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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 - 04:15pm Jan 26, 2002 EST (#11069 of 11101)

MD4596 rshowalter 6/7/01 8:16pm reads in part:

" Gisterme cares, and cares a lot, about finding ways toward peace.

" And on very many questions of fact, we seem to be agreed. That's progress -- especially if work goes on, with the world watching.

There have, of course, been many postings since. I've collected 89 "search pages" that cite gisterme -- each about 3 pages in length, from the search capability on this thread.

mazza9 - 06:02pm Jan 26, 2002 EST (#11070 of 11101)
Louis Mazza

RShow55:

The Echo ballon was launched for the purposes of bouncing radio waves. It was a passive reflector. The gas that inflated it soon leaked out and the last picture of Echo showed a defalted balloon. It wasn't a ICBM decoy and its reflection was for radio waves not laser light. Guess what? The first optical maser was proposed in the 50s but the first actual laser tests didn't occur until middle 60s.

Give it up. Your "Magical Mystery" foil has been foiled by reality.

lchic: How dare someone from the Ukraine question your expertise. I mean what could he know to rival your unvaunted knowledge. I'm whelmed!!!!!

LouMazza

rshow55 - 06:11pm Jan 26, 2002 EST (#11071 of 11101)

Things can be checked.

MD11045 rshow55 1/25/02 2:34pm

creasa - 06:13pm Jan 26, 2002 EST (#11072 of 11101)

lchic,

Only 107 men and women are able to get within 10 KM of the Chernobyl Nuclear plant. Two of the 107 people are my mother and my father. The Chernobyl Nuclear plant is closed and is under armed guard. No one other then Zog officers are let in. The people that are let in have official documents and have to show them at the 10 KM perimeter. Any person caught inside the 10 KM compound will be arrested and possibly shot on sight. In July of 2000 a German man was shot and killed for an intrusion into the compound. These Extreme tours only let people get within 10 KM of the plant and at that distance there is NO danger. This is just a gimmick to get people to pay money. The Ukraine is very poor and my people will do anything to make money, even to set up phony tours. This extreme tour you talk about has been going on for 5 years now and this is not knew.

Have you ever been to my country? For that fact have you ever been to any of the former Soviet block countries?

rshow55 - 06:16pm Jan 26, 2002 EST (#11073 of 11101)

In these threads, people usually do not identify themselves, though kangdawei ( five search pages ) did identify herself with Ann Coulture , a public figure. MD10024 rshowalter 10/9/01 11:13am

I've sometimes had thoughts that other posters here might be well connnected indeed with the Bush administration.

Knowingly asking the country to come up with tens of billions of dollars, needed elsewhere, for technology that cannot possibly be tactically useful is not patriotic conduct.

If it becomes clear that the administration is engaged in fraud, to the detriment of the United States, perhaps identities on this thread may come to be clarified. My guess is that “Mazza” would find that embarrassing.

lchic - 08:45pm Jan 26, 2002 EST (#11074 of 11101)

If the Zog fits - Arm(p)it.

creasa - 08:49pm Jan 26, 2002 EST (#11075 of 11101)

lchic,

Just how many times have you been in the Ukraine?

mazza9 - 11:23pm Jan 26, 2002 EST (#11076 of 11101)
Louis Mazza

RShow55:

Ooooh! A conspiracy. If you care to look, You can find me through the NSS.org web site. I am the president of the National Space Society of North Texas and my address, phone # and e-mail are available if you follow the links. I am a financial analyst and veteran of the Air Force. I have lived the space age and what I told you about Echo was correct. I was a communications officer in the Air Force and in '65 I attended Comm School. I gave a speech on the laser while at school and speculated at the uses that it could be put to. At the time IBM envisioned the ruby laser as an "eraser" for its Selectric Type writers. You would mount it under the hood and when you mis spelled a word you would back space and zap the ink character with a small laser. The black ink would absord the laser energy and be vaporized while the paper would be unscathed. Kinda like the ABL.

A degree in history, I have enjoyed reading about the history of technology and have read Aviation Week and Scientific American for the past 40 odd years.

Yeah, things can be checked, but in my case I've been accused of having a prodigious memory. You wouldn't want to go up against me in Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit!

So who are you RShow55?

LouMazza

Oh, by the Way, there are only 78 Lou Mazzas in the US according to a similarly named, intelligent Lou Mazza from Minneapolis!

lchic - 03:56am Jan 27, 2002 EST (#11077 of 11101)

JawG - your sentence construction betrays You

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