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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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lunarchick - 12:16am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7489 of 7501)

Seems weired that the plane crashed on landing in Turkey ... fog or no.

If guidance is as good and true as 'The Poster' says it is ... then crash landings - even in peaSoupers - should be a thing of the past!

lunarchick - 12:22am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7490 of 7501)

Weird that the EU folk who've lived through REAL WAR ... 9/11 to the nth

Say that WAR is Wrong Wrong Wrong ... and other means of correction must be devised!

In the Early Forties the Euros were bombed on their way home from school ... never got back to Mammy's place ... friend - end - no more.

Many EU cities were bomb-sites ... evidenced way through to the end of the Sixties ... the EU's say the USA doesn't understand the concept or meaning of war in terms of capital cost, social cost, they don't understand the value of a human life .... makes the USA sound very immature -- that's by comparison to those EU guys!

lunarchick - 12:25am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7491 of 7501)

Poster i did check out the CvE site ... seems there's a lot of paranoia running through there ... if folks opt for E when the Old Testament says C ... do they get the boot?

Lots of homophobia too ... George Michael(UK entertainer) said the USA is - and i quote - "Homophobia from wall to wall" .... Weird!

bbbuck - 12:42am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7492 of 7501)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

to posterette:
Let's see statements from posterette:
EU understands war damage - USA doesn't - wow what a good sweeping statement.
A statement of some type concerning CvsE uhhh ok.
No they don't get the boot they get hounded viciously vociferously by the entrenched evolutionists.
And the posterette finishes it off with a quote from George Michael (a sex fiend ) - oookey dookey.

Uh I'm trying to fathom what significance or relevance those statements may have to a particular point of view or a slant of arguement but I can't get the significance or the relevance.
But then relevance isn't quite your game, is it.

gisterme - 02:38am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7493 of 7501)

almarst2002 1/8/03 12:40pm

"..."...the missile shield "philosophy" assumes the desirability of the limitless global hegemony..." - "

What a backward sounding thing to say, almarst. In my view, the missile shield philosophy only assumes the undesirability of being nuked.

gisterme - 02:48am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7494 of 7501)

rshow55 1/8/03 1:42pm

"...I made a suggestion - that I should be paid -..."

Then get a job!

"...or given total discretion to deal with my own needs without interference..."

Robert, you have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What sort of nonesense is this stuff about "total descretion to deal with my own needs without interference"???

Even the president of the United States doesn't have that. Sheesh!

gisterme - 03:03am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7495 of 7501)

lunarchick 1/8/03 7:21pm

"...If someone has knowledge and wisdom and shares it ... they still have the same knowledge and wisdom ...

True.

"...but .... those they share it with gain and are enriched..."

Only if those the wisdom is shared with listen and understand. They have ears; but, too often they listen a while, then decide they don't want to hear. Murder follows.

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