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Happy Stanislav Petrov day, everyone:
Just another one of those incidents during the cold war that could have very easily turned accidentally hot and killed off human civilization.
Even more relevant than usual this year, because I think we’re all very aware how little it would take to cross the line between escalating rhetoric and actual actual mutual destruction.
They made a documentary about him that’s available on Tubi
https://tubitv.com/movies/457157/the-man-who-saved-the-world
oh noooez!
How? Why? What can explain it? How come no ancient warnings graven on Göbekli Tepe predicted an event that will overturn, for many of his admirers, all they once thought they knew about Keanu Reeves? Even if he once saw a ghost. A chilling promotional clip shows the star telling the older man: “I mean as a kid I always thought the timeline was [dramatic pause] off.”
Oh, Keanu. It’s pure speculation, of course, but there is no avoiding from this clip the impression that he respects, could even believe in, Hancock’s signature theory: that after a comet (previously “crustal displacement”) totally destroyed a great ice age civilisation, its genius, somehow globetrotting survivors bequeathed loads of enormous monuments, possibly featuring comet warnings, before disappearing and leaving locals – until Hancock intervened – to take all the credit.
“That archaeologists have not found material evidence that would convince them of the existence of
a lost civilization of the ice ageunicorns, is not by any means compelling evidence that nosuch civilizationunicorns could have existed,”
thats the level of hancock defending his “theories”.
Part 2:
The interview gives some great snippets of history that are fleshed out fully in this first Kingsolver book:
