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Subject: Why don't people take Ancient Aliens seriously?
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You know what sucks?

I kinda believe in that theory, although I disagree with every instance of it ever presented.

  • 11.28.2012 10:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Assassin 11D7

Posted by: Heart of Stone

Posted by: Assassin 11D7
I hate that show with a passion, it went from plausible ideas to extraordinarily insane baseless ramblings. Here are some answers as for how people did things.

- People can't lift some heavy stone? They use levers/pulleys or some other simple machine. You don't need god-tier technology to lift a rock.

- There are carvings of UFO's on rocks! Well guess what, just because we write things on paper doesn't mean they actually happened. Fiction isn't an incredibly new idea to humanity.

- Aliens did not make landing strips in South America, I don't think beings that could travel millions of light-years would need landing strips like a 747.

- When all you have to do in your life is get food, work, and sleep you'll have a lot of time for thinking. Thinking leads to ideas, like making sure a stone is as stone as possible to make their god happy, or creating a story about people wearing tinfoil coming from the sky to give us free stuff so we could be lazy.

Everything in that show can be explained or dismissed, quite easily.

Some stones in stonehendge weighed up to 50 tons. There's no physical way humans could lift that with a pulley. The pulley wouldn't even support the weight.
Also, these drawings are consistent throughout the planet, and these are isolated civilizations describing the same encounter.
Also, you do realize the space shuttle uses a landing strip, right?
You didn't dismiss anything. You just showed your lack of knowledge about the entire subject.

Do I have to explain every possible way they could have moved them? They could've put logs underneath the stones and rolled them back, they could have done it hundreds of different ways. Don't doubt Humanity's ingenuity.

What drawings are you specifically talking about? They've done that topic dozens of times, if I knew which case specifically it would help clear this up a lot.

Space Shuttles can't travel millions of light years, and if they could I think we would understand how to make them VTOL by then. Also, making landing strips in the shape of various animals wouldn't be very convenient for whoever is landing.

What? Do you know what would happen if you put an unsupported log underneath a stone? The stone would be rolled off after a few rotations. There's too much friction to make that a good idea anyway, ignoring the huge amount of resources you'll need.

Also:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QefPZfmcyEA/TcUxhaz83ZI/AAAAAAAAAPI /Qo1gpvhxE44/s1600/ufo-ancient-ufo.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2010/08/29/astrojap_1.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4A9r9y-blam!-Ns/S4i9_WSKJSI/AAAAAAA AEts/pjUIMfnfspY/s400/Ancient+Airplane+Vimana+UFO+Precolumbia n.jpg

And the landing strips aren't in the shapes of animals.

[Edited on 11.28.2012 10:12 PM PST]

  • 11.28.2012 10:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: BiII Gates
Oh, Rose Petals, do you never tire of posting such filth?

How the...

  • 11.28.2012 10:12 PM PDT

I have a few problems with the idea in general.

-What would an advanced alien civilization's motives in helping a primitive race construct monuments be?
-Why wouldn't aliens use more advanced materials than basic stone?
-If aliens did assist in building, why don't we see them today?

  • 11.28.2012 10:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: XxhargbeastxX
I have a few problems with the idea in general.

-What would an advanced alien civilization's motives in helping a primitive race construct monuments be?
-Why wouldn't aliens use more advanced materials than basic stone?
-If aliens did assist in building, why don't we see them today?

1. Probably the same reason why developed nations try to give tribal societies technology.
2. They didn't want us to get ahead of ourselves.
3. Because we're advanced enough to be a threat.

  • 11.28.2012 10:17 PM PDT

~Thread-killer~

Any average caveman can draw a picture on the wall. Doesn't mean it's real.

Until they come back with hard evidence and empirical data that proves that UFO's and alien being with large, bulbous heads were among our cave-dwelling ancestors, I shall keep LOLing at the show.

It's not a religion, they're trying to back their assertions up with flawed scientific 'data'.

Essentially this:

Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi
They employ all the classic logical fallacies in place of evidence, and rely on superstition and mythology to make their "factual" case. They use a lack of evidence to the contrary as proof of their own argument.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. They fail that test in every regard. Psuedo-scientific babble on par with the Young Earthers.

  • 11.28.2012 10:18 PM PDT


Posted by: Heart of Stone

Posted by: XxhargbeastxX
I have a few problems with the idea in general.

-What would an advanced alien civilization's motives in helping a primitive race construct monuments be?
-Why wouldn't aliens use more advanced materials than basic stone?
-If aliens did assist in building, why don't we see them today?

1. Probably the same reason why developed nations try to give tribal societies technology.
2. They didn't want us to get ahead of ourselves.
3. Because we're advanced enough to be a threat.

1. That would make sense.
2. But doesn't giving aid (as you mentioned with countries) already put us ahead of ourselves?
3. If they already had interstellar travel, wouldn't they be advanced enough to wipe us out if we were to pose a threat? And wouldn't they want to progress us further?

  • 11.28.2012 10:21 PM PDT

Posted by: petarded2
but only a scant few of my hooker corpses are arranged in rectangles

Stonehedge: built with pulleys, levers, etc. Primitive stuff but does the job done. It was also built right next to an ancient, large city so resources wasn't really an issue

Pyramids: the shape of it made it perfect to be built because of slopes and stairways

I'm pretty sure Cracked had this article. can't really look since I'm on my phone atm

  • 11.28.2012 10:21 PM PDT


Posted by: Heart of Stone

Posted by: BiII Gates
Oh, Rose Petals, do you never tire of posting such filth?

