Rahinur Rahaman

Easily make $100, $200, or $500 a day with this secret Money Making Software

What s a Kindle
A Kindle is an electronic handheld book reader. It can store a lot of book in its internal storage. It is manufactured and distributed by Amazon.com.

History of Kindle
Amazon Kindle is first launched a couple years ago. Immediately after its launches, two more versions of the Amazon Kindle have been released. They are Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. Just recently its new version 3g wireless has introduced in Amazon.com.

Last Word About Kindle
Amazon Kindle is an smart electronic reader gadget. It is more smart reading device than Apple’s iPad and Nook from Barnes and Noble.

If you want to discover more about Amazon Kindle, visit its official website.

Money Making Software is an essential part of internet marketing these days, because software makes internet marketers life easier.

Before software age, the entire tasks such as Niche Selection, Keyword Analysis, Content Creation, Search Engine Optimization, Directory Submission and Link Building were performed manually by hand. Tiresome huh!

In this days money making software automate all of these tasks. Software now-a-days is become so advanced that it micro analysis of your niche, find gold nugget keyword, optimize your website or blog post, submit directory naturally.

Some system is as smarter as you need no any website or blog to make money online. You just select your niche and keyword and close your eyes. Software makes everything from content creation to conversation.

In the past years there has been quite a lot of bad reputation about certain money making software that they did not work as the founders promised for their software. It is true that many people have failed to make any income online as a result of buying poorly programmed software.

Luckily for us the days of non functioning software are just about gone, software is getting better all the time and with competition between software creators the race is now on to make the very best and most profitable software. Recently we have seen mobile phone advertising software, automated blogging software and just about every social site on the net has been monetized by the power of software automation. You can now auto send your video promotion to every media site on the net within a few clicks, auto friend request on YouTube and MySpace to increase your audience, even auto tweet on Twitter!

I am an internet marketer. Last several years I have purchased and use software on all my area of work. This will automate my work and make my life easier than ever.

The possibilities are endless and money making software will continue to grow from strength to strength whilst the ever changing world of the internet continues to evolve.

An Oracle database link is a schema object that causes Oracle to connect to a remote Oracle/Non-Oracle database to access an object there. In this article I have discussed about database link to access Oracle database only.

To create Oracle database link you must have required system privilege. CREATE DATABASE LINK system privilege required to create private Oracle database link and CREATE PUBLIC DATABASE LINK system privilege is required to create public Oracle database link.

After achieving required system privileges you need to execute CREATE DATABASE LINK statement. To demonstrate this I am giving you some example. I assume you have two databases, one with the database name local and the other with the database name remote. The examples use the Oracle Database domain. Your database domain will be different.

Create Oracle Database Link Syntax:

Creating a Public Oracle Database Link:
The following statement defines a shared public database link named remote that refers to the database specified by the service name remote:

CREATE PUBLIC DATABASE LINK remote
USING 'remote';


This database link allows user hr on the local database to update a table on the remote database (assuming hr has appropriate privileges):

UPDATE employees@remote
SET    salary    = salary * 1.1
WHERE  last_name = 'Baer';

Defining a Fixed-User Oracle Database Link:
In the following statement, user hr on the remote database defines a fixed-user database link named local to the hr schema on the local database:

CREATE    DATABASE LINK local
CONNECT   TO hr IDENTIFIED BY hr
USING     'local';

After this database link is created, hr can query tables in the schema hr on the local database in this manner:

SELECT * FROM employees@local;

User hr can also use DML statements to modify data on the local database:

INSERT INTO employees@local (employee_id, last_name, email, hire_date, job_id)
VALUES (999, 'Claus', 'sclaus@oracle.com', SYSDATE, 'SH_CLERK');

UPDATE    jobs@local
SET    min_salary = 3000
WHERE    job_id       = 'SH_CLERK';

 

DELETE    employees@local
WHERE    employee_id = 999;

Using this fixed database link, user hr on the remote database can also access tables owned by other users on the same database. This statement assumes that user hr has SELECT privileges on the oe.customers table. The statement connects to the user hr on the local database and then queries the oe.customers table:

SELECT    *
FROM    oe.customers@local;

Defining a CURRENT_USER Oracle Database Link:
The following statement defines a current-user database link to the remote database, using the entire service name as the link name:

CREATE DATABASE LINK remote.us.oracle.com
CONNECT    TO CURRENT_USER
USING    'remote';

For details about oracle database link, please visit ORACLE DATABASE LINK in Oracle Database SQL Reference

Restriction: You cannot create Oracle database link in another user’s schema, and you cannot qualify dblink with the name of a schema. Periods are permitted in names of Oracle database links, so Oracle Database interprets the entire name, such as john.misbdlink, as the name of a database link in your schema rather than as a database link named misdblink in the schema john.

