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Historical Blindness

Dänikenitis - Part Two: Human Chauvinism

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4839 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In the conclusion of my series on Erich von Däniken and his books popularizing the ancient astronaut theory, I look further into the weakness of his evidence and the outright hoaxes he has either promoted or perpetrated.   Switch to Mint Mobile and get a new 3-month unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month. Visit MINTMOBILE.com/BLINDNESS! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/historical today to get 10% off your first month. Direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. Visit www.airwavemedia.com to find other high-quality podcasts! Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode. Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes! Check out my novel, Manuscript Found!  And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts!  Some music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Cherry Heath," "An Oddly Formal Dance," "Cicle Deserrat," "Leatherbound," and "Cicle Vascule" Additional music, including "Remedy for Melancholy and "Wake Up" is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0). Other music: "Leaving Home" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Eric von Danikin's thesis that extraterrestrials have visited Earth in the distant past

0:44.6

and interacted with human cultures is not, in and of itself, a ridiculous prospect.

0:52.0

It should not be rejected based on any preconceptions or prejudices about such a

0:58.4

theory, but rather on the basis of its weak, erroneous, and misrepresented evidence. The fact is that

1:06.2

there's a long history to the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Much estimable work

1:13.6

has been done in this field, and there remains strong reason to believe in the possibility of

1:20.6

alien life, theoretically, and out there in the cosmos, rather than down here on Earth.

1:29.0

Inventor and electrical genius Nikola Tesla believed at the end of the 19th century

1:35.1

that radio communication could be established with extraterrestrial civilizations.

1:40.5

And throughout the 20th century, this line of reasoning has developed into numerous

1:47.0

SETI projects, SETI standing for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. And radio searches have long been a focus of such projects.

1:58.0

Indeed, when such searches find anything unusual in our galaxy, the presence

2:04.5

of extraterrestrial life or technology is often the first conjecture that astronomers and scientists

2:11.7

consider. Tesla himself mistakenly believed he had detected a radio signal from Mars. And similarly, in the 1960s,

2:20.3

when the regular radio signals of a pulsar were first detected, astronomers labeled it

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