Which is what would have happened had the authors of “Holy Blood and Holy Grail” admitted it was a load of tosh they’d just made up. Or Whitley Streiber had admitted that “Communion” wasn’t a true story but a work of corny hack SF.

And Kansas can’t have 465.003. It won’t run on the Union Pacific or BNSF’s non-electrified rails.

1) When Karen mentioned an arena that is failing before it’s even built I read “falling” and thought “Wembley” – which for the benefit of US readers was supposed to be the home of English football as from about now and is apprently subject to all sorts of problems including subsidence.

2) von Daniken’s works would be a lot better if he stuck to identifying odd things and asking questions about their meanings rather than leaping from “these people drew stange images which look like these technological devises” to “these people drew technological devices therefore they encountered alien beings with an advanced technology”.

Plus, I don’t think we have four million francs in the whole state.

OTOH, we’re pretty well on the road to turning into a desert, so maybe the expenses would be lower.