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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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lchic - 06:31am Jun 16, 2003 EST (# 12558 of 12558)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Lying:-

"In truth lying is an accursed vice. We are men, and held together, only by our word. If we recognize the horror and the gravity of lying, we would persecute it with fire more justly than other crimes."

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Montaigne.htm#Sayings

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