Re: Carl Sagan and the lunar base that never was

From: Bret Kulakovich (bret@bonfireproductions.com)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 07:11:35 MST

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    Whoa. Without making an obvious tongue-in-cheek guess at the cost, I
    will simply state that I doubt Carl Sagan would ever "fudge"
    anything. However if someone uses a less conservative multiplier at
    the end of a Project Management guestimate they are often lauded...
    until the project is done and the bill arrives that is.

    Sagan's book _Planets_ from 1966 postulated a Lunar Colony I think.

    Bret Kulakovich

    "Technotranscendence" <neptune@mars.superlink.net> wrought:
    >I've read somewhere that Carl Sagan fudged some numbers back in the
    >1960s or 1970s to make a lunar base appear more expensive than it
    >actually would have been. Anyone know if there's any truth to this?
    >(I'd like to trust the source, but it sounds like a crackpot conspiracy
    >theory to me...)
    >
    >Cheers!
    >
    >Dan
    >http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/

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