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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 - 08:40am Oct 9, 2002 EST (# 4765 of 4766)
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.

Here's a repost of a part of a deleted post of mine: rshow55 - 01:06pm Oct 3, 2002 EST (# 4749

: I like this quote:

" The young are naturally romantic, and given to moral absolutes that necessarily make the real world of compromise, half-measures, and self-seeking appear corrupt.

.... Robert H. Bork, SLOUCHING TOWARDS GOMORRAH: Modern Liberalism and American Decline

We all live in a real world of compromise, half-measures, and an avoidance of too-harsh realities. People couldn't live any other way - and it ought to be no surprise when muddles and messes happen. Most times, moral indignation may not be very useful.

As for me, I'm taking time out for lunch, and I'll be back to you.

We've had some back-and-forth - - - "a few postings" - - on how to get some key things checked . . . . .

I came back about an hour later - and was cut off from the forums.

Shortly thereafter - all the forums were shut down.

I can't be sure of the reason. But I did appreciate the fact that the forums came back up - - and if, as I've imagined - there was some internal discussion about what posts to permit, and what to delete - - it seems to me that some honorable, public spirited real-world compromises were made. I was glad, when the forum was reopened, that these posts were the last left standing.

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4740 rshow55 10/3/02 9:14am

rshow55 - 08:48am Oct 9, 2002 EST (# 4766 of 4766)
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.

I do notice, however, that the Search capacity has been deleted. I think that's a shame.

If you click "rshow55" there's this:

"I've been working on this thread since September 25, 2000 rshow55 4/21/02 3:11pm where I had an all-day meeting on the web with an authoritative figure.

A recounting of what this Missile Defense thread has done since then is set out in Psychwarfare, Casablanca - - and terror from #151 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/159 on. Links before March 1, 2002 are no longer on the web, but are available on CD. Discussion of this thread continues from #265 http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/281

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