ANCIENT INDIA AND AERONAUTICS

[bean52]

In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called Vimanas. India's national epic, The Mahabharata, is a poem of vast length and complexity. There are no physical remains of ancient Indian aircraft technology but references to ancient flying machines are commonplace in the ancient Indian texts. Several popular ancient epics describe their use in warfare. Depending on one's point of view, either it contains some of the earliest known science fiction, or it records conflict between beings with weapons as powerful and advanced as anything used today.

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[Chadder007]

I heard about things like this but they found the evidence in Egypt.

 

[bean52]

^^^TO THE TOP

 

[brxndxn]

I bet some ancient humans had a completely different direction of 'technology' than what we're used to. I wouldn't be surprised if they find some ancient discovery of a civilization larger than the Roman Empire much earlier.

 

[Tripleshot]

I have always wondered and pondered ancient visitors from the heavens when confronted with the Nazcar plains pictograms on the desert floor in Peru. It is quite a mystery, for some.

 

[bean52]

Hitler sent expeditions to India in the 30's and found several sanskrit manuscripts describing advanced technology. It is believed this is were he got the info. to build the first pulse jet engine for his V8 rockets. To bad he never returned them.

 

[XZeroII]

They could be talking about balloons. Hot air balloons were around long before airplanes.

 

[bean52]

Interesting at the end when Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, who worked on the Manhattan Project was asked:

Student: Was the bomb exploded at Alamogordo during the Manhattan Project the first one to be detonated?

Dr. Oppenheimer: "Well -- yes. In modern times, of course.


Seems like an atomic bomb and radiation poisoning:

"An incandescent column of smoke and flame As bright as ten thousand Suns Rose in all its splendor......it was an unknown weapon, An iron thunderbolt, A gigantic messenger of death, Which reduced to ashes. The Entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas....the corpses were so burned As to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, And the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected......To escape from this fire. The soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment... "

 

[her209]

Wow, swastikas (sp)

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: bean52
Hitler sent expeditions to India in the 30's and found several sanskrit manuscripts describing advanced technology. It is believed this is were he got the info. to build the first pulse jet engine for his V8 rockets. To bad he never returned them.

I'm no expert, but I doubt Hitler's scientist types learned how to build jet engines from ancient Indian texts.

Edit: Although now that I think about the engines could probably be pretty rudimentary, but still...

 

[bean52]

Originally posted by: her209
Wow, swastikas (sp)

The swastika means life and good luck. But because of the Nazis, it has also taken on a meaning of death and hate. Most people don't even know that the swastika has any other meaning - Hitler did a good job polluting an ancient symbol associated with God.


Swastika and the Nazis

 

[EdipisReks]

this stuff is all BS. go read some James Randi.

 

[AUMM]

Originally posted by: her209
Wow, swastikas (sp)

maybe im wrong but i believe those are going the opposite's of Nazi swasticas

 

[bean52]

Originally posted by: AUMM

Originally posted by: her209
Wow, swastikas (sp)

maybe im wrong but i believe those are going the opposite's of Nazi swasticas

Nazi swastikas were rotated clockwise.