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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 - 02:29pm Jan 5, 2003 EST (# 7368 of 7376)
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.

Moscow Offers Help in Resolving U.S. Standoff With North Korea By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-korea-north.html filed 12:15 looks very good. Beautiful. Something Putin ought to be proud of. North Korea, within its constraints - wants to make a deal that will work in the interest of itself, and (necessarily) the key interests of the United States. The North Koreans can't be blamed for refusing to commit suicide on cue now - or blamed for not having done so in the past. From where they stand, some threats to us are understandable, no matter how regrettable they may be.

This development is very good - and has enough complexity that it has quite a good chance of making progress.

If, in coordination with this, the President of the United States would get some primal things sorted out - this would be a very hopeful time - for all concerned !

Whether one believes in evolution of the argument from design - some facts of genetrics and development are clear. There are such things a lethal mutations. In my isolated position - there are plenty of things I can't even think about doing - but I can think hard about trying to avoid such lethals.

With some key things checked - they can be avoided - and avoided easily, gracefully, at very low cost in time and trouble. When lethals are not avoided - some terrible things happen.

Gisterme , if I offended you, I made a mistake, but all the same, for reasons I cannot change - I need you to be clear on the points I asked about - not necessarily to agree with me - but to be clear. If you were - with this development - a lot of things could go very well - for everybody - and set nice precedents for international law that would make us all safer.

lunarchick - 02:29pm Jan 5, 2003 EST (# 7369 of 7376)

RS you seem more than concerned that the US isn't checkmated!

rshow55 - 02:30pm Jan 5, 2003 EST (# 7370 of 7376)
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 feel a lot better, after having read what Moscow is doing. It may not work. But it may be a part of a sequence which, carefully done, can sort things out gracefully, effectively, and in a reasonably short time.

lunarchick - 02:32pm Jan 5, 2003 EST (# 7371 of 7376)

... and you (RS) are in the Madison phone book!

rshow55 - 02:34pm Jan 5, 2003 EST (# 7372 of 7376)
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.

Now, I can take the risk of answering two excellent posts by gisterme that I was afraid to answer before -- things are not locked into stasis that would make certain checkings impossible - and I was worried about that - though if bback is in communication with gisterme , that's hopeful - because it shows a visceral response that might not have triggered the right response - but is at about the right level. Lethals are gut-wrenching things.

We have to avoid them - for everybody concerned. It takes a little work. Not too much. It is obligatory, and not particularly difficult.

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