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Vice's "Motherboard" Explores Ancient Astronauts, Claims "2001" as Spiritual Ancestor of "Ancient Aliens"

4/4/2018

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Vice Media is partially owned by A+E Networks, the parent company of the History Channel, the network which broadcasts Ancient Aliens. A+E and Vice also are partners in Viceland, a cable channel featuring content produced by Vice, including a talk show in which substance abusing stoners comment on History’s Ancient Aliens. Vice is also the owner of Motherboard, which ran an interesting article attempting to give Ancient Aliens an artistic pedigree in the runup to its April 27 thirteenth season premiere. Writer Becky Ferreira, who specializes in reporting space news, ties Ancient Aliens to the fiftieth anniversary celebrations for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
​Ferreira is sympathetic to the power of the ancient alien idea, insofar as it is a way to reimagine mythology in the language of science: “Whether you believe in gods or aliens or neither, the profound feelings that these Odyssean tales evoke seems to spring from a common human premonition that we are not alone in the universe, and that our destinies have been shaped by inscrutable supernatural forces.” On the other hand, the coincidence of a corporate cousin of Ancient Aliens producing a piece rhapsodizing about the show’s deep connections to the mythical, the divine, and monuments of cinema suggests something more than the work of inscrutable supernatural forces.
 
I can’t help but feel that my work has influenced this piece, either directly or indirectly. She discusses Garrett P. Serviss’s Edison’s Conquest of Mars, one of the first ancient astronaut novels, as well as H. P. Lovecraft’s Old Ones and Charles Fort’s rantings as precursors of the modern ancient astronaut theory. She then talks with Michael Benson, the author of the new book Space Odyssey, about the making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. In their discussion, Benson raises a point I was not familiar with, namely the role that Carl Sagan played in introducing Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001, to the supposed evidence for prehistoric visitors from space.
Over email, Michael Benson told me that Clarke mentioned, in a 1963 letter to astronomer Carl Sagan, the “extraordinary cases” collected in Charles Fort’s “peculiar book” Lo! That book, published in 1931, is one of the earliest nonfiction works to riff about ancient astronauts.
 
“Both Clarke and Carl Sagan entertained the idea that aliens may have visited Earth during ancient times,” Benson said, noting that Clarke was especially impressed by cave paintings in Tassili n'Ajjer as potential evidence of such encounters.
​Tassili n’Ajjer is located in the Sahara Desert and features shamanic cave paintings of humanoids whose round, featureless heads look like 1950s astronauts. Lo! was repeating ideas about ancient astronauts that Fort had proposed back in 1919’s Book of the Damned, but that is neither here nor there. Clarke had read Fort’s books as a kid. I haven’t been able to find any other reference to this letter, and I am curious as to what it actually says, since we have only Benson’s summary to go by.
 
I am not particularly surprised but definitely intrigued to learn that Clarke and Sagan were communicating about ancient astronauts with one another. But it seems odd that it occurred three years before Sagan published his revision of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966), in which he wrote at length about suggestive evidence, such as the very late Babylonian story of Oannes, that he speculated at the time could point to ancient visitors from another world. Sagan became increasingly skeptical of the claim as he learned more about that evidence and what it really meant, but at this point in his life he was cautiously interested in the possibility of alien visitation. I do wonder if this letter was actually from 1966 or 1968, which would fit better into the timeline of 2001. 
 
Clarke first met Stanley Kubrick in 1964, so the conversation with Sagan, if correctly dated to 1963, occurred before Clarke and Kubrick collaborated on 2001. The movie was based on Clarke’s 1948 short story “The Sentinel,” published in 1951, tells of the discovery of a shining pyramid on the Moon, an artifact left by aliens deep in the past. The shape of the stone recalls Lovecraft’s “Shining Trapezohedron,” which was an alien artifact, as well as Dr. Gurlt’s “alien” cube, a meteorite frequently speculated to be an “alien” communication device. More directly, it mirrors the monuments of Mars from Golden Age speculative fiction, to which Clarke added the Lovecraftian concept of interstellar communication.
 
