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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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fredmoore - 06:38am Sep 21, 2003 EST (# 13820 of 13824)

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Peace and prosperity do depend on many factors, but all those factors can be analysed in terms of thermodynamics. Ultimately therefore, peace and prosperity are related to the order in social and economic systems and thus the lowest possible entropy thermal energy inputs to those systems. In short, if you provide large middle eastern, Indian, Indoneasian and Chinese cities with sustainable solar and geothermal sources you will create strong intelligent allies. Politics is what people do with the system at hand. Optimising Thermodynamic inputs gives them a better, saner, more orderly system to work with. The 2nd law of thermodynamics guarantees this to hold for social and economic systems just as it does for any other system.

"KAEP will make evil dictators go away and all people reasonable? What does that translate from?"

There will always be rogue citizens but as in the USA these people are EASIER to track down in a civilised orderly social milieu.

8. "Problem is that the nations wanting the most will be contributing the least. How can such inequity translate to peace and prosperity? And if such inequity doesn't exist, that is, nations can fund their own needs, then why would something like KAEP be needed? In my opinion "redistribution of wealth" schemes haven't yet and won't ever satisfy the insatiable...the jealous, the greedy or the plain old lusters for power."

Lincoln wrestled with this problem after the civil war in regard to equity between southern and northern states and FDR wrestled with it after the great depression in relation to the divide between rich and poor. My comments would be a poor substitute for their comments and subsequent resolutions to the problem. It is clear though that with an economically and socially closer knit planet, the problem has emerged again. There is no doubt in my mind how Lincoln or FDR would have decided to handle the problem .....

A New Deal for all world citizens with a KAEP as the first trial step in that process.

Look forward to you trying to tackle me at the 5 yard line.

KAEP puts the ball past the post!

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