The Cellar - Ancient Astronauts

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I think this would be a good time for me to try to figure out how to use my DVR! I need some of those smart aliens to come and help me.

Awesome, Thanks - Everyone who can should watch it and we can discuss here - Hey maybe thats a new thread idea. Sorta like the book-of-the-month ... only different.

Ooh, I saw it and it was fascinating. A few things that really struck me:

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_7.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

I'm not sold on the idea of ancient astronauts, but this show really opened my eyes to some interesting and extremely mysterious things. Highly recommended!

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 543717)

It was initially tied around the book Chariots of the Gods.

I read that Erich von Däniken book when I was a kid and I just popped in, based on the title of this thread, to mention it.

I don't have time to look it up but I think the next showing is tomorrow. Let's all watch it at the same time and pretend we're having a big slumber party. I'll bring the beer; who's got the popcorn?

edit: grr...it's Saturday at 8, I think

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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 544690)

I read that Erich von Däniken book when I was a kid and I just popped in, based on the title of this thread, to mention it.

They talk to him quite a bit, in this show. I remember reading parts of the book when I was a kid.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 544815)

Deal - but why "grr" - ? coz is at 8pm on Sat? You've a date? :)

Oh lord no! :lol: I edited that part about 3 times between waiting on students and trying to figure out the History Channel's website.

Nah, my shattered heart likes to stay home on the weekends.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 544844)

Nah, my shattered heart likes to stay home on the weekends.

It's a sunny day - buy yourself some posies on the way home :flower:

Maybe I will. Dammit, now I'm sad again. