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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 - 08:57am Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7738 of 7743)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

"" The White House announced last night that Mr Blair would hold summit talks with Mr Bush at the President's Camp David retreat on 31 January, four days after Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, gives his initial report to the UN. Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, will meet Colin Powell, the American Secretary of State, for talks a week from today.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=369678

lchic - 09:28am Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7739 of 7743)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

FISK

http://www.independent.co.uk/search/search.jsp?page=1&keywords=Robert%20Fisk&datemode=all&condition=1

lchic - 09:42am Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7740 of 7743)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

"" Everyone admires American science, technology and popular culture.

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1511812

http://www.bbcamerica.com/genre/news/news_feeds.jsp

rshow55 - 10:37am Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7741 of 7743)
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 have an apology to make. Night before last - watching a movie - my wife cut off the ringer on our phone - so I could call out - but nobody could call in . The mistake (if it was one - my wife has wanted to control my distractions lately, and hers) wasn't caught until last night - after I found that lunarchick had tried to return a call of mine.

I'm available - but I haven't read some recent parts of the board - because I'm wondering if, after all this much pressure - I might actually have a way to phrase a condensed message - that I have thought about a long time - from my relative isolation.

If my wife answers, and I'm exercising or otherwise engaged - I promise to return calls if she tells me about them.

A comment I made about George Johnson last night was, I believe - both balanced and just - though it had some difficulties. If only I could explain how much can be done with oscillatory solutions - when there is no stable justice possible that isn't prohibitively expensive, one way of another.

This was a key problem Nash was explicitly assigned - - and later - I was, too. For the life of me, every way I look at it - it seems to me that I've solved it. If people understood, the hopes expressed in Stevie Wonder's Someday at Christmas would be soluble, pretty well, step by step.

Pardon me for moving slowly.

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