Erich Von Daniken predicts 'ET will return'

[Harte]

4 hours ago, Merc14 said:

I honestly thought the man had passed, glad to see he is still on this side of the garden patch.   BTW, what is this about "He was awarded the Stella Citizen Award by Giorgio A, Tsoukalos"?  What, did Tsoukalos gin up some award and then began distributing to people and it's now a big deal?

It must be ginned up, but I don't know if Giorgio is responsible (but I bet he had a hand in it.)  There is no history of anyone else receiving this "award."

Giorgio worked for EVD for years. Could be he was just the presenter.

Harte

[toast]

He is running out of money (again).

 

[Habitat]

3 minutes ago, toast said:

He is running out of money (again).

 

He has milked it for plenty, and inspired a host of imitators who have done the same, with varying degrees of success. That's publishing, you have to meet the market.

[badeskov]

11 hours ago, UM-Bot said:

The controversial author of 'Chariots of the Gods' predicts that aliens will return within 20 years.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/300536/erich-von-daniken-predicts-et-will-return

A general reminder to keep the comments civil and constructive on this one please.

I just wonder how this thread in any way, shape or form could be constructive. Civil, yes, but constructive? There is nothing constructive one could possibly add to this statement, especially given the history of the gentleman making the claim.

Cheers,
Badeskov

[Thorvir]

2 hours ago, geraldnewfie said:

Please let this come true!

Why?

[ShadowSot]

28 minutes ago, badeskov said:

I just wonder how this thread in any way, shape or form could be constructive. Civil, yes, but constructive? There is nothing constructive one could possibly add to this statement, especially given the history of the gentleman making the claim.

Cheers,
Badeskov

Even on this forum there are many who are not familiar with Daniken. So letting his reputation be known is constructive. 

 

[badeskov]

6 minutes ago, ShadowSot said:

Even on this forum there are many who are not familiar with Daniken. So letting his reputation be known is constructive. 

 

I stand corrected!

Cheers,
Badeskov

[back to earth]

46 minutes ago, badeskov said:

I just wonder how this thread in any way, shape or form could be constructive. Civil, yes, but constructive? There is nothing constructive one could possibly add to this statement, especially given the history of the gentleman making the claim.

Cheers,
Badeskov

Well, thats Botty for ya   

I like some of the other ' headlines'   here ...... Chena River 'creature' baffles internet users       

 

[badeskov]

Just now, back to earth said:

Well, thats Botty for ya   

I like some of the other ' headlines'   here ...... Chena River 'creature' baffles internet users       

 

I saw that one mate,didn't even want to comment.

Cheers,
Badeskov

[back to earth]

Well ..... it baffled one 'internet  user '  here       

[badeskov]

7 minutes ago, back to earth said:

Well ..... it baffled one 'internet  user '  here       

Yeah, well...no comments....

Cheers,
Badeskov

[Unusual Tournament]

4 hours ago, back to earth said:

 

and VonDaniken appears to have set his ash tray on fire .  

...probably burning some top secret evidence. 

[Calibeliever]

I predict he's right. Also, most of my predictions end up being wrong.

[Kurzweil]

Well, the grainy photo almost looks like it was a constructed with legos. I wonder if they could get any more poor evidence for us to face palm.

[back to earth]

I know who the guy on the right really is !  

 

[back to earth]

12 minutes ago, Kurzweil said:

Well, the grainy photo almost looks like it was a constructed with legos. I wonder if they could get any more poor evidence for us to face palm.

Cryptid aliens can disrupt the film so it looks grainy ... it helps to mask their  presence  amongst us               

[toast]

1 hour ago, Kurzweil said:

Well, the grainy photo almost looks like it was a constructed with legos. I wonder if they could get any more poor evidence for us to face palm.

And the guy on the right has a LEGO hot dog on his face.

[AdealJustice]

is Erik going to be alive by the time this prediction comes around?

[Harte]

1 hour ago, AdealJustice said:

is Erik going to be alive by the time this prediction comes around?

Certainly not.

After all the man is an idiot, not a moron.

Harte

[AdealJustice]

Just now, Harte said:

Certainly not.

