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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 - 06:54am Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13957 of 13958)
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.

lchic - 06:45am Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13955

How do we measure 'better'?

In many senses ( the scientific senses are easier) a great deal was sorted out on the question

How do we measure better?

by Percy Bridgman - the Nobel Prize winner and high pressure engineering specialist.

Internal consistency is a vital standard and loop tests - with both internal referncing - and references to known standards - can do a lot. In fact - the most essential advances in our scientific instruments are based on that.

For moral issues of what's better - internal consistency also counts for a lot.

Yesterday morning - before a lot of fencing - I was preparing stuff about Bridgman's work . . I'll get it ready in a while.

lchic - 07:17am Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13958 of 13958)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

ON SCIENTIFIC METHOD

by Percy W. Bridgman (From: Reflections of a Physicist, 1955)

http://hackensackhigh.org/~nelsonb/bridgman.html

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