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  1. @Richard_Littler
    That link is to the 25th November 1977 edition of the (once) prestigious Horizon BBC scientific documentary series which brought much greater attention (in Britain) to von Däniken's 'ideas'.
    Sadly, the version on archive.org has, rather irritatingly, been dubbed into American.

    #RIP #ErichVonDäniken
    #AIP (ascend in peace)
    #woowoo #AncientAstronauts
    #BBC #Horizon #documentary

  2. @drajt vaguely pyramid shaped so obviously built by

  3. @ParadeGrotesque if they are authentic they did an AMAZING bit of quality control in the manufacturing process, and managing how fast they burned so the thousands of wicks soaked in various metal salts all changed colour at the same time.

    Honestly, it would be impossible to do with the low levels of impurities we can manage using modern chemical tech and precise control of temperature while the beeswax was setting so obviously there's some and involved.

  4. @ParadeGrotesque if they are authentic they did an AMAZING bit of quality control in the manufacturing process, and managing how fast they burned so the thousands of wicks soaked in various metal salts all changed colour at the same time.

    Honestly, it would be impossible to do with the low levels of impurities we can manage using modern chemical tech and precise control of temperature while the beeswax was setting so obviously there's some #LostScience and #AncientAstronauts involved.

  5. Closed tomorrow through Friday for a few behind-the-scenes jobs.

    Today, a loose batch of books from our wrecked shed, showing some damage, but still perfectly readable! 😉👍

    7/17/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.

    #DaytonOhio #UsedBookStore #VintagePaperbacks #StephenKing #VCAndrews #AncientAstronauts #Numerology #Religion

  6. Infine arrivato ieri!

    "Almanacco della fantarcheologia. Antichi astronauti, continenti scomparsi e futuri passati" a cura di Fabio Camilletti (Odoya Edizioni) con un saggio di Marco Ciardi e mio su #Kolosimo fino al 1966 (pp. 63-98, 252-259).

    #histodons #parascience #popculture #esotericism #histscidons #historyofscience
    #ancientastronauts #ufos

    @histodons
    @archaedons

  7. This is the only existing video footage of the Coso Artifact. It is a common misconception that the Coso Artifact was featured on video in a 1977 episode of In Search Of hosted by Leonard Nimoy. The production team contrived a facsimile for the show. #CosoArtifact #AncientAstronauts #AncientArtifacts #Artifacts

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ojtg96Mu5W

  8. This is the only existing video footage of the Coso Artifact. It is a common misconception that the Coso Artifact was featured on video in a 1977 episode of In Search Of hosted by Leonard Nimoy. The production team contrived a facsimile for the show. #CosoArtifact #AncientAstronauts #AncientArtifacts #Artifacts

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ojtg96Mu5W

  9. I’m reading David Brin’s *Sundiver*, the first book in his Uplift series, for the first time in I don't know how long. I vaguely remembered that part of the whole “uplift” concept was that we were genetically altering dolphins and chimps to be able to communicate with them.

    What I didn’t remember was that there is a larger conceit that every intelligent, spacefaring race in the galaxy has been similarly “uplifted” by a patron race, and (at the time of this book) only humanity does not have a known patron — and this has led to a cultural split on Earth between two camps: those who believe that humanity evolved our intelligence naturally (as was widely believed before first contact with alien races), and those who believe that we had patrons who for some reason abandoned us and whose memory has been almost entirely lost to the mists of time. One of the foremost revered historical figures for this second group is noted 20th century historian…Erich von Däniken.

    It’s suddenly a lot harder for me to take this novel terribly seriously when the basic premise is apparently, “what if von Däniken was right?” I’ll keep reading, as the next two books in the series were Hugo winners, so they’re part of my “read all the Hugo Best Novels” project.

    But…really? This one was first published in 1980, and there had already been several debunkings of von Däniken’s work by that time. Hopefully Brin was just having a bit of fun with the idea as a good jumping off point for a book.

    (If you’re not familiar with the name, von Däniken is one of the main proponents of the oft-debunked, ridiculed, and frankly racist “ancient astronauts” theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_vo)

    #DavidBrin #uplift #AncientAstronauts #vonDäniken #ScienceFiction

  10. I’m reading David Brin’s *Sundiver*, the first book in his Uplift series, for the first time in I don't know how long. I vaguely remembered that part of the whole “uplift” concept was that we were genetically altering dolphins and chimps to be able to communicate with them.

    What I didn’t remember was that there is a larger conceit that every intelligent, spacefaring race in the galaxy has been similarly “uplifted” by a patron race, and (at the time of this book) only humanity does not have a known patron — and this has led to a cultural split on Earth between two camps: those who believe that humanity evolved our intelligence naturally (as was widely believed before first contact with alien races), and those who believe that we had patrons who for some reason abandoned us and whose memory has been almost entirely lost to the mists of time. One of the foremost revered historical figures for this second group is noted 20th century historian…Erich von Däniken.

    It’s suddenly a lot harder for me to take this novel terribly seriously when the basic premise is apparently, “what if von Däniken was right?” I’ll keep reading, as the next two books in the series were Hugo winners, so they’re part of my “read all the Hugo Best Novels” project.

    But…really? This one was first published in 1980, and there had already been several debunkings of von Däniken’s work by that time. Hopefully Brin was just having a bit of fun with the idea as a good jumping off point for a book.

    (If you’re not familiar with the name, von Däniken is one of the main proponents of the oft-debunked, ridiculed, and frankly racist “ancient astronauts” theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_vo)

    #DavidBrin #uplift #AncientAstronauts #vonDäniken #ScienceFiction