Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unm-cvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl!unm-cvax!cs4911ay From: cs4911ay@unm-cvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Carl Sagan supports Mondale Message-ID: <65@unm-cvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 16:20:56 EST Article-I.D.: unm-cvax.65 Posted: Sat Nov 3 16:20:56 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 20:09:32 EST References: <11840@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 35 [It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a -- ] From Jon.Webb@CMU-CS-IUS2.ARPA Sat Feb 5 23:28:16 206 ... I just heard on National Public Radio that Carl Sagan has begun a 12-city tour to support Walter Mondale for President. He's doing this to stop Reagan's "Star Wars" plan. I think this should give pause to anyone considering voting against Mondale because of his generally negative attitude on space development. Sagan is clearly supportive of space development, and the fact that he's willing to support Mondale shows he thinks stopping the dangerous "Star Wars" plan is more important than NASA getting a few more bucks to develop space weapons. I'm a big fan of Carl's, but his expertise lies in planetary studies and exobiology, not in strategic defense (and/or offense). Mondale's views on space exploration have been posted in this newsgroup before, and are on the level of William Proxmire's. It's unfortunate that Sagan is putting politics (based on questionable reasoning) ahead of support for the space program, upon which he should be concentrating his efforts. By the way, NASA does not develop space weapons, DoD does (so do the Russians, and at a considerably greater rate than we). -- Mike Conley U.N.M., Albuquerque, NM "Think of it as evolution in action."