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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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bluestar23 - 07:27pm Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16398 of 16399)

rshow55:

"NO FAIR connecting those dots in interconnected ways -"

But, rshow, who would ever try to connect those dots in UNCONNECTED Ways to begin with...? Connecting dots in "interconnected ways" is redundant and confusing wording...

rshow55 - 07:27pm Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16399 of 16399)
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.

There's quite a lot of material organized at

http://www.mrshowalter.net

- and I've been hoping to organize a Disciplined Beauty parnership http://www.mrshowalter.net/DBeauty.html modelled on AEA - but with better abilities to explain things. Because I've been hoping to actually get Robert Showalter problems solved - and sold -with explanations by lchic .

I think the corpus of this forum can be very useful - and as for threads - on the Guardian there are good ones - and key ones are archived at http://www.mrshowalter.net

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