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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 - 10:19am Mar 9, 2003 EST (# 9699 of 9702)
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 would be easier to get (partly persuade, partly force) Iraq and N. Korea to reform if we were partly persuaded, partly forced, to do so ourselves. (Since our faults are relatively so small, in our own estimation - it should be easy for us. )

Procedures set out in http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/296 and many times on this thread could work out all the logic needed to do that effectively.

Gisterme's postings since my 9675 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.hkiiaSJI5Ju.847119@.f28e622/11216 have been argumentative in some ways - but have offered openings for dialog, as well. We're in enough of a mess that a lot needs to be sorted out - but a lot of people know it, and that's hopeful.

Just a thought about what a happy ending might be, if leaders (not mere posters such as you and I) actually chose to take a stand: http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/283

lchic - 10:37am Mar 9, 2003 EST (# 9700 of 9702)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Secrets reawaken that feeling from childhood that the ways of the world were infinitely mysterious, unpredictable and densely packed, and that someday you might come to know and master them.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001203mag-intro.html

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