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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 - 01:02pm Jan 31, 2003 EST (# 8392 of 8405)
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TRIANGULATION Postol-missile-Postal

Showalter is demo-ing triangulation wrt identification of 'the zone' from which Gisterme's level of query comes.

Postol uses triangulation --

"Is This Missile Defense An Eagle--Or An Albatross?"

... SBIRS High would use a scanning array to detect areas of interest, then switch to a staring array to zero in on those specific targets. Unfortunately, says Theodore A. Postol, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist, "nobody has figured out how to build a big enough staring array to do the job."

lchic - 01:04pm Jan 31, 2003 EST (# 8393 of 8405)
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Physicist blows whistle on US missile defence From Roland Watson in Washington

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-530647,00.html

THE credibility of President Bush’s multibillion-dollar missile defence plans are being questioned by leading scientists after claims that the results of key tests were falsified. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is considering an investigation into accusations that fundamental flaws in the proposed “Son of Star Wars” system have been covered up.

The criticism is led by Theodore Postol, a physicist and missile defence critic at MIT, who has said that the institute is sitting on what is potentially “the most serious fraud that we’ve seen at a great American university”.

bbbuck - 01:05pm Jan 31, 2003 EST (# 8394 of 8405)

First I want to thank rshow55 showing us all what the forums are all about.

I want to thank K for closing the 'motor sports' forum and showing what it's all about.

I want to thank the nytimes for the fine bush forum with its 2000 posts of slop a day. That's beautiful.

Finally I want to thank everyone, especially rshow55 and lchic showing us what it is, and more importantly, what it takes, to have a fine non-chat atmosphere forum.

Thanks guys I just didn't get it till now.

Carryon.

lchic - 01:07pm Jan 31, 2003 EST (# 8395 of 8405)
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http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/roguestate/default.htm

lchic - 01:11pm Jan 31, 2003 EST (# 8396 of 8405)
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Bad boy Buck akka Johnson - it's a forum not a 'chat' board.

So the refs to Postal were sufficiently pertinent to get 'you' here - pronto !

bbbuck - 01:14pm Jan 31, 2003 EST (# 8397 of 8405)

Postal? I know nothing about Postal, clownette.

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