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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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lchic - 03:26am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8522 of 8536)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

give 'an example' of your 'buddy' connecting the dots ...

gisterme - 02:38am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8515 of 8520)

lchic - 03:31am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8523 of 8536)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

America understands nothing-much of the world ... whereas the world sees a lot of American Culture ...

Oprah spoke of a survey re 'how the world saw America' 2003Jan2 ... the folks out there said that most Americans didn't have a clue regarding

foreign policy

gisterme - 03:32am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8524 of 8536)

lchic - 03:10am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8518...)

"...The need to take down and keep down dangerous nuclear weapons is clear..."

I agree. That's exactly why Saddam's days are numbered.

"...Presidents, Presidents Men, ALL --- are fallible!..."

And...you're not? Tell me, lchic, who is not fallible? All we have to go on is what we see and what we can learn from that. Isn't that the way the world works? Perhaps you can suggest some "infallibles" to fill the role of those umpires that Robert has suggested. If you can't then you should consider stepping back a bit from your own arrogance.

lchic - 03:38am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8525 of 8536)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Read the post 'in context' re original posting ...

lchic - 03:40am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8526 of 8536)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Shuttle last sightings

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833885/posts?q=1&&page=1Very

gisterme - 03:43am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8527 of 8536)

lchic - 03:26am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8522...)

"give 'an example' of your 'buddy' connecting the dots ... "

That was Robert's proclamation, not mine, lchic. He said they were both "connetcting dots" here:

rshow55 - - 02:33pm Feb 2, 2003 EST (# 8496

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.cihBa3JK2TS.555166@.f28e622/10022

"...Neither Cooper's view nor mine are crazy - they are both "connectings of the dots" based on different assumtions and weightings of different kinds of evidence..."

It follows that since Will is right and Robert isn't that Will is better at connecting dots than Robert.

Where's the beef with that?

gisterme - 03:51am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8528 of 8536)

The Columbia tragedy is a sad thing. Goes to show that we can't become complacent about ventuing into the most hostile environment humans have ever attemted to experience.

I hope that data from all the experiments, including the spider experiment was downlinked prior to the accident. If it was, at least the last works of those seven valiant souls will not have been in vain.

lchic - 03:53am Feb 3, 2003 EST (# 8529 of 8536)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

StafferNYtimes - 02:19pm Feb 1, 2003 EST (# 2972 of 3988) [Space Exploration]

I also would ask people to keep conspiracy theories and political statements to a minimum.

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There you go Gisterme ... NYT sets out to 'control' poster thinking !

And for why?

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