Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.in-chemnitz.de!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Carl Sagan...perhaps Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:03:39 -0800 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <658BBE3B.2519@ix.netcom.com> References: <657E0B2A.2847@ix.netcom.com> <1152b95e-faa9-4ef7-a234-5870f7dc3ca4n@googlegroups.com> <65875FE6.23B4@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="1905268"; posting-host="nLYg9UBeoMWa070gP9wQcw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:jJUWJAc84EbA1/Y6pC8bG9c012g5Mm7d9nhUObMTadY= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 231226-4, 12/26/2023), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:884121 sci.physics.relativity:626505 The Starmaker wrote: > > Physfitfreak wrote: > > > > On 12/23/2023 7:02 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote: > > > I remember reading a scifi novel of the 50s where the hero (USAn of course) was about to wipe out the Venusians. > > > > Modern Humans knew even back then how to make money using these Sheep. > > > > But no one I know has come close to Velikovsky in terms of the scale and > > thoroughness with which he exploited these Sheep, using only scifi! > > > > The generation of Modern Humans before Velikovsky, were essentially > > doing the same thing but writing "Freudian psychology" scifis. Americans > > were thinking they were reading scientific works :-)) > > > > Hahhhaha :) > > > > God what Sheep these cro-magnons are. > > Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist. > He is the author of several books offering pseudohistorical interpretations of ancient history > > Pseudohistory is purported history which: > Treats myths, legends, sagas and similar literature as literal truth > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory > > Is this some kind of a joke? > > Controversy reigned when the book's publisher (Macmillan) was forced to tear up Velikovsky's contract ... > https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky Who is the biggest joke, Sagan or Velikovsky? -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.