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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 - 09:18pm Sep 11, 2003 EST (# 13617 of 13617)
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.

Gisterme - sometimes I think about advice from a good movie - Bambi - from an interesting juvenile character, Thumper . . . to the effect that

" If you can't say somthin' nice . . . don't say nothin' at all."

Not that I take the advice as often as I might. But I do think about it.

What do you expect me to be able to do - placed where I am - restricted as I am? Leaders have to solve their own problems - but intellectuals can give them tools they can use. I've tried to do that.

This body of work on solar energy looks like a solution to me - and one that would serve the US national interest more effectively than anything that can possibly happen in Iraq.

13039 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.F491bFRNEpn.8573514@.f28e622/14716

13040 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.F491bFRNEpn.8573514@.f28e622/14717

13041 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.F491bFRNEpn.8573514@.f28e622/14718

13042 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.F491bFRNEpn.8573514@.f28e622/14719

Gisterme , I'm not sure who you are - though I suspect you're closely connected to the Bush administration - and I think the matter should be checked.

I'm not certain who you are, but I don't think it would hurt you to read these summary passages.

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1792

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1793

Consequences matter. This poem is a fine warning, that fits today.

Mesopotamia .....1917 by Rudyard Kipling http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee74d94/3625

Gisterme - before you posted - I exercised, got relaxed - and had a couple of beers.

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.F491bFRNEpn.8573514@.f28e622/11377 The Secret Life of Henry Kissinger By NEAL POLLACK http://nytimes.com/2002/12/03/opinion/03POLL.html

Perhaps a Russian - or a former alcohalic - ( in Casablanca - that might mean a former "citizen of the world" ) could understand.

I'll try to respond more constructively in the morning.

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On the issue of analogy http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.F491bFRNEpn.8573514@.f28e622/8854

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