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Dr. John Brandenburg: Confessions of a NASA Space Scientist

Earth Ancients

CHAPTER

The Risks of Working With Hoeglen

John Defterios: I was very aware that a lot of people considered this not something that a serious scientist should be interested in. They felt like, gosh, if we find a dead civilization on Mars, it might end help end the Cold War before we blow ourselves up. So there was a lot of self-interest involved in this. We wanted the end the Cold World somehow. And we thought this would be a good way.

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