After all the man is an idiot, not a moron.

Harte

exactly my thoughts  

[psyche101]

On 11/8/2016 at 0:05 AM, Thorvir Hrothgaard said:

Yeah, because we need more of those, don't we?  

Maybe they'll be p***ed because their greatest architectural achievements pale embarrassingly to our modern ones.

Maybe they'll be p***ed that the Stargate was buried after the revolt.

I thought it was a joke?

[psyche101]

[ShadowSot]

Just now, psyche101 said:

You know back in the 60s he wrote a paper on the possibility of Ancient aliens? Daniken quote mined the bejeezes out of it. 

[psyche101]

1 minute ago, ShadowSot said:

You know back in the 60s he wrote a paper on the possibility of Ancient aliens? Daniken quote mined the bejeezes out of it. 

No I didn't! Thanks for the heads up. I must check that out. 

Good to see someone is posting in a thread other than the election! I think the rest of UM is there. 

[psyche101]

8 minutes ago, ShadowSot said:

You know back in the 60s he wrote a paper on the possibility of Ancient aliens? Daniken quote mined the bejeezes out of it. 

Looking around .... is the the combined effort of Shklovski and Carl Sagan?

Found the Sagan/Daniken PLayboy interview. Interesting to say the least

See: Aricebo Message

Playboy: On another subject, you write, "Our radio astronomers send signals into the universe to make contact with unknown intelligence." But in fact no such experiment has ever been performed.

Von Däniken: Oh , it has, Sagan should know this very well

Playboy: Well, we asked Sagan about it. He called it a common misconception. He added , as an opinion of your work:  "The kindest thing I can say about Von Daniken is that he ignores the science of archeology. Every time he sees something he can't understand, he attributes it to extraterrestrial intelligence, and since he understands almost nothing, he sees evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence all over the planet."

Von Däniken: Yes, Well, once in the States I watched a TV program with Sagan, J. Allen Hynek, the UFO specialist from Northwestern University, and two or three other gentlemen. One was a helicopter pilot who said he encountered a UFO that turned the air blue. He and three other men aboard the helicopter tried to make a quick landing, but some unknown force lifted them thousands of feet, then suddenly went away. Sagan said they must have suffered from a delusion. Hynek said, "What about the altimeter? Did it have a delusion. too?  After the program, those of us watching decided that a man like Sagan thinks he is the only one to whom everybody else should listen, and people who see UFOs should have to convince scientists like him that what they say is true. We decided, no, they should not have to convince such scientists, because the scientists do now want to be convinced (Playboy August 1974 )   

Carl Sagan: I hope that one salutary consequence of books like Chariot of the Gods? will be a resurgence in the exciting field called archeology, which covers, among other things, the study of how ancient monuments were in fact constructed. A fascinating introduction to this subject is contained in the book the Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague de Camp. The present book by Ron Story among its other virtues provides a very pleasant excursion amongst some of the more interesting monuments and artifacts of ancient human civilisations. I also hope for the continuing popularity of books like Chariots of the Gods? in high school and college logic courses, as object lessons in sloppy thinking. I know of no recent books so riddled in logical and factual errors as the work of von Däniken. A careful reading of chariots of the gods with a cheerful guidance of Ron Story and a dollop of reasonable skepticism can do a substantial amount of good in a society daily asked to believe contentions even more implausible than those of Erich von Däniken. We need practice in skepticism as recent politic all events have so clearly demonstrated. (Space Gods revealed.1976))

Carl Sagan: The idea that we are being visited or were once visited by powerful benign beings who live in the sky is after a religious idea, the terminology is slightly different, we don't talk about angels, we talk about extra-terrestrials but the emotional significance is identical. So at a time when for whatever reason religions have gradually declined in the degree to which the average person believes in them but the same emotional needs are there. At a time when our society's in occasionally rather dire straights, it would be very nice to believe that there are powerful beings that look after us up there in the sky and they dip in and make things right and goodness, I would be delighted if that happened, but you see it's a dangerous doctrine if false, because it might for example lead us to do less than our own best efforts to put things right