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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 - 09:25pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (# 4924 of 4927)
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.

The Guardian Thread Psychwarfare, Casablanca . . . and terror http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/0 is data - it is a record - and it was altered today.

I'm supposed to be the only person who can delete my own posts - and this posting was deleted - for reasons that I think may be significant. (I wouldn't have thought to delete the posting #219 - July 25, 2001 - but can see why some people might want to.)

To delete the posting that was, till today, # 219 - a posting 15 months old -- wasn't a casual act.

The links reproduced above link to postings prior to March 2002 that are preserved on CD.

The work cited in these deleted postings, I believe, was what it was intended to be - a major service to national interest - a successful effort to build bridges of communication that were necessary, and have borne fruit since.

1998 rshow55 5/4/02 10:35am . . . 1999 rshow55 5/4/02 10:39am
2000 rshow55 5/4/02 11:36am

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It seems to me that there are things that need to be CHECKED.

rshow55 - 10:35pm Oct 15, 2002 EST (# 4925 of 4927)
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've worked hard, and Dawn has worked hard - to solidify lines of communication that are of vital, big scale life and death concern to the United States of America, and the whole world. A communication model. http://www.worldtrans.org/TP/TP1/TP1-17.HTML

Here is the index page of a CD -- “Missile Defense - New York Times on the Web - Science Forum Archive - - rshowalt 7/19/02 9:16am - by distinguished anonymous posters and M. Robert Showalter.” The CD is now available in updated form, with key Guardian Talk threads, and demonstration programs on polynomial processing.

If you click " rshow55" in the upper left hand corner of this postings, you'll access some links - some, set out in groups of links, that connect to postings that tell something of my background. I say that I worked under Bill Casey. And yet I have produced no records. How can anybody be surprised, considering the priority of the work I was entrusted to do?

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