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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 - 04:00am Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13874 of 13879)

Gisterme,

Just some preliminary thoughts.

I see the whole KAEP process being similar to building a parallel siding for an imminent train wreck. Far enough ahead of the disaster and the train so you can switch the train to the new track just as things are starting to look grim.

It's going to be a nail biter, but the alternative is allowing the crash to occur and starting civilisation all over again.

Whatever it takes to get the other line up and running is fine, as long as all nations feel they have reasonable EQUITY in the construction of the new line and its final destination of abundant energy.

We wouldn't want other countries to feel they were getting US handouts or castoffs would we?

It would be nice to get those 100 NK Nuclear Phd's into KAEP and working on space based solar concepts for example. However, it would be reasonable in return for NK to get a jump start with the first Geothermal plants built. They need winter heating badly and winter is nigh.

I will take up issues in your last posting soon.

PS If we are indeed on the same team, maybe we should brush up on our Statue of Liberty play. OOOOh!

cantabb - 04:03am Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13875 of 13879)

lchic - 09:25pm Sep 22, 2003 EST (# 13865 of 13873) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

drawing dots as a cape around us, we each 'make ourselves up' as we dance along ... creating our own realities

That's what it looks like.

Too bad the dots are NOT numbered. That would have helped some to get 'some' picture for the effort.

rshow55 - 09:33am Sep 23, 2003 EST (# 13876 of 13879)
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.

Some perceptive comments in your last postings , gisterme - and great comments by fredmoore - liked this especially:

I see the whole KAEP process being similar to building a parallel siding for an imminent train wreck. Far enough ahead of the disaster and the train so you can switch the train to the new track just as things are starting to look grim.

It's going to be a nail biter, but the alternative is allowing the crash to occur and starting civilisation all over again.

AEA was set up with similar motivations - but was to be more nutsy-boltsy - a template for sorting out problems on a small scale - so that answers could be transferred - voluntarily and on a pay-as-you-go basis to a larger scale. Had Casey not made a stopping phone call at a key time - it might have worked.

Cantabb's comment

Too bad the dots are NOT numbered. That would have helped some to get 'some' picture for the effort.

is interesting. Some dots are much better numbered than others - and for such reasons - we share about 100,000 definitions of words that we figured out for ourselves from a well marked context.

For work that is new - things are more precarious. And it takes more care.

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