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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 - 09:34am Jul 29, 2002 EST (#3336 of 3336)

Sometime, after 8:08 pm yesterday, and before wrcooper 7/28/02 9:27pm , "wrcooper" removed 22 of his postings, dating from July 15th (just before my main computer was knocked down.) I have the postings.

These postings represent serious effort on "wrcooper"'s part, and are neither casual nor honest.

I think most reasonable people reading these postings (and the way they associate in logic and time with Mazza's) -- and looking at the great efforts in them to defame me, and to defend and even glorfy George Johnson - would conclude what I've concluded.

I conclude that there is a very high likelyhood - not far short of a certainty - that wrcooper, kalter.rauch, mazza, and dirac are pseudonyms for George Johnson.

I believe that, because of postings on this thread since September 2000, especially those just deleted, and also because of very extensive private correspondence supporting the same inference.

For a lot of reasons, that inference should be checked. It can be.

I have the postings, and am looking at them.

This is a serious matter, and I'm dealing with it carefully.

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