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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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lchic - 11:53pm Jun 12, 2003 EST (# 12513 of 12517)
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Showalter 'vision' lists first in the questions you were asked to answer. Vision is often a kept secret, for when known, along with 'weaknesses' (swot) it enables those in competitive arenas to take advantage.

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Your life's work, seems to relate to the wider economic progress of people.

In the sciences there's consideration as to why species are here and at the point of development they are at with the characteristics they have:

"" Lamarck's linear, progressive evolution culminated in the appearance of humankind; organisms climbed a ladder of complexity that was based on the idea of the Great Chain of Being. Thus, Lamarck's vision of evolution has a sense of purpose and progress; that is, it can be characterized as teleological. Later in his career, Lamarck became convinced that the Chain could not be a single lineage, and he acknowledged the presence of numerous branches in the evolution of species

A Persistent View: Lamarckian Thought in Early Evolutionary Theories and in Modern Biology / Harry Cook & Hank D. Bestman

Nesting Lamarckism within Darwinian Explanations: Necessity in Economics and Possibley in Biology / Thorbjorn Knudsen

http://www.lse.ac.uk/LSE/COMPLEX/PDFiles/studygroups/7_Knudsen.docProofed.pdf

From what you say above there had been 'thinking' regarding the necessary problems to be overcome to enable Next - Following Generations to have improved living standards - universally. Releasing the majority from the grind of poverty.

Who do we 'think' we are as a race?

What collective characteristics have humans that enable their individuality.

In the economic sense what 'new thinking / methods or organising' have to cross 'Weismann's barrier' so to speak to enable humanity to have a sense of direction. Where are we going? What are we passing on to Next Generations? What 'good things' have we achieve or need we achieve that are worth passing on to enable, sustain and let the Next generations survive?

Weismann's barrier is raised, the question of Lamarckism, either in the form originally raised by Lamarck himself or in the form raised again a couple of decades ago by Ted Steele (1979). http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/philosophy/twp/9802/bioindiv.htm

Has there been any 'Directional-Leadership' out there in recent decades?

lchic - 04:10am Jun 13, 2003 EST (# 12514 of 12517)
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Britain has signed secret agreements with the US over the Bush administration's controversial missile defence project, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday.

The agreements cover America's use of an upgraded early warning radar station at Fylingdales on the North York Moors and unspecified "technical cooperative programmes".

They also include what Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, described to MPs yesterday as an agreement which "prepares the way for fair opportunities to be given to UK industry to participate in the US programme".

Mr Hoon insisted that none of the agreements committed Britain to the "acquisition or deployment of a missile defence system". He described the agreements as "an important step forward" which would enable Britain to "improve our understanding of the capabilities of the US system... to inform any future decisions on missile defence for the UK or Europe as a whole".

The project is being pushed by Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, who says it is needed to counter threats from "rogue states" such as North Korea.

Critics are likely to seize on the agreements as further evidence that the government is committed to supporting the US project.

Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, criticised the secrecy surrounding the deals. "What the UK needs is not another confidential agreement with the US on missile defence but an international and multilateral approach to the issue," he said.

Critics of the project say it is still technologically unproven.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,976309,00.html

lchic - 04:11am Jun 13, 2003 EST (# 12515 of 12517)
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ME http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,976481,00.html

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