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Missile Defense

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 - 01:41pm Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14266 of 14270)
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.

Cantabb , just now I'm tired.

I think "connecting the dots" and "loop tests" are useful. Not perfect, not complete in themselves, but still essential to human cognition. And not well enough understood today. It seems clear that Cantabb disagrees.

I'm running behind on a lot of things I'd like to do - and need to rest a little, too.

Whether or not you like the "connections of the dots" illustrated, it seems to me that the articles related to the cites are well worth reading. They are written by people I respect - because of the writing - and the placement of the articles. Perhaps cantabb respects these people and this work, too. But maybe not . It seems to me that he goes way out of his way to acknowledge any common ground about anything.

Cites for Plato's Problem

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1431_1433.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md2000s/md2565.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5361.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7970.htm

Cites for Latent Semantic Analysis

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1431_1433.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md2000s/MD2076.HTM http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md2000s/md2565.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5353.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md5000s/md5361.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7970.htm

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