I was watching it because I love ancient history; the Mayans, Egyptology, all that... but I couldn't swallow their theory on 'aliens' helping the ancients build this stuff. My husband and I got into a 3 hour disagreement over this.
Okay, I'm sure we're not the only one's in the universe, but the thought of aliens? Nope. Not buying it. And you know what? I don't think, if there is evidence of aliens, that we will see in in our lifetime. I stay away from the whole alien thing.
So what's your take? Do you think aliens came to Earth forever ago just to help the ancients build? Or do you think it's possible that the ancients seriously had nothing better to do than invent and build to precision? (<--- that's my take, in short).
I'll add to this as I get some responses... I think the whole alien theory is B.S. though. I know, you can't prove or disprove it, but we have SO MUCH historic and scientific evidence as to how the ancients built to perfection and excelled in the mathematics involved with precision... my husband thinks just because someone has a PHD or MD that their alien theory holds weight... I tried to tell him that they didn't go to school to learn about aliens, they learned what the rest of us know... anything after that is a blank page and they're theorizing... and I don't buy it.
Or what about the theory that certain illness came to earth on space junk? To me, there's NO WAY any organism can survived the extreme freezing temps of space and break through the earth's atmosphere (extreme heat) and survive to make us ill. NOT BUYING IT!! What's your opinion??
Another question... why would the supposed aliens come here THEN, but not NOW?
@Laura, it's unrealistic and egotistical to think we're the ONLY one's in the universe, I mean, what's beyond the black hole? We don't know. I don't think their are alien life forms that think and breathe and 'act' relatively human. DO I think there are other 'life forms' on a cellular level? Absolutely. Cells and full blown organisms are 2 different things... organisms are made of cells. I say yes to cells, no to organisms.
@JessicaWessica: thank you, your first paragraph said it ;)
Why is it so hard for us to believe that other generations were very intelligent and could build things....alone or not? I don't believe they had that kind of help. We are becoming lazy, weak and don't do much physically so I think they did it alone and did a very good job of it.
I agree with your thinking that they just didnt have anything better to do but build to precision. People really are like ants in a lot of ways. If we didnt have all of the distractions and ease of today's life we would still be building things to perfection instead of taking shortcuts and becoming so lazy. The pyramids, pillars, and block walls of ancient history are SO AWESOME.
It's fun to think about but if you believed every sci fi story out there, our little tucked in the corner on the edge of our galaxy planet seems like alien grand central station.
If you think about the possibility that a civilization that has the ability to travel the distances between stars would stop to basically play blocks with a bunch of back water ape descendants - it sounds pretty lame.
As far as viruses coming to earth with meteors goes - I think it's possible.
I'm not arrogant or self centered enough to think that life could only evolve here.
Planets can break up and their oceans can become frozen chunks of ice or the ice can be in the middle of a frozen mud ball.
It the mud ball is big enough and comes in at the right angle, the outside might burn up a bit in our atmosphere, but the middle might survive landing on earth or in the ocean.
The whole heat shield tile set up on the space shuttles effectively take the heat while keeping the rest of the shuttle from burning up.
When the space ice melts - viruses could thrive in a new environment.
But we don't need space viruses to make us ill.
The ones we've got here already keep evolving and we've got to evolve with them to keep fighting them off.
As far as someone with a Masters or PhD who's ideas hold more weight go - well, maybe, sometimes, but there are a fair number of crack pots out there who've earned degrees.
I have a BS but I was always jokingly told the degrees stand for:
BS = Bull Sh*t
MS = More Sh*t
PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper
I wouldn't imagine we are the only "intelligent" life force in the universe. We most likely can't even fully comprehend the tininess of our planet compared to everything "out there" in space.
Why would "aliens" come here to bother with our pyramids, etc? Who knows....maybe they had high hopes for this planet at O. time. Maybe Earthlings showed some real promise with their intellect back then.
Maybe Earth is the loser of the galaxies when it comes to intelligence? We'll never likely know. Interesting Q.
I haven't read your other responses and I don't want to seem wackadoodle, but my husband DVR's Ancient Aliens and other UFO programming and I've watched several with him. I've gotta say, I was skeptical at first but after watching the programs with him and if you pay attention to the UFO sightings that go on almost daily worldwide, well you may just change your mind. Frankly, I have.
Some of the pyramids and other structures that have been found on Earth (gosh, I wish I had my hubby here he could give me specific names of them) would be literally and absolutely impossible to build by man alone and without the technology that we have today. Some of these stones weigh 5 tons EACH and are stacked on top of one another and go on for miles in some instances. What is amazing is that more and more are being discovered now because of satellites. From the ground, you can't tell what the heck they are or the pattern they are laid in. From the sky? Unbelievable.
I'll tell ya what: I'm keeping an open mind. I don't believe for one second that our government and governments around the world for that matter are being upfront about what they know in regards to UFOs, etc.
P.S. What do you think all of the references from Greek literature are in regards to the "Gods" that were cited as flying through the air and such or came from the heavens?? Food for thought.
This is my favorite topic, really. And I could write 500 books on the subject, but I don't have to, they are already out there.
There is a lot more to this than "are they here? were they here then?" The paranormal is really a wide range of genres, and current research is bringing into question how some of these situations seem to overlap. If you want to talk about aliens and if they are here, and you want to be using the most current reports, science, and general info, then you should research Men In Black, Alternative History, Sasquatch, and (of course), Roswell. Throw in a Shadow Person or an Old Hag, and you've got yourself quite a bit of reading to do.
My point is that I do not presume to know very much about the planet I live on. I have seen very strange things, in the sky, in my house. There are a lot of hoaxes that have been perpetrated over the years. Do I want to believe? Sure. Do I actually believe? I believe there are a lot of things that are unexplainable at this point in history, and it's the evolution of the research and the personal accounts that I find the most informative and interesting. So, yes, I believe something is going on that I can't explain yet. But I've been studying paranormal phenomena for 20 years.
I watched. It was interesting. I loved seeing the folk art statues of the hooded man from all differant corners of the Earth. There was so much similarity between differant people groups that would nver have communicated with each other.
Are we alone? Probably not. I think it's egotistical to think we are the only planet in the entire universe that supports life. I'm not sure the other planets are any more aware of us than we are of them. I'm not sure they are so much more advanced than we are that they can bop planet to planet through differant galaxies, whereas, we've only just made it to 2 planets in our solar system. Maybe, who knows. I know something is going on in the Nevada desert. If they can galxy hop, I think an organism could survive in the cabin of the craft, if the beings could live, why couldn't they be carriers of something that doesn't harm them, but humans can't tolerate? Black plague was traced to rats, so, I really don't think that was brought here on spaceships. I just have learned, never to say never.
On the PHDs, if you can think of an idea, someone somewhere is the world expert on it. A BA in America is a classical education, based on Greek Philosophy. That's what "the rest of us know" Then go on to Masters, you begin to specialize in a very narrow scope, then by the time you go onto PHD, you are doing research that has never been done before. You can get a PHD and be the 1st to discover something.
I didn't see it but I have seen shows on that theory. I think there may be aliens out there but I really don't think they came here to accessorize our planet with pyramids, ya know?
There has been a lot of scientific knowledge floating around this planet for a long time. Just because the west didn't have the technology doesn't mean aliens came and implanted it. I think these theories are born of a lot of people not wanting to accept that other cultures were pretty darn smart as well. Well that and having access to tons of slaves is really helpful with labor intensive jobs as well.
It is possible that plant like organic life can withstand those conditions by going dormant but the worst they would be able to do is infect plant life. Living infectious life forms could not withstand that because we cannot survive those conditions. What can infect us needs the same conditions that we do to survive.
So your what happened: global warming. :p Some crackpot published something last month that aliens are going to come and destroy us before we destroy our plant. Oh okay.
I think they made a good point for aliens helpIng. Especially when they showed the monuments and how difficult it would be to carve those images into the rock. I think it's possible
I believe they exist, but not sure if they've ever been here. If I were them, I'd stay clean away from us cause we wouldn't know how to handle it. If they're friendly, they'd probably check us out and do the Star Trek no-interference thing. If they're not friendly, we're screwed.
I LOVE Science Fiction, so I think it's a blast to think about, but there are certain science facts that we can't get around. I'll have to ask my bio-knowledgable hubby about space germs :)
Okay....an alien, by definition is a life form that we know nothing about, right? So, maybe they COULD survive extreme heat and cold. Maybe they COULD live for 100's of years. Maybe they COULD be walking amongst us and we just don't know it. Maybe they DID come down and help the Mayans. Maybe they are so smart that they know about US and we know nothing about them. There are so many maybes!
So, your second paragraph says that you are sure we are not the only one's in the universe, but you don't believe in aliens...that doesn't make sense. I think it would be awfully egotistical to believe that we are the only lifeforms out here in this HUGE universe! Maybe thousands and thousands of light years away from us there are other alien mothers wondering the same thing about us.
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What I think is hysterically funny about this show is that they completely ignore scientific and anthropological and archaeological evidence that refutes their hypotheses and they pick and choose only the ones that "might" support or "appear to" support their hypotheses. I don't think they even actually believe 3/4 of the stuff they claim on that show.
That doesn't mean I don't love watching it. It's not reality TV and it's there purely for entertainment. I think of the so-called experts as characters and I really do think that the people portraying them are playing characters to a very high degree.
I do beleive someone else help humans to build the piramids, ( Mexico, Peru, Egipt) just for the fact they have the same draws on all 3 of them, but against this theory is that the mayans were some kind of aliens or humans with special powers, ( how do you explain the entire civilization vanishes in one night) . Another thing is that we been stop from our full potentials since we born , we grow up hearing what we can't do, have you heard about our third eye? Is a lot of things that we can't Explain that why ancient people created all this Gods in answer to all the natural questions . To your next question I believe we are some kind of a pet that aliens are playing with, what else they could want with an inferior kind?
It is not very possiable that the pyramid were made using manual labor. However I find it much more likely that they used some sort of machine we have not found yet
I personally do believe that 'aliens' of a sort came here off and on throughout human evolution and at different times helped out in different ways. I wouldn't be surprised if they were similar enough in appearance to possibly integrate and maybe create hybrids to strengthen the current gene pool when they came for a visit LOL Yes, I'm being serious. I don't think we are alone but I think humans aren't truly thinking we've had encounters.
There is also a growing trend of people feeling that angels are actually an alien encounter and due to their higher abilities and 'powers' that would fit with the earlier heavenly creatures described.