How the...
Wait, is OP the alt of Legendary Rose?
Seems like his/her type of thread.

  • 11.28.2012 10:22 PM PDT

Please do not send me group invites.


Posted by: XxhargbeastxX

Posted by: Heart of Stone

Posted by: BiII Gates
Oh, Rose Petals, do you never tire of posting such filth?

How the...
Wait, is OP the alt of Legendary Rose?
Seems like his/her type of thread.
Am I the only person who can tell these alts apart?

  • 11.28.2012 10:36 PM PDT

I used to be indecisive, but now i'm not sure.

I'll remain on the sidelines until either parties provide definitive proof.
Of course even with that being said I lean more towards the 'there is a logical explanation to this that does not involve aliens'.
Like Wizards for instance.

  • 11.28.2012 10:39 PM PDT
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People also forget that Mesopotamia wasn't the first civilization ever, with technology. Science indicates that such great natural disasters wiped out entire civilizations. Those are the ones we know of. Meaning the Egyptians would've received technology from a previous civilization. Let us not also forget, there was a Mesopotamian artifact with liquid and it was shaped like a battery. http://media.beta.photobucket.com/user/m0xxscion/media/so-bag hdad-battery.jpg.html?filters[term]=mesopotamian%20battery&am p;filters[primary]=images]Here it is

  • 11.28.2012 11:02 PM PDT

Artes, Scientia, Veritas

Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"

Probably because it's completely moronic.

  • 11.28.2012 11:10 PM PDT

Posted by: Seggi31
Posted by: Doctor Jensen
I've challenged my beliefs. What is the book about?


I find that this is usually untrue. If religious people honestly, diligently and intelligently challenged their beliefs, there would be no religious people.

Scientific refutation of Ancient Aliens supported by rigorous fact checking coupled with an overwhelming mass of evidence.


You have to be really gullible to take a single minute of that show seriously.

[Edited on 11.28.2012 11:18 PM PST]

  • 11.28.2012 11:14 PM PDT

Artes, Scientia, Veritas

Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"


Posted by: doctor woot
Scientific refutation of Ancient Aliens supported by rigorous fact checking coupled with and overwhelming mass of evidence.
You and I have a very similar sense of humor.

  • 11.28.2012 11:15 PM PDT

Posted by: Seggi31
Posted by: Doctor Jensen
I've challenged my beliefs. What is the book about?


I find that this is usually untrue. If religious people honestly, diligently and intelligently challenged their beliefs, there would be no religious people.


Posted by: NewRadical12

Posted by: doctor woot
Scientific refutation of Ancient Aliens supported by rigorous fact checking coupled with and overwhelming mass of evidence.
You and I have a very similar sense of humor.
Maybe science has gone too far after all.

  • 11.28.2012 11:18 PM PDT

Posted by: Baph117
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Posted by: doctor woot
Scientific refutation of Ancient Aliens supported by rigorous fact checking coupled with an overwhelming mass of evidence.


i died

  • 11.28.2012 11:24 PM PDT

Artes, Scientia, Veritas

Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"


Posted by: Seggi31
Posted by: doctor woot
Scientific refutation of Ancient Aliens supported by rigorous fact checking coupled with an overwhelming mass of evidence.


i died
Long live Molvanîa!

  • 11.28.2012 11:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ric_Adbur
Posted by: Baph117
Canadian Na­zism is a polite ideology, ok?
"Into the boxcar now... there you go. Oh, watch your head. Here, let me help you... Yep, showers are right through there. No problem at all."


Posted by: NewRadical12
Probably because it's completely moronic.

  • 11.28.2012 11:26 PM PDT

Posted by: Seggi31
Posted by: Doctor Jensen
I've challenged my beliefs. What is the book about?


I find that this is usually untrue. If religious people honestly, diligently and intelligently challenged their beliefs, there would be no religious people.


Posted by: NewRadical12

Posted by: Seggi31
Posted by: doctor woot
Scientific refutation of Ancient Aliens supported by rigorous fact checking coupled with an overwhelming mass of evidence.


i died
Long live Molvanîa!
Long live space race.

  • 11.28.2012 11:27 PM PDT


Posted by: Roflwaffler
I'm not saying it was aliens, but aliens.

  • 11.28.2012 11:30 PM PDT
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Man idk why people don't believe in the space aliens with their combustion engine powered space ships that use the space jets. They're just ignorant man, the proof is all there they're just to dumb to see it.

  • 11.28.2012 11:32 PM PDT
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I'm not saying aliens made this thread, but aliens made this thread.

  • 11.28.2012 11:34 PM PDT
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They blame everything on aliens, dont they?

  • 11.28.2012 11:35 PM PDT
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"There's no way ancient humans could have built this type of structure on their own."

"Actually, archaeological evidence and research shows the ancient civilization in question possessed the tools and manpower needed to build it."

"Well, duh! That's because the Ancient Aliens came down from space and gave them pulleys and levers!"


That is why people don't take Ancient Aliens seriously.

  • 11.28.2012 11:43 PM PDT