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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 - 09:35am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4619 of 4628)
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.

It'd be fun if IEEE could organize an "ad hoc committee for the arrest, conviction, and crucifixion of M. Robert Showalter" - - taking me to task for "errors" in things I've said about missile defense - and perhaps guidance and stability issues, too.

Even more fun if such a "committee" could be organized at a place with real independence, and some feistiness (say Stanford, or MIT.)

Some interesting things might become clarified - in ways entertaining, and in the national interest.

As Kipling said

"the female of the species . . . is more dangerous than the male."

Fun, but a little chilling, to think about how a female IEEE president might take me apart!

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rshow55 - 09:37am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4620 of 4628)
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.

They would be a great team - - and with the web techniques shown on this thread, people could focus on right answers about facts that everybody reasonable would have to agree on.

And some reasonable actions, and balances, would be pretty self evident.

If only people were reasonably clear about what it is to be a human being - a human being who can make mistakes - - and has to be careful, and check.

lchic - 09:43am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4621 of 4628)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

This one is for increasing IEEE membership and fundraising ... the only aspect of RS (or any other) she'd demand is a credit card detail -- which would be double checked!

:)

lchic - 09:47am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4622 of 4628)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Edwina Curry - is serialising her diaries .... a Major who was seen by cartoonists as either tucking his shirt in his underpants, or, wearing them over his trousers .... is acknowledged.

The Major is now president

of

Carlyle - EU

"Back to BASICS" was his moral value campaigne!

lchic - 09:49am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4623 of 4628)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

IEEE http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/INST/mar02/fusa.html

lchic - 09:57am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4624 of 4628)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Don't bomb Iraq - Free Palestine!

is the slogan

200,000 people are 'out' in London

More than half the population of, respectively, UK, France, & Netherlands are AGAINST war with Iraq.

"The possession and use of Nuclear weapons has been ruled ILLEGAL" ... Nuclear Disarmament's VP Bruce Kemp.

Seems the US, having nukes, is doing Illegal things .... !!!

lchic - 10:02am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4625 of 4628)
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W o r l d ~ G o v e r n a n c e

was the term used by Kemp, above, he saying that a world body should ensure the removal of Nukes!

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