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Subject: Re: Carl Sagan supports Mondale
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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 16:20:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  3 16:20:56 1984
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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."