[meteorite-list] Re: Stones From ... Mystery Park&Meteorites

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Nov 18 10:30:19 2005
Message-ID: <009f01c5ec56$c2cec300$6389fea9_at_9y6y40j>

A little side note:

von D?niken 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 B?hler was the curator.
D?niken 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" <axel.emmermann_at_pandora.be>
To: <cynapse_at_charter.net>; "Charles O'Dale" <codale0806@rogers.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
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: meteorite-list-bounces_at_meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces_at_meteoritecentral.com]Namens Darren
> Garrison
> Verzonden: vrijdag 18 november 2005 1:05
> Aan: Charles O'Dale
> CC: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> 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"
<codale0806_at_rogers.com>
> 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.
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