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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 - 07:21pm Jun 12, 2003 EST (# 12509 of 12517)
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.

12498 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.r19ib6yZeuP.213971@.f28e622/14152 quotes bbbuck referring to my postings:

"Well as they say in the army, 'it doesn't get any better than this'. Carry on sir, the crazy truck must have missed you this week. Maybe next week."

12499 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.r19ib6yZeuP.213971@.f28e622/14153 starts:

I've broken my promises to Eisenhower and others - I promised that I would never, under any circumstances, reveal my relationship with Eisenhower except face to face to a proper authority. The time finally came where it seemed to me that, to keep faith with the things I promised Eisenhower I'd try to do, I had to break that promise. Perhaps I simply ran out of strength.

and some postings therafter seem to be worth covering over.

12079 -12080 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.r19ib6yZeuP.213971@.f28e622/13710 may interest some, too.

They include this:

"The Cornell 6-Year Ph.D. Program was set up at the request of Dwight D. Eisenhower - McGeorge Bundy and Milton Eisenhower were involved too - and of course Cornell and the Ford Foundation, which provided the funding, were involved. So far as I can tell, very few people knew what the program was for - or how the idea originated and gained force as quickly as it did. I don't believe that was an accident.

"I was selected to work on problems that former President Eisenhower felt, and others felt, were of essential national interest - and difficult.

fredmoore - 08:03pm Jun 12, 2003 EST (# 12510 of 12517)

Buck ...

Why Alarmst is Lurch of course ... all those dark sombre negativities ....

Sorry 'bout your disappointment as Thing ... but remember ...It's so nice to have a thing around the house!

Arrrrr Urrrrrr ... Mail's in!

lchic - 10:57pm Jun 12, 2003 EST (# 12511 of 12517)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

environments are subject to continual change

promises made in the context of the one environment

vapourise - for the common good, of course - in the next

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lchic - 11:04pm Jun 12, 2003 EST (# 12512 of 12517)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

If all's fair in love and war --- obvious question --- if the P's had to get a newer more modern, with the world, in the world leader .... why wasn't the same asked of the I's ? Failing all that why not flip the $10m per day from I to P ... the P's could certainly make use of it --- and an (f)act of faith from Uncle Sam. (ME)

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