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Article #9081Re: Carl Sagan was a clandestine marijuana junkie his whole life
From: Marvin the Martian
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:03
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:03
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:59:17 -0400, John Gilmer wrote: >> I forget which happened first and which was second, but Ted Turner got >> his hands on it and sped up the thing so that Sagan speaks more like a >> auctioneer or a squirrel on speed. After Sagan died, his widow(?) got a >> hold of it and went off the deep paranoia end with the left wing >> propaganda. It was ruined. >> >> Yeah, I figured Sagan for a pot head and it wasn't all that great; but >> they took his work and bastardized it for their own ends. > > Among other things, Sagan seemed to have a bug up his ass on the subject > of "Nuclear Winter." That was socialist propaganda intended to cause Americans to despair of self defense in the event of a Soviet attack. IT was debunked by studies of volcanos and climate change years before Sagan repeated it. > Were he still kicking around would he propose WWIII as a solution to the > "Global Warming Crisis?" I wouldn't know. He seemed pretty hard over against nuclear war. > Slight OT: President "O" has been reported by Drudge as wanting the > reverse Global Warming by some kind of direct weather management by > "man." I'm sure we can make the planet cooler. It is a simple question of would it be stupid to do so. Evidence says it would be. -- http://OnToMars.org For discussions about Mars and Mars colonization
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