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Missile Defense

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 - 09:19pm Sep 2, 2002 EST (# 4141 of 4141)
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.

wrcooper 9/2/02 8:37pm . . . so my "opinions represent a dangerous aberration that requires the strongest possible refutation."

Taking that sort of position - and knowing how indirect enronation is - how much can be subverted - and how much stolen?

This thread may well work for pretrial discovery.

And we have an audience.

Some of my personal background - and to some degree the story of my somewhat unusual life, is set out in readable form in these links (3894-3904):

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