For the other Astronuts out there

I find most of the ... entertaining theories ... to be rather pedestrian. I've loved scifi since a found a copy of Bullard of the Space Patrol when I was in the sixth grade.

 

Deeper for what? I wasn't try to start a contest, I was providing context.

 

Been reading scifi since 1963. I did say "most", not "all". As the famous philosopher said "99% of everything is crap."

 

I read enough of von Daniken in the late sixties to make me a believer. I also read enough of Mein Kampf (maybe half of it?)
I gained a belief that Both these idiots were pretty far out there. What we really need is the Ancients wisdom on stone masonry.

 

von Daniken was a con man, convicted of stealing funds from the Boy Scouts. You really need better sources.

 

thusly why I believe he was an Idiot.

 

Sorry, I read hastily. My apologies. I really, really, really hate that man. I've had no end of battles over his bullshit.

Tucking my fangs back in.

 

Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia​

Image Credit & Copyright: N. D. Liao​

Explanation: What's happening across that field? Pictured here are not auroras but nearby light pillars, a phenomenon typically much closer. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting sunlight from the upper atmosphere. Usually, these ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground. During freezing temperatures, however, flat fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in a form of light snow sometimes known as a crystal fog. These ice crystals may then reflect ground lights in columns not unlike a Sun pillar. The featured image was taken last month across the Wulan Butong Grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China.
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Tomorrow's picture: star painters​

 

Then they'll put up signs, "No gwáilóu!"

 

NGC 2170: Angel Nebula Abstract Art​

Image Credit & Copyright: David Moulton​

Explanation: Is this a painting or a photograph? In this celestial abstract art composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170, also known as the Angel Nebula, shines just above the image center. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a red emission region, many dark absorption nebulae, and a backdrop of colorful stars. Like the common household items that abstract painters often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars featured here are also commonly found in a setting like this one -- a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros). The giant molecular cloud, Mon R2, is impressively close, estimated to be only 2,400 light-years or so away. At that distance, this canvas would be over 60 light-years across.
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Tomorrow's picture: star plane​

 

Until you see the Orion Nebula through a 8” telescope you can’t comprehend the magnitude of our insignificant significance.

 

Got a bit of time on Mt. Wilson. Friend of mine had relatives up there at the time.

 

When I was but a wee lad, high school, I read a story about an investigator who was trying to find out how people got along so well on the Moon. Turned out that they weren't but they had to work together to avoid the huge number of bullets that had be fired at the other parties during the only battle fought up there. Rounds fired in all directions and ORBITING the moon about five feet on the ground. Silly but completely believable from what I know about humans.

 

The short I mentioned I read in ~1965, one of a collection of "Let's screw up the Moon TOO!" stories.