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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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jorian319 - 12:01pm Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13094 of 13095)

I have been making an assumption that people on the UN Security Council looked here from time to time...

Yeah, and I've always assumed that everyone here is automatically featured in a nightly prime-time network human interest psychodrama.

Sheesh, Robert, get a grip. This is strictly an entertainment medium, frequented ONLY by those who have discretionary minutes to "waste" on entertainment. I guess if I had invested as much time as you have in thousands of posts, typing hundreds of thousands of words to try to signify something in one of these threads, maybe I'd be open to the delusion that *important* people were taking their cues from my ramblings.

If it comforts you to designate Gisterme as President, you're more than welcome. It's all entertainment, after all. You can call me Warren Buffet.

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