Ancient Aliens, the series by Prometheus Entertainment. Get it. Watch it.

Okay, he may be crazy. http://ziddufacts.blogspot.com...s-debunked-idea.html But it's still great fun.

“I have to wonder,” geologist Mervine wrote in 2005, “what inspires such crazy notions and how people such as Von Daniken and Childress manage to sell so many books. Certainly, far more copies of a single one of their books have been sold than, say, all the editions of my igneous petrology textbook.”

Ain't that a ripoff?

http://jcolavito.tripod.com/lo...ilizations/id44.html

Charles Mackay, who wrote the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, part of the title of which Ray used in a short story, had it dead on: http://robotics.caltech.edu/~m...s/epd_marvelous.html

Anyhow, bottom line, I'll make no absolute conclusions on the ancient astronauts until after December 2012. If we're still here to observe then, I'll see if they really show by June 2013. Otherwise, to heck with 'em.

I just had the vision of masses of people gathering in December at ancient landing sites looking much like this:

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If you have nothing else better to do on March 25th feel free to come and say hello. I have been anointed the “author wrangler.” If you do plan on attending please make sure to say hello. (Richard: Do you plan on being there this year?)

http://www.la-vintage-paperback-show.com/index.html

Dream Police will suck the thoughts right out of your HEEEEEAAAAAAAAADDDD! http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/...ideo-130497213.html/

Happy PI Day. It is a good day to have a piece of pie in honor of 3.14 since today is March 14th.

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Dream Police will suck the thoughts right out of your HEEEEEAAAAAAAAADDDD! http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/...ideo-130497213.html/

All that possibility and we got Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau?!

I did wonder at the choice of subject material.

It's good to know that the image recovered from the brain looks just like the movie would look if I took my glasses off.

1850: The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was first published

It could certainly help solve crimes. They'd just get a search warrant for the person's brain and suck the memories out, showing exactly how things happened.

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It could certainly help solve crimes. They'd just get a search warrant for the person's brain and suck the memories out, showing exactly how things happened.

Dumbledore's been doing that for years.

Yeah, but he needs Veritaserum or a Pensieve.

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It could certainly help solve crimes. They'd just get a search warrant for the person's brain and suck the memories out, showing exactly how things happened.

But - at the risk of turning this discussion into a Philip K. Dick story - how could they distinguish between a memory and a fantasy?

(Let's leave that as a rhetorical question, shall we?)

To quote the great Yogi Berra, " It's deja vu all over again!"

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But - at the risk of turning this discussion into a Philip K. Dick story - how could they distinguish between a memory and a fantasy?

(Let's leave that as a rhetorical question, shall we?)

Yeah, like if a person was accused of committing a crime, started having nightmares about it, and then they recovered the nightmares?

I've just been told that Ray is a final question on Jeopardy tonight.