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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Airport" is putting it mildly.

More like a spaceport.

From the wiki link:

In 2016, al Hammami caused controversy during an inauguration of an airport in Dhi Qar Governorate, when he said that Sumerians had a port where spaceships could fly to other planets in 5000 BC,[7] based on writings of Zecharia Sitchin, Samuel Noah Kramer and H. G. Wells.[8] Later on, he claimed that Noah's Ark embarked from Nasiriyah.[9]

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That spaceport? Mos Eisley.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.