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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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robkettenburg03 - 05:28pm May 31, 2003 EST (# 12261 of 12273)

Don't worry jorian319, I know who you (all) are AND YOU WILL DEFINATELY BE HEARING FROM ME.

rshow55 - 08:52pm May 31, 2003 EST (# 12262 of 12273)
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.

If only robkettenburg03 had some rank when he said:

"You can tell your story as long as you don't reveal classified information, to the best of my knowledge. I had a top secret security clearance back in the 80's and they were ADAMANT about what would happen if anyone writes or talks about any of the classified material they're exposed to - JAIL TIME!

"what is classified?"

can't really mean

"what might somebody find embarrassing?"

The questions

What would the "average reader of the New York Times" approve of?

What would General Eisenhower approve of?

and

What would the average literate and informed European approve of?

seem interesting questions to me.

rshow55 - 08:54pm May 31, 2003 EST (# 12263 of 12273)
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.

Great poem by Robert Graves http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee74d94/7218

lchic - 08:08am Jun 1, 2003 EST (# 12264 of 12273)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Godel: " ... in a sufficiently rich formal system in which decidability of all questions is required, there will be contradictory statements. This is known as Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. In establishing these theorems he showed that there are problems that cannot be solved by any set of rules or procedures; instead for these problems one must always extend the set of axioms. ...

http://www.exploratorium.edu/complexity/CompLexicon/godel.html

lchic - 08:13am Jun 1, 2003 EST (# 12265 of 12273)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

I checked this out yesterday 31 May -

http://users.chariot.net.au/~theburfs/fok3mpage1.html

amazingly - first Pacific crossing of 31 May-9 June 1928

75 years ago exactly to the day!

jorian319 - 09:28am Jun 1, 2003 EST (# 12266 of 12273)

Rottenburger said that? Add "liar" to his resume.

robkettenburg03 - 09:47am Jun 1, 2003 EST (# 12267 of 12273)

Yeah, my home page is just FULL OF LIES! All those military documents were made up and all those officers' signatures were forged and the names made up, right cowards?!

robkettenburg03 - 09:48am Jun 1, 2003 EST (# 12268 of 12273)

If you want to know who some of the BIGGEST LIARS ON THIS FORUM ARE, click on jorian319's name!

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