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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 - 06:19am Feb 1, 2003 EST (# 8454 of 8472)
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 understand from Cooper that he's a free-lance writer. The only cite to W.R. Cooper I found with a quick search is to

The Tyndale Bible Edited by William R. Cooper and W. R. Cooper University of Toronto Press June 2000, 338 pages, cloth

A while ago I made an assumption - that Cooper was either Johnson, or close enough to Johnson to make little or no difference. Perhaps there's no connection - but I have to wonder. Cooper posted this, which I quote in the Psychwarfare thread - http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/331 #311

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.icjtawhB2sv.0@.f28e622/5223

"This is George Johnson this time.

"You can examine me in light of Piaget all you want, but it's not going to change how I think, and it's not going to change the fact that your opinions represent a dangerous aberration that requires the strongest possible refutation.

"You will be checked and checked thoroughly.

"It is not for naught that we saw to it that you began posting here in the New York Times. This is a controlled venue. We know who you are and where you are.

"Don't call the CIA again. It won't do you any good. If you want to talk to us, just whisper into your pillow.

I now understand from Cooper that the posting above was a joke.

I'm interested in meeting the person who thinks of that posting as a joke - and I'm wondering what his relationship to George Johnson might be, to make him feel comfortable using Johnson's name in such a joke. If anybody used my name in such a "joke" - even if I liked the joke - I'd object - and I don't know anybody close enough that I'd be willing to make an exception of that. If I were a free-lance writer - or an aspiring one - I'd be afraid to use the name of a NYT writer in that way.

I've used Johnson's name for other reasons - going back a number of years - enough for a good sized lawsuit, it seems to me. Initiated by either one of us, I suppose. Though there ought to be better ways of working it out. The truth, for instance, would be worth a lot to me.

My wife and I are going down to Chicago to meet Cooper.

wrcooper - 10:13am Feb 1, 2003 EST (# 8455 of 8472)

Robert

That's not my book, and I also didn't write the post you quoted.

I'll see you at the museum.

W

wrcooper - 10:14am Feb 1, 2003 EST (# 8456 of 8472)

That wasn't my post in the "psychwarfare" group. I have never posted in the Guardian.

bbbuck - 12:27pm Feb 1, 2003 EST (# 8457 of 8472)

Wow!

Damn!

What a time for a museum visit.

lchic - 02:55pm Feb 1, 2003 EST (# 8458 of 8472)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

fraud and mismanagement | Shuttle

""And almost from the start, the space shuttle was plagued by design failures, cost overruns, delays, fraud and mismanagement in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its network of contractors and subcontractors. .... many of the worst problems were hidden from the public http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/national/02HIST.html

lchic - 02:59pm Feb 1, 2003 EST (# 8459 of 8472)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Wonder if Showalter and Cooper will 'meet' ... how to recognise .... will each carry a copy of the NYTimes under their arm, wear trilbies and dark shades .... seems the 'fly on the wall' is hibernating on a Chill-Chicago February day?

lchic - 03:02pm Feb 1, 2003 EST (# 8460 of 8472)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Which moniker on this board was advocating the concept of a

UNIVERSITY IN SPACE

has the moniker, wrt space shuttle break-up, changed his mind?

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