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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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lunarchick - 12:22am Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7470 of 7479)

^{Oprah Winfrey (talk show host) had a program on Iraq}

Looking at her face - she was uneasy - tense

Usually she's happy bouncy - fun

Not that day

A couple of guys on the show were 'very comfortable' they could play and weave with prospective death - happily

Yet Oprah just didn't look comfortable that day - why? She didn't say.

gisterme - 12:39am Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7471 of 7479)

fredmoore 1/7/03 3:55am

"...Keep on posting ... and ... hey, my post is more relevamt to MD than 99% of 'what else lurks beneath the MD banner'..."

No, doubt about that, fred. Here's why

gisterme 1/5/03 4:36pm

lunarchick - 12:48am Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7472 of 7479)

... and for a pitch fork ... first losing your bales and then being deshafted ....

great logic you guys

Keep feeding those bats!

bbbuck - 12:57am Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7473 of 7479)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

Hey if anyone is interested on 'Creation and Evolution' chemist99a lost his job, and appears to be accusing a fellow forumite (cantabb) of somehow causing it.
I was going to post a question to chemist99a and ask him how he thinks cantabb could have accomplished this, but I chickened out.
Still I thought it interesting how a person could lose a job he's held for 20 years and then blame an 'anonymous' poster for perhaps causing this job loss.

Luckily I own no bats, but thanks for the pet healthcare tip, luuney-bat-chick.

gisterme - 12:57am Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7474 of 7479)

rshow55 1/7/03 7:19pm

"...Something unexpected went wrong, in a sequence that looked otherwise like it was very right..."

That seems to happen to you a lot, Robert.

"...I'm "going around in circles"..."

Wow! That's exactly the same thing that happens when you yoke up an ox alongside an ass! About the only thing that lash-up is good for is making crop circles. :-)

lunarchick - 02:13am Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7475 of 7479)

^{Don't post on C&E - if i did reChem99 i'd say}

Job security is an illusion.
A linear look at the functionings of an HR dept would be insightful.
What's their true mission?
When, where and how does an employee fall short?
Consider redundancy v updateness.
Look at the direction of the entity.
Isn't this the same world that used to fire women the moment their bodies became creative and started to evolve.
America - you're standing in it!

lunarchick - 02:25am Jan 8, 2003 EST (# 7476 of 7479)

Gisteme posts more crumbs from the floor .. gisterme 1/8/03 12:57am ... rather than engage at a higher conceptual level.

Showalter don't spend too much time tit-tatting with Gisterme .. the board doesn't have an html central gutter-space command - to sit Question opposite answer ... it all just starts to merge and swim when S&G get down to the crumby bits ... the whole cake (big picture) is where it's at!
Is it?
Most often?
Usually?
Sometimes?
The crumbs are important .....
they connect like dots ...
to make whole cakes ....
with different ingredients ....
Ordered Cakes
Symmetrical Cakes with butterfly wings
Harmonious Cakes
But you can't have your cake and eat it
Cream Cakes
in your face
Egg " "
Missed-American Pie

Would we get to Arabic-Liberty with Democracy faster?

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