Fortunately for all involved, Clarke, like Lovecraft before him, considered fringe ideas good for science fiction but was much less willing to accept them as fact. Benson notes that Clarke talked Kubrick out of a nascent belief in flying saucers, and wrote of descent into ufology as a “gruesome fate.”
 
I give Ferreira credit for speaking with critics of the ancient astronaut theory such as Jens Notroff and Kathryn Denning, who criticized the hypothesis as racist and spoke of its dangerous attitude toward indigenous peoples. But then Ferreira had to go and undercut it with a pointless sop to believers:
These are strong critiques, but to be fair to believers in ancient aliens, there are plenty of unresolved questions about ancient peoples and the material creations they left behind. Who knows? Maybe those symbols and myths are bonafide (sic) records of aliens showing up at Earth because humans were having such a pathetic go of it.
It sounds anodyne, but substitute in other racist theories and you can see the problem: “To be fair to believers in the idea that the modern races descend from Noah’s three technicolor sons, there are plenty of unresolved questions about racial differences. Who knows? Maybe Black people really are less intelligent because God cursed Ham.” Suggesting a semi-supernatural justification for a racist belief without evidence to demonstrate that it is true does not absolve one of racism simply by appeal to a higher power, alien, divine, or otherwise. To her credit, however, Ferreira doesn’t actually think there is real evidence for the ancient astronaut theory, and she understands correctly that it is a way to displace responsibility for human actions onto a transcendent power: “That alluring fantasy of dodging responsibility for our own development is at the heart of the ancient astronaut hypothesis.”
 
Ferreira sees the ancient astronaut hypothesis in Freudian terms, as a hedge against the fear of death. She believes that people of the 1960s couldn’t handle the fact that nuclear weapons made it thinkable that the West might go the way of Rome and the Maya, and that civilization might end. So they retreated into a world of myth and fantasy, sometimes as art—like 2001—and sometimes as a substitute religion—like the ancient astronaut theory:
​There’s no question that ancient cultures told riveting tales of supernatural beings and alternate dimensions, and expressed themselves through a breathtaking range of creative works, from towering monuments to meticulously crafted fine art. That this material inheritance from our ancestors is often chalked up to extraterrestrial intervention demonstrates a reluctance to recognize the native genius of humanity—perhaps because that genius failed to save past cultures from suffering, death, and collapsed civilizations.
I think this is somewhat overstated, to be honest. This reasoning would equally apply to religion, and it would underlie claims that ancient ruins belonged to Atlanteans, Nephilim, and giants. It might explain a universal tendency, but it doesn’t explain the specifics of why our culture conceptualizes them as space aliens.
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Bajorko
4/4/2018 09:41:09 am

Jason Colavito refused to get 1000 $ for debunking Mauro Biglino works on ancient aliens in the Bible. That's pretty dissappointing, because true sceptic should be open to challenges and not cherrypicking books which he wants, like Hancock or Daniken. Colavito refused to reviews Biglino works on ancient aliens and despite not reading any of his works he said that he is 'parochial fringe writer' who 'hasn't looked too deeply in literature'. I mean, Jason Colavito from the start claims that Biglino is not a credible person, despite that he is an expert of religious scholar who translated Bible and Illiad & Odyssey. Also Colavito states that he won't read Biglino works because he is a person of 'little interest to a general readership'. What a american-biased thing to say. I'm not even from Italy, but in most countries in Europe this guy is very popular and his books are bestsellers. I'm very dissapointed that the best sceptic is not capable of debunking new revolutionary claims about ancient aliens. If someone read this blog, then he should be dissapointed too. Apparently Colavito wants to repeat staff about Hancock and Daniken over and over again and completetly skip modern theories.

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Jason Colavito link
4/4/2018 10:09:43 am

(a) You appear to be trying to bait me into discussing Biglino to give Biglino publicity. What is your connection to him? Is he hoping to break into the American market? I have news for you. I'm not the path to fame and fortune here.

(b) It is impossible to accept your offer because it is impossible to "debunk" a claim that rests on interpretation of evidence. One might argue it is needlessly complex, that other explanations better fit the evidence, etc., but one cannot conclusive declare it false in the absence of factual errors. To this end, I could equally well claim that the same material refers to time travelers from a parallel universe and dare you to prove me wrong.

