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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Fwd: URGENT: MT. GRAHAM ACTION ALERT!!
- In-Reply-To: Joshua Alan Knauer's message of Sun, 26 Jul 1992 00:54:26 -0400
- Message-ID: <JMC.92Jul25225348@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
- References: <UePK3sS00UhBA1O2EB@andrew.cmu.edu> <seQX02C00iUxI3G2sT@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 22:53:48
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- Joshua Knauer includes:
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- For all of the people out there that do not understand the
- full ramifications of the proposed observatory, here is the
- full posting, taken from Student EnviroLink. I think it is
- relatively clear that there are some much larger issues
- involved than John McCarthy's twisted version science.
-
- [followed by their appeal for support]
-
- I see no statement of the possible negative impacts of their getting
- their way on astronomy. I must admit ignorance as to whether there
- are already astronomical facilities on Mount Graham.
-
- Some people may be wondering why I keep pounding away at the
- environmentalists to tell us negative impacts of their proposals
- when they tell us that they have no intention of doing so. I
- think this may be an area in which repetition can actually get
- people to think.
-
- Anyway I propose to fight it out along this line if it takes all
- summer.
- --
- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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