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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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lunarchick - 06:53pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7332 of 7344)

People build cultures and live within them.

Culture is a complex multi-levelled concept.

Culture is built in relation to the near and far environments additional to the virtual creative environment of mind.

It has individual, group; national, world and planetary perspectives.

The players in the cultural jel are 'all peoples', all systems, entirety.

If culture is a jel-jelo-jelly then it's one property is :

Wibble Wobble

Sliding such an entity along from pointA to pointB involves much skill.

Move it with haste and it breaks and smashes.

The trick has to be to move it along slowly ... little wobbles ... ripples of both indignationa and re-adjustment ... calm .... another shift in position ... slowly and gently the jel-of-culture is moved along its multifaceted line.

Of course wibble-wobble is too scientific a word for your techo-socio-engineers ... the'd find a glossary of other vocabulary to cover this simple point ....

"Custard or Ice-Cream?"

Here again it's a cultural choice!

lunarchick - 07:16pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7333 of 7344)

Wibble-Wobble :)

Six Ducks | Home from the river they would go Wibble wobble, wibble wobble, Ho hum hum But the one little duck With the feather on his back He led the others With a quack

Scouts create an actual culture of W-W | After lunch came the Wibble – Wobble game. Splitting into pairs, attempt to raise water using a bucket chain, or something similar, with one in the pair only saying Wibble, and the other Wobble. Following a number of water fights, all teams were succesful, although some were more succesful than others. Wibble and Wobble became the words for the rest of the weekend, and it was suprising how these two words can express so much anger and frustration.

The jelly fish go wibble, wobble, wibble; wibble, wobble, wibble, wibble, wobble, wibble, The jelly fish go wibble, wobble, wibble, all day long

lunarchick - 07:19pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7334 of 7344)

In the MD context the trick is to put the Wibble-Wobble into rocket directionality ... so as to be on the wobble, and avoid being hit, when approaching rocket wibbles ... the converse also applies .... How many dollars a year go into creating these wibble-wobbles?

lunarchick - 07:29pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7335 of 7344)

If wibble represented the culture of nation A and wobble that of Z

Then if these poles-apart countries would need to negotiate at all points on all levels so that each understood the qualities and values of both culture A and Z ---
some assimilation of each to the other would occur with 'cultural appreciation' ...
Z might be looking for many of the aspects of A's culture and try to assimilate them ... with a little help from A.

lunarchick - 07:43pm Jan 4, 2003 EST (# 7336 of 7344)

Dither

Color - http://the-light.com/netins16.html

Word length - http://www.sonicsense.com/wlrdoc.htm

Locomotive Engine - http://www.loystoys.com/info-dither.html

Info-embedding - http://allegro.mit.edu/dspg/publications/Conferences/99Chen.html

dither makes digital systems behave exactly like analog ones - http://www.birotechnology.com/articles/dither.html

Military dither - http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/fire/bei/

Data Quality of "Data Taken To Date" Issues - Dither pattern http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/2mass/erb_issues.html

Cultural dither

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