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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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rshow55 - 08:40am Sep 9, 2003 EST (# 13576 of 13581)
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.

It was a big thing for me - a breakthrough for me - when I cracked the reason that (on the problems I'd been worrying about) I was not doing a model of "miracles." I'm very proud of these posts, about a fact about ratios of factorials - that state facts also set out if you click rshow55 on the upper left hand of my postings. The postings start from a point I made just after 9/11.

3788 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RDqHbvVjEwV.8123468@.f28e622/4768

3790 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RDqHbvVjEwV.8123468@.f28e622/4770

3791-92 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RDqHbvVjEwV.8123468@.f28e622/4771

There was a beautiful, perceptive response - about persuasion and the need for stories just after that 3793 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RDqHbvVjEwV.8123468@.f28e622/4773 - with nice posts about stories, and their uses, thereafter.

Most of the time and effort on this board since has been devoted to problems of international relations.

But looking back - it seems to me that there is a much, much, much better chance to sort out the problems I was asked to sort out than there was - because of hard work - and expecially wonderfully graceful and brilliant help from lchic - and help from the NYT, which has permitted me to post - and facilitated dialog.

Problems that used to be logically insoluble are now soluble - though a lot of work - and many problems involving human passion - stand in the way of hope.

Maybe such large problems that there is no hope. I'm hopeful anyway.

Sorry if I'm moving slowly. With the resources I have - I'm doing the best I can. I don't claim that this board can "solve all the world's problems" - but I do think that things this board deals with are central to a lot of the world's problems - and that some of these things are coming into better focus.

I'm not very good at summarizing - but I am trying - and it seems to me that if just a few simple things were widely understood - we might do better. . . . .

almarst2002 - 11:30am Sep 9, 2003 EST (# 13577 of 13581)

The imperial retreat begins - http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34467

IT SURELY HAPPEND EVEN FASTER THEN I EXPECTED.

almarst2002 - 12:52pm Sep 9, 2003 EST (# 13578 of 13581)

Rumsfeld Is Muted On Weapons Hunt - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42728-2003Sep8.html

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