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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 - 04:23pm Feb 27, 2003 EST (# 9335 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.

A great deal about checking, and procedures, have been discussed on this thread - including the obvious fact that, for closure - you need procedures that can close. Senator Carl Levin is quoted as questioning the wisdom ( sanity? ) of our deploying equipment we don't have working in Pentagon Seeking to Deploy Missiles Before Full Testing By DAVID FIRESTONE (NYT) News http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/politics/27MISS.html

Here are links to Senator Levin on this thread over the years - most focusing on the issue of checking:

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4420.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4427.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4433.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4460.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4532.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4610.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4625.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4666.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4686.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4720.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4850.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5415.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5752.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5963.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6082.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6606.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6824.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6946.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6947.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6981.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6983.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6993.htm

rshow55 - 04:23pm Feb 27, 2003 EST (# 9336 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.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7142.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7309.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7858.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8120.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8622.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8623.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8707.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md9000s/md9891.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md11000s/md11045.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md11000s/md11541.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md11000s/md11564.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_1000s/1113.htm

8796 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.DDr1b0YuYGb.1129267@.f28e622/10322 includes this:

We have a mess. It is in the interest of the whole world that it be fixed. By now, it can't be fixed, reasonably, without some leaders of other nation states asking questions - and insisting on answers.

A great deal, for a long time, has been based on fictions. Sometimes, in some ways, the fictions have worked well. In other ways, the fictions have produced unnecessary death and agony.

We can do better - without the agony - if we face up to what is happened - and sort out problems. The US has some problems. The Islamic world has some problems. If we lie somewhat less - face the truth more often, when it matters - we can do a lot better.

Because questions of fact are now, so clearly, matters of life and death - there may be more hope of real solutions than there has been before. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/408.

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