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Article #9086Re: Carl Sagan was a clandestine marijuana junkie his whole life
From: zzbunker
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:49
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:49
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On Apr 12, 6:59 am, "John Gilmer" <jlgil...@localnet.com> 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." > > Were he still kicking around would he propose WWIII as a solution to the > "Global Warming Crisis?" Were he still alive, he probably be mostly surprised that the people with engineering brains built self-replicating machines on earth, rather than using space probes to other galaxies. Since they also developed self-assembling robots, fiber optics, microcomputers, distributed processing, 4 and 5D holograms, DVD, HDTV, AUVs, and On-Line Publishing, rather than PBS. > > Slight OT: President "O" has been reported by Drudge as wanting the > reverse Global Warming by some kind of direct weather management by "man."
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