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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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rshow55 - 04:36pm Jan 12, 2003 EST (# 7617 of 7620)
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.

I was deeply in love, spacy, and young - trying my very best to court a woman I was in love is - and doing just exactly what she asked, every way I could - subject to the usual constraints for both of us. We were trying to work out a stable marriage, for us, where we were.

I had no way of knowing, at that time, that in difficult switching sequences - the only safe thing to do is to move slowly. Though I was trying to do that - it seemed to me - in ways that mattered. I blew it.

I know more now. I've worked hard. It is certain that we can make peace - so it works - take the incidence of death and ugliness from conflict way down - and do it stably.

We don't have to agree on a lot - including some basics. But we have to be careful.

We have time. We know enough. I'm hopeful - and doing the best I can.

When Marti told me that, to marry outside of her religion - the guy would have to hang a big rock on her - I listened hard. I listened to a lot of other things - and was knocking myself out to do her bidding - mostly - and she was reciprocating.

At one level we were "beathing the hell out of each other" - but in all the ways that mattered to me - I was hopeful . If we kept "fighting" - we'd have a stable marriage - or a stable professional relationship - both. I was hoping for everything - for her, for me, and for our children. We both wanted them - and were talking at a nuts and bolts level about how we'd go about raising them. She had to be damn sure I'd be willing to diaper them, and I assured her I would be grateful for the chance to do so. I was sure I had to have some income - and thought, probably wrongly - that from where I was - nobody could stop me from making enough for us to live on.

We have a lot of messes in the world that can be worked out safely and stably if we take our time. There are some aspects of canonicity - including some of a mathematical nature - that can shift the odds in our favor.

Language practices are big problems - and a lot of progress looks close at hand - given skills available, and interactions in existence now.

I made a request, on a postcard. Any kind of chaperoning anybody really needs would work for me - but it would be nice if the essentials of what I asked for then could be considered again.

lchic - 07:03pm Jan 12, 2003 EST (# 7618 of 7620)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Did the cold war flow over into The Domestic --- here's the biography, almost as Googled-up of :

Mr America

" ... married, divorced, married again, lost my wife in an accident, remarried, divorced, and now live with my sweetheart in the State of ... Bliss? "

lchic - 07:25pm Jan 12, 2003 EST (# 7619 of 7620)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nuclear

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