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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 - 12:42pm Apr 7, 2003 EST (# 11192 of 11193)
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 VIRGINITY http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/1295

THE 'EATHEN http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b085/18

And ESPECIALLY - with respect to issues of "paradigm conflict" and "connecting the dots" Our Fathers of Old http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/241

Our Fathers of Old http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/241

Our Fathers of Old http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/241

People's head get full of "explanations" -- and have since history began...

#3326 - rshow55 Jul 28, 2002 10:40 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4188

Maybe they're thinking. MD3183 rshowalt 7/20/02 8:25pm

And ESPECIALLY - with respect to issues of "paradigm conflict" and "connecting the dots" Our Fathers of Old http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/241

People's heads get full of "explanations" -- and have since history began... Those explanations can be totally wrong...

#3386 - rshow55 Aug 1, 2002 12:53 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4270

#3460 - lchic Aug 3, 2002 06:18 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4358

#3617 - rshow55 Aug 10, 2002 05:50 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4562

#3629 - lchic Aug 11, 2002 03:39 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4616

#3662 - lchic Aug 12, 2002 09:41 am MoralForcing | A couple of years ago I was talking through the concept of paradigms and why they happen and what can be done - (see GU thread sciParadigm). The concept of

#3664 - rshow55 Aug 12, 2002 10:06 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4618

#3842 - rshow55 Aug 20, 2002 07:30 pm <a href="/webin/WebX?13@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4840">rshow55 8/20/02 7:30pm</a>

#3895 - rshow55 Aug 22, 2002 01:37 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4904

#3909 - rshow55 Aug 22, 2002 08:18 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4922

#3937 - rshow55 Aug 23, 2002 05:13 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/4961

When I say that I think lchic and I are doing important work on "connecting the dots" - I mean "important, in my opinion, judging from what I know based on these references, some others like them, some thought and some experience." Favre, A. , Guitton, H. , Guitton, J...

#4174 - lchic Sep 4, 2002 01:55 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5269

#4194 - lchic Sep 5, 2002 07:04 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5296

#4428 - rshow55 Sep 19, 2002 08:38 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5597

#4551 - commondata Sep 26, 2002 06:36 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5748

#4553 - lchic Sep 26, 2002 08:56 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5751

#4554 - lchic Sep 26, 2002 09:07 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5753

#4560 - rshow55 Sep 26, 2002 03:01 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5760

#4615 - rshow55 Sep 28, 2002 08:23 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5834

#4706 - gisterme Oct 2, 2002 04:13 pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/5954

#4823 - rshow55 Oct 12, 2002 09:32 am http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.wH81aKL76oC.902484@.f28e622/6096

Technical problems (handled by real people, in real socio-technical systems) have human limitations, too. I've now taken steps where one can argue that I ought to be jailed (though I think Casey would argue otherwise) Psychwarfare #330-338 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/352 - - and those steps seem to have been noticed. It feels to me like a good time to set out reasons - int

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