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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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cantabb - 09:13am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16335 of 16345)

rshow55 - 08:19am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16322 of 16329)

Assuming that post was for me . . I've been waiting to see "the lay of the land" - and resting enough so that I can keep my head, and ask others to keep theirs.

You "assume" too much ! That was for your other loyal follower, Fred"irregardless"moore -- so, perhaps indirectly yours !

All you need to do is to see if you "can keep [your] head" --- others would do it their own way !

And move slowly and carefully enough that a stable win-win solution happens.

Nothing but a much over-used nonsense. There is NO such thing as a "Win-Win" situation -- Just an acceptable compromise, which you try to glorify !

Whatever it is, it's YOUR situation: NOBODY else's !

Or, failing that, moving carefully enough so that I can have results Eisenhower would approve of as things go on.

Since IKE is no longer with us, we would never know what he assigned you and why, and whether he'd approve of what you have been doing all these years -- during his presidential-term, and after that, or for the past 34 years or so since his death.

The world has gotten lot more complex, technlogically and politically, since 1961.

"Can we [rshow + lchic] do a better job of finding truth?" : Not WITHOUT evidence (supportive), I don't think !

rshow55 - 09:14am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16336 of 16345)
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.

Bluestar23 , I'm brave enough, and careful enough - to get some of your attention.

What, exactly, do I owe you?

Or Cantabb?

I have obligations to some other people and organizations. But surely not to you.

And if you want to "call me Ishmael" http://www.mrshowalter.net/CaseyRel.html - that's fine with me.

rshow55 - 09:17am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16337 of 16345)
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: "The world has gotten lot more complex, technlogically and politically, since 1961."

But some key unsolved problems remain - and lchic and I have made some progress.

Enough progress, for instance - to get quite a lot of interest, first and last, from The New York Times http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm .

bluestar23 - 09:18am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16338 of 16345)

"if you want to "call me Ishmael""

Stop REPEATING this "Ishmael" nonsense ...just STOP IT...!!!

bluestar23 - 09:20am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16339 of 16345)

"to get quite a lot of interest, first and last, from The New York Times.."

WHAT INTEREST..??? Show it, PROVE it....Where is it..?

bluestar23 - 09:22am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16340 of 16345)

:"What, exactly, do I owe you?"

"Or Cantabb?"

You owe us the RIGHTS we have to enjoy posting here, WITHOUT YOUR SPAMMING about everything EXCEPT Missile Defense...SHUT UP...!!!

bluestar23 - 09:28am Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16341 of 16345)

I'll let you in on one thing, Showalter...yes, this is a "job' for me...that is true....

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