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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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cantabb - 03:19pm Sep 22, 2003 EST (# 13850 of 13875)

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http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?1@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/15545

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Nothing mentioned or raised in these lengthy posts has anything to do with issues raised and discussed in my posts so far on this thread. Comments on my exchange with gisterme reflect nothing but misunderstanding and confusion.

“You [cantabb] say that it is cheating - that it is unfair to do that things necessary to do so”: . I did NOT say that in my posts.

Who “seems more important” to you : Not my concern.

Unless there is at least some measure of understanding of what's posted, any meaningful exchange would seem quite unlikely.

Apart from this, “One of the ways to express one's appreciation for this thread would be to post on-topic, without the endlesslessly repetitious, unfocused ramblings.” cantabb - 11:03am Sep 22, 2003 EST (# 13838 of 13851)

rshow55 - 03:59pm Sep 22, 2003 EST (# 13851 of 13875)
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.

I wrote:

Cantabb http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/15535 , I really do hope to reply to you, if I can get around it - but it does seem clear that you and I disagree about what fairness is. What balance is. What matters in context.

We have different priorities.

I will be going through your postings and responding in more detail.

In my last postings - I was responding, in the main - to things gisterme posted.

I think that my "unfocused ramblings" are pretty focused. And since very many or the postings in the last week have referred to me - I have more than your postings to worry about.

Some issues - beyond a point - do take staffing to respond to. Including these postings - definitely related to missile defense.

789-90 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/991

877 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/1116

1075 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/1368

1239-40 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/1582

1575-6 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/1582

1895-6 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/2367

2101 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/2605

4063-4 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/5117

5333 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/6688

5840-1 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/7267

6167 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/7645

9254 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/10780

12878 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/14554

Gisterme made an excellent posting on where some things about missile defense had come to a limited convergence - while others hadn't.

"Although risking being "circular" as you put it, here's a comment from last January that pretty much sums it for me. Don't bother with the link unless you want to see more context."

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.42TIbay2HeE.1251161@.f28e622/8897

I'd suggest clicking the links - following the clicks, and looking at the context - but that's just personal preference.

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