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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 - 09:43am Jan 29, 2003 EST (#8296 of 8300)
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.

Cooper, I like the idea of going to Chicago - and I'm thinking maybe we could meet Saturday. Perhaps in a museum, or some other well lighted place, to start with.

I thought the offer I made about your coming to Madison

Cooper (or "Cooper" ) - - I'm thinking about it... by rshow55 - Jan 28, 03 (#8259 <a href="http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?14@93.bTpfaOGh1Il.90172@.f28e622/9785">

was reasonable, too. (How did you get the link in #8271 to post, Cooper?)

I do have some things to think about, on the matter - and other priorities, as well. I'll be writing you by the end of the day - haven't decided on some details. I will say this - I'll only go down to Chicago if I have your phone number - and both my wife and I have talked to you over the phone. I have a number of things I have to think about. One is, what you are trying to prove?

Checking can verify specific things, in a specific context. If I've been wrong about your identity - looking at the board, I've had good reasons - whether those reasons turn out to be right or wrong. Everyone can be wrong about some things - and in fact - everybody is wrong about a lot of things. That doesn't make anybody crazy, necessarily. Unless everybody is more-or-less crazy, about some things.

rshow55 - 09:44am Jan 29, 2003 EST (#8297 of 8300)
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 very interested in President Bush's speech - and how big his entourage is, and how expensive. On CNN, they said that there were more than 1000 police officers ensuring his safety on that one speech - that air traffic had been diverted - naturally with so much capacity - the government can put on quite a show.

I was especially interested, personally, in President Bush's hydrogen car initiative. If the hydrogen is available cheaply - the rest of the hydrogen car program would flow very well and easily. I've been interested in ways of getting hydrogen available cheaply - independent of oil resources - and if the could be done, some of the most basic problems in the world - and in the Middle East - might sort out much better than they could otherwise. My judgements on solar energy, or other technical subjects are, in fact, quite independent of who I think WRCOOPER is, or what I've thought about that subject - or whether or not I've happened to be right. Indeed - if you say I've been wrong about everything about WRCOOPER - I've been wrong for reasonable reasons -and that would change very little.

Here are postings that I continue to think are important - that I think are absolutely independent of anything I've thought about Cooper, right or wrong.

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