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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 - 11:28am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7527 of 7532)
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've got to try to get some sleep. I could die - when I've gotten into this position before, I've had problems - and at AEA, very serious problems.

I'm going to try to take a nap. Out for a while.

If we're orderly, symmetric, and harmonious, from many sorts, when you include consistency with data - there will be a few things that are consistent.

Relatively few, in a sense. In another sense - and a very important sense - an overwhelmingly large number - an organized in some ways, too.

The odds are overwhelming that, within a sign change in a long sequence of code - these things are true and real - whether people agree on some fundamentals, such as religion, of whether they don't.

order matters -- symmetry matters -- harmony matters -- checking matters -- checking orders matter, and there are many of them -- checking symettries, and symettries of orders, are numerous - only a few work at all well - one MUCH better than any others I have seen - - and I've been looking at these symettries a good while - harmony matters - and you can't harmonize everything.

You can't prove everything, or much. You can't harmonize everything, or even very much. But is seems to me that if we keep at it - we can do very well.

Much better than we've been doing.

But I've got to try to get some sleep. Some of the checking sequences are long - you have to be meticulous - and it can effect your sense of time.

lunarchick - 11:48am Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7528 of 7532)

Brain - "Don't get Ratty" - Thinking

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1368912.stm

http://www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca/bin1/010226j.asp

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"" The human brain is the master control system of the body, the brain requires 20% of our oxygen and energy supply for over 100 billion brain cells. The blood flow of oxygen to the brain is essential to feed the brain with vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids. The brain cells use 5% of all sugar (glucose) in the blood and other organs will burn fat.

Oxygen to the brain is reduced when it combines with fats rather than blood sugar, this is called lipofuscin. Lipofuscin damages and kills brain cells and this is where antioxidant nutrients help by reducing free radical damage.

Blood sugar (glucose) is needed to produce ATP energy, which the brain depends on, the ATP molecules release stored energy to generate neurotransmitters and this then transports protein to cells and enhances the quality of your life."" http://www.jerseyhealth.freeservers.com/brain_food.htm

Showalter is an 'original thinker' .. which involves a much sorting - ordering, symetrical comparison and harmonising. Many factors are considered and examined and explored much discarded ... as those of interest are gleaned and polished.

Take care of yourself Shols!

lunarchick - 12:26pm Jan 9, 2003 EST (# 7529 of 7532)

Poem - Andrew Motion "CAUSA BELLI"

CAUSA BELLI by Andrew Motion

They read good books, and quote, but never learn
a language other than the scream of rocket-burn.
Our straighter talk is drowned but ironclad:
elections, money, empire, oil and Dad.

"" In a rare step for a poet laureate, Andrew Motion today speaks out in his newest poem against the momentum towards a US-led invasion of Iraq using British forces who would be serving nominally under the Queen. In the 30-word poem, Motion, who was appointed by the Queen in 1999, sides with those who are "doubtful" about a war - and against the political leaderships of Britain and America.

He said yesterday that the leaders' rhetoric hid "several of the motives which are actually driving the thing forward. In other words, it's as much to do with oil, imperialism and a sort of strange father fixation [on President Bush's part]. They are not being candid".

The poem, printed here exclusively, is called Causa Belli, a Latin phrase translated as "causes, motives or pretexts of war". It is based on an anti thesis between "They... ", the leaders, and "Our straighter talk...", that of doubters in conversations among the public.

In the poem, the doubters' voices are "drowned" by the leaders. But their arguments are also described as "ironclad" because, Motion said yesterday, "they will endure".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,871226,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/0,6957,,00.html

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