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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 - 07:06pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17350 of 17358)

Bluestar:

Someone asking of rshow "if it's raining outside" would get something like this:

lchic and I have bee thinking about it and have worked on resolving climatic conditions to save lives and bring peace and stability around the world. The US actions have been extremely harmful and have caused problems: truth that has to be checked by "Loop Test" and by having kids tie their shoes.

This is what I posted on Sept 1, 2000; {5o links). But fights are stable with some unstable consequences -- may not as much but to some extent. NYT does not think so, but its employees in disguise have posted things that are critical, as I mentioned to Putin, and then conveyed the same to Rice, Rumsfeld and GWBush directly or through their stand-ins. I am proud of the things I have done to statistically determine their identity, and lchic agreed with me in our 2 hour conversation this morning. lchic, the most intellingent mind and most beautiful person I've met, said that:

beauty

flower

conscience

world

peace and stability

poverty

humanity.

I couldn't agree with her more.

I don't want to do anything to break my promises to Casey, and Eisenhower who commandeered me while I was 18. What I'll do now is to have a beer, my wife handed me that, and after that I'll take a nap. Then I'll dream things, and will take the dog for walk. I think Casey and Eisnhower will approve of it. I wouldn't do anything that Casey would not have approved of, because I'm indentured. I was asked to solve some problems that nobody could solve. That's how Eisenhower wanted. Casey told me to come throught NYT. I met Natalie Angier who may or may not have been an NYT employee. I handed her my CD on my "corpus" that describes in detail cantabb's affiliation with NYT.

In any case, here are a few LINKS of what I had said Oct 11. I thought it's worth repeating........

When after the nap, I'll have my lunch (Tuna sandwich on rye, with lettuce and tomatoes and a thin slice of pickle, and mayo (I know Casey will approve of it and he'll be proud of me and the trust that he placed in my hands for the national security of US and the world). I'll negotiate a win-win solution. And when I go out side and my dog and I get wet, may be it calls for "checking" the facts as Steve Kline mentioned.....

cantabb - 07:07pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17351 of 17358)

I didn't notice that Jorian had also had a take-off on it earlier.

bluestar23 - 07:08pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17352 of 17358)

"Then, and only then can he take the bold step of failing to answer the question."

Ha!

bluestar23 - 07:12pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17353 of 17358)

Cantabb gets it!

"What I'll do now is to have a beer, my wife handed me that, and after that I'll take a nap. Then I'll dream things, and will take the dog for walk. I think Casey and Eisnhower will approve of it."

Heh...too funny....

cantabb - 07:29pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17354 of 17358)

Question ? What question ?

Glad you liked it bluestar.

:)

jorian319 - 07:42pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17355 of 17358)

Not bad, cantabb, but points off for not including:

http://www.self_referential_link1.com/

http://www.self_referential_link2.com/

http://www.self_referential_link3.com/

''' ...

http://www.self_referential_link23.com/

,,,otherwise, good job!

bluestar23 - 07:46pm Nov 11, 2003 EST (# 17356 of 17358)

To tell the truth, I've had a hell of a lot of fun on this thread, the weirdest one I've ever run across.....too bad it's going, it was a gas for a while....who knows, maybe I'll sneak 'round and follow the Travelling Circus of the (probably irrepressible) rshow & his portable Einstein-Ghandi, lchic. Bets he'll be around...he's got in his head that the "work" is too important to stop....

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