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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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jorian319 - 10:10am Sep 12, 2003 EST (# 13623 of 13624)

More useful condensations occur in the copper coils of a 'still.

rshow55 - 10:13am Sep 12, 2003 EST (# 13624 of 13624)
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.

This thread has been a big effort - and not only for me. http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

Posts by Almarst are set out and posted at http://www.mrshowalter.net/PostsBy_Almarst.htm - a list of links which would take 130 pages to print.

Posts by Gisterme are set out and posted at http://www.mrshowalter.net/PostsBy_Gisterme.htm - which is a 32 page list of links.

This thread isn't an accident - I think that it is worth the effort - and will continue to be so - and I'll be posting more today.

These links, among others, have led me to think that the NYT, at least, cares some about this board, and gives the effort it represents some limited but significant support

224 - 225 - 226 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/260

manjumicha2001 - 12:02am Mar 6, 2002 EST (#226 of 235)

"Sean

"Please leave rshow alone. Notwithstanding our lack of responses, we do read his postins with interest from time to time. They are in most cases pretty important contributions to your forum, i think.

Also posts by fredmoore:

13085 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/14764

13090 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/14769

13114 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/14793

13121 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/14800

13247 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/14932

13263 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/14948

Eight posts following 9003 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/10529 summarize a good deal of this thread - which has a lot of things on it that I'm proud of.

I took this sequence, leading up to Almarst's first post, as an indication that the NYT had some regard for Almarst:

http://www.mrshowalter.net/md826_828b.htm Our nuclear weapons controls aren't "just a little bit vulnerable." They are vulnerable, and obsolete beyond redemption, and they should be retired. They aren't protecting us. They are, in Bob Kerrey's words, "the single greatest threat to our survival." Armed to Excess.. by Bob Kerrey .. Op. Ed. March 2, 2001 . http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/02/opinion/02KERR.html armel7 - 03:04pm Mar 4, 2001 EST (#827 of 828) Science/Health Forums Host rshowalter, I admire your prolific posts, but you might want to take a breather until we get some fresh blood in here... You rhost, Michael Scott Armel rshowalter - 03:22pm Mar 4, 2001 EST (#828 of 828) Yes sir ! http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md829_833.htm

almarstel2001 - 12:17am Mar 5, 2001 EST (#829

"As I see it, the US military wants the NMD out of frustration and fear to face the situation, when its tremendous adwantage in power will be useless against anyone who posesses even a single nuclear missle capable to reach the US and who may be ready to commit suiside in case of aggression. Practically that would mean the end of American's ability to dictate and rule by force.

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Has it been worth it? Hard to know. http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.neAWbQoBFlB.0@.f28e622/10538

But I'm doing things I think are right - for the country, and, of course, for me as well. http://www.mrshowalter.net/SP_51_n_Swim.htm - - 388 - "Suppose you can swim well and folks know it . . . "

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