Recently I have changed my hosting service. Everything was fine and I was happy. After a while I have fallen in problem when I have gone to change my sites permalink structure. It is showing just a blank page.

I searched for here and there in the internet and found no solution for my problem. Someone post comments that they have same problem but no solution.

At last I have found a comment at WordPress support forum which was left by Zeniph and that was very helpful for me. I have described which Zeniph was left.

WordPress has a file named misc.php located at /wp-admin/includes/misc.php which contains a function named got_mod_rewrite(). All servers other than Apache return false as its return value.

If your server is other than Apache then you must update this file and will recover from this problem.

Actual Code:

function got_mod_rewrite() {
$got_rewrite = apache_mod_loaded('mod_rewrite', true);
return apply_filters('got_rewrite', $got_rewrite);
}


Modified Code:

function got_mod_rewrite() {
//$got_rewrite = apache_mod_loaded('mod_rewrite', true);
$got_rewrite = true;
return apply_filters('got_rewrite', $got_rewrite);
}


You can also define a variable at wp-config.php file

define ('FORCE_MOD_REWRITE', true );


and modify the function like this

function got_mod_rewrite() {
if ( defined ( 'FORCE_MOD_REWRITE' ) )
$got_rewrite = true;
else
$got_rewrite = apache_mod_loaded('mod_rewrite', true);
return apply_filters('got_rewrite', $got_rewrite);
}


Both will work fine.

MySpace is one of the first successful social networking website that is still around today. Many people were able to become successful by using this popular community website, individuals were able to become online celebrities by hanging with followers and companies were able to establish an online brand through this community site.

Tons of social networking sites come to the internet world following MySpace. Some of them are Facebook, hi5, professionals network LinkedIn. Many of them even got more popularity and gather more wealth than MySpace. Now question arises; can I make a website like MySpace? Answer is YES! Here I’ll show you how you can make a free website like MySpace.

Experiences and Resources

Creating a website like MySpace requires a lot of experience such as programming, scripting language, domain knowledge, web hosting and more. It is required to have plenty of resources such as investing money, hire developers to design and develop your site.

Using Software

You can automate this process by using software. But one thing to remember; before you choose your community software, you will need to identify your objectives for your social networking website. Which features are included within it such as public profiles, image and video upload, tagging facility, message boards, classifieds and groups. Once you select the items you want in your site then you will have a better understanding in what social networking software you want to use.

When creating a website like MySpace selecting the right software is important. There are a lot of networking software out there so be sure to select the right one for your requirements. Also make sure you consider the features that the software will have to offer. Some software has the ability to upload images and videos but still missing regular features like forums and message boards.

Recommended Software

You will have to have a good understanding on what you want in social networking software by surfing the internet. I have some recommendations for you that are popular, trusted and secure.

Social Engine – Social engine is awesome community software with many great features. The only downside is that some features have to be purchased as add-ons. But the good news is that you choose what add-ons you want to purchase and leave out the features anytime you don’t want.

PhpFox – Is another secure and trusted social networking software. It has lots of testimonials and you can’t beat the starting price. Prices start at only $99.

BuddyPress – This is another awesome piece of software. I think the best part of this software is the price, it’s 100% FREE. It comes packed with many features the other platforms come with but without the cost. If you plan on starting a community site on a budget then this is the way you will want to go.

Decorating Your Website

Assuming you have chosen a social networking platform, it’s now time to decorate your website to your specific design. Most of these social networking sites often include a Cascading Style Sheet (*.css) file for easy editing. If you have a little bit experience, then you could style and customize your MySpace style website to your needs. If you don’t know how to style or need someone to do it for you, then hire a company or freelance designer. Freelance designers can often be found online at various websites like getacoder.com or odesk.com

Now you have all the tools you need to develop website like MySpace. Hopefully you find these tools useful and are able to create a successful social networking website.

To accomplish these task professionally and successfully, you can take a professional web site design course named Web Design Mastery – Professional Web Site Design Made Easy which contains over 500 pages of quality information codes and examples.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the best original score Oscar Sunday, February 27, 2011 night at the 83rd annual Academy Awards, marking the fourth consecutive year that the prize goes to a first-time winner.

