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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 - 04:06pm Feb 16, 2003 EST (# 9006 of 9013)
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.

Summary of postings between Sept 25, 2000 and March 1, 2001 (#3)

#690: Nuclear war would be worse than anything the Germans did in WWII. "Populations with competent militaries know everything they have to in order to support what is done. In the same way, Americans, and especially Americans responsible for military action, must know - must be responsible for, the risks they take with atomic weapons. In the world we live in, these weapons may be necessary - the most beautiful accomodations must be the ones that fit reality, and are the best, in terms of clear, reasonable, humane priorities, that they can be. But it is ugly , and immoral in the extreme, to avoid procedures that get right answers that can be checked. rshowalter 2/14/01 4:16pm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md689_690b.htm

#691-692" A beautiful essay by Dawn Riley: Quotations from the universe next door: edevershed 2/16/01 1:26am

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md691_692b.htm

#709-711: I'm working with a model system, important in itself, big enough to be realistic, showing how the most essential aspects of this impasse can be solved. The objective is to make a major change in a field of science, and to do so preserving infrastructure. To do so with an absolute minimum of casualties - perhaps with no casualties. To do so smoothly, in such a way that nothing goes "bang" ..... (a desireable objective, I feel, where nuclear weapons are concerned.) In my view, things are going breathtakingly well on this test case.

"My own view, now, is that we may be in the middle of the cleanest, neatest, fairest, most beautiful, most bloodless resolution of a paradigm conflict in the history of science. That would be something we could all be proud of, and, in my opinion, might set a precedent that would be of long service to the United States of America." rshowalter 2/18/01 3:55pm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md706_709.htm

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