Rick Kinnaird

Thursday, October 16, 2025

I saw an interesting graphic the other day. One of the Voyager spacecraft approaching the Van Oort Belt. This is a region way out from our Sun, but still part of our Solar System. It will reach the edge of this belt in 300 years and be through it in 30,000 years.

I also saw something that said if you got in your car and drove to the nearest other star you arrive in the century 30,000.

I also read the Betelgeuse the red giant in Orion is about to blow up. Of course, I’ve been reading that sort of thing for my lifetime. So “about to blow up” is kind of a relative term when talking about the cosmos. It makes geologic time here on Earth seem like an eye blink. By the way our solar system, which is halfway out on one arm of the Milky Way makes a complete orbit roughly every 225 million years. So, I’m not watching the sky every night thinking “this is the night Betelgeuse blows up.” Besides, when it does it will be plenty bright.

So, what about all these folks that postulate that some advanced civilization visited our planet in the ancient past? The reasoning of these folks is that it is impossible to conceive that our ancient ancestors were able to move large rocks. They ignore the obvious. They did move the rocks and these provocateurs are to lazy to figure out how they did it.

The classic example for me is Easter Island. When locals were asked how the stones got to where they are the answer was, “They walked.” 

It took decades to confirm but that’s exactly what happened. It has been shown that you can rock those statues side to side and wiggle them forward. The bases of the stones that were walking to their site and then abandoned show the base was wider than those in place, thus allowing a bigger “step.” Not only that, but the eyes were unfinished, because that is where the walking ropes were attached. Therefore, the eyes and the bases were finished once they were in place. Some didn’t make it. They fell over and were thus left where they fell – unfinished.

Yeah. But. But. Look at the huge stone of Tawankanu. How did they move those huge stones? And why were they left where they were? 

Okay, remember Lake Titicaca had been much larger at some point in time. Do you think maybe they floated the stones and once they beached them they couldn’t move them?

How about the large stones at Ollyantayambo? They are huge. They weigh tons. How did they move them? Well, they were quarried down a slope from where they are now and there’s an angled roadway leading right to the site where they were placed. Not only that but the roadway has rounded stones placed in it. do you think that might be a ramp? And the stones were there to reduce the friction of dragging the big slabs?

And it goes on and on, like that.

Von Daniken, who is still alive, age 90, made claims of ancient aliens visiting. He started writing in the late 60s and he continues to this day making such claims. His wikipedia page also says he was convicted of fraud and fined $1,000 and 3 1/2 years in jail. He claimed an arch in a Mayan cave was built by aliens. Geologists pointed out that it was a natural formation.

Basalt tend to crack in ways that make it look like it was man made. There some bedrock in the Caribbean and another formation off the coast of Japan where this has happened. Atlantis! No cracking rock.

And speaking of Atlantis Herodotus listened to a guy from Egypt who told him of this place. It was Santorini, a city on the edge of a volcano that blew. It was and is in the Aegean Sea. It turns out the Greek word for a unit of measure sounded very similar to the Egyptian word for a similar unit. The only difference was a factor of ten. So when the Egyptian guy said, “300” Herodotus heard, “3,000.” Therefore he concluded it had to be out past the Straits of Gibraltar out in the Atlantean Sea and hence Atlantis and the Atlanteans were born.

The city that was spoken of was in Crete and 30 miles across. Herodotus heard 300. People have been searching ever since. Good luck.

When Santorini blew in 1600 B.C. it ended the Minoan civilization – pretty much. That’s Crete and all the little coastal towns. It’s estimated that the volcanic eruption cause a tsunamic wave 270 feet high. What does one do when they see such a wave? Typically, they stand in awe until they are subsumed. And remember waves set up in groups of seven, so if the first one doesn’t get you the second, third or seventh just might. The sound of the explosion was so loud that it was heard in what is today Israel and Lebanon (called The Levant) and the waves reached the shores of Gaza. 

But yeah, a civilization from a star system or galaxy no one can find visited us in ancient times. They went around the world piling up stones – big stones at that. Then they left, leaving no trace of themselves.

It like religion or the folks who claim they know when the world is going to end. “Oh, hum, there was a mistake in my calculation I should have taken the figure in Revelations in Greek units not Egyptian and now it’s a factor of ten different. So send me money so I can continue my work…”

Please.

Meanwhile, people are gearing up for The No Kings Rally. There is much talk of which inflatable suit to wear. Some are so tall that short people wearing them won’t be able to see out. I told one person that was okay. Katy Perry’s dance team had pioneered that with Left Shark. Not to Worry.

I’m waiting to see videos of ICE clubbing a dinosaur or an inflatable chicken – I mean, talk about terrorists and criminals running amok in our cities! 

Carry on.