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Interesting how nobody ever claims that the Romans were advised by aliens.
by msla 7y ago
Interesting how nobody ever claims that the Romans were advised by aliens.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThe Ancient weren't aliens, they were ancestors of humans, and the first Road Builders. Pyramids were built by human labour under direction of aliens, as landing pads for starships.
- yters 7y agoI have trouble understanding how pyramids would be good landing pads. They seem a little too pointy.
- UnFleshedOne 7y agoObviously alien starships have matching pyramid shaped depression in the bottom. The bigger pyramid you can build the bigger ship can land on it and more cargo will be bestowed on you.
- flukus 7y agoThe same group of people appear to think they also needed runways: https://www.ancient-code.com/meet-nazca-runways-flat-mountaintops-defy-explanation/ https://www.ancient-code.com/meet-nazca-runways-flat-mountai...
- ianai 7y agoIt’s got to be a reference to the first Star Gate movie. The aliens land their ships on pyramids.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThe StarGate documentary movie and follow-up series, yes :).
- TeMPOraL 7y agoGoa'uld - the aliens - care less for practicality, and more for showing off. The ship indeed had a matching hole at the bottom. Here's photo evidence of a pyramid used as a landing pad: https://www.gateworld.net/wiki/Ra%27s_mothership https://www.gateworld.net/wiki/Ra%27s_mothership.
- msla 7y agoOK, I'll say it plainly: Ancient Aliens theories are quite racist, as they implicitly assume that brown people can't build big monuments without external help. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/01/02/close-encounters-racist-kind https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/01/02/close-encount... https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/ https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-r... > It is notable that many (though not all) extraterrestrial theories focus on archaeological structures at sites within Egypt, Africa, South America, and North America — a fact that has led some academics to see beliefs in ancient alien engineers as a stalking horse for racism. In a piece for the online journal The Conversation rather frankly titled “Racism is Behind Outlandish Theories about Africa’s Ancient Architecture,” Julien Benoit, a postdoctoral researcher in vertebrate paleontology at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), addressed the continued harm of these theories: >> Firstly, these people try to prove their theories by travelling the world and desecrating ancient artefacts. Secondly, they perpetuate and give air to the racist notion that only Europeans – white people – ever were and ever will be capable of such architectural feats.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI'm sorry, but... what?! > It is notable that many (though not all) extraterrestrial theories focus on archaeological structures at sites within Egypt, Africa, South America, and North America — a fact that has led some academics to see beliefs in ancient alien engineers as a stalking horse for racism. How about, they focus on those sites because that's where human civilization started in the first place? They'd happily focus on London, if London existed in 10000 B.C. Ancient Aliens people are crackpots[0], but are mostly harmless ones. But taking that and viewing it as "stalking horse for racism" is just trying to score cheap virtue points. It's worse than crackpottery in my book. -- [0] - I'm not one of them; to be clear, I was just making a drive-by StarGate joke, as I always do in such topics if I see that no one has made it before, because it's a notable scifi franchise that took the "ancient aliens" concept and went wild with it.
- msla 7y ago> It's worse than crackpottery in my book. No, denying that racism has a role to play here is worse than crackpottery.