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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
- 08:35am Jan 7, 2003 EST (#
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Talk of the Devil: encounters with seven dictators
by Riccardo Orizio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20021223.shtml
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=365976
http://www.riccardoorizio.com/talkofthedevil/index.html
lunarchick
- 08:50am Jan 7, 2003 EST (#
7449 of 7459)
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409
lunarchick
- 08:55am Jan 7, 2003 EST (#
7450 of 7459)
BBC
Reith Lectures
lunarchick
- 09:01am Jan 7, 2003 EST (#
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Krugman
measuring the leadership
lunarchick
- 09:03am Jan 7, 2003 EST (#
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Headers for Reith Lectures
Lecture 1: Spreading Suspicion
Lecture 2: Trust and Terror
Lecture 3: Called to Account
Lecture 4: Trust and Transparency
Lecture 5: Licence to Deceive
rshow55
- 09:47am Jan 7, 2003 EST (#
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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.
Haven't read a lot of this. But I think SCIENCE TIMES is
beautiful - things are going well - and I'm doing the best I
can. Which I think is very well. I'm being careful, and I can
see that some other people are too. Some are backwards.
Sometimes, that pleases me.
Some things are clear - - even when some other
things can't be checked.
For example. This thread isn't an accident. And some of the
people posting on it are smart, and working hard, and
concerned about some important things.
If anybody thinks I'm lying - and wants to look at the
places where lying is most to be suspected - look where my
postings are slow . Lies, in systems that have to be
stable, and converge, take a long time.
I've been working through some scenarios - all that are
lies, and truths, at alternating levels. Parables.
I am clinically sure that the incidence of death and agony
from war can be taken down very much from where it now is -
and the risks can be taken down - but people have to be
careful to know the differences between what convergent
sequences and divergent sequences look like.
I'm being careful - and slow for very good, honest reasons
- and some of the standard reasons. I'm trying to fashion some
parables that are primordial, clear to every reasonable human
adult - clean, and just. In areas where sex, lying, fighting,
and death are very much involved.
Before I do, I'll take care of some things, and read what's
gone on the board since the last time I posted - read it for
the first time.
bbbuck
- 12:48pm Jan 7, 2003 EST (#
7454 of 7459) "You can't eat this, it's people,
it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"
No, fredmoore, in this lonely obscure corner of the world,
anyone can post anything, at any level of volume you choose.
I was being sarcastic. Like I could control you with a
well packed taunt. Not hardly. Anyway I don't know why you
have chosen to come here and rant against lawyers from
Austrailia but uhhhhh go ahead, make my day.
Buck off---heeheeheee. Like no one has used that one on me
before. Don't taunt me too bad I'll start to ssstutttter.
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