Any opinions on Ancient Aliens?

[Mordid]

He wasn't banned for being a Polack, but rather for being a dumb, fat Polack.

Hausria is the perfect example of an Americunt, he might be of Slavic/Polish ancestry but his brain have developed along the American path.

[Mordid]

Because he was a Polack.

I'm Polack aswell. Do you think I should get banned ? ........

[Logan]

Hausria is the perfect example of an Americunt, he might be of Slavic/Polish ancestry but his brain have developed along the American path.

Such people exist in every location Mordy.

[Amaterasu]

The Chariots of the Gods, very interesting book to me. I've wondered this before: are human stories & myths a memory of contact w/ancient astronauts?

[BeerBaron]

The Chariots of the Gods, very interesting book to me. I've wondered this before: are human stories & myths a memory of contact w/ancient astronauts?

I've read that a well, it is interesting but it is just a likely that the stories we found are what we refer to now as fiction. For some reason researchers take everything literally, when there isn't any evidence to suggest it is literal in the first place, ancient peoples were just as likely to write stories and myths for entertainment as they were to record events.

[Logan]

The Chariots of the Gods, very interesting book to me. I've wondered this before: are human stories & myths a memory of contact w/ancient astronauts?

I think not. But I do not think so wrong to wonder at different possibilities.

[Amaterasu]

I think not. But I do not think so wrong to wonder at different possibilities.

I remember the old show of Babylon 5 when I think of the aliens. Vorlons. I'm open mind to the extra terrestrials. hametannsan, I've seen "UFOs" before. What are they? Like the German foo fighters & Area 51 stuff?

My personal opinion is about ball lightning. Kamisama are other worldy yes but are on earth. Not aliens.

[SilverKnight]

The History channel has a good show on Ancient Aliens.

I think alot of their evidence is actually pretty convincing. I am not saying I am completely convinced.
But, I think their arguments are good & could easily be reality.

So do you have any opinions on it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3PdT...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmkxr...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJ7-R4Zpbk

I do believe in the ancient alien theory I'm about to see a new episode of it now on History

[Loddfafner]

Chariot of the Gods is an interesting historical document... of the delusions of the 1970s. People back then (thousands of years ago, not the 1970s) were at least as smart as us, and convicted fraudster Erick von Daniken could not give any credit to the ingenuity of our ancestors.

[Svipdag]

Although I do not accept the dogma of the "exobiologists" that wherever and whenever the physico-chemical conditions are suitable, life will inevitably arise, it is quite possible that life is common in the cosmos.
However, it need not be intelligent. Intelligence does not rank very high on the list of traits having high survival value. The dinosaurs, for example, got along with an absolute minimum of it for 190,000,000 years.
They had fangs, claws, armour, and speed, which suited their needs perfectly.
Intelligence is the last resort of a creature which has nothing else going for it. What if we lacked intelligence ? We are frail-bodied, and rather slow-moving with generalised omnivorous dentition (except for vampires, no fangs) and brittle finger and toe nails. We have no physical traits having significant survival value. Without intelligence, we'd be doomed.
The survival of such an ill-favoured organism would be a rare event indeed. We ought to expect, then, that intelligent life would be extremely rare in the cosmos.
This is my main reason for doubting the existence of interstellar-travelling space aliens. If there be such creatures, we ought not to expect them to be much like us. There is nothing sacred or inevitable about
bilateral symmetry, upright posture, bipedal gait or other human traits which might hve been other than they are.
If we were to meet a space alien it is quite possible that we wouldn't
have the foggiest notion of what sort of critter it was. Nor, if we took a mind to do so instead of shooting it, could we communicate with it. We communicate by using atmospheric pressure vibrations. Is that the only way Is it even the best way ?
How do "they" communicate ? Perhaps by posture and dance like bees.
If "they" have writing, how does it express thought ? If they didn't use speech, it would not be phonetic. What, then, ideographic ? Or something we can't even imagine.
What I'm saying here is, if they exist, expect aliens to be ALIEN !



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Anon Y. Mous