“Wow. Is this really happening?” the Nine Inch Nails frontman asked during his acceptance speech, clutching his golden statue.

“When we finished work on ‘The Social Network,’ we were very proud of our work and happy to just be involved in this film, and to be standing up here in this company is humbling and flattering beyond words,” Reznor continued. “I’d like to especially thank the Academy for recognizing our work here, and David Fincher, Director, thank you so much for the opportunity.”

Backstage, Reznor credited Fincher’s vision in getting the music just right, specifically to capture the “iconic quality of ‘Blade Runner’ in its time.”

“A side of my music with Nine Inch Nails was going instrumental so it was not a huge leap or stretch to try this,” Reznor said of his first venture into scoring a film. “The biggest challenge was working with a picture. David Fincher knew exactly waht he wanted. It was one of the best experiences of my life from start to finish.”

Reznor and Ross previously won the Golden Globe for best original score for “The Social Network” in January. The pair is reteaming with Fincher to compose the music for the director’s next film, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling book.

TCM TV channel broadcast the classic movie “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” last Sunday, February 27 2011 at 10:20am. The film is based on the true story of the “Battle Against Alcoholism” of worlds famous singer “Lillian Roth“.

Singer and actress Lillian Roth was born in Massachusetts. When she was seventeen years old, she made the first of three Earl Carroll Vanities, which was soon followed by Midnight Frolics. Her life is full of remarkable events.

In 1930 Lillian Roth hits bottom after bad marriage, then she joins Alcoholics Anonymous. Roth died from a stroke in 1980 when she was 69 years in age.

 

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Cast: Susan Hayward, Jo Van Fleet, Eddie Albert
Director: Daniel Mann

The concept of a supernatural, creator, all-knowing, all-powerful, God is philosophically flawed. But, there remains the question, if God isn’t really God, who is God? Well, IMHO, God isn’t God, since God is a flesh-and-blood extraterrestrial (ET)!

There are two variations to that possibility.

Here’s one of those variations. What if God were in reality a very ‘flesh-and-blood’ extraterrestrial computer programmer, a computer programmer who has written a software package called, say “Planet Earth”? Maybe it’s a computer or interactive video game – maybe a homework assignment for a smart extraterrestrial student.

Anyway, computer software easily explains all the Biblical miracles (virgin births; the resurrection, etc.); or anomalies (like where did all the rain come from vis-à-vis the Biblical Flood, and where did all that water eventually go; how did Jonah survive inside a large fish, etc.) or inconsistencies (like Cain’s wife; the discrepancies between Biblical time and geological time). Regarding the Biblical flood, no humans actually died; no animals suffered and drowned, and so on, because the humans and animals were never real to start with, just as you and I aren’t real, just part of – for want of a better analogy – a computer game simulation.

The logic goes something like this. Within the observable universe, the probability is high that other extraterrestrial civilizations, with a technology equal to or greater than our own exist. By parallel with our civilization, we can assume that other intelligent technological beings would have invented something akin to our computers, laptops, PCs, etc. The number of possible computer software programs is no doubt vastly greater than the number of actual technological civilizations in the observational universe. I mean Earthlings have one such civilization, yet we have tens of thousands of interactive computer software programs, much of it entertainment or educationally driven.  That’s a lot of virtual reality, with a lot more technological advances probably to come – think of those holodeck programs featured in Star Trek.  In any event, the ratio of actual realities to virtual realities is lopsided in the extreme and in favour of the virtual. So, the odds are equally as great that you, me, the entirety of our so-called reality, Planet Earth (and neighbourhood), is of the virtual kind. Thus, we have a creator (our extraterrestrial computer programmer), and I guess the word ‘God’ is as good as any for ‘our extraterrestrial father who art our simulator’. Perhaps our concept of ‘God’ is nothing more than a mythological version of some advanced, but hardly supernatural, extraterrestrial computer programmer! Now as long as ET doesn’t hit the delete key!

Again, to drive the point home, let’s suppose, for argument’s sake that in the real physical Universe, there exists some tens of thousands of extraterrestrial civilizations which have evolved technology our equal or better (even more advanced).  The odds are high that most would have invented computers – hardware and software.  Any one civilization, such as our own, have (to date) produced multi-thousands of computer programs, many of which simulate life forms – think of the hundreds, indeed thousands of computer/video games. No doubt these programs will grow, over time, ever more complex and lifelike.

