The whole ancient aliens thing is based on a book by Carl Sagan and a Russian astrophysicist. They basically described what sort of artifacts or oral traditions would be left by ancient aliens, and conclude that it probably didn’t happen as we don’t see them.
Von Danniken ran with the idea and wrote “Chariots of the Gods” which eventually became Stargate so I guess it wasn’t too bad.
No one has been able to convince me otherwise that the whole aliens thing is pure racism towards the people of the region. “Clearly these primitive brown people couldn’t have built great things thousands of years before white people.”
The whole ancient aliens thing is based on a book by Carl Sagan and a Russian astrophysicist. They basically described what sort of artifacts or oral traditions would be left by ancient aliens, and conclude that it probably didn’t happen as we don’t see them.
Von Danniken ran with the idea and wrote “Chariots of the Gods” which eventually became Stargate so I guess it wasn’t too bad.
No one has been able to convince me otherwise that the whole aliens thing is pure racism towards the people of the region. “Clearly these primitive brown people couldn’t have built great things thousands of years before white people.”
Stargate is the shit though.
100%. Palatable racism especially aimed for people to pretend they aren’t. I’m looking at you Sweary Kerry Cassidy, you antisemitic Pleidian.