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OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE<br />
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their social eustoms, identical in all four corners of the earth, had<br />
to come from one common source that in relatively recent times<br />
seemed to have been situated somewhere in the middle of the<br />
Atlantic Ocean, but in a more distant past was located in the<br />
Pacific.<br />
These centers disappeared without a trace in cosmic cataclysms,<br />
leaving only distant memories, inherited from a few<br />
survivors, which were reflected in ceremonies, sagas, and some<br />
sacred texts.<br />
I have tried to prove the accuracy of these theories by using<br />
numbers, even though I know that many people dislike numbers<br />
and figures. To these readers I offer my apologies, but I had no<br />
choice. For the benefit of those who may still doubt the accuracy<br />
of the evidence presented in the preceding chapters of this book,<br />
I will summarize my facts.<br />
The scientific knowledge of astronomy shown by our ancestors<br />
tens of thousands of years ago was far superior to that of astronomers<br />
only 300 years ago.<br />
Our prehistoric ancestors knew that the celestial dome is fixed<br />
and that the sun, the moon, and the planets rotate. Tliey had noticed<br />
that the triangle formed by the stars Sinus, Procyon, and<br />
Betelgeuse is immovably fixed, while other constellations, like<br />
the Great Bear, change their relative positions imperceptibly<br />
over many thousands of years. That was why the ancient astronomers<br />
chose the star Sirius as the base for their long-range calculations.<br />
They knew without doubt that the earth revolves around the<br />
sun and that the moon revolves around the earth. They knew<br />
about the existence of the planets Uranus and Neptune even<br />
though it is very rarely possible to see Uranus with the naked<br />
eye and impossible to see Neptune at all. They also knew that<br />
Mars has two satellites, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, and Uranus<br />
two. They knew that comets reappeared at fixed intervals. Some<br />
astronomers of the past even knew about the existence of the<br />
planet Pluto, which we "discovered" only very recently, and<br />
these astronomers of mankind's early dawn even suspected the<br />
existence of another planet beyond Pluto, which they named<br />
Proserpine. We still have not found this distant planet, but many<br />
present-day astronomers are quite sure that it does exist . . .
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