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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 - 07:29pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6394 of 6401)
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.

commondata 12/9/02 2:59pm - - - how many MP's are there - how would I get their adresses - and if I did so, do you think some journalists might be interested enough to notice?

You have my email adress.

bbbuck - 07:37pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6395 of 6401)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

ahahahahaha. You're the best. Continue on 'missile defense' forum poster warrior.
It's people like you that allow us all to believe in humanity!
I've sent your posts to a pschoanalyst think tank.
They want to interview you, next tuesday.
They will be contacting you shortly.
Good work, sir. Your dots are connected and the defense ship is homing in.
Don't strip any more deceptions I think they are naked enough already.

bbbuck - 08:00pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6396 of 6401)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

I miss wordspayy's 'total real system analysis' of things.
I wonder where wordspayy is or what he is, too, for that matter.
God bless you mr. wordspayy, may all your analysis be straightforward and meaningful.
Come back and post to us sometime, ya here?

rshow55 - 08:46pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6397 of 6401)
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.

commondata 12/9/02 2:59pm - - - a key question is - could MP's, in actual fact - ask that key issues be checked? Could they be motivated to do so? Preparing 600 disks and mailing them wouldn't necessarily be impossible - but it would be hard to get motivated, unless there was a reasonable chance of getting them read by some key people.

It wouldn't take too many straight questions - backed by enough force to demand answers - all on subjects in the open literature - to lay a great deal of muddle aside - and show that, in any reasonable military sense, MD can't work - even as a bluff. Though one can do some very impressive (and expensive) stunts on the assumption that the enemy is too stupid to use even the simplest realistic countermeasures.

rshow55 - 08:49pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6398 of 6401)
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.

5899 rshow55 11/17/02 9:08pm includes this:

"International law and international patterns of conduct are being redefined, clarified, and renegotiated.
5555 rshow55 11/8/02 5:56pm . . . 5556 rshow55 11/8/02 5:57pm
and though there's still a lot to be desired - a lot of problems - I think it is a hopeful as well as a troubled time.

" If the result is war, it will be a great human failure and tragedy - but the consequences for the world will still be far better than they would have been without the negotiation. If the result is peaceful, practical disarmament - it will be a great and historical step toward a better world.

5900 rshow55 11/17/02 9:13pm

5901 almarst2002 11/17/02 9:30pm

A lot has happened since - and it is now a time where we are going to find out whether international law is becoming useful - or being set aside. It is important that nations, including the United States, abide by the agreements they made - interpretable in terms of the words they used, at length, when the agreements were made only a few weeks ago.

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