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Missile Defense

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 - 12:37pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8035 of 8040)
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.

Note: The phrase "connect the dots" was old - but I believe that it entered the language with new meanings and associations - and at much enhanced frequency in discourse - after lunarchick and I pushed the idea into shape.

That's a statistical judgement, based on citation sampling. Such sampling, more extensively done, might be helpful in estimating the influence of this thread.

lchic - 01:24pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8036 of 8040)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

The Mathematics of Dot-To-Dot

... He lived in Konisburg, Prussia where there was a river and two islands and a series of seven bridges connecting these together as so: ...

http://xocxoc.home.att.net/math/discrete1.htm

http://www.visi.com/~dethier/activities/problem-solving/konigsburg.htm

http://asms.k12.ar.us/asms_teaching_units/Teaching_Units/Mathematics/Graph_Theory.htm

Then bridges v Now bridges http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Miscellaneous/Konigsberg.html

lchic - 01:35pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8037 of 8040)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

baghdad / bridges - notes from a search show ..