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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 - 04:39pm Oct 14, 2003 EST (# 15007 of 15020)
TRUTH outs in the end : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=collaborator

lchic - 04:46pm Oct 14, 2003 EST (# 15008 of 15020)
TRUTH outs in the end : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Jorian .... I'm busy designing an new device, it's called

THE CANTABBULATOR

Process - press the 'WHIZ' button

Output - beggars belief

It's a cute item for the executive who has everything range.

WRC sent a subliminal message

to take Cantabb off Ignore ... the Cantabbulator picked up on this ...

rshow55 - 04:49pm Oct 14, 2003 EST (# 15009 of 15020)
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.

Maybe this thread is just a prototype - with (very good) stand-ins -but judging from the degree attack when I've asked who gisterme is - and the significant efforts of jorian319

http://www.mrshowalter.net/jorian319_Mar20_May26_2003_WrittenOut.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/Jorian319_May30_toOc9_2003.htm

and cantabb http://www.mrshowalter.net/Cantabb_Srch_toOct_10.htm

some able people may in fact be paying attention.

There are some essentially simple, but large scale patterns that need a careful look.

1623 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1792

1624 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7b2bd/1793

I can only do so much "under fire".

Logical constructs that are as useful as they happen to be. Some f = ma for example - are enormously useful. And both "simple and small" and "huge" - depending on perspective.

Work on this thread is going on to come up with other logical constructs - well worth the trouble. Some commercial. Some of the most important too large to be commercial.

My guess , notwithstanding Jorian's advice - is that a good many people beyond me and lchic care about this thread.

Reading http://www.mrshowalter.net/jorian319_Mar20_May26_2003_WrittenOut.htm gives reason to suspect that some of those people may have managerial responsibilities.

Now if people with managerial responsibilities could learn a few things . . . who knows what might happen?

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