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136 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
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the perimeter of the globe better than we knew it up to twenty
years ago and that they used this exact knowledge in exactly the
same way from continent to continent, such admission becomes
very diflficult unless we allow our skeptical minds to accept the
theory of extraterrestrial visitors participating in the formation of
our fate.
It seems certain now that further studies of weights and coins
of the distant past will lead to the discovery of a central culture
common to all mankind and stemming from the unknown place
on our planet where the astronauts from outer space first landed
about 65,000 years ago in order to foster a new race of earthlings.
One thing that can be said with certainty now is that all the
measurement systems ever used, no matter when or where, share
a common relation to the dimensions of our planet and therefore
to the metric system. In its modern form that system was established
only some 200 years ago in France. But, of course, the
metric system was not invented by the French. Nor was it invented
by the Egyptians who used it 5,000 years ago or by the
Mayas who built their terraced pyramids in metric dimensions.
The system must be even older than the Sumerian sexagesimal
way of counting or the Mayan vigesimal numeration. It must
have been developed by a civilization famihar with decimal
counting, positional calculation, and the use of zero, a civilization
which we have not yet found and probably never will find
on the continents or islands known to us because it must be more
than 100,000 years old and has probably been hidden in the
depths of some ocean for tens of thousands of years.
According to the most recent theories, there were four original
civilizations that appeared simultaneously at four equidistant
points on earth in the Arctic, Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
All of these points are now under water, but hundreds of thousands
of years ago these were continents and they will rise again
when our present continents in turn sink.
This theory is based on a very simple observation that everyone
can make with an orange kept in a dry place. After a month
or so the juice will have partially evaporated and the soft core
will have shrunk more than the hard rind. The orange will have
changed form from a sphere to a tetrahedron which has a higher
surface area in relation to its volume than a sphere. Our earth