Hungarians Think the Darndest Things!

I'm Hungarian, and my Grandma taught me that Hungarians invented language, fire, the wheel, the steam engine, and a few other things. Even as a child that seemed an unlikely tale. I'm more aligned with this story, though: 

"Flying saucer buffs have long cherished the belief that extraterrestrials from an advanced civilization landed in South America centuries ago and left a contingent of scientists behind. Their job was to infiltrate our species and subtly feed us their ideas to bring our earthbound civilization technologically up to par. Physicists scoff at such a notion: no flying saucers ever landed in South America. They landed in Hungary." 

This hypothesis was hatched during the Manhattan Project, where the group of Hungarians working on it were dubbed "The Martians". It was to some degree confirmed by one of them, Dr. Leo Szilard, when confronted with the well known Fermi paradox: " Fermi believed that there had to be other earthlike planets that would develop superintelligent beings who would then explore other parts of the universe. "And so," he concluded, "they should have arrived here by now, so where are they?"

"They are among us," Szilard replied, "but they call themselves Hungarians."

Quotes from: http://www.nytimes.com/.../hungarians-think-the-darndest...