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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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lchic - 04:50pm Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3744 of 3766)

Quiet Please - There's a lady on stage

http://www.artistdirect.com/music/artist/card/0,,396710,00.html

The logic Sir, has to be that the support of hundreds of primed nuclear bombs, is the support of the risk of a chain reaction accident .... nuclear annihilation.

The day that the rains came down - EU

Note that folks have a mammoth task in trying to deal with the whims of nature - which they have to accept - think of the anquish and disruption that unnecessary catastrophy would cause!

mazza9 - 06:41pm Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3745 of 3766)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

lchic:

That, is bogus logic. Ask yourself, what incident that you propose, spread the most fallout over Europe. The four nuclear weapons that were scattered over the southern Spanish countryside of Chernobly?

As I remember it the United States cleaned up the mess it created and said, "I'm sorry" while your communist buddies said, "Oops!"

LouMazza

rshow55 - 06:52pm Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3746 of 3766)

Mazza, I've spent some hours talking to you over the phone - and I have some sympathy for you. All the same - sometimes you amaze me.

Of the hundreds of postings you've made -- a few have had some little merit. Very few. Not including the one above.

Bogus logic?

We made a mess we COULD clean up - as we should have. You equate a plane crash to Chernobyl?

As for what you remember -- you remember in ways that are so biased that it astonishes me.

If we'd said "I'm sorry" and sorted though problems - - and said "oops" when we should have said "oops" -- the world would be a much safer place.

rshow55 - 06:54pm Aug 16, 2002 EST (# 3747 of 3766)

I'm real proud of the postings from 3730 lchic 8/16/02 7:03am to 3741 rshow55 8/16/02 9:04am

In 3733 rshow55 8/16/02 8:39am I cite some background and in 3734 rshow55 8/16/02 8:42am I list some things that I think this the thread has accomplished.

I wonder if anybody who cares to post disagrees?

Some ideas take a long time to take off -- then conditions change, and notions propagate through the culture. MD2000 rshow55 5/4/02 11:36am
Chain Breakers http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/618

Some things are statistical. Other things are not.

Is it a coincidence that the United States is now at odds with so many other countries?

The Odds of That by LISA BELKIN http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magazine/11COINCIDENCE.html

Lots of things are statistical. But counting and a sense of context both matter.

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