(c) I don't suppose you've noticed that I am an American, as are about two-thirds of my readers. Many others come from Anglophone countries, since I write in English. Biglino writes in Italian and is published primarily in Romance languages, so he is virtually unknown here. I can find no mentions of him in the American media, and almost none in English-language books, save those of Xaviant Haze, who borrows heavily from Biglino.

(d) Biglino's claims are not new or revolutionary. At least a dozen authors wrote on the same subject before him, going back at least to religious crank John Miller and his 1956 pamphlet of "Whirling Wheels" and George Van Tassel's claims about Venusian UFOs as Yahweh in the 1950s and 1960s.

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An Anonymous Nerd
4/4/2018 10:29:16 pm

I didn't have much time to research this, plus I don't read Italian or understand it, but what I found wasn't encouraging.

I note that Biglino's Wikipedia entry compares him to Sitchin and Von Daniken, as though it were a good thing. He seems also to be plugged into the giants/Nephilim circles. There's a degree to which that's all you need to know.

I note further that the Wikipedia page and various Youtube videos suggest that he claims to translate the Old Testament text "literally" from the ancient languages, which is a Hell of a claim given how different the ancient world's frame of reference was from ours. (Here's a not-so-ancient example: the term "double teeth," which Jason has dealt with the misinterpretation of elsewhere on this site.) Not helping matters is that his "literal" translations are read in a modern light. (To see an "alien" in an ancient text requires a modern understanding of what an "alien" is, and a great stretching of the ancient language.)

Finally, I note that from the little I could find in English, like everyone else I can think of who claims that aliens are found in the Bible and other ancient texts, the claims require that what's described in those texts wasn't a cool story or a religious experience but, rather, something that literally happened. And if that were true there'd be archaeological evidence for them as well. And there isn't, at least not as the ancient aliens folks would need to prove even a tenth of their claims.

Jason's right: This fellow says what a lot of others have said, he just says it in Italian and he misuses a PhD to say it.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Rackham
4/4/2018 11:38:00 am

True critics aren't bait by petty money.

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Americanegro
4/4/2018 02:57:19 pm

Mr. Orko: Where are you intitutionalised?

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Bajorko
4/4/2018 09:51:52 am

Funny thing about Jason Colavito - even in this post he claims that ancient aliens theory has racist part, but in fact it's Jason Colavito and others who have racist bias towards ancient people. Just look on this: ancient aliens sceptics deliberately lie that ancient aliens theorists suggest that ancient non-white cultures were too stupid to do anything without interventions from aliens ('gods'). That's ridiculous because they are constantly pointing out to the Bible (Yahweh, UFOs, technology etc.) which is the most important in 'white heritage'. Also, they constantly talk about Stonehenge, New Grange, Malta Temples, Carnac Stones, Greek, Ireland and Viking mythology. But Colavito and others are very clever so they twist things around and say that no, it's not true and ancient aliens theorists are only pointing out to Egypt, Sumer, India, China, Mayan, Inca etc. That's really shameful lie, because Jason Colavito should be as objective as possible. So, if we continue this topic, we can make similar assumption that according to sceptics ancient people were really stupid, because they subordinate their lifes to the 'gods' who never existed. Ancient people for thousands of years were speaking about their gods and making almost everything because of them, but Colavito and others say 'look at them, they were not right, we should take them seriously'. Also when we speak about ancient 'mysterious structures', ancient people clearly stated that they were not able to build these without the help of 'gods'. So, what Colavito and other have to say about it? That ancient people were very wise and they were able to make these structures, but on the other hand they couldn't admit to their genius so they make stories about technology from the gods. Isn't that racist claim? One more time: that's really shameful because ancient aliens theory is based mostly on white ancient people contacts with gods, so making racist assumptions is just pathetic.

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Joe Scales
4/4/2018 10:49:54 am

Jason is actually pretty fair-minded. I mean, he allows lunatics such as yourself to air utter nonsense. That he would even respond to you is a bonus.

Carry on...

