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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 - 09:08pm Feb 17, 2003 EST (# 9055 of 9055)
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.

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"I think that conditions are ripening for getting something like this done. Some leaders of nation states involved (not necessarily all of them) would need to want it done -- and would need to let that be known, to people who had resources that mattered for the effort.

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Today, much more discussion of terrorism, and relations between other nations and the Islamic nations, would need to be considered, as well.

The motivations for this sort of thing are getting greater - because problems are getting clearer - and people are getting good sense enough to know fear - and concern.

Things need to be sorted out - and we could do a lot better than we're doing.

Most of the staff that would be needed to do that work could be found - with funding - in news organizations from all over the world. Focusing on facts would not be particularly difficult - with reasonable umpiring - and the multiple crosschecking now available with the internet.

We know enough to do much better than we're now doing. Much of what we know, that could be useful - has already been posted on this thread by lchic .

Some of the facts about missile defense - and the enormous waste and deception involved in that boondoggle - would be useful things to review - because - with an insistence on taking "connection of the dots" to an umpired closure - for all to see - there isn't any question how much deception has been involved in that crucial part of the military-industrial complex's efforts.

We're in a situation now where, if we faced the truth - in enough detail for reasonable decisions - every reasonable security need of every country on the Security Council could be much better met than today.

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