Von Daniken was a crackpot, and a shameless sensationalist.

That said, I do suspect that there may be a core of truth to the idea that our planet was visited by something or someone in the distant past. This comes back to the old "absence of proof is not proof of absence" issue, though.

So, who knows? I don't see any grounds to dismiss the idea out of hand.

by RedPossum on 07/09/2010 12:26:49 PM EST

Sure, we should always keep an open mind.
To quote one of the best american philosphers of recent years:

"There are known knowns.
There are known unknowns
and there are unknown unknowns."

Every logician will agree that he forgot the unknown knowns, but that is another story.

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 07/09/2010 12:34:07 PM EST

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