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Missile Defense

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 - 01:50pm Feb 23, 2003 EST (# 9237 of 9240)
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.

It is a piece that gives meaning to lines that have been set out here many times - almost as many times as the phrase "connecting the dots." : 2346 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@71.16zhaIRgKCI^3732824@.f28e622/2915

Adults have secrets, lies and fictions

Live in their world, of contradictions

But if things go bad

and knock about

Folks get together

And work it out

We can't help but be unconscious about most of the processing that we do - and sometimes repressed. That's usually fine. But when things go wrong - for instance, when disagreements about what the truth is lead to fights - it is worthwhile to know that unconscious processing and repression exist - so that when problems matter enough to be faced - we can face them with understanding - and with decent regard for the human limitations that we all share.

I think these things are worth discussing before I respond with an annotation of g gisterme's 9184 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.y7Tpab3n36t.2107236@.f28e622/10710 , which I believe is important, but that I also believe mixes some ideas that are right with some that could be wrong - in part for reasons that may not be being faced by gisterme and the people he works with.

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