The part I read only says Sagan contributed to calculations regarding the effects on dust on the moon.
And it surely fits the "nuke Mars for terraforming" idea he pushed in the '80s. Personally I always thought that a Trojan horse for nuclear disarmament, but it was pretty wacky on any basis—yet it made the only sense I could find in this story featuring his name in a plan to nuke the moon.
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Carl Sagan Advised US Defense Department to Win the Space Race by Nuking the Moon
02/12/2012 05:04:40 PM
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Mars can retain Oxygen just fine, and this isn't exactly new
03/12/2012 12:25:14 AM
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It does not seem to be doing a very good job of it; Mars' atmosphere is ~0.1% O2.
06/12/2012 12:16:16 AM
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There's a difference between retaining added and not having any
06/12/2012 01:44:56 AM
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Not practically.
07/12/2012 02:27:02 AM
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Yes, practically... I wouldn't mind you lecturing me on my own field if you got the stuff right
07/12/2012 04:19:29 AM
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Am I missing something?
03/12/2012 08:18:25 PM
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Perhaps Sagans subsequent suggestion we nuke Mars to make it habitable.
05/12/2012 11:00:08 PM
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Re: Journalists
05/12/2012 11:27:10 PM
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I am crediting professional writers with too much writing skill?
06/12/2012 12:24:49 AM
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I agree with Nate, lots of Journalists are very lazy and the science writers tend to be the worst
06/12/2012 01:55:16 AM
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I must have missed the part where Sagan advised them to nuke the moon to win.
04/12/2012 05:47:36 PM
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Well, he certainly advised them ON nuking it anyway.
05/12/2012 10:50:32 PM
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