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Re: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:42:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Daniel Jassim writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > Please reconcile what you just admited he said with what I said. :-)
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> Okay, I think I follow you here:
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> If you mean to say that Sagan was correctly quoted in initially using the
> phrase "billions and billions," then that is false.
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> 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.
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> Is that what you're saying?
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> Dan
Having heard him say it even before Cosmos was made, I can attest he did use
the phrase on occasion.
Bruce
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| (...) (yawn) Sagan wrote in his book "Billions and Billions" that the phrase is not part of his speech and vocabulary. Ever the scientist, the guy even carefully researched his work, his videos and interviews to find one instance of him using that (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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