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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 - 07:51am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8544 of 8548)
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NASA Dismissed Advisers Who Warned About Safety By WILLIAM J. BROAD and CARL HULSE

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/national/03NASA.html Some former members of an expert NASA panel now say that the agency removed them to suppress their safety warnings.

lchic - 08:06am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8545 of 8548)
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Moving back using the search function it seems that kalter.rauch who complains re his 'having to read MD posts' on a catch-up basis - now posts exclusively on MD.

So why would he?

Why would a presumably grown man with free will just post on this one board - and lament the fact.

One would have to ask -- is he 'paid in like or kind' to monitor the board?

lchic - 08:32am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8546 of 8548)
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Correction here - he's not exclusive to MD - the search function didn't widen the net.

Here's the latest missive from SciNews ... totally unconnected the context of that board ... the guy seems to be freaking out ...

Science in the News NYT Thread

kalter.rauch - 06:11am Feb 3, 2003 EST

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Shutup!!!

The Columbia disaster isn't for YOU or the rest of your ilk. All YOU see are the one or two brown faces you can use to pursue your nefarious ends.

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Raises the point 'who are the Columbia news items for?' and why does he object to comment in the form of an excellent article in the London Guardian?

lchic - 08:35am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8547 of 8548)
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Shortly after Columbia lifted off, two weeks ago, a piece of insulating foam on its external fuel tank came off and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle, possibly loosening a tile. .....

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,887231,00.html

... it emerged last night that Bush and senior officials were warned that Nasa was facing an unprecedented crisis over its safety management and was in danger of a 'catastrophic disaster' during a shuttle mission.

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