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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 - 07:52pm Nov 15, 2002 EST (# 5807 of 5807)
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.

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@10.bsGBaVVLM2J.22@.ee7a163/347 . . . this board is all very nice - as a backwater in which to discuss things. But it is limited.

But if the leaders of infuential nation states actually wanted things checked - - and were willing to ask for that -- the checking would happen.

If they couldn't risk asking too directly - perhaps they could ask indirectly.

A lot of things could sort out, if things were checked. A lot of journalists - with the status validation leaders of nation states could add - woudl want to help.

Without that degree of courage - there are limits to what can be done.

Really out. I need some rest, too.

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