I don't usually buy into the outlandish, but I don't like to just write it off arbitrarily either.
Was this guy crazy? Maybe.
We've sent a satellite to Saturn to probe the mysteries of her moons, we've sent two remote control rovers to Mars to take pictures of the Martian landscape, there is serious talk to build an elevator into space and just the other day there was an article online about the feasibility of a hyper-drive. We've 'discovered' black holes, speculated on worm holes and the latest notion from the world of theoretcial physics is that everything is made up of tiny vibrating strings of various sizes...a theory, I should point out, that calls for the existence of up to 11 dimensions (it is 11, right? I don't have it sitting right in front of me...). 20 years ago, these ideas were pretty ridiculous. So, is the notion of a 'star gate' really that out there?
If it were anywhere, why wouldn't it be in Babylon? Cradle of civilization and, like alpha pointed out, the center of a bajillion different conflicts and the nexus of no less than three of the world's major religions.
Do I believe that Reagan had his brains scrambled by aliens... He did fade awful fast from the limelight of his Presidency...Alzheimer's or not. Not to mention...
Quote:
"...how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries" - speaking on his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev
AND....
"...in our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think, how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." - addressing a full session of the General Assembly at the U.N.
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Just a little food for thought...