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One might purchase them at Spencers gifts...if one was so inclined to do so.

Well that certainly is good know. . . I learned something new!






How much $?

Short answer: no
Long answer: due to the size and possibility of an infinite cosmos possibly.

I had a dream about an Alien once.
I was in a lift, it was behind me.
I asked it what it was called.
It said Len-non.
Shook my hand.
Then got out of the lift.

I've streamed a few episodes of Ancient Aliens, but a lot of it is stuff that I had already seen/hear/read somewhere else.

There is a guy out there, Klaus Dona I think is his name who has done a lot of research about out of place artifacts and whatnot. I believe his thesis was more along the lines of a high human civilization 10,000 plus years ago rather than aliens.

@KC if you think this gak is interesting, you should check out the books by an old dude named Zachiriah Sitchin. I think he's dead now, but it's where that guy with the perm-tan and electrified hair on Ancient Aliens gets most of his stuff.

Personally, I think it's rather sad that so many people seem so willing to believe that alien visitors built things that humans actually built with their own smarts and hard work.

gorgon wrote:Personally, I think it's rather sad that so many people seem so willing to believe that alien visitors built things that humans actually built with their own smarts and hard work.

A giift of European Imperialism.

If we couldn't have built it several hundred years ago, how could these savages have possibly done so?

chaos0xomega wrote:the 'Pyramid Zone' (Pyramidal structures can be found on just about every landmass between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, despite the fact that these cultures couldn't/shouldn't have been able to interact),

The answer to that one is easy: ignorance. People who express doubt at how so many civilizations could've built so many pyramids in so many places know absolutely zilch about construction, engineering, or architecture. The pyramid is one of the simplest, stablest, strongest geometric shapes out there. Heck, pour a big bag of rocks on the ground and you get a roughly pyramidal shape. When it comes to building large structures, pyramids are one of the easiest things to scale up without advanced support techniques and so when primitive cultures wanted to build something great and amazing, they used pyramids, whose stability is such that they can last untended for thousands of years. Compare it to anything with a square or rectangular core design, that will require archs, buttresses, 'advanced' architectural techniques, and imagine how one of those great gothic cathedrals would look after being left untended in a rainforest for a thousand years.

So while I think that it is an absolute certainty that the universe teems with life, and has been so for billions of years, the lack of any sign of their existence in the greater cosmos means that C in a vacuum has never been broken, and even at their height, the lack of faster than light travel and communication means there are no great galactic empires, and that even the longest lived of civilizations leave carve out a very small (in galactic terms) niche in the greater galaxy.

Khornholio wrote:
@KC if you think this gak is interesting, you should check out the books by an old dude named Zachiriah Sitchin. I think he's dead now, but it's where that guy with the perm-tan and electrified hair on Ancient Aliens gets most of his stuff.

Oh my god, you made me bust up. That was the best way to describe.....who ever he is. I remember he was an editor of some tinfoil-colander hat magazine. And thanks for the tid bit Ill have to add that guy to my list as well.


Pyramids- Everyone has it all wrong. Like I said before when I was bashing the fusion chambers theory peer pressure for real the things are friggin power plants! Who needs wires when its all wireless fellas!

As for the electricity thing, Tesla used to power things "wirelessly" just by conducting the energy through the ground. Not saying they had energy but still

Also I laugh at shows that try and make ancient civilizations out to be cavemen with clubs and bad teeth. They were incredibly smart and able back then. Hell they even had computers and robots. Sure the computers were super smart thinker types, and the robots where just slaves, but they got the same results!

That's one of the irritating thing about so many time travel tropes - ancient people weren't stupid. Grab a baby out of 5 BCE Europe and raise him like a normal kid today and he's going to be as smart as everyone else - they just didn't have the depth of knowledge back then, or the availability that we do today.

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