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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 - 09:50pm Jan 21, 2003 EST (# 7887 of 7899)
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.

Gisterme , I'll respond to your postings of today, January 21, by noon, January 22. I'll try to do so in a way that would be constructive, if senior officials from the United States, other UN member nations, and especially Iraq and N. Korea were all reading the board.

I think some things in 7632-7635 were fairly clear about oscillatory solutions - but if you're in a hurry for an answer - perhaps that means you need one you can use - one that can be discussed by the people involved.

Foundation issues are being discussed - and it seems to me a good time to "stop, look, and listen." Judgement is a big issue - and this seems a reasonable time to post a sermon I've posted before - about judgement (especially after the last nine minutes.) http://www.mrshowalter.net/sermon.html

out.

almarst2002 - 09:52pm Jan 21, 2003 EST (# 7888 of 7899)

<a href="/webin/WebX?14@93.VlUdaCbX16b.18631@.f28e622/9411">mazza9 1/21/03 9:47pm</a>

Disagree to serve some arrogant ever hungry for more, bloody illiterate morone who see the others only as a source of a profit.

rshow55 - 09:54pm Jan 21, 2003 EST (# 7889 of 7899)
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.

<a href="/webin/WebX?14@93.VlUdaCbX16b.18631@.f28e622/9410">almarst2002 1/21/03 9:43pm</a> - - if they disagree - in a coherent way - for reasons they can agree on among themselves and explain to others -- they will have enormous power. And the world will be better for it.

lchic - 02:13am Jan 22, 2003 EST (# 7890 of 7899)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Showalter did you ever meet Spiders in math ... they know how to calculate ....

http://www.brantacan.co.uk/spider_webs.htm

"Both the spider web and the suspension bridge, like many other structures, are mainly empty space, because the optimum distribution of material is hardly ever as a lump."

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Is that why a poem with 'space' around the words can stand strong?

Is that why time-space between interchanges enables fuller understanding?

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Beams have a third dimension

http://www.brantacan.co.uk/beamsthree.htm

scroll down for diagrams

lchic - 02:28am Jan 22, 2003 EST (# 7891 of 7899)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Oscillation - Synergy

Filling in a form gives no opportunity to enlarge, to discuss, to clear up and reframe points.

To synergetically bat discussion back and forth enables new points to be pushed with every serve ... time and energy being limited .... toing and froing ... moulds, streamlines, shapes-up, reworks and defines areas of joint concern and consideration.

commondata - 07:26am Jan 22, 2003 EST (# 7892 of 7899)

Here they go again, The Yanks in their armoured parade Chanting their ballads of joy As they gallop across the big world Praising America's God. The gutters are clogged with the dead The ones who couldn't join in The others refusing to sing The ones who are losing their voice The ones who've forgotten the tune.

The riders have whips which cut. Your head rolls onto the sand Your head is a pool in the dirt Your head is a stain in the dust Your eyes have gone out and your nose Sniffs only the pong of the dead And all the dead air is alive With the smell of America's God.

© Harold Pinter, January 2003

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