«Hmmmm. I'm one of those cranks who believes that
Erich von Daniken (author of
the book
Chariots of the Gods?) is basically a racist who is unable to accept that dark-skinned peoples and their ancient cultures could possibly have thought significant thoughts or invented significant technologies, and so has instead posited that white folks from outer space came down to impart the swarthy with all those good ideas and deeds.
«So it's with real mixed enotions that I point to the website for a theme park that this nut is spearheading: Mystery Park.
«Mini AIR reports that amongst the investors are 'Sony, Coca-Cola, Sennheiser, Hewlett-Packard, and Jeffries Asset management, Ltd., the executives and shareholders of whom are also, like Erich von Daniken, presumably descended from ancient astronauts from outer space.'»
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