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  1. Newsgroups: soc.history
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Soviet space disaster?
  5. In-Reply-To: clj@ksr.com's message of 2 Jan 93 14:37:16 EST
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.93Jan2132259@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Followup-To: soc.history
  8. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  9. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  10. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  11. References: <2JAN199307174468@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <20595@ksr.com>
  12. Date: 2 Jan 93 13:22:59
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  15. I don't remember details, but I believe that Soviet space accidents
  16. have been fairly well reported by now - both in magazines like
  17. _Aviation Week_ and in the post-censorship Soviet Press.  Yurii
  18. Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth, was killed flying
  19. a fighter jet.  So were two American astronauts.  Over the years,
  20. the Soviets had more and worse accidents than we did.
  21. --
  22. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  24. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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