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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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mazza9 - 07:23pm Sep 10, 2002 EST (# 4260 of 4261)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

"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?"

Robert, being dumb and unaccomplished I need your help. Would you please check the quotation, connect the dots and communicate to me EXACTLY what I'm missing. I find it difficult to understand lchic's focus on Iraq, ENRON, the Easter Bunny re the forum topic. Maybe you can provide a mathematical histogram which plots the B*llshit on the X Axis and the Inaneness Index on the Y Axis, (or is it Why Axis?)

lchic - 10:32pm Sep 10, 2002 EST (# 4261 of 4261)

At 11am this morning 11 Sept - an hour+ ago - I was asked by K-Mart 'to stand still for 1 minutes silence' as a mark of respect for people who died in New York last year.

So there I was, stranded in mid-stream in K-Mart, holding a significantly heavy box - with a minute to 'think' and 'reflect' and wonder why people had to die, why people are always having to die for weird politically inspired nonsense-ical causes.

The postings I post relate to the workings of 'minds' which need to work more efficiently and effectively if they're to conquer simple problems such as stopping human wastage in extreme and violent circumstance!

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