From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   Christian Weisgerber wrote:   
   > RIP, Erich von Däniken (1935-2026), Swiss writer who became an   
   > international bestselling author by opportunistically writing about   
   > fringe and pseudoscience topics. He popularized the idea that early   
   > human cultures were visited by extraterrestrials who helped build   
   > monumental works and became revered as gods; a concept that was   
   > picked up numerous times by science fiction writers.   
   >   
   I believe that SF writers got there first.  But in those stories the   
   aliens were more clever, passing on information rather than building   
   useless objects.   
      
   Still, given how stupid we are, perhaps aliens would also be dumb enough   
   to think:   
      
   "We need to help these poor people! Gimme three pyramids, stat!"   
      
   William Hyde   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)