My favorite is when they talk about pyramids and why they are so ubiquitous. One guy says: Skeptics claim that this is the best Architectural design for them. I don’t think so.
OK then. Your proof is, you don’t think so. Good enough. Thanks.
I wish I knew his name, but there was an Egyptologist (American IIRC) who was interviewed on a show years ago and evidently got asked about the space aliens who built the pyramids once too often. He replied something to the effect of “Yes, I believe that thousands of years ago an advance civilization that mastered interstellar travel crossed millions of billions of miles and came to the Earth where they thought to themselves 'what shall we give these primitive people? Teach them about antibiotics maybe, or how to make machines that run on electricity or fuel or maybe how to greatly improve their agriculture or lessen infant mortality… nah. I know, let’s teach them how to make great big piles of rocks in a triangle!”
I think the reason everybody built pyramids is because they didn’t fall down. I mean just try to construct a spherical building and see how far you get.
Maybe we need a Scientologist to explain this - isn’t one of their basic ideas that 14,000 years ago, aliens came to earth and…
Some comedian, decades ago, was talking about UFO’s and basically said, “If they can find earth from 80 million light years away, why can’t they land at JFK instead of some swamp?”
Woot my first zombie thread!
<Does the “My old thread has come to life and is shambling around” dance>
Zombies haven’t come back to life, they’ve become undead. There’s a significant difference.
Fine. :rolleyes:
<does the revised “My old thread has reanimated and is shambling around” dance>
Ahh, so they take the Glenn Beck approach to history then.
I think my wallbanger moment with that show came from one of the very first ads, where they talked about aliens walking among us, or something equally silly, and then they showed images of skulls that were flat and elongated in the back.
I stared at the screen and thought “sweet Christ, have none of these people ever heard of cradle boarding? Or, y’know, the millions of things that can cause the skull to be distorted other than ‘it was aliens’?”
Now, I didn’t actually see that episode, so maybe they did mention it, but frankly I’m not optimistic.
And I agree with Chimera–it seems insulting, somehow, to suggest that ancient people did not have the intellectual capacity to build the pyramids, or the imagination to draw and paint strange images. Though I suppose you could argue that you know an ancient civilization is advanced when people today suggest that it couldn’t have been done without extraterrestrial help.
An aside to that thought .. you know how insulting I find it to hear all the comentators blathering on about how we don’t know why the <insert non europeans and prechristians here> built <insert religious structure here> as they show great footage of places I would absolutely love to visit and poke around the ruins/buildings at.
What, you think something magically happened in 33 AD [or thereabouts] that instilled a sense of religious awe and desire to pile rocks in decorative patterns to celebrate? Somehow there was no reason for religious awe without the [apocryphal] arrival of one somewhat educated [probable]carpenter [though it might be a mistranslation of stonemason]?:rolleyes::dubious::smack:
Bah! Seven months isn’t that much of a zombie.
Orlando.
Technically, Spaceship Earth is a pentakis dodecahedron with legs to give it a pyramid base. So, it is not a sphere but just kind of looks like one.
There are abridged, prose-ified versions of the Mahabharata, though I haven’t found one I liked. The thing is, it’s a wonderfully fascinating epic, along the level of Gilgamesh, and incredibly detailed. However, I did like the TV series, although I know Indians on this board didn’t like it. Sure, cheesy special effects and such, but the stories were there.
And relevant to the thread, when my mom and I used to watch the series, she used to point to the earth-shattering weapons and use it as proof that there was nuclear capability (or the equivalant) back then, too. It was supposed to be an age of glory.
Seriously, there were arrows that could split the earth, that could light fires, that could cause meteor showers, that could cause rainstorms, that could split into 1,000 areas. There were instant kill arrows. There were homing arrows. Many of these arrows you had to pray to the Gods to receive.
I suppose I could see how you could conflate it with aliens. And I know it’s about time my culture got mined for interesting stories. But, I kind of want to say, leave us alone! 
I’m sure these people haven’t robbed all of the interesting stories from say, Zimbabwe, yet.