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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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lchic - 10:24pm Sep 30, 2003 EST (# 14186 of 14193)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Mazza's a fiction - as was established on the thread way back - his recall on 'fact' can be fictional too ... unless Cooper 'did' travel to Chicago.

lchic - 10:38pm Sep 30, 2003 EST (# 14187 of 14193)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Nuclear Power Stations --- the holistic costing is never done - Iran back out of that contract!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1053042,00.html

lchic - 11:56pm Sep 30, 2003 EST (# 14188 of 14193)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

The group's major recommendations, re ME relations:

besides creating a new White House director of public diplomacy,

were to

build libraries and information centers in the Muslim world,

translate more Western books into Arabic,

increase scholarships and visiting fellowships,

upgrade the American Internet presence,

and

train more Arabists, Arab speakers and public relations specialists

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/01/politics/01DIPL.html?pagewanted=2&hp

gisterme - 01:12am Oct 1, 2003 EST (# 14189 of 14193)

"...I will reference my dot-connecting/checking manual and will get back to you next tuesday..."

That was awesome bbbuck!

gisterme - 01:16am Oct 1, 2003 EST (# 14190 of 14193)

jorian -

"...Translation: Do the right thing.

"...Between the lines:..."

Let me climb back on my chair... :-)

You're a freakin' psycic mind-reader.

gisterme - 01:35am Oct 1, 2003 EST (# 14191 of 14193)

"...At gisterme's suggestion, I posted this - and it seems to me that there was a certain amount of interest ..."

Tut, tut, Robert. Let's be careful about laying out the whoppers here. I suggested no such thing.

You simply made up that ridiculous baloney you claim I "suggested" you post. I knew noting about that tripe until you posted it. To me it was not interesting at all. Your statement that I suggested you post it is a lie.

gisterme - 01:44am Oct 1, 2003 EST (# 14192 of 14193)

"...In complicated circumstances look at how N! increases as N increases..."

By what leap of faith do you manage to get from a description of the numerical factorial function to some meaning that seems personally threatening to you? Mercy!

Sure the numbers grow when you multiply them with themselves. So what? Somehow that doesn't scare me because factorial functions in and of themselves are not models of reality. Numbers are not some kind of kewpie dolls that can each cause some poor guy to scream if they're counted.

gisterme - 01:51am Oct 1, 2003 EST (# 14193 of 14193)

"...'What will be the next chemical of paramount significance?'..."

Stomach acid, lchic?

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