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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 - 04:58pm Aug 17, 2002 EST (# 3773 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.

The Bourne Identity is a great flic -- and a solid warning that there are things about the CIA that might (ahem!) be improved.

Here are links to CIA on this thread, with the links that relate to my little security problem bolded:

61 lchic 3/2/02 6:58am ... 180 rshow55 3/3/02 8:48pm
185 rshow55 3/3/02 10:45pm ... 206 lchic 3/4/02 11:58pm
439 almarst-2001 3/13/02 1:57pm ... 441 manjumicha2001 3/13/02 2:02pm
472 rshow55 3/13/02 6:58pm ... 531 lchic 3/14/02 10:10am
569 mazza9 3/15/02 11:38am ... 616 almarst-2001 3/16/02 9:36pm
661 rshow55 3/18/02 9:55am ... 678 rshow55 3/18/02 8:26pm
695 lchic 3/19/02 11:13pm ... 712 lchic 3/20/02 11:31am
942 rshow55 3/29/02 5:49pm ... 1239 rshow55 4/10/02 6:45pm
1305 lchic 4/12/02 4:16pm ... 1324 gisterme 4/13/02 3:32am
1326 lchic 4/13/02 6:03am ... 1329 lchic 4/13/02 6:47am
1336 almarst-2001 4/13/02 3:09pm ... 1398 almarst-2001 4/16/02 9:27pm
1504 almarst-2001 4/18/02 8:25pm ... 1529 almarst-2001 4/19/02 11:19am
1588 lchic 4/21/02 12:50pm ... 1627 rshow55 4/21/02 8:03pm
1746 lchic 4/24/02 4:59pm ... 1747 almarst2020 4/24/02 9:45pm
1748 lchic 4/24/02 10:56pm ... 1785 rshow55 4/26/02 11:19am
1797 almarst2020 4/26/02 3:44pm ... 1981 rshow55 5/3/02 3:59pm
2102 manjumicha2001 5/8/02 8:10pm ... 2116 rshow55 5/9/02 12:29pm
2120 lchic 5/9/02 5:18pm ... 2123 manjumicha2001 5/9/02 5:41pm
2124 manjumicha2001 5/9/02 5:43pm ... 2129 manjumicha2001 5/9/02 6:21pm
2150 lchic 5/10/02 5:52pm ... 2224 lchic 5/15/02 9:13am
2236 lchic 5/15/02 10:00pm ... 2270 lchic 5/18/02 11:35am
2306 rshow55 5/19/02 2:28pm ... 2334 rshow55 5/21/02 10:08am
2339 lchic 5/21/02 3:26pm ... 2348 rshow55 5/22/02 2:16pm
2351 rshow55 5/22/02 4:41pm ... 2439

rshow55 - 04:59pm Aug 17, 2002 EST (# 3774 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.

More links to CIA on this thread, with the links that relate to my "little security problem" bolded. Especially these:

2472 rshow55 6/6/02 9:23pm ... 2473 rshow55 6/6/02 9:27pm
2474 rshow55 6/6/02 9:29pm ... 2475 rshow55 6/6/02 9:32pm
2476 rshow55 6/6/02 9:33pm ... 2476 rshow55 6/6/02 11:21pm

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