There was initially a group of people who made comments in the press and had never even read the paper. And this is part of a continuing thing where started during the days of th e tobacco problems. I think carl and the rest of us roll called communists in the wall street journal, and dupes of the communists. But nevertheless, most of the science community saw this like af science problem. They set to work to find anything wrong with it that they could. Therewas quie few people who worked on it, but it was blocked, at the time, by the government. We were toldwe, we tried to present a paper about it, ande forced to withdraw that paper
Are advanced civilizations doomed to destroy themselves? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore the Cold War, The Drake Equation, and nuclear winter hypothesis with producer of Cosmos and Carl Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan and atmospheric scientist Brian Toon.
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