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Re: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 01:33:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
Please reconcile what you just admited he said with what I said.  :-)

Okay, I think I follow you here:

If you mean to say that Sagan was correctly quoted in initially using the
phrase "billions and billions," then that is false.

If you mean that Sagan later said "billions and billions" after the fact of
being misquoted, then that is true. Yes, he said it later as a joke.

Is that what you're saying?

Dan



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  Re: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
 
(...) Having heard him say it even before Cosmos was made, I can attest he did use the phrase on occasion. Bruce (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
 
(...) Please reconcile what you just admited he said with what I said. :-) Bruce (23 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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