BALLS

Rush Limbaugh promised he’d move to Costa Rica if the Health Bill passed, he won’t, but if he did he’d be among these balls. I’ve always been fascinated by the stone spheres of Costa Rica. I’d like to see them, but I fear my George of the Jungle days may be over. I have, however, read a whole lot of theories about the spheres. This is the boring debunker version. I don’t subscribe to it, but it does supply the basics.

“The stone balls of Costa Rica have been the object of pseudoscientific speculations since the publication of Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods in 1971. More recently, they have gained renewed attention as the result of books such as Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World, by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998), and The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization, by Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath (Delacorte Press, 2001). These authors have been featured on television, radio, magazines, and web pages, where they do an incredible disservice to the public by misrepresenting themselves and the state of actual knowledge about these objects. Although some of these authors are often represented as having "discovered" these objects, the fact is that they have been known to scientists since they first came to light during agricultural activities by the United Fruit Company in 1940. Archaeological investigation of the stone balls began shortly thereafter, with the first scholarly publication about them appearing in 1943. Click here for more.” Click here for more.