The Discovery (or History) channel, I forget which, has a facinating series of shows on Ancient Aliens.
This story reminds me of a story in the above mentioned series about a group of researches who appeared to have been killed by some force in Siberia. Upon further investigation, there appears to be some domes buried in the ground in Siberia.
The domes are theorized to have killed the researchers. In the show, they said an autoposy was done and some of the researchers were killed from the inside out. In other words, there was no visible trauma to their skin but their rib cage bones had been shattered.
Why is it so difficult to imagine neolithic cultures built these things? The pyramids were designed without computers and built with stone tools, why couldn't people ancient have made earthworks without the help of alien technology? All it takes is some manpower and lots of time.
> Why is it so difficult to imagine neolithic cultures built these things
In fact it's incredibly insulting to everyone involved, and basically everyone who has ever lived, that without the use of modern tools they couldn't possibly do anything of note.
'Ancient Aliens' is a big fuck you to those who actually did the work.
> 'Ancient Aliens' is a big fuck you to those who actually did the work.
The majority of whom were brown, if not black.
A lot of the Ancient Aliens bullshit is founded on a core of racism about a millimeter beneath the surface. The rest is just simple ignorance about pre-modern engineering and mathematical techniques.
I thought the Ancient Aliens series was interesting. A group of friends showed it to me and some believed in it. However, we started following the logic they use and it basically boils down to this:
We don't know how this was done so therefore Aliens did it.
So the most honest thing they can actually say is they don't know.
This story reminds me of a story in the above mentioned series about a group of researches who appeared to have been killed by some force in Siberia. Upon further investigation, there appears to be some domes buried in the ground in Siberia.
The domes are theorized to have killed the researchers. In the show, they said an autoposy was done and some of the researchers were killed from the inside out. In other words, there was no visible trauma to their skin but their rib cage bones had been shattered.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread544351/pg1 https://soipost.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/what-is-the-purpose... http://www.utaot.com/2013/02/27/scientists-prove-ancient-ali...
I don't get much of an opportunity to talk about these things at work or within my family. They think I'm nuts. But this really fascinates me too.