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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 - 06:38am Oct 31, 2002 EST (# 5395 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.

5307 rshow55 10/27/02 11:59am
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5308 rshow55 10/27/02 1:11pm
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5358 rshow55 10/28/02 6:19pm
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5364 rshow55 10/28/02 9:30pm
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5380 rshow55 10/30/02 11:34am
Anything on Anything - 70 posts from c http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.eea14e1/1253 c to http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.eea14e1/1318 on negotiating tactics that could use the internet.

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rshow55 - 07:26am Oct 31, 2002 EST (# 5396 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 links above have also been posted on the Guardian Talk thread - Psychwarfare, Casablanca . . . and terror .

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@173.Ur0Qb22UbbW.4@.ee7a163/374

I very much appreciate the openness and high journalistic standards of both the Guardian-Observer and The New York Times .

commondata - 07:37am Oct 31, 2002 EST (# 5397 of 17697)

rshow55 10/31/02 5:41am

The Guardian have a small piece mentioning Gaiacomm Corporation today which you can find here. They've been caught trying to solicit cash from Saddam Hussain, presumably after failing to obtain funds from the Department of Defense which they seem quite upset about.

Their first press release was picked up, without comment, by Physics Web and Cellular News. The CEO calls himself Judah Ben-Hur and that press release claimed that:

One [facet of their technology] is the use as a weapon to ignite large sections of the atmosphere and incinerate all living creatures within its pre selected coordinates.

Having listened to what you've said about microwave weapons I was wondering, on a scale from 1 to bbbuck, exactly how deranged these people are. A "technical" summary of their ideas is available here. If you don't think they're deranged, Robert, you could consider the following [:-)]

Gaiacomm Corporation is looking for top physicists and telecommunications engineers who want to use their knowledge for peace and new development, not the same-old same-old boring technologies of years past.

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