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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (707252)	4/5/2013 3:31:05 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583804

It makes a difference because if he had said "invented" then the context wouldn't make sense. And context matters. Anyway, it's hypocritical to credit Al Gore for helping to fund the foundations of the Internet, but not credit Ronald Reagan for helping to fund the foundations of today's missile defense systems. How is it hypocritical to point out that one thing actually happened and the other did not? The equivalent is if Al had got a network of dialup BBSs funded and then claim the modern Internet derived from that because "they are basically the same". Today's missile defenses are nothing like what Reagan had funded. Stopping one ICBM is an iffy thing, stopping thousands is out of the question.Stopping a theater weapon, like a Scud, is not even close to the same thing as I have pointed out. It grew out of an anti-aircraft SAM system. Granted, there are simularities like a phased radar array, computers and a missile. But that is a pretty broad classification and would encompass a lot of things that preceeded SDI by decades. What SDI attempted to do, and failed at, was to take the existing SAM technologies and adapt them to extra-atmospheric intercept of hypersonic targets.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (707252)	4/5/2013 3:34:52 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583804

Werner von Braun deserves more credit than Reagan....and give some credit to the ancient Chinese...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (707252)	4/5/2013 5:43:49 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583804

To understand just how extreme and off base the GOP has become, in state after state, Rs are willing to lie, cheat or steal to prevent Dems from winning. In other words, they have given up trying to win the vote fairly, and instead, are looking to win by whatever means possible, legal or otherwise......mostly otherwise. You all have truly become the consummate bad guys: nbcnews.com