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   s|b to Ignatios Souvatzis   
   Re: R.I.P. Erich von Däniken, 90   
   14 Jan 26 15:13:47   
   
   From: me@privacy.invalid   
      
   On 14 Jan 2026 09:31:53 GMT, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:   
      
   > s|b wrote:   
      
   > > You can't deny he saw things in a different perspective.   
      
   > Ahem. There's at least one case where he photographed, for one of his   
   > books, some graphics carved into stone in a cave in some South   
   > American mountain from a perspective that was impossible to view   
   > with your eyes if you stood there. Must have used some crane construction   
   > to hold the camera. Impossible to falsify if you didn't travel there yourself   
   > to view the original.   
   >   
   > Turned by 90 degrees(iirc), you might interpret it as an astronaut   
   > inside a flying machine. Viewed normally, it was some guy with   
   > decorative clothing crouching.   
   >   
   > Ask me 50 years ago if you want details.   
      
   I'm guessing it's this one:   
      
      
   > So you're very right, he viewed things, deliberately, from a different   
   > perspective.   
      
   Not really what I meant, but...   
      
   He had some ideas about the Nazca lines as well:   
      
      
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