re: #41 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve come across the word “vril” before. Can’t remember where, though.

Given that Pioneer 10 will take 2 million years to reach Aldebaran’s neighborhood, I think we’re OK for a few more years. en.wikipedia.org No worries, man.

“Vril” featured in a 19th Century novel called The Coming Race, and the idea filtered down into Theosophy and ultimately various esoteric movements. en.wikipedia.org

My mind still boggles that there’s people out there who really eat this stuff up. But then again, I first heard about “Nibiru” all the way back in the late 1990s from a friend (who shall remain nameless) who also told me that Nibiru would smack into the Earth on December 21st, 2012. She quite sincerely believed this. So these rather odd ideas have been floating around for about 20 years that I’ve been aware of, and probably a lot longer than that. Nowadays of course, the internet allows for the widespread dissemination of such ideas, whereas before, you’d have to go some esoteric bookstore and buy some book where you’d learn about it.