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In reply to the discussion: Carl Sagan the prophet. [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)38. I think Sagan would take apart your post in short order
Not everyone on DU recommends every thread they agree with. Not every view of a post on DU is by a person - some are by bots for search engines. Views on DU are not unique visitors - click on a thread again, and it increases the view count.
Did you compare the views and recs to threads started at a similar time? If I look at the first page of GD now, I find this thread (106 threads, 1855 views) has the 5th highest ratio of recs to views - and higher than any other thread with more than 30 recs.
You're far too quick to call an entire group of people "overwhelmingly STUPID" just because they haven't reacted exactly the same as you, without comparing the thread against equivalents. Professor Sagan would not approve, I think.
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Sagan is a prime example of the kind of mind and guiding philosophy we should have long ago
TheKentuckian
Sep 2012
#13
You are absolutely correct, and it just as absolutely not going to happen for many
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2012
#71
One of my favorite books. The reason, though, that he was able to predict it so well is
NYC Liberal
Sep 2012
#19
There are a suprising number of people who believe swearing can cause a lightning strike.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2012
#27
I read that book on exiting the fundamentalist cult that I had been raised in
Schema Thing
Sep 2012
#44