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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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almarst2002 - 01:09pm Aug 21, 2003 EST (# 13339 of 13345)

The PROBLEM is, those who think they are WISE and POWERFUL to SOLVE WORLD'S PROBLEMS usually end up in a HELL of their own CREATION.

Which would not be bad except they also take there an awfull lot of innocent people with them.

rshow55 - 01:12pm Aug 21, 2003 EST (# 13340 of 13345)
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.

References to a model of a Neu Man http://www.mrshowalter.net/What,%20Me%20Worry%20About%20Insults.htm

Thomas Friedman refers to "Spy Versus Spy" cartoons, now a part of the culture. March 30, 2001 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1782.htm 4321 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f28e622/5464

5079 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f0ce57b/6104

5469 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f28e622/6842

6051 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f28e622/7526

A New Man I've linked on this thread many times has a face that has entered the culture, too. Paul Newman is a fuller, more multidimensional New Man.

Lchic 11554 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f28e622/13150

It's interesting to note how 'public figures' who have satisfied their own needs take the time to look to the needs of others - Buffet (Edu), Gates (Vaccinations/Edu), Turner (Peace), Newman -- Spaghetti sauce :)

Paul Newman Is Still HUD http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/opinion/19NEWM.html shows concern for the needs of others - concerns for the needs of the world.

It is certain Paul Newman cares about nuclear weapons - as does Michael Douglas.

Paul Newman probably knew the Randy Newman song "Political Science." , that Thomas Friedman quotes here: http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5174

Paul Newman starred in Fat Man and Little Boy and wrote this letter http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/COLLECTIONS/MP-PFIL/Pages-2/MPP-PFIL-159.htm

(He's not only better looking than I am - he writes more sharply, too.)

1237 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f28e622/1580 dealt in part with a "tip" to contact Tom Hanks, and goes on . . .

The theatrical-literary-movie person I've been thinking of most, for an inital pitch, has been A.E. Hotchner, Paul Newman's partner and Newman's Own tycoon.

I referred to Joey Berlin's "low rent" contacts, (like Paul Newman and his sidekick A.E. Hotchner. ) in 6063 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f28e622/7538

I think that if Newman, Hotchner, or people they know, could get interested, just now, it might save millions of lives. (Or maybe, just for a joke, they'd beat the s*** out of me. ) Newman and "Newman's own friends" can do things that even The New York Times can't do - because they have different roles. I've been trying to get presentable to make a pitch, play a role for them. But I'm not as good as I'd like to be at my "game" - though I try. Like everybody else who has to show their work in public - I'm afraid of making mistakes. Though I keep at it.

1237 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f28e622/1580 of April 10, 2002 is followed by a bit of "role playing" between me, and a guy gisterme , who I often suspect is, or is close to, the President of the United States:

"Gisterme is a highly esteemed visiter to this thread - with hundreds of postings last year -but since March, an infrequent one. On 1:53 today I made a post that ends

" Just musing -- if I put on a suit, shined my shoes, and walked into the State Department - asking for permission to see some people -- what do you think might happen?

"I'd like to make a pitch to the Russian Embassy, and some other places, as well.

" 13 minutes later, gisterme posts. . . .

1232 1233 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.1iB0bCntAkQ.4626994@.f28e622/1577 are those posts.

Gisterme's posted a lot since, often in ways that show how seriously he plays the role of someone serving the interests of the President of the United States.

. . . .

Paul Newman reads high-toned magazines ( like The Nation ) and k

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