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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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lchic - 07:31am Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15554 of 15580)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Patriot Missile Defense System in Iraq:

    Newly-released Army History Raises Serious Questions
The military is still finishing up its analysis of the Patriot missile defense system’s performance in Iraq this past spring. Also coming soon are the results from investigations into the three friendly fire incidents the Patriot was involved in, which killed one American and two British pilots. However, these studies have been delayed time and again, although they reportedly have long been completed and are waiting for sign-offs by higher-ups ....

October 22, 2003

http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=1798&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=D.DateLastUpdated&ProgramID=6&from_page=index.cfm

lchic - 07:36am Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15555 of 15580)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Treaties and Laws

http://www.cdi.org/program/issue/index.cfm?ProgramID=6&issueid=74

lchic - 07:49am Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15556 of 15580)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/222.html

rshow55 - 07:51am Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15557 of 15580)
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.

Beautiful, beautiful posts by Lchic above!

Something to hope for: Lchic 15117 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.jPSLbZfbRWP.0@.f28e622/16829

The Emperor's "New Sheild" - a superb juxtaposition by Lchic. 15254-15255 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.jPSLbZfbRWP.0@.f28e622/16967

She is a world asset - the most valuable mind I've "never been near".

But gotten to know.

lchic - 07:52am Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15558 of 15580)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Where have all the horses gone

long time passing

gone to horse-graze everyone

when will they ever learn?

rshow55 - 07:54am Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15559 of 15580)
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.

We're involved in sorting some things out - remembering precedents - and shifting paradigms in workable ways

15248 -50 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.jPSLbZfbRWP.0@.f28e622/16961

Though bad results are possible - new departures are, too.

This is a "game that is not a game" - and I've been spending a little time wondering how to "win my game" without cooperation from the NYT team, or gisterme.

15118 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.jPSLbZfbRWP.0@.f28e622/16830

15175 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.jPSLbZfbRWP.0@.f28e622/16887

And a lot of time working to do better than that.

The NYT editorial page often asks diplomats to arrange things that they do not how to do technically - and I think we're getting close to a situation where these hoped for things can be done routinely and practically.

I'll be calling the NYT this morning.

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