Ancient Aliens - Gods

[Gloone]

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This is a long video. I saw it on the history channel the other night and it was very interesting. It basically talks about how we might have evolved or came from an advanced being. They are sometimes refer to as Space brothers, Ancient Aliens, The Ancients or Gods in the video. They supposedly had ways to travel in through portals or vortexes at magnetic hot spots located across the earth and some Ancient Aliens - Gods actually told people in the past to build their houses on these hotspots. Ancient religions and people such as the Mayans (I think that is the name I could be wrong) claimed that they used special disks that allowed them to travel. The video makes the claim that scientist have already developed technology that allows particles or matter to travel from one location to the next, as in space/time travel. That doesn’t mean they can do it with humans though. They just have a basic understanding of how it may work. Basically all of this took place when people were not very technologically advanced. Yet at the same time we are still limited to technology that has only been developed over the past 100 years.

So question for debate, do you think we came from an advanced beings, far more advanced than us? Also what you would say or do to if you encountered a space brother? Do you think it would be a good thing or a bad thing if this is true and they decided to come back and communicate with us? Do you think they would be accepted by society or rejected?

 

[PolyHedral]

Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from technology.

That doesn't mean that technology is unknowable, though. I can't really conceive of a point to creating an entirely separate intelligent species, even if you did have the capability.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

First Nostradamus, now this... the History Channel has stopped even pretending to be factual, hasn't it?

 

[Gloone]

Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from technology.

That doesn't mean that technology is unknowable, though. I can't really conceive of a point to creating an entirely separate intelligent species, even if you did have the capability.

They make the assertion that these advanced beings may have been dying out. And decided to leave certain planets like earth to a new generation of beings or people.

 

[PolyHedral]

A species with FTL drives don't die out. They'd have solved all the problems that could possibly cause that, since it would be fairly trivial compared to building a space-faring drive.

 

[Gloone]

A species with FTL drives don't die out. They'd have solved all the problems that could possibly cause that, since it would be fairly trivial compared to building a space-faring drive.

Maybe not, but again according to this video they may have not had any control over the places they were traveling too.

 

[Dezzie]

I love this show. People can say what they want about me... I'm not going to hide from it anymore. I believe a lot of what this show says... I pondered about a lot of the things they say in the show before it was ever aired. I'm super happy it's finally on the History Channel now (I now don't feel so alone in my thoughts). I talk to a ton of people at my work about it and we all love it.

 

[Nepenthe]

First Nostradamus, now this... the History Channel has stopped even pretending to be factual, hasn't it?

Pretty much. It's basically Von Daniken's channel now... I gave up on the channel after seeing a program on chemtrail conspiracies.

 

[Meow Mix]

First Nostradamus, now this... the History Channel has stopped even pretending to be factual, hasn't it?

Yep. Same with Discovery Channel.

A lot of channels that used to be concerned with facts and quality shows have since turned to pseudoscience/pseudohistory tripe, likely becuase they realized Americans eat that **** like candy and half of them don't even know the Sun is a star or that its name is Sol.

 

[Caladan]

First Nostradamus, now this... the History Channel has stopped even pretending to be factual, hasn't it?

Pretty much. It's basically Von Daniken's channel now... I gave up on the channel after seeing a program on chemtrail conspiracies.

Yep. Same with Discovery Channel.

A lot of channels that used to be concerned with facts and quality shows have since turned to pseudoscience/pseudohistory tripe, likely becuase they realized Americans eat that **** like candy and half of them don't even know the Sun is a star or that its name is Sol.

Amen to all that. I turn on discovery, NGC and the history channel expecting to watch a decent program about history, archaeology, or science, and I get these juvenile programs about ETs, or aliens who supposedly lived in my region thousands of years ago, Atlantis, 2012 and things that don't even belong to a decent Sci fi program.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Yep. Same with Discovery Channel.

A lot of channels that used to be concerned with facts and quality shows have since turned to pseudoscience/pseudohistory tripe, likely becuase they realized Americans eat that **** like candy and half of them don't even know the Sun is a star or that its name is Sol.

