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Re: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
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Date: 
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:02:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
  After all, isn't a brief, one-time sampling sufficient to
extrapolate the entirety of a long-term phenomenon's behavior?

Only if you're an economist.

james



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  Re: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
 
(...) Keep it up, and we'll mount a jihad against your slanderous ilk! I saw him speak at PSU a few years ago before a disappointingly small audience. During that presentation he did not say "billions and billions." Surely my experience of Dr. Sagan (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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