New York Times on the Web Forums Science

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?

Read Debates, a new Web-only feature culled from Readers' Opinions, published every Thursday.

rshow55 - 06:55am Aug 26, 2003 EST (# 13385 of 13402)
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.

rshow55 10/17/02 10:21am "...- we have to be... by gisterme - Oct 18, 02 (#4983 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6291

rshow55 10/17/02 10:21am "...We need to do the... by gisterme - Oct 18, 02 (#4984 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6292

almarst2002 10/17/02 7:18pm "I got a few moments... by gisterme - Oct 18, 02 (#4986 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6292

manjumicha 10/18/02 2:35am "...In fact Rummy was... by gisterme - Oct 18, 02 (#4989 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6297

manjumicha 10/18/02 3:18am "...The uniformed... by gisterme - Oct 18, 02 (#5000 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6308

5101-5400 - October 21-31, 2002 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_6000s/znDir5101_5400.htm

lchic 10/19/02 7:23pm "...The functioning of a... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5123 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6446

lchic 10/21/02 1:08am "...For a better world -... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5125 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6448

lchic 10/23/02 1:55am "...CUT TO TRUTH in the... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5129 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6452

Lchic, you and Robert seem to mostly want to... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5131 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6454

kalter.rauch 10/23/02 2:06am "...I don't... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5132 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6456

lchic 10/23/02 2:20am "...Commerce is a win-win... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5134 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6458

kalter.rauch 10/23/02 3:11am "...you just tossed... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5140 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6467

lchic 10/23/02 5:52am "...how they are paid from... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5142 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6469

commondata 10/23/02 7:05am "...When I told you... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5151 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6478

rshow55 10/23/02 9:17am "...If I'm right about... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5152 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6479

rshow55 10/23/02 3:02pm "Well, we're agreed that... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5166 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6497

commondata 10/23/02 4:43pm "...And yet Gisterme,... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5170 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6503

lchic 10/23/02 5:03pm "...The USA would benefit... by gisterme - Oct 23, 02 (#5171 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6504

commondata 10/24/02 5:11am "...While we're being... by gisterme - Oct 24, 02 (#5199 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6534

mazza9 10/24/02 7:50pm "...(I'm in an aliterative... by gisterme - Oct 24, 02 (#5201 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6536

rshow55 10/24/02 8:17pm "...Is the United States... by gisterme - Oct 27, 02 (#5279 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6630

rshow55 10/24/02 8:40pm "...- it would only have... by gisterme - Oct 27, 02 (#5280 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6631

lchic 10/25/02 6:50pm "...The suffering of local... by gisterme - Oct 27, 02 (#5281 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6632

"...Like many jokes, that one contains more truth... by gisterme - Oct 27, 02 (#5282 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6633

lchic 10/27/02 1:40am "...Gisterme I'm hearing... by gisterme - Oct 28, 02 (#5310 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6665

lchic 10/26/02 5:41pm "...Cohesive inclusive... by gisterme - Oct 28, 02 (#5311 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6666

rshow55 10/26/02 8:49pm "...WHY NO CHECKING... by gisterme - Oct 28, 02 (#5312 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8IXabb4JBgY.5550900@.f28e622/6667

rshow55 10/27/02 10:36am "...5280 gisterme... by gisterme - Oct 28, 02 (#5313 http:/

(17 following messages)

New York Times on the Web Forums Science Missile Defense