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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 - 05:13pm Oct 19, 2003 EST (# 15245 of 15245)
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.

For example, 15018 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.H8pKbD0ZPqd.3541604@.f28e622/16729 says "I think getting this solar energy project done would be worth more to the US national security than anything that can possibly happen in Iraq.

13039 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.H8pKbD0ZPqd.3541604@.f28e622/14716

13040 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.H8pKbD0ZPqd.3541604@.f28e622/14717

13041 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.H8pKbD0ZPqd.3541604@.f28e622/14718

13042 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.H8pKbD0ZPqd.3541604@.f28e622/14719

The process of generating and perfecting such solutions - and checking them - is clearer than it used to be - because of work lchic and I did together - especially this http://www.mrshowalter.net/DBeauty.html

That doesn't depend at all on what some people say about my sanity in 1988 - or now - for people who look at the work, and judge for themselves.

If I had a stable answer to my security questions - that could be used administratively - I'd be out of my current effective house arrest.

And I'd be free to discuss "how crazy I'd been" with a lot of people I can't talk to comfortably now. Including some old AEA investors - who might find it an interesting "story".

And this thread would remain as big as it is - and as full of interesting posts (even if you happen to discount mine). http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm

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