From Ancient Devils To Distant Stars: How Imagined Civilisations, Pop Culture And Pseudoscience Shaped Human Curiosity
Man has always been curious about civilisations far, far away from his own earth. But so far, nothing has been found, although sightings of strange creatures and vehicles transporting them have been “reported” from time to time. They may, though, well be the imagination of runaway minds. Long ago, people walking past marshy villages at night saw what they termed “pisasu” (devil). It was not that. No way. When gases escaped into the air and mixed with oxygen, fires erupted. There have been so many similar conjectures. One came from Erich von Daniken in his 267-page, 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods, in which he averred that........
