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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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lchic - 02:26pm Jan 12, 2003 EST (# 7614 of 7616)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/obituaries/12ALMO.html

rshow55 - 02:59pm Jan 12, 2003 EST (# 7615 of 7616)
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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/obituaries/12ALMO.html - - wow !

Interesting to know if biases, from the late professor, have caused some decisions to be made that were fit to particular circumstances - - and may be worth looking at, again - not to change them, necessarily - but just to look.

I haven't looked, but based on my own background, I suspect he was very wrong in the things he said about John D. Rockefeller.

Backwards. And implacably hostile in some unfair places.

My own background gives me a lot of detailed information about that. I tried, and tried hard, to marry a Jewish girl, who was cut out to be a pure mathematician - but had to "settle" for being an applied mathematician - or go into an affine field - her father was a educator in the Chicago area. I was a very purebred Baptist in many ways - and I was passionately in love with her. Tried to marry her. She died, and some other people did, as well. I had nothing to do with the fire that killed these people - and was injured in it, myself, and heartbroken - but our courtship may have set up a causal sequence that produced the fire. We were going through a passionate, but very strenuous courtship - "putting each other through our paces" - and being rough about it. She meant to marry me - and I heard that from a close friend of hers, too, after she died. That friend had a pretty detailed sequence exchange of letters about the matter.

I meant to marry Mari Beck - and do it soon. We had certain disagreements, but were both very much in love - and were wonderful for each other in many, many, many ways. I was just ready to "hang a rock on her" when she died. We were both 18. I was passionately, passionately, passionately in love with her - and found the thing wrenching.

Marti was courting another guy, too, and wasn't kidding about it. I was having close relations with another girl - right under Marti's nose. If either Marti, or that wonderful girl had gotten pregnant (impossible in Marti's case, so far as I know) a tough decision would have had to be made. I don't think the decision to abort should be ruled out in such a case.

Anyway, that leaves me with strong suspiscions that the political scientist who just died may have been very backwards about Rockefeller I - and the U of C may have been just exactly right to suppress his thesis, so far as publication went.

I'm just guessing. But it is guided guessing.

rshow55 - 03:04pm Jan 12, 2003 EST (# 7616 of 7616)
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.

We were eighteen. "Freshmores" (the Cornell 6 Year Ph.D. Program skipped the freshman year.)

When I was mourning - so rattled I could hardly see straight - some military-industrial people who knew something about me "had mercy on me" and recruited me.

I had the very best education possible after that - in some important ways. But an unconventional one, in spots.

A lot has happened since. I've done the best I could - work has been good in significant places - and if it can be worked out - I'd like the government to do what Casey promised me - I had every reason to rely on his word.

As a minimum, the AEA investors should be reimbursed, with interest, as Casey promised. Every which way I can look at it, they were innocent bystanders - and exemplary in their own actions - and they should be reimbursed. Whatever happens to me - that is overdue.

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