🧵 Erich von Däniken is dead, aged 90.
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@cstross @Richard_Littler There's the implied subtext. And then there's the explicit, in-your-face JAQing off, like: "Was the black race a failure and did the extraterrestrials change the genetic code by gene surgery and then programme a white or a yellow race?" (von Däniken, /Signs of the Gods/, 1980, in the chapter “Man Outsmarts Nature” – loads more where that came from)
@noctuaminervae @cstross @Richard_Littler
'Was the black race...'
Yow! Is that an exact quote? Jesus.
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@Richard_Littler oooooh, that's interesting. Any contact between that guy and Claude Vorilhon (also known as Raël)?
@c_chep @Richard_Littler
Probably not directly but it's inconceivable that Vorilhon's 'alien encounter' in 1973 wasn't in some way influenced by von Däniken's publication four years earlier 🙂
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When I moved to Switzerland, I discovered he was a local. He built an 'ancient mysteries' theme park, which soon failed, but the buildings still stand. I took some photos a couple of years ago.
@Richard_Littler
When the U.S. descends into full scale civil war (next week or whatever) and all its proper industries/businesses have to migrate to somewhere less idiotic, that would make a brilliant location for the new #Stargate series!#StargateSG1 #SG1
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@cstross Now, that concept worked out *much* better.
My photos of the Giger-designed bar in Gruyères...Cool but I wouldn't want to have to dust all that!
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@Richard_Littler We had raves there.
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@spacemagick @Richard_Littler They shut it down by 2 AM though as the entire Interlaken Valley acted as an echo chamber, carrying the base for 100s of kilometers ;-)
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@spacemagick @Richard_Littler They shut it down by 2 AM though as the entire Interlaken Valley acted as an echo chamber, carrying the base for 100s of kilometers ;-)
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@Richard_Littler
Co-writer & editor was a literal NAZI. I didn't know that till yesterday.
It all makes more sense now, the "Indigenous peoples can't do the clever stuff" A White Supremacist Ideology makes more sense of it,I read "Chariot of the Gods" in 1972 approx.
Very plausible if you are ignorant.
I read a good debunking maybe the next year.
Debunked over 50 years ago and yet was on a Digital Pay TV "factual" channel in UK & Ireland.It was also dishonest in the presentation of facts!
@raymaccarthy @Richard_Littler Read him when I was young, took me much longer to see the racism inherent in his arguments. “Because white people didnt do it first it must be aliens “ seems so wrong now.
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@cstross @Richard_Littler There’s a Giger museum and café in Gruyères:
@acb @cstross @Richard_Littler Whoa, will visit the next time I'm flying a virtual glider out of LSGT in Flight Simulator!
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@Richard_Littler Just noting that there's a very skeevy racist subtext running just below the surface of Von Daniken's thesis—that ancient people *couldn't* have built the monumental structures they left behind, so they must have been "helped" by aliens (clearly white savior-coded).
@cstross @Richard_Littler There’s even a meme for that…
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@cstross @Richard_Littler There’s even a meme for that…
@aprilfollies @cstross @Richard_Littler to understand some of the problems in America right now, all you have to do is listen to any Art Bell show from the 90s and oooh boy
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@GustavinoBevilacqua
qui fanno a giorni alterni: un giorno i migranti e un giorno i lupi.
@matz
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@fucinafibonacci @economia a beh, certo, a Cuba il problema è la democrazia, in Venezuela il narcotraffico e in Iraq le armi di distruzione... 😂
Gli USA poi, soprattutto in questo momento, non so con quale sfrontatezza e ipocrisia possano pretendere anche solo di parlare di democrazia al mondo.
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김칩스 먹고 싶은데, 近處에서 살 수 있는 곳이 없다… 온라인으로 注文해야 하나…? 😩
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@sabrinaweb71 @GustavinoBevilacqua @rastinza @phabrizio mi vengono in mente vari motivi per cui potrebbero aver deciso quella direttiva, e a seconda del motivo magari in effetti il bollitore non è un problema
o magari sì
chiedere è sempre lecito, no?
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@BasketNews_com No, il Trapani Shark non è stato ufficialmente escluso dalla lega, ma è stato pesantemente penalizzato con 10 punti in classifica e una lunga inibizione per il presidente Valerio Antonini per irregolarità amministrative, portando a una crisi societaria e sportiva, con la possibilità di esclusione discussa in un vertice straordinario FIP/Lega Basket il 12 gennaio.
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@sinituulia @devlin there is an easy (maybe :D I think it took me a few years on on-and-off attempts :D ) solution to the problem of jeans not fitting :D
it doesn't solve the issue with the knees, so most likely it's not really worth spending the time on it, however
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@Yaku un mese nel corso del quale ci si impegna a scrivere a mano una lettera o una cartolina al giorno, da spedire poi via posta (o consegnare a mano)
