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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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gisterme - 12:56pm Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6941 of 6946)

lunarchick 12/22/02 7:23am

"...AlQ's mob are said to be developing a 'dirty nuke bomb' on the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan .... now that's a worry ..."

Everybody knows that the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region is a hotbed of technological activity, world renowned for its glittering facilities and fine laboratories... :-) ...sort of the Taliban Silicon Valley...

Maybe there will be an accidental test of the dirty nuke right there in the lab...

gisterme - 01:04pm Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6942 of 6946)

lunarchick 12/22/02 7:39am

"...Were there benchmarking of leadership - then - the leaflet ephemera could checklist the current shortfalls ... what is/isn't in the national-interest?..."

Do you think that people who are hungry, sick and who know that they're nothing but cannon fodder and human shields need to be told via leaflets what the problems are with their government?

Lchic, you really do live in the land of Oz, huh?

'Seen the wizard lately?

gisterme - 01:12pm Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6943 of 6946)

rshow55 12/22/02 8:57am

"...That work involved great contributions from "stand-ins" who have taken the role of senior Russian and American officials - -..."

That's entirely BS, Robert. Nobody contributed anything with the intent of being a "stand in" for anybody else. That was another of your hallucinations. You wanted to see it that way so you said it was so. It wasn't. I'm glad that you're at least using the past tense when you speak of it.

gisterme - 01:23pm Dec 22, 2002 EST (# 6944 of 6946)

bbbuck 12/22/02 10:39am

"good night ralph. The other sheep dog-"Good night sam"."

Ralph - "To the moon, Alice!"

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