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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 - 09:03am Jan 7, 2003 EST (# 7452 of 7453)

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 (# 7453 of 7453)
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.

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