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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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kalter.rauch - 06:08pm Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7757 of 7764)
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Rshow......

Pull yourself together, man!!!

You HAVE accomplished a great deal here...even though 99% of it sticks in my craw like bitter bile......

......but that doesn't mean you're RIGHT, does it???

You're TOTALLY wrong......but MAGNIFICANTLY so!!!

Keep going ON!!!

rshow55 - 06:13pm Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7758 of 7764)
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.

"People ought to know that sometimes they have to tolerate "contradiction" - and that when there is a contradiction, a logical structure that alternates approaches may be exactly what is needed."

Quite often, truth is your only hope - and the only way to find the truth is to actually match for both consistency and connection to bodies of fact.

"Good stories" may sound very good, or very wrong. However they may sound, the only way to find out whether a story is true is to check it. That's a matching process. Matching in terms of consistency - internal consistency - and consistency with things thought to be facts.

Sometimes, the checking can't settle everything - but it can settle a lot.

Notions of order, symmetry, and harmony are very useful - for essential, unchangeable reasons. We can do a lot better than we've been doing.

For the United States - lessons taught in kindergarten needs to be emphasised. Often, the Bush administration seems not to understand these lessons at all - though they sometimes do.

. Sometimes, you have to take turns.

. Sometimes, you really do have to think about others, and how they feel.

. Everybody has to stand up for themselves, and their own needs. But nobody likes bullies much.

The United States, under the Bush administration -has large problems with all these basic lessons. People all over the world have noticed, and are saying so.

Could I be wrong and biased? Sure. But as a matter of record - a lot of the world agrees that these are basic problems.

rshow55 - 06:15pm Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7759 of 7764)
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.

Kalter , I feel like moving slowly. But thanks for the comment!

marydrabble - 06:16pm Jan 17, 2003 EST (# 7760 of 7764)

Rshow55...

There's some physical evidence involved with this discussion Marti and I had - which is unusual... and should be fit into any case either for me or against me - if the murder case came to trial.

Is that a "confession"......??

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