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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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bbbuck
- 04:45pm Jan 16, 2003 EST (#
7714 of 7740)
"You can't eat this, it's people,
it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"
Commondata, you seem to have some ambition.
You should call rshow55 and report back to us.
The 3 hour phone call between mazza and rshow55 never got
the reporting it deserved.
I'll take the "kid" adjective as a disparaging comment and
will try to do better.
As you can see by lunarchic, lchic's (etc) remarks on all
the g.johnsons it's an endless source of taunting and fun. And
the meaninglessness of a 'g.johnson' reference is the nature
of the joke.
your buddy who once saw 'g.johnson' at a walmart in
lebanon missouri, buying 'missile defense' maps.
Call up robert and report back.
I had a feeling lchic was going to call him but something
happened, and she chickened out. Or something. I'm not quite
clear on her cryptic dialogue and I'm too lazy to go back and
try to figure it out.
Hope that makes sense.
rshow55
- 05:33pm Jan 16, 2003 EST (#
7715 of 7740) 
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.
Some things aren't supposed to make sense. The relationship
between me, the NYT, and George Johnson has gone on a very
long time - and in many, many ways, the role of George Johnson
- though he has done some good things - seems me to be
shameful - and a discredit to both the New York Times and the
Federal government - and I believe that Johnson should be
ashamed, and people should refuse to deal with him. Johnson's
role is espcially discredible for what it shows about the
relationships between the NYT and the CIA.
But there have been things that have been good, as well -
and here are some references:
http://www.mrshowalter.net/rbcrit/
<br>
http://www.mrshowalter.net/simphil/
<br>
http://www.mrshowalter.net/whytimes2/
<br>
http://www.mrshowalter.net/finearts/
<br>
and especially
http://www.mrshowalter.net/bhmath/
<br> http://www.mrshowalter.net/bhmath/
<br> http://www.mrshowalter.net/bhmath/
<br> http://www.mrshowalter.net/bhmath/
<br>
When checking actually matters - Johnson is agaist
it. George Johnson is a great wordsmith - but I have no way of
knowing whether anything he writes is correct - unless I know
a lot about it - and he exemplifies an astonishing betrayal of
the fundamental trust that people have when they read and
quote the New York Times - the presumption that something is
probably true, because it was "written up in The New York
Times."
lchic
- 06:58pm Jan 16, 2003 EST (#
7716 of 7740)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
~~~~
Showalter i read your posts above with amazement and
interest ... you probably didn't know that the highest paid
communicators write Mills&Boon fiction .. only 1:3,500
applicants gets accepted on to their author team. I take it
your posting with reference to MOI - was a practice run :)
Thanks for the call -- not possible to return it today --
it seems?
lchic
- 07:07pm Jan 16, 2003 EST (#
7717 of 7740)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed
~~~~
Johnson have you ever had any ScienceSpaceRomance published
.... or is the world 'too muddied and muddled' for you to
actually begin, have a middle, and then END a story !?!
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