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

From: Peter Marmet <p.marmet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Nov 18 11:44:08 2005
Message-ID: <D542E354-E949-40C0-B60F-FB16BBEF7EC9_at_mysunrise.ch>

Hi Martin and list,

actually it was not E. von D?niken who bought the meteorite collection.
It was a privat person, a certain Dr. Meier who bought the collection
and gave it as a loan to the Mystery Park.
Unfortunately the whole collection is hidden in a very small, dark
room and therefore "lost". The Natural History
Museum in Bern would be a much better place for those meteorites than
a pseudo scientific
funpark like the Mystery Park! Maybe I should try to convince Mr.
Meier of this!

An additional note concerning Erich von Daniken: IMHO he is not that
"evil liar" as mentioned by Axel Emmermann, he just asks questions
and gives some very personal and sometimes rather strange
answers...and it's up to you to decide if those answers are possible
or not...

Peter Marmet



Martin Altmann wrote:

> 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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