My interpretation of human history from watching "ancient aliens"

[flexy]

Well i didnt say that although i just saw a documentary where someone had the hypothesis the pyramid was a giant water pump for nile water. POSSIBLE.


Then...there is actually some "evidence"...if we take eg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Not evidence for "alien visitors"....but evidence for incredible technology in the stone ages. Same with certain stone cuts and how holes were drilled in stones thousands of years ago..using methods which defy any common human sense. I only can recommend watching some of the DVDs and read some books because its simple too much oddities to list.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Lol, and lol, and lol.

If at all, taking EvD as the "pioneer" of the ancient aliens theory, he is the reason that the conventional scientists finally started to think - and NOT simply took old, dogmatic scientific theories as granted without EVER looking at them from other angles.

If at all, he is the one who says "THINK" and dont simply accept anything you learned simply because "IT SAYS SO IN MY BOOK" <--- this is "anti-thought".

von Daniken did nothing more than put centuries-old racist wine in a new, more subtle and therefore more palatable bottle. Human capacity to believe total bullshit never ceases to amaze me.

 

[sandorski]

Humans have a tendency to forget our own history. Now, I sincerely doubt aliens molded human development as some suggest, but we've definitely forgotten or destroyed the majority of our own history. Hell, we've destroyed our own records before simply because they don't meet the current standards of religion, Great Library, Mayan/Incan texts, etc.

The Ancient Alien theories are fascinating because there's just enough to them to make you wonder. The majority of it is purely speculative because there is no hard data, there's just historical oddities and various ancient writings that could be interpreted differently.

Having said that, I'm going to need more speculative evidence that the Egyptian Pyramids were part of a global hydrogen power grid.

The idea of Aliens is certainly more Plausible than any Religion's explanations.

 

[AndroidVageta]

The thing about the Ancient Alien theory is that some religions actually DO believe that aliens started everything like the Hopi native Americans (I believe) that worship and recognize ALIENS as their creators...and not like God-aliens, but "actual beings from other planets" type aliens. So, what, may I ask exactly made them believe their "gods" are aliens from another planet unless they actually saw them and were told this...or something to that degree.

As far as alien/human hybrids...look up the StarChild skull and really read and research about it...youll notice A LOT of unknowns about that...

 

[Gigantopithecus]

As far as alien/human hybrids...look up the StarChild skull and really read and research about it...youll notice A LOT of unknowns about that...

...The "Star Child" skull is nothing more than a cradle boarded hydrocephalic. The head of the "Star Child" research project has no training in physical anthropology - he's a psychologist. Again, total bullshit.

 

[AndroidVageta]

...The "Star Child" skull is nothing more than a cradle boarded hydrocephalic. The head of the "Star Child" research project has no training in physical anthropology - he's a psychologist. Again, total bullshit.

Actually you are incorrect on everything you just said. Thats why I said RESEARCH before coming to conclusions...the skull is not cradle boarding or anything else blind sheeple say it is.

 

[Iron Woode]

OMG!

This thread is hilarious. Some posters here need to get an education in logical thought.

Androidvageta and Flexy sure love that paranormal koolaid.

Eric Von Daniken took a bunch of ancient legends and tried to tie them to aliens and other nonsense. Nobody, outside of the X-files idiots, takes his crap seriously.

 

[nerp]

Too easy to scan a website. Too hard to actually study.

Fail in this thread.

 

[flexy]

<--- here's the exit if you dont like the thread

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Actually you are incorrect on everything you just said. Thats why I said RESEARCH before coming to conclusions...the skull is not cradle boarding or anything else blind sheeple say it is.

And here I thought 11 years of research on human cranial morphology and 1,000s of hours of studying 1,000s of human skulls made my conclusions more useful than those of quacks with irrelevant backgrounds. Sorry to tell you something you don't want to hear. This is like arguing with a creationist.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

LOL that show was such a piece of shit.

Not a shred of evidence to back up anything. Just wild, ridiculous claims.

 

[Iron Woode]

<--- here's the exit if you dont like the thread

<--- here's the door to higher knowledge and common sense. Too bad you went in the other direction.

 

[mmntech]

Those "Aliens lived amongst humans" shows on History channel are a load of horseshit.

Their theories are preposterous, simply because they choose to ignore the possibilty of "greater human achievement than we can see preserved" in favor of "it was obviously too hard for people to do, so the aliens did it."

I guess the producers of those shows just figured that we humans have always been as stupid as we are today. ^_^

The thing about the Ancient Alien theory is that some religions actually DO believe that aliens started everything...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raëlism
Some delightful NSFW pics in that link.
And who could forget Tom Cruise....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

 

[WA261]

You have got to be a tard if you do not think we were planted here and helped out along the way.

 

[Wag]

Yeah, you guys sound like my friend who takes that shit for fact. He's like, "Well, it's on the History Channel so it's got to be true".

He on this whole 'pyramids are proof that aliens lived in ancient Egypt'. kick.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Ancient Aliens

part 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DCCXbWTQNw

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOuLTRhSEMg&feature=related

part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICYlolU-3-A&feature=related

part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7q5Mw2IOFg&feature=related

part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0H9FK9vgvc&feature=related

part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fWQN7uC864&feature=related

part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s346tn9v8kE&feature=related

part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MekDLHta4Y&feature=related

part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqxcGpp9-pk&feature=related

the end

 

[WA261]

Yeah, you guys sound like my friend who takes that shit for fact. He's like, "Well, it's on the History Channel so it's got to be true".

He on this whole 'pyramids are proof that aliens lived in ancient Egypt'. kick.

And what do you think? We got here from adam and eve?

 

[zinfamous]

Lol, and lol, and lol.

If at all, taking EvD as the "pioneer" of the ancient aliens theory, he is the reason that the conventional scientists finally started to think - and NOT simply took old, dogmatic scientific theories as granted without EVER looking at them from other angles.

If at all, he is the one who says "THINK" and dont simply accept anything you learned simply because "IT SAYS SO IN MY BOOK" <--- this is "anti-thought".

but it does "say so" in Daniken's book, and that's what the fools want to believe. ...uh, how is that different?

Again, the most logical explanation is that civilizations were far more advanced than the dust that remains--for that is all we have today--would lead us to believe. We learn year by year that technology and scientific understanding of ancient civilizations was way more advanced than we previously presumed. See: presumed--this is what science does--it allows for continued investigation.

No one needed Daniken to come along and tell them to think, to remain open-minded. THAT IS FUCKING WHAT SCIENCE ALLOWS.

stop being so preposterously obtuse in redefining these terms.

The fact that you can't relate "Aliens did it--it's so obvious, so let's stop looking!" to "God did it. It's so obvious, so let's stop asking!" as the truly intellectually limiting theories simply blows my mind.

 

[zinfamous]

Imagine a millennium from now when the people of the future have become so dependent on nanobots to "print" whatever they wanted. Those people would have forgotten about our simple machines now and wonder how the heck did we build bridges and skyscrapers. It would be easiest to say we had help from aliens.

fucking exactly. my first reaction to the pyramid bullshit is of human civilization 2 thousand years hence digging through the dust of the Sears Tower and proclaiming: "Only Aliens could have helped them! It's so obvious!"

 

[zinfamous]

The idea of Aliens is certainly more Plausible than any Religion's explanations.

Honestly, I think the notion that Aliens exist, or existed with the technology to bend the laws of nature (as we currently understand it) and travel millions of light-years into our speck of space dust to visit us within the small window that they could have is no more or less plausible than believing that a God did it.

I do fervently believe that there exists the near certainty of extra-terrestrial life in this universe. But there is no more plausible reason to believe such life is more advanced than what we have on earth than the possibility that it isn't.

Sure, if they were here (I do not discount that--just the notion that some people believe history points to such instances by using evidence which is easily defended by what we already understand about human ingenuity) or if they will arrive, then they certainly will be more advanced...and we'd most likely have to remain cautious.

But there is no credible, irrefutable evidence of such, so the matter remains that they are just as likely un-evolved as they are superior.

Then again, supposing they were advanced--what kind of anthrocentric, closed-minded pissant would assume that they absolutely would want to visit us? WTF should they care about our piddly little goings-on? We don't present a very inviting temperament to those who might take the time to watch from afar over the previous handful of human generations. Not in the slightest....

 

[zinfamous]

As far as alien/human hybrids...look up the StarChild skull and really read and research about it...youll notice A LOT of unknowns about that...

Mr Barnum was right after all. Fuck, it amazes me that today, in this age, I could still make millions stuffing a menagerie of medical oddities into a cattle cart, drag 'em around the boonies, and charge 2 bits a gander at these "alien half-breeds."

oh for fuck's sake.

 

[zinfamous]

And here I thought 11 years of research on human cranial morphology and 1,000s of hours of studying 1,000s of human skulls made my conclusions more useful than those of quacks with irrelevant backgrounds. Sorry to tell you something you don't want to hear. This is like arguing with a creationist.

Dude, internet armchair guy obviously has more credibility than you.

Didn't you know?

 

[zinfamous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raëlism
Some delightful NSFW pics in that link.

:hmm:
and they do get sweet sweet sneakers!

 

[zinfamous]

And what do you think? We got here from adam and eve?

right, so it's obviously one of two possibilities, eh?

1--Aliens put us here, and helped us along the way

2--Adam & Eve.

what a limber mind you have there, champ.

 

[Iron Woode]

And what do you think? We got here from adam and eve?

you sir are a genius.