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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 - 02:02pm Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7671 of 7679)
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'm not going to be able to keep my promise about time - though I'll try to proceed expeditiously - and I'm trying to teach a lesson about the difference between stable and unstable solution - illustrating an unwitting unstable solution first. Pardon me for going slowly.

I'm trying to tell the truth - at a level universal enough that Koreans, and Arabs, and Americans - and other people can actually understand some things about being careful that I believe could same many, many millions of lives - and make a lot of lives better.

I think that, if the Res Club fire had not killed her, and nearly killed me - that Marti and I could have worked out a solution beautiful from many, many, many points of view - and gotten a stable relationship. But it didn't happen - and maybe couldn't possibly have happened. There were forseeable consequences outside the man-woman system that were too unstable.

rshow55 - 02:03pm Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7672 of 7679)
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 totally insensitive to those complications at the time - in some key ways - even though I was knocking myself out to be just as tactful as I could figure out how to be in the ways I was sensitive to.

Marti was, as well.

rshow55 - 02:06pm Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7673 of 7679)
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 think that if people take their time, and check things - it is certain that we can take the incidence of death and agony from war way down from where it is.

I've thought about this a long time. It was a problem I was assigned to do. Canonicity, every which way - is too much to hope for - but some criteria have to be met, and can be when it matters enough.

rshow55 - 02:10pm Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7674 of 7679)
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.

There were some indelicacies - all of them entirely my own responsibility - that I haven't mentioned - that don't effect the lesson I'm trying to teach - though they matter in other ways. One has, after all, to deal with history as it is - whether you choose to take a "no fault" stance, or not.

The stakes are as they are. The costs are as they are. The awkwardnesses are as they are. Folks have to be careful. Most times, they are.

But there are instabilities that do occur from time to time - and we must recognize them - and deal with them stably, and more wisely than we have.

rshow55 - 02:13pm Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7675 of 7679)
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 have to work things out in a humanly responsible way with North Korea, for instance. We should be able to do it so that it makes sense, in human terms, in the ways that matter overwhelmingly to most people as they actualy are - when they are being decent, and paying attention.

Though everybody - in order to be sensitive to some things - gets to be insenstive about some others.

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