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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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fredmoore - 11:08am Aug 12, 2003 EST (# 13286 of 13290)

Rshow,

'One doesn't have to have an especially dirty mind to read

http://www.ababy'sgotmydingo.com/ayresrock/dinnertime.htm and think of incest and child molestation -'

A dingo is a powerful Australian bush dog, famous for having eaten a baby at Ayres Rock in central Australia. The incident spawned a huge and controversial court case.

My epithet relates to your obvious feelings of powerlessness and impotence ... a mere baby has your power (dingo). But the issue remains (at least in my mind) whether or not you would be just an ego-dingo on a dinnertime feeding if actually given the power you desire. You do have trouble in garnering people's trust as is evidenced in exchanges with most posters on this forum for example.

Another facet to this is that I think there is a sense of powerlessness in all participants (including myself) in the NYT Science forums not just yourself. This stems from the frustration of having good and sometimes brilliant ideas but because progress seems so slow we too feel as though we are 'in jail' ... in a scientific sense. I'm sure Will Cooper would agree.

In the intervening lulls between scientific breakthroughs, it is I think useful to play a few pranks, tell a few jokes and have some fun ... in an entertaining way of course.

Incest ... isn't that what Indians and Hippies burn to make the air smell nice?

shookones - 04:33pm Aug 12, 2003 EST (# 13287 of 13290)

I have some interesting pictures and a post forum about area 51 feel free to visit and sign the guest book http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=1466817 and if that doesnt direct u find the link at the website

rshow55 - 06:43am Aug 13, 2003 EST (# 13288 of 13290)
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.

Wonderful pieces in Op Ed today - that help me respond to Fredmoore's question about power, and its proper limits.

I liked this piece especially:

Speak, O Muse, of Strategic Synergy By RANDALL ROTHENBERG http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/opinion/13ROTH.html

The language of modern business is under attack, but corporate vernacular can be used as a negotiation tool.

But is it sometimes possible to do better than the organizational usages Rothenberg describes - differently? Eisenhower longed to do better - in some basic ways, for basic reasons that seem just as important today as they did when I was commondeered by the government, at Eisenhower's request.

I've been working within a framework of agreements for a long time. Keeping faith pretty well, overall, I think.

2764 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.lh3cbfH4y8F.3017972@.f28e622/3445

Verbal deal between M. Robert Showalter and William J. Casey for Showalter's work situation, as set out, to the what he claims is the best of his knowledge and belief, by Showalter.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: From Jan 1972

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