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    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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rshow55 - 08:21pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (# 4922 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.

rshowalter - 08:20pm Jul 24, 2001 EST (#7390

After that week of dialog, I felt I understood the Russians better, and hoped that, if the Russians could understand these things, they might be able to sort out some of their internal and international problems better than before.

I don't know if it has worked. But it seems to me that the Russians have done pretty well in a lot of areas since March, and almarst , Dawn and I have kept talking. (There have been 6258 postings since we cited "Muddle in Moscow" http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=533129 )

We've also had a lot of dialog with our "Bush administration stand-in" gisterme , starting with a powerful one in his first posting .. MD2997 gisterme 5/2/01 1:09pm ... that has clarified a lot. almarst has paid attention to that dialog.

Has all this work been useful? Dawn and I have tried to make it so.

It seems me that, if Bill Casey was looking down, he might be smiling.

Maybe laughing at me.

Hard to know.

rshow55 - 08:25pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (# 4923 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 Guardian Thread Psychwarfare, Casablanca . . . and terror http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/0 is data - it is a record - and it was altered today.

I'm supposed to be the only person who can delete my own posts - and this posting was deleted - for reasons that I think may be significant. (I wouldn't have thought to delete the posting #219 - July 25, 2001 - but can see why some people might want to.)

To delete the posting that was, till today, # 219 - a posting 15 months old -- wasn't a casual act.

The links reproduced above link to postings prior to March 2002 that are preserved on CD.

The work cited in these deleted postings, I believe, was what it was intended to be - a major service to national interest - a successful effort to build bridges of communication that were necessary, and have borne fruit since.

1998 rshow55 5/4/02 10:35am . . . 1999 rshow55 5/4/02 10:39am
2000 rshow55 5/4/02 11:36am

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It seems to me that there are things that need to be CHECKED.

rshow55 - 09:35pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (# 4924 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 worked hard, and Dawn has worked hard - to solidify lines of communication that are of vital, big scale life and death concern to the United States of America, and the whole world. A communication model. http://www.worldtrans.org/TP/TP1/TP1-17.HTML

Here is the index page of a CD -- “Missile Defense - New York Times on the Web - Science Forum Archive - - rshowalt 7/19/02 9:16am - by distinguished anonymous posters and M. Robert Showalter.” The CD is now available in updated form, with key Guardian Talk threads, and demonstration programs on polynomial processing.

If you click " rshow55" in the upper left hand corner of this postings, you'll access some links - some, set out in groups of links, that connect to postings that tell something of my background. I say that I worked under Bill Casey. And yet I have produced no records. How can anybody be surprised, considering the priority of the work I was entrusted to do?

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