I miss the old History Channel that was made up of real history not what ifs, maybes and strong possibilities.
Those depictions of UFOs in medieval art are actually representations of deities, celestial bodies, or a combination thereof. I ran across a very informative website on it a while back. http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_1_eng.htm
When i rule the world, the paranormal, cryptozoology, and alien history will be banished to one channel, and there will be actual history, arts, science, and geography on their respective channels.
I’ve also always been interested to read that Mahabarata passage for myself. I’m sure the mahabarata is online in several places, but does anyone know where the passage in question is in that work?
I hope you’d banish them entirely from existence, otherwise I’m not voting for you.
I saw something similar once, not on a specialty channel though. They claimed the Sphinx was built 10,000 years ago by ‘Atlanteans’.
At the end was the not too surprising appeal for money to continue the ‘research’.
Did this show ask for money at the end?
We need something to keep the morons busy, or they’ll be emailing us a bazillion offers for Viagra.
I fell asleep before the end of the program. 
Instead of going around talking about what you dont understand maybe you should all read the Mahabharata
But talking about what we don’t understand is so much more FUN!! 
They should just change the name of the channel. Maybe call it Hystyry or something.
Does the Mahabharata contain a section on raising zombie threads?
I had a really funny WTF moment the other week watching it …
Karnak standing stones right? A funky grid of fair size of standing stones. Some how the jackass took Apollo, made him an alien. I have no problem with that. It seems he goes to Hyperborea for a quick vacation or whatever every 20 years.
So … an alien, flying some ship that was able to get here through the depths of space needs to follow piles of rocks to find his way somewhere?! :dubious::smack:
Why?
That’s still there, it’s just decreasing as a % of the overall content.
My “favorite” of these types of pseudo-science shows is “Monster Quest”, where they pretend to explain Bigfoot et al. Oddly, they never actually get the goods. Never.
I can’t remember which channel that is on, but on my comcast box I’ve got Science Channel, Nat Geo, and History Channel right next to each other. They all serve up this type of crap 90% of the time.
Yeah - and every episode ends with the line: While Monster Quest was unable to prove the existence of <insert monster>, science has not been able to rule out the possibility either and we have raised some interesting questions.
It was/is a bad show, but it was mindless entertainment when I was sick and recovering. Alas, I know longer get the History Channel.
Do you have any idea how long the Mahabharata is? It’s like 13,000 pages long, and typically published in volumes numbering in the dozens. Nobody reads the whole thing. I had a prof in College who had a PhD in Sanskrit and had done his dissertation on the Mahabharata, and he wasn’t expected to have read the whole thing when he defended it. We would need to know the specific Gita this dumb special was talking about. It sounds like it might have been the Baghavad-Gita (the only one that most westerners have heard of or read), but maybe not.
Fortunately for the human race, a quartet of strangely attired individuals, led by one who only identified himself as a “Doctor”, confronted the mysterious grim reaper figure (actually a gaudily colored robot/android wearing a shawl) and the reptillian alien creatures controlling it, defeated their diabolical plans, but inadvertantly sparking the firestorm that consumed London. Pesky aliens.
And that ain’t no shlocky pseudo-science from the History Channel. I saw this on PBS, so it must be true!
Von Daniken and his ilk never could conceive of ancient people having any imagination. “This cave drawing shows people appearing to fly- clearly they had no concept of people flying like the birds they saw everyday, so obviously this is a 10,000 year old investigative journalism on aliens from the Vega system dropping in to say howdy and get some earth tail!”
I suppose that after watching brilliant historically analytical masterpieces like Ice Road Truckers and Gangland I got spoiled.
I remember when The Learning Channel (TLC) had really good history documentaries and shows that had nothing to do with hermaphrodites decorating doghouses or whatever. Now National Geographic is about the only channel that shows actual good history programming and even they have a lot more Dog Whisperers and Locked Up Abroad airings than they do quality stuff.
That’s what really annoys me with these clowns.
“Oh, no way Humans could have done this, it had to be SPACE ALIENS!”
:rolleyes: