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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    Missile Defense

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 - 03:58pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8947 of 8960)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

NK | 61 today Mr KIM's 'PARTY'

lchic - 03:59pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8948 of 8960)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

So who gets to share the Birthday Cake Kimmy?

lchic - 04:07pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8949 of 8960)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

'The AXIS of EVIL runs through the Pentagon!'

    German anti-war banner reads Feb2003
Preemption begets preemption ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

lchic - 04:18pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8950 of 8960)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

WATER - Solve this one PRE-EMPTIVELY

Water covers about two-thirds of the Earth's surface, admittedly. But most is too salty for use.

Only 2.5% of the world's water is not salty, and two-thirds of that is locked up in the icecaps and glaciers.

Of what is left, about 20% is in remote areas, and much of the rest arrives at the wrong time and place, as monsoons and floods.

Humans have available less than 0.08% of all the Earth's water. Yet over the next two decades our use is estimated to increase by about 40%.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/755497.stm

lchic - 04:35pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8951 of 8960)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

understanding what you see is different to seeing

"You can see things but you may not be able to recognise things," Professor Yang told the BBC programme Go Digital.

"It is the only when the eye registers with the cognitive part of the brain that things start to happen.

"We are trying to unravel how biological visual systems work and reverse-engineer better computer vision systems," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2098030.stm

lchic - 04:36pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8952 of 8960)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Everyone is 'seeing' Iraq

but who

'understands what they see' ?

almarst2002 - 04:44pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8953 of 8960)

Playing the "Terrorism" Card - http://www.fair.org/media-beat/030213.html

"The people in control of U.S. foreign policy are now determined to treat 9/11 as a license -- their license -- to kill. "

mazza9 - 04:45pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8954 of 8960)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

The last moderator that exercised any control in this forum was Scott Armel! You could "speak" to him and expect action. He banished Robert for just the actions that you have noted. Mr Armel bade his farewells as he moved to California, (I beleive that he was a college student in NY city while performing the moderator duties.) After his departure Robert returned like the proverbial bad penny and after testing the waters decided that he could misuse and abuse everyone since they were all CIA operatives after his skin!!!!Robert is not John Nash and his acumen is near imbecilic!

Robert, lchic and to some extent alarmist have proven that given typewriters, three monkeys can fill this forum with gibberish!!!

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