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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 - 07:56am Nov 18, 2002 EST (# 5911 of 5911)
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.

U.S. Taking Steps to Lay Foundation for Action in Iraq By JAMES DAO and ERIC SCHMITT http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/international/18MILI.html

Careful work.

Standards are being renegotiated in the working out of practical circumstances - now. rshow55 11/17/02 8:31pm . Things are rough - and surely very imperfect from many points of view. But it is just possible that things that have gone well will continue to.

If that happened, the bad things about the past that Almarst has pointed out still couldn't be undone - but they might be much better explained and more widely understood.

And things might get better.

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