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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 - 10:50pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8340 of 8349)
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.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm is a calender page, with links to day-by-day postings on the NYT Missile Defense thread starting on May 25 2000 and continuing to July 17 2002. . .

A central purpose of the thread has been to show how useful the internet can be - how important and challenging "collecting the dots" is, if there is to be any hope for a correct, balanced, and beautiful "connecting of the dots."

8324 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.sZwxaFsz17K.73230@.f28e622/9850

out.

bbbuck - 11:11pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8341 of 8349)

lchickie says that she is 'an occasional poster'.

Good lord can you imagine what her number of posts would be if she became a 'frequent poster'.

It staggers the imagination.

'Motor Sports' has been archived. So long 'jackie' we hardly knew ye.

What's this forum? Oh yea.

Yes I believe our missiles should be defended.

gisterme - 11:48pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8342 of 8349)

bbbuck - 11:11pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8341...)

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.sZwxaFsz17K.73230@.f28e622/9867

"...Yes I believe our missiles should be defended."

It's our cities that need to be defended. All our best missiles are already virtually invulnerable because they're at sea aboard the original stealth platforms, submarines.

bbbuck - 11:58pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8343 of 8349)

No doubt. Just trying to follow the rules. (With my standard 'missile defense' on topic post)

Everywhere I post becomes moderated or archived.

This place is all I have left. *sniff* *sniff*

gisterme - 12:22am Jan 30, 2003 EST (# 8344 of 8349)

rshow55 - 10:46pm Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8339...)

"...I think we need to get to a point where international law can work..."

It does work. Lchic asked why "the world community" haven't indicted Saddam to appear in some world court. She says:

lchic - 09:58pm Jan 27, 2003 EST (# 8197

"..."Why isn't the world community saying you have to yield this man for trial?"..."

The first question that comes to my mind is "who is you" and the second question is how would they persuade Saddam to go to trial with any less force than is apparently about to be used against him now? I believe UN resolution 1441 is the indictment of Saddam by the world community and that the "you" lchic doesn't know she's referring to is the international coalition that's about to bring Saddam to justice.

If that's not right then whomever the "you" are, this would be a good time for them to show up. Where are they lchic???

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