they are now.

lunarchick - 04:57pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7324 of 7331)

Thinking has to start with 'needs' ... as in what are the needs of the people of each nation.

And these relate to people wanting a life's pathway, for themselves and their children, that offords them the opportunities necessary to enable a moderately comfortable lifestyle, with educational provisions, access to jobs, leisure and pleasure within a stable structured framework.

RS Note: - Monitor see scroll-here

bbbuck - 04:58pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7325 of 7331)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

rshow55 1/4/03 8:40am

Wanted to document that for later. As I believe it is one of the most profound and at the same time funny piece I have see robert-show-speed-limit-55 I have seen the MD man post. His follow up post on casablanca and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" was also a good follow up.
Yes it's clear trying harder to go slow and to order and connect our symmetricalities will be critical in ordering the world into a marketable and profitable sector but dots connected and symmetricalities ordered and appropriately designated according to strategic levels will not necessarily ensure all children are fed or all horses are properly "stuffed" like Trigger was. Stuffed-ness and symmetricallity and dot-connection do not always meet in a congruence of ellipticallity.
A friend of g.johnson.
tia.
I think my foot's asleep.

lunarchick - 05:11pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7326 of 7331)

If you were orderly-symetrical-harmonious ... you'd have two!

lunarchick - 05:16pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7327 of 7331)

This guy has four, that's still symmetrical, and using them for communication

Additionally the guy has a vocab of 75 ... !

almarst2002 - 06:12pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7328 of 7331)

"the world has to be policed"

By self-appointed, ignorant, arrogant, selfish and coward "policemen"? With zero responcibility for the outcome for the policed?

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