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Machala
4/4/2018 02:01:03 pm

Have you actually read Biglino's tomes ( in Italian ) ? Why are you so obsessed with a second rate theological scholar and third rate writer ?
I suppose if you've read one book, "you've read 'em all" since he has a tendency to be boringly repetitious. There's not a hell of a lot of difference between, for example, "Non c'è Creazione nella Bibbia." , "La Bibbia non è un libro sacro", or "La Bibbia non parla di Dio: uno studio rivoluzionario sull'Antico Testamento". Basically a rehash of his theories using Aramaic and ancient Hebrew, to prove aliens existed.

He's dry enough reading in Italian, it would take one helluva translator/editor to make him appealing and readable to the lunatic fringe ancient alien theory subscribers - most of them possessing an attention span of a nanosecond and an I.Q. of a Faux Noise and History Channel viewer.


So, do you troll for this guy professionally ? What's you interest in attacking Jason - who has much better things to do then take you bait ? What, other than a couple of minutes of attention, are you getting out of this ?
If this is all because you've somehow had a " Road To Damascas" moment because of Biglino, may your god help us all !

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Dunior
4/4/2018 03:08:21 pm

Lighten up Francis. Time to man up and use your real name. Three strikes you're out; game set and match.

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Luke
4/4/2018 06:10:10 pm

You're trying to hard and it's sad.

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PrivyProf
4/9/2018 09:40:04 am

Hey Orka... Or whatever your name is;
Are you really that stupid?
Or have you a different agenda perhaps?
Pillock.

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E.P. Grondine
4/4/2018 11:12:01 am

Jason -

There were Native Americans who were "giant" in size.

Read up on the Andaste, or read Dragoo's "Mounds for the Dead".

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Americanegro
4/4/2018 08:42:29 pm

Balls. You've made that assertion before. The "Here's your reading list and here's how you should be writing" shtick is gettin' old Chief.

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Ralf Buelow
4/4/2018 12:30:38 pm

Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Encounter at Dawn" (1953) described a meeting of stone-age humans and visiting alien beings, viz. http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Arthur%20C%20Clarke%20-%20Encounter%20At%20Dawn.pdf

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Jason Colavito link
4/4/2018 12:36:39 pm

That was one of the other stories that Clarke and Kubrick folded together to make "2001." I believe there were four that were combined into the movie's story.

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Machala
4/4/2018 01:26:20 pm

I have always been a great fan of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov.
. As a young man, I devoured the works of both Clarke and Asimov. I still enjoy re-reading them. Both authors were more than science fiction/speculative fiction writers. They were excellent wordsmiths, credible fantasists, visionaries, and astute social critics.
BUT their novels were Works of Fiction ! They were not meant to be taken any more seriously than Lovecraft intended his stories to be.

Kubrick and Clarke were in the business entertaining audiences with provocative dramas that - when all was said and done, and the last frame was projected and the last page read, - delighted and satisfied their fans but left them craving more, and most importantly, made money for the author and the auteur.

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Dunior
4/5/2018 11:23:10 am

I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Asimov in 1978. It was a very memorable talk. He speculated about collecting solar energy from spaceborne platforms. His vision of what it would be like now still has not happened. He was hoping for tech like we see in Blade Runner that is just starting to develop.

Clete
4/4/2018 12:47:10 pm

I believe that Aliens visited Earth, talked to a selection of Donald Trump voters at some point and came to the conclusion intelligence life doesn't exist on Earth.

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Joe Scales
4/4/2018 12:58:11 pm

You mean those same voters that previously gave Obama the edge? And no, this isn't an invitation to talk bullshit politics. Just making fun of you and your trite commentary.

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David Bradbury
4/4/2018 03:14:50 pm

Maybe the same voters, maybe not. Obama got about the same number of votes in 2012 that Clinton got in 2016- maybe some folks just moved to the wrong states.

Joe Scales
4/4/2018 03:35:55 pm

Not interested in political spins. It's just trite to relentlessly bash Trump. It dominates the airwaves and it's all for cheap ratings. It's not a call to action. It's a call to ignorance.

Step right up...

An Anonymous Nerd
4/4/2018 10:40:53 pm

As I recall, Obama won the popular vote and Trump didn't. But I guess you trot out the debunked, fringy fraud claims now.

Oh well. If folks like me reacted the same way to random political-tinged humor that folks like you did we'd have won the culture wars by now because we'd have the same amount of practice!

-An Anonymous Nerd

David Bradbury
4/5/2018 03:47:04 am

Personally, I'm not Trump-bashing, I'm system-bashing. There has to be a reason why, in every Presidential election (since the main parties assumed roughly their present identities in the 19th century) where the electoral college vote has gone the opposite way from the popular vote, the GOP candidate has won.

Joe Scales
4/5/2018 10:30:53 am

Could it be all the illegals voting in states the Democrats would have won anyway? Seriously though, it's fantasy to ignore the fact that white voters in swing states that previously voted for Obama won the election for Trump. That doesn't fit the narrative, even though it comes from a non-partisan such as myself.

Carry on...

Pops
4/5/2018 01:03:47 pm

Joe Scales. Non-Partisan? If I remember correctly, you have glorified Trump and the GOP before in your comments. I mean you leapt to defend Republicans when they made outrageous claims. As for Trump voters, only because they voted for Obama before doesn’t mean they aren’t bigots. It’s like saying if one voted for a woman they can’t possibly be misogynistic. Voting for someone doesn’t automatically make them immune of being bigots. Joe and similar minded people use that card to avoid the problem that racism is still a thing. I didn’t want to get into politics too but your comments were just to inaccurate to ignore. Plus the GOP and their shitty policies actually affect me negatively so I actually have something to lose unlike your ilk, Joe.

An Anonymous Nerd
4/5/2018 06:14:02 pm

"Could it be all the illegals voting in states the Democrats would have won anyway?"

A fringe claim that has been debunked. Elsewhere I've pointed out the close relationship between the fringe and the Right, though I don't believe I used this particular claim as an example. Maybe I should have.

"Seriously though,"

You were just joking. Sure. So was, I assume, the fellow you were responding to, it didn't stop you from responding as though he were serious. (At least semi-serious.)

"it's fantasy to ignore the fact that white voters in swing states that previously voted for Obama won the election for Trump."

States: Yes, quite clearly. Voters: I haven't seen the numbers on that for myself but the last I heard it was about turnout, which implies many of them were different voters.

I'll withhold judgement until, and unless, I happen upon some academic articles on the subject. A lot of popular analyses tend to be a little speculative for my taste.

"That doesn't fit the narrative, even though it comes from a non-partisan such as myself."

No one reasonably could describe you as a non-partisan.

As to the substance of the fellow's joke about the intelligence of Trump's voters? Not something I'm qualified to speak on....

And, more importantly, I try to stay away from jokes that question folks' intelligence en masse, especially since I've got friends who voted for the fellow.

Finally: Kind of funny how Liberals were just supposed to take it in stride when Conservatives called Barack Obama a Communist, terrorist, America-hater, "white culture" hater (that one was Glen Beck), Western culture hater (most hilarious non-humor book I've seen in a long time asserted that one), Black Nationalist, Nazi, runner of a "secular socialist machine" that must be "stopped" (that one was Newt Gingrich, PhD), etc., while folks of your ilk will jump all over an obvious joke about a fellow who's so closely aligned with the fringe.

Oh well.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Americanegro
4/5/2018 06:58:02 pm

You'll no doubt be footnoting everything in quotes, right? I'll start holding my breath now, shall I?

Oh, no? How disappointing?

Joe Scales
4/6/2018 11:02:15 am

You'll get nowhere with the wit' us or 'ginst us crowd. Poor sports they be. Just ask Alan Dershowitz...

An Anonymous Nerd
4/7/2018 11:53:53 pm

"the wit' us or 'ginst us crowd" says Joe Scales, who only can be talking about himself, as he was the one who reacted to a joke as though it were serious commentary, then got even more unhinged when he was called out for it.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Joe Scales
4/8/2018 11:05:06 am

And now with the dreaded Rubber/Glue comeback. Not surprising from someone who applies logical fallacies as would a preschooler attempting to hammer square blocks into round holes on his Fischer-Price workbench.

Bravo Nerd. Bravo.

An Anonymous Nerd
4/8/2018 07:16:40 pm

Mr. Sacles: Your way with child-like insults is remarkable but I regret to report that there's little else to address in your comments.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Joe Scales
4/8/2018 08:21:39 pm

Well, I won't be addressing yours any longer on this board. Betcha ya can't return the courtesy.

An Anonymous Nerd
4/9/2018 06:52:52 pm

"Well, I won't be addressing yours any longer on this board. Betcha ya can't return the courtesy. "

Of course I won't pledge not to reply to you because sometimes you will say things that I feel need to be challenged! It'd be great if I could dictate who replied to me and who didn't but I can't really do that and I don't see how you could either.

I'm way less likely to insult you though, then you are to return that favor, especially since you've done it a lot already!

-An Anonymous Nerd

The Risen Lord
4/9/2018 07:04:12 pm

My Fucking Self, would you two knock it off. It doesn't matter who gets the last word. There's only one word that matters.

CLETE
4/5/2018 03:15:48 am

And I hate niggers too.

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P.G. Grondine
4/5/2018 12:49:15 pm

I'm willing to bet that I have way more nigger friends than you.

Pops
4/5/2018 01:07:41 pm

Clete, you made me genuinely laugh. Thanks for that.

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Joe Scales
4/5/2018 01:15:34 pm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526368/

Doc Rock
4/4/2018 02:27:14 pm

Now this is worth the price of admission! Bajorko's balls to the wall crazy is much more entertaining and less predictable than the intellectual wannabes (albeit with their own brand of crazy 2.0) at the kids table.

Testify Brother Bajorko, testify!!

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BigNick
4/4/2018 03:56:43 pm

This is some of the best crazy commenting in a long time. You don't miss it until it's gone

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Jim
4/4/2018 04:46:28 pm

Almost as good as Reddit’s Roast Me thing.

OKRA JOB
4/4/2018 03:35:10 pm

A Forensic Anagrammatological Analysis (FAA) of the name BAJORKO yields the phrase OKRA JOB.

This phrase belongs to a sub-category of English slang phrases where the noun “job” is modified by another noun serving an adjectival function, such as: “snow job, hatchet job, hand job,” et al.

An “Okra Job” is also known as “O-holing” which is defined in the Urban Dictionary here:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=O-holing&defid=1914549

================
“O-holing (i.e. “Okra-Holing”) is the process of briefly boiling Okra until it becomes slimy but still firm and placing it in the anus. The slime enters the bloodstream through the thin walls of the lower intestine and creates a hallucinogenic effect.”
=================

Therefore, given the medical and psychiatric implications of an “okra job,” I would urge all of Jason’s regular readers to show compassion for this new commenter who seems to be addicted to the hallucinogenic effects of his okra consumption which he projects so vividly upon Jason.

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Machala
4/4/2018 05:11:38 pm

This is why I read Jason's blogs.
I am constantly being enlightened ( or light ended ) and learn something new, every day.
An "O-job", Indeed !

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Machala
4/4/2018 10:00:06 pm

Since we're talking about Kubrick & Clarke and 2001 A Space Odyssey, it might be of interest to some in Stephen Wolfren's very interesting article in today's Wired magazine discussing how prescient and how off the mark the movie was - 50 years later.

https://www.wired.com/story/2001-a-space-odyssey-predicted-the-future50-years-ago?mbid

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Erich Von Daniken
4/5/2018 03:14:17 am

We all know the truth. The white race is superior to all others. That is scientific fact. Proven. White nordic aliens seeded Europa.

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Only Me
4/5/2018 12:40:17 pm

Nordic aliens seeded a moon orbiting Jupiter? Come on, NASA, let's fire up the rockets! Hot alien babes are waiting for us!

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James Morison link
4/5/2018 05:25:07 pm

I believe that one of Arthur C. Clarke's first stories in the 1930s was a parody of Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness". I think the title was something like "The Hills of Mild Distress", but I don't remember exactly what it was.

I think 2001 does have some similarities to some of Lovecraft's work.

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Americanegro
4/6/2018 12:11:14 pm

It's a common but not universal delusion among folks who really into Lovecraft (of which I are one) to see such similarities where they do not exist.

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Riley V
4/6/2018 07:57:25 pm

The only show worth watching on Viceland is Desus and Mero.

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