Hi Martin and list,
actually it was not E. von Däniken who bought the meteorite collection.
It was a privat person, a certain Dr. Meier who bought the collection
and gave it as a loan to the Mystery Park.
Unfortunately the whole collection is hidden in a very small, dark
room and therefore "lost". The Natural History
Museum in Bern would be a much better place for those meteorites than
a pseudo scientific
funpark like the Mystery Park! Maybe I should try to convince Mr.
Meier of this!
An additional note concerning Erich von Daniken: IMHO he is not that
"evil liar" as mentioned by Axel Emmermann, he just asks questions
and gives some very personal and sometimes rather strange
answers...and it's up to you to decide if those answers are possible
or not...
Peter Marmet
Martin Altmann wrote:
A little side note:
von Däniken bought a large part of the meteorites of the Bally-
Prior Museum
in Switzerland,
which closed down in 2003. They had a remarkable meteorite collection,
consisting of specimens from the colln of Bally-Prior (1847-1926), who
bought meteorites from the Ward-Coonley Colln, from Brezina. Later
the cllm
of C.C.Lee was added.
All in all they had more than 400 meteorites from more than 300
localities.
Rolf Bühler was the curator.
Däniken bought them - I got to know, when I just tried to sell him a
DaG262-slice, but I was a little bit to late - to exhibit them at his
"Mystery Park" - a kind of Disney World for ufologists:
http://www.mysterypark.ch
Was anybody of our Suisse friends already there to visit the poor
meteorites?
Buckleboo?
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Axel Emmermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Charles O'Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:57 PM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Re: Stones From The Stars: The
UnsolvedMysteriesof Meteorites
Oh yes!
That gave me flashback... wow... still dizzy from it ;-)))
Back in the fifties to late sixties there was several hypes
created around
some books that were written by pseudo-scientists like Immanuel
Velikovsky
or even a reporter named Erich Von Daniken.
Velikovsky ( http://skepdic.com/velikov.html ) proposed a load of
unspeakable nonsense in his book "Worlds in collision". Was he a
certified
and respected scientist? Yes, absolutely so... in the field of
psychology.
He had no astronomical basis whatsoever. Still, his ramblings were
gulled
by
an astoundingly large circle of readers. Even in academic circles
for a
short while.
If it is written by an "esteemed" scientist, people tend to believe
anything. Also, 50's and 60's were the time that the mass medium
TV was
emerging along with "popular science". Television was the golden
opportunity
for con-artists... you could fool millions of people at a time.
Erich Von Daniken (http://skepdic.com/vondanik.html) wrote books
that were
packed with lies and fraudulent proof about ancient astronauts and
prehistoric civilizations. Some years ago he was put under
pressure by the
law (several law suits were filed against him) to publicly
renounce his
wild
theories and confirm the fraudulent nature of his work. He did so
in a
live
TV broadcast and... saw his books re-enter the best-seller lists
shortly
thereafter. Even today, people buy his books and visit his theme
park. Is
life really so dull that people rather wallow in the make-believe
of a
raving madman than see the real wonders of the universe that are
often
even
wilder than fantasy?
I think this conclusion is exactly what it claims to be: unthinkable
;-))))
Axel
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren
Garrison
Verzonden: vrijdag 18 november 2005 1:05
Aan: Charles O'Dale
CC: [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Stones From The Stars: The
UnsolvedMysteries of Meteorites
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:33:03 -0400, "Charles O'Dale"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Could you save me $0.50 and tell me the "unthinkable conclusion"?
I just finised the book tonight. The "untinkable conclusion" is that
meteorites that hit the Earth
(apparently, all sizes) are sent here and aimed by an alien
species to hit
specific areas to be
"markers" to help in future missions to map the Earth. Also, that
the
aliens are careful to make
sure that none of the asteroids hit submarine plate boundaries,
because if
one did hit one, it would
cause a chain reaction of "unzipping" the continental plates and
destroy
the
Earth the same way the
former asteroid belt planet was destroyed.
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
