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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
- 08:24am Oct 16, 2003 EST (#
15134 of 17697) 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've been asked to do a mission statement . For
something that takes up a lot of life - there are many
purposes - many missions - that have to be handled in turn.
And balanced. Just as the defense needs, and domestic needs,
of the US and the world have to be understood, worked out, and
balanced.
. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-13 - was
condensed and set to music by the Byrds as Turn, Turn,
Turn http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~harel/cgi/page/htmlit?Turn_Turn_Turn.html
Here is an incomplete list of Mission STATEMENTS: .
I haven't checked this list with Lchic - but feel
confident that, though she'd phrase some of the statements
better - she leads me toward these missions, and knows she
does.
Mission STATEMENTS:
For things to go better - in a lot of areas
that matter - standards of checking for facts and relations
have to go up - and go up substantially. Lchic and
I are trying to explain how checking can be effectively done
- and raise these standards. 12160 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1146357@.f28e622/13797
. Lchic and I have intended for this
thread to be, (or prototype) the largest bandwidth, clearest
line of political-military communication that has ever
existed between the US and Russia. 1999 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1146357@.f28e622/2484
Communication between Russia and the United States during
the Cold War was astonishingly defective - and with little
that was cross-checkable. We've thought it a reasonable
mission to show patterns that if staffed could
produce a much higher level of stable understanding
and cooperation ( in the presence of understood
disagreements ) than existed before.
Resortings take time - take resources -but
they can make it possible to see things and do things that
would be impossible without the sortings. To be sure
you're right before going ahead - - can take some careful
sorting. Resortings can permit reframings.
We need to be both conservative, about what we have and have
working - and open minded about possibilities for change.
Lchic and I care about collecting and
sorting and evaluating information -
and consider it a mission to show how the technical jobs of
"sorting things out" can be better done - by example and
explicit teaching. http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1146357@.f28e622/15094
. Lchic and I have intended to show how
problems that were previously too complicated to be
tractable could be solved. There are some problems that
must be defined, and focused, and negotiated in great,
clear, and documented detail, if they are to get to
workable, sane closure at all. For a number of things
important to peace and prosperity, closure - and complex
cooperation, was technically impossible until recent
advances in communication. The technical constraints can
rather easily be removed now , because of the
capabilities of the internet - including some prototyped
here. We've considered it a mission to work on the human
and logical barriers that remain.
. Lchic and I are trying to explain
something vital for peace and prosperity - something that
has screwed up much too often. How to construct and trim
stable oscillatory solutions - where nothing else
can possibly work - and where these solutions can do well
- if people take their time and fit them
carefully. 7789-90 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1146357@.f28e622/9314
We've also been trying, since September 2000
- to find w
rshow55
- 08:26am Oct 16, 2003 EST (#
15135 of 17697) 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.
We've also been trying, since September 2000 - to find ways
to get me out of "house arrest" and in a situation where I
could work . Sometimes "It is easier to get
forgiveness than it is to get permission . . If things are
done gradually - it may slowly clarify that, in the ways that
matter - you have permission - or something like permission -
for an exceptional circumstance - bending but not breaking a
more basic rule.
10437 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1146357@.f28e622/11986
12160 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1146357@.f28e622/13797
. . .
120170 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1146357@.f28e622/13695
To accomplish all these objectives - and as an objective in
itself - we've worked to communicate - and sometimes
challenge - people and institutions with power -
including the people who influence the powerful institution
that is The New York Times.
We both try to be entertaining , too.
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