If one advanced civilization produces multi-thousands of individual computer programs that simulate an actual, or imagined, reality, what are the odds that we aren’t one of those thousands vis-à-vis being that advanced civilization that actually exists? How could you know if you were real, or imaginary? I maintain there’s probably no obvious way of you knowing.

Even if there’s only a relatively few actual extraterrestrial civilizations, but untold number of created false realities – what odds we are one of the real ones and not one of the imaginary/simulated many?

Is the idea really so way out in left field that there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that it could be right? We have to look to advances in our own terrestrial computing power to determine that. Computer generated simulations are already realistic enough that they are used to train astronauts, pilots and MDs and other humans in professional activities where mistakes in training, if done in real situations, could be disastrous.  Our cinema industry has already produced computer generated virtual reality films, bypassing real actors and real scenery. It’s entirely possible (legal issues aside) to bring back in a sense dead actors to star again in new productions. We’ve all been awed by computer generated special effects in films that are so realistic that if you didn’t actually know better, you’d swear were real.

Walk into any DVD store and you’ll find thousands of video (computer) games and/or simulations that you can run on your PC.  Most have ‘humans’ in various role-playing guises that are software generated and which you interact with. The reality factor is increasing by leaps and bounds. At what point will the software become complex enough that these simulated ‘beings’ are advanced enough to have self awareness? What happens when the software programming these virtual ‘humans’ becomes equal to the software (brains) that program us? What happens when the computer software complexity exceeds that of the human brain? Is this far-fetched? Methinks not. Now just replace our virtual ‘humans’ with ourselves, and maybe, just maybe, we’re the virtual reality in somebody (something) else’s actual reality.

If we, Planet Earth, and our observable universe are nothing but a simulation, that can explain (or at least rationally account for) any and all anomalies (miracles?) that you care to bring up. Software (be it of the wet-ware [brains] or of the computer variety) can create any sort of simulated reality – it doesn’t even have to be logical or explainable. Here are just a few examples off the top of my head.

Astronomy One: When considering things cosmological, it’s become apparent that astronomers only observe about 4% of the matter that should be present. That is, about 96% of the matter that should be present and detectable to account for the observed behaviour of our observable universe is missing! Now 1% might be understandable givens measurement uncertainty (error bars), but hardly 96%! So, cosmologists have postulated concepts which they have termed ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’ to make up the deficit. However, nobody has the foggiest idea what exactly ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’ actually is. Neither has actually been detected – obviously. Of course in an artificial simulated universe, one needs no correlation between cause (amount of matter) and effect (behaviour of the observable universe). In fact, it makes the programming that much simpler. By human analogy, I’m sure a detailed study of our video/computer games would show gross violations of the laws of physics.

Astronomy Two: No astronomer can explain how galaxies form and stay formed, at least without incorporating ‘dark matter’. Yet we see them in lots of shapes and sizes. Maybe it’s as if our hypothetical simulator thought that these were sort of pretty and thus threw several billions of them into the background as decorative wallpaper.

Astronomy Three: Since the Big Bang was first documented by measuring the velocity of far away galaxies, there’s been reoccurring problems with the discovery that parts of the Universe have appeared to be older than the Universe itself (as implied by the Big Bang as documented by the velocities of galaxies) – which is a nonsense. Recalibrations have always rectified this situation, but there are still current unresolved issues here. Further, some distant objects appear to have a physical connection, yet separately each is moving at drastically different velocities.

Physics One: Then we have the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Physics – both are accurate to a high degree of experimental precision, but they aren’t compatible with each other. Apparently, one (or both) of these theories must be wrong, or at best incomplete. That’s why the unification of the two (a theory of quantum gravity) is physics’ Holy Grail. However, that Holy Grail is proving as difficult to find as the Grail itself! But for the moment, it’s like the universe has two independent sets of laws, or software – one governing the very large; one the very small. This makes no natural or scientific sense. It’s beyond me how that can be if our reality is really reality, but easily explained if our reality is just someone’s simulation.

Physics Two: Within quantum physics there’s something called the wave-particle duality. That is, something can exhibit the properties of both a wave and a particle at the same time. There really is no entirely rational explanation for this, it just is.

Physics Three: Within General Relativity Theory, if there is anything unintuitive it is the fact that in the entire Universe, it is the speed of light that is absolute or fixed, not something like space or time. It’s unintuitive that all other bits and pieces in motion can be added or subtracted. So, if you are in a train that is moving at say 100 km/hour and you throw a ball at 10 km/hour in the direction at which the train is moving, to an observer outside the train, your ball is travelling at 110 km/hour. If you throw the ball towards the rear of the train, an outside observer will measure the ball as moving at 90 km/hour. If on the other hand, you shine a flashlight in the train, an outside observer will see the velocity of the resulting light beam moving at the speed of light – not the speed of plight PLUS the velocity of the train, or the speed of light MINUS the velocity of the train if you shine the flashlight towards the rear, but at the speed of light! That’s nuts, but it’s scientifically nuts and been proven again and again in any experiment you care to devise. I suggest here that a really natural universe wouldn’t have that property, and that this weird absolute in physics has been imposed on us by someone (something) else.

Physics Four: In our Universe, there should be equal amounts of matter and antimatter, but there’s not. Our antimatter has gone walkabout. While there is one viable physics explanation for this, when considering a simulated universe, it would be easy to program out the antimatter quota which makes for a less complex universe; less complex software that one needs for the simulation. Or, perhaps our simulator hadn’t realized the simulation of physical laws would have predicted antimatter hence never bothered to program it in from the get-go.

Biblical One: Explain the parting of the Red Sea in the Bible! It’s easy to do in the movies, on a computer, or in your head.

Biblical Two: Then there’s this Biblical bit about Joshua commanding the sun to stand still (at least that’s the way I recall it). That’s either a tall tale or a myth or the result of a simulation. Whatever, it can’t be a physical reality.

Biblical Three: In the Bible we have this tale of the multiplying of loaves and fishes out of virtually nothing. Again, you can imagine it, but that’s about it. Likewise with any sort of miracle it’s easy to visualize the event, but infinitely harder to explain it. But, as in the case of loaves and fishes, it’s easy to write a software package that can do this multiplication feat as a simulation exercise.

Biblical Four: Heaven and Hell can be created as easily as any other sort of place, complete with either fluffy white clouds and pearly white gates; harps and haloes, or devils and pitchforks; fire and brimstone!

Biblical Five: If someone (or something) is calling the simulation shots, you could obviously and easily be resurrected or reincarnated or just allowed to cease to be (that is, deleted from the program).

Paranormal One: How can reports of a Bigfoot or a Loch Ness Monster continue for decades without physical verification as if these creatures were but phantoms? Again, it’s easy to visualize such creatures, but far harder to explain how a rather largish lake monster can elude detection in a confined lake seemingly indefinitely. All these observers can’t be totally mistaken. But what if the ‘monsters’ AND their observers are both simulations, where the ‘monsters’ are simulated to be a quasi-phantom – a sort of game to play with your simulated observers?

Paranormal Two: What about ghosts and fairies and all of their various relations? You can create them on film, in your mind, or on a computer screen, so, if you can, so could another – and create you as well in the process.

Paranormal Three: How can aliens abduct humans or mutilate cattle, decade after decade, without ever being seen? It’s easy to do in a computer simulation; difficult in reality.

Paranormal Four: That goes ditto for the English crop circles. The crop circle phenomena is totally unexplainable, but it doesn’t have to be explainable in a physical sense if it’s all a virtual reality created by an extraterrestrial intelligence including the observers who see the circles and wonder how on earth it was done.

From the examples above, I conclude that it almost seems as if someone (something) is ultimately responsible for aspects of the Universe, but he / she / it / they didn’t quite think things through sufficiently. Methinks an all knowing, all powerful supernatural God type being wouldn’t have stuffed things up. The Universe is certainly stuffed up and if the Bible isn’t a stuffed up piece of literary work, I don’t know what is! So both the Bible and our Universe are either naturally stuffed up (The Bible because it was authored by flawed human beings and thus has nothing to do with the infallible word of God), or it was created stuffed up! If it was created stuffed up, well again, it’s because the creator was flawed flesh-and-blood, and hardly an all-knowing and all-powerful God. Our flawed creator created a simulated Universe, including all the Biblical baggage we have to try to reconcile with a perfect creator God (who, in my version, doesn’t exist).

Could there be an afterlife without a God? I suggest that if there is an afterlife, there has to be a natural as opposed to a supernatural mechanism, and that we’d be hard pressed to come up with one. While I can’t think of a completely natural explanation to account for any plausible transition from life to afterlife, I can think of a non-supernatural one, albeit it’s not totally natural. Just as it’s within the realm of possibility that we exist as software in a computer program called “Planet Earth”, so too might there be another computer program with associated software called “The Spirit World” or “The Abode of the Afterlife”. When you reach your termination as a simulated living being in “Planet Earth”, you get resurrected in “The Spirit World”. Of course in that sense there’s still a god, but a ‘god’ who just happens to be an extraterrestrial computer programmer, who could be flesh and blood, or maybe an artificial intelligence in its own right. Either way, it’s not 100% natural, but it’s certainly not supernatural. Of course for all I know there maybe other software programs with names such as “Hell” and “Heaven” or “Valhalla” or maybe dozens, hundreds even thousands of others we’ve never even conceived or heard of. I mean the virtual beings in one of our terrestrial computer or video games wouldn’t be aware that there was thousands of other computer or video games in existence with dozens more being produced and brought out each and every month.

It all makes a sort of sense albeit in a weird or strange sort of sci-fi way. I mean, to paraphrase a rather famous observation, “the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine”.  If there’s anyone who can give a definitive proof that we’re not a creation of someone’s (something’s) virtual reality (computer simulation) then I’d like to hear it so I can cross the scenario off my list of things to have to worry about!

That specific aside, if there is any historical evidence for a god, gods or The God, then that evidence could just as easily be equally interpreted as evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence(s), whose purpose(s) or objective(s) may not be all that benign.

So my second and more likely possible answers to ‘if God isn’t God, then who is God?’ are summed up by the well known phrase ‘ancient astronauts’. God is, or was, an extraterrestrial, but not in this case the creator of a simulated universe. Rather, a being within a really real universe. Recall (the late) Arthur C. Clarke’s third law, “any sufficiently advance technology is indistinguishable from magic”, or in this context, an advanced extraterrestrial technology and alien being welding same is indistinguishable from the supernatural or a supernatural God.

If the above argument is valid, then I conclude that it’s easy to explore the nooks and crannies of our galaxy, and seeing that we have no place to run and hide, that then we indeed have been discovered by extraterrestrials. Since one or more extraterrestrial technological civilizations have already done their boldly going exploring thing, it stands to reason that at various times in our geological and historical past we would have received visitors from the stars. If one or more such occurrences happened in our historical past, there might be some suggestive evidence of same; and thus the concept of the ‘ancient astronaut’ has come to pass.

Erich Von Daniken, including those of a similar point of view who came before and after him, collectively had the germ of a good idea, but he, and they, IMHO got rather carried away with the concept and started seeing ancient extraterrestrial astronauts behind every pyramid and megalith in existence. Now I don’t believe for a moment that aliens, or humans assisted by aliens, built the pyramids or the statues at Easter Island or any other type of archaeological monument. Evidence suggestive of ancient astronauts will probably best be found in myths and legends, including the myths and legends central to our major religions, perhaps in advanced human knowledge of scientific concepts out of sync with that particular culture so hosting that knowledge, or in art works, or other archaeological works that are suggestive of an awareness of sky beings.

Firstly, nearly all cultures have stories and pictograms about or of sky beings, including the Australian aboriginals and American Indians. Myths and legends surrounding, say, the Greek / Roman / Norse gods can be interpreted in an ancient astronaut context (ditto for other religious beings or gods), or perhaps the Biblical ‘Wheel of Ezekiel’ is suggestive. While the etchings on the Plain of Nazca were certainly not runways, for flying saucers, they can easily be interpreted as mammoth human constructions designed to be viewed by sky beings. Why go to the trouble if sky beings weren’t really around to appreciate your efforts?

Then there’s a whole pot-full of mythological creatures – the Centaur, unicorns, the Sphinx, the Griffin, Pegasus, the Minotaur, mermaids, dragons, etc. which might be non-humanoid extraterrestrial life forms. Or, more realistically, perhaps in light of the UFO abduction and Roswell greys, are the myths and legends shared by many cultures dealing with elves, dwarfs, gnomes, the fairy-folk, the wee-people, and other smallish beings that aren’t quite human. It strikes me as more logical that these ‘wee folk’ actually exist, and that’s why all the references to, and belief in, them, exist. That is, they are really real vis-à-vis references to, and belief in them, because there is some psychological, sociological or cultural necessity to invent imaginary beings, calling it mythology (as opposed to literary fiction), or perhaps calling it religion.

In conclusion, the ‘ancient astronaut’ field is a subject ripe for detailed academic study, and the concept of the ‘ancient astronaut’ shouldn’t be dismissed by scholars are readily as it has been. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely any academic would put his or her career on the line by pursuing such a controversial, ‘pseudo-scientific, topic because of the ‘giggle’ factor – Pity that.