I don't find the Discovery Channel that bad most of the time.

While Mythbusters is sometimes lacking a bit in terms of hard science, I think it's great for instilling interest in science because of two big things:

- their central message is "if you have a claim, test it!"
- when people raise objections about the validity of what they've done, they acknowledge the objections and then try to address the concerns by making the original test more valid.

Also, Discovery has (IMO) the best regular general-interest science news show on TV today, Daily Planet... though I think this might just be a Discovery Canada thing.

 

[Storm]

I don't find the Discovery Channel that bad most of the time.

While Mythbusters is sometimes lacking a bit in terms of hard science, I think it's great for instilling interest in science because of two big things:

- their central message is "if you have a claim, test it!"
- when people raise objections about the validity of what they've done, they acknowledge the objections and then try to address the concerns by making the original test more valid.

My son and I love MythBusters!

On topic, though, Discovery also has A Haunting, Nostradamus and DaVinci Code specials, and a slew of other things better suited to SyFy. Not to mention the recent trend to "rape of the natural world channel."

Also, Discovery has (IMO) the best regular general-interest science news show on TV today, Daily Planet... though I think this might just be a Discovery Canada thing.

I think so.

 

[Nepenthe]

<snip>... half of them don't even know the Sun is a star...<snip>

I've heard this many times and I always assumed it was true but I have never seen and have yet to find any actual poll or study that confirms it. The earliest reference I can find online is Uncle John's Bathroom Reader vol. 2 (p. 145- I went to Borders during my lunch break and looked it up... That is kinda sad.) published in 1989 and it doesn't cite its source. The 1% less cynical part of me wonders if it's an urban legend, the 99% of me that is cynical just assumes it to be a fact.

Maybe Uncle John's Bathroom Reader is peer reviewed.

 

[Dezzie]

Does anyone else believe in Ancient Aliens?

 

[Caladan]

Does anyone else believe in Ancient Aliens?

ancient aliens 'theories' are a menace to hard working archaeologists who base their entire livelihood or resourced and funds on bringing artifacts, sites, and information to public attention. its a spit in the face of people of profession who study and practice archaeology or ancient history.

 

[Ilisrum]

I enjoy the show even though I don't believe in most of the commentators' assertions. I caught the second season premier last week and it looks like this season is going to be even more far-fetched and out of this world than the last. Belief in ancient aliens is much like religion, people hold faith in it and search for evidence even though there is nothing hard.

Damn entertaining though.

 

[Blackdog22]

Does anyone else believe in Ancient Aliens?

I believe.... No, im kidding. I honestly have no idea whats going on:frog:

 

[monta]

Pretty much. It's basically Von Daniken's channel now... I gave up on the channel after seeing a program on chemtrail conspiracies.

But...but I've devoted 17 years of my life and a considerable fortune trying to unearth the elusive 13th quartz crystal skull, which will somehow form some kind of computer chip and unlock the mysteries of the universes, as foretold to me by the Discovery Channel, surely this has not been in vain!!!! ( I thought I had found it once 8 years ago in a head shop just outside Croydon, but it turned out to be a polyresin replica :sad:, such a terrible disappointment )

Also might I add Shark Week is awesome!!!

 

[Gloone]

Well I am glad that got all of the bias out of everyone’s system. Because all I have heard so far is ……:sad4::sad4::sad4::sad4:
I saw the myth busters when they busted the skeptics on the moon landing. I bet you all :sad::sad4::sad::sad4: all over that too. “Wahh! Why must it be true…. Science is suppose to bust myths not buy into them.” Good thing tears can’t travel over the internet, my computer would have short circuited and deep fried by now. “Wahh! Those Americans with their histories channels and sciencesss….” And I'm pretty sure everyone knows the sun is star.

So the History channel is using physical things, factual information about ancient people. Do you people have no respect for science and history?

 

[monta]

Do you people have no respect for science and history?

:yes: just not every soi disant charlatan scientist and historian looking to sell a book or plug a show.