Victor Davis Hanson
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Yes, unless they've come here before or they're, you know, there used to be, I forgot his name, Von something.
He was in the 70s.
He made the argument that the Egyptians and other monumental civilizations, the Minoans, were taught their technology by people who came from outer space.
Von Donaghan.
I think his name was Von Donaghan.
And, you know, he said the pyramids were beyond the technological ability of people at the time, or the Lion's Gate at Mycenae couldn't, it was so many tons, there were no methods, but...
He was refuted because people demonstrably showed that you could do what they did with innovative technology known at the time.
It was just unusual.
So I'm still a skeptic, but I'm less a skeptic, I guess, than I was.
Yeah, well, I know Walter Cronin a little bit, and I really admire him.
He's a really brilliant guy.
He's witty.
He's a great writer.
I'm prejudiced a little bit because he reviewed one of my books favorably.
But I just would like to know how he – when he gives us that assurance, I wish he would just say –
And these things are going to shock you because I have seen, talked, or is it this movie?
Or I don't know.
Just give me a little evidence.
Yes, yes.
But I do.