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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 - 08:56am Feb 8, 2003 EST (# 8704 of 8705)
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 posted on Psychwarfare, Casablanca -- and terror http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/407 and some other places this morning.

Posted this in Guardian Talk - Advice What's the best advice you've ever been given?

rshowalter - 12:31pm Feb 8, 2003 GMT (#478 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b23c/492

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b23c/490 - yes you WERE "head hunted" by a (fairly smart) person.

I'd been advised to do that sort of thing.

Here's what Casey told me - (others had said similar things - but not quite so clearly.)

"In the world, the only decently able people who have real confidence are the people who really know their stuff - and really love it - and intend to advance the subject matter they have become committed to.

"If YOU are a person like that (Casey thought I was) and you can actually MAKE A CONNECTION to another - it is a connection that will serve mutual needs.

I've been blessed to have known a number of such people - usually people widely understood by many others to be outstanding. Steve Kline was like that - and he dropped everything he had to - to work with me - because we were working on problems that he felt, and I felt - were the most important that we could possibly work on.

I've been awed, touched, and joyful at the brilliance and grace I've seen, and been able to touch, in Lunarchick . I have had some problems - but I've had an outstanding education - and a lot of very good academic and professional connections.

Dawn Riley is the most valuable mind that I've ever had the priviledge of getting close to - and as valuable a mind as I can imagine existing in the human species. She's analytically brilliant - and has the associative gifts, the poetic gifts, the communicative gifts developed to a stunning degree.

I adore her - and I'm grateful for the time she's devoted to our work, and to talking to me.

My hope is (and this was Casey's hope, too) that we can save many, many millions of lives, and make the world better. I'm crazy enough to think we have a chance of doing it - - and have made some headway.

MD8500 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@93.2VzdaBSf2us.0@.f28e622/10026">rshow55 2/2/03 6:38pm</a> cites a poem of mine that sets out some hopes that Lunarchick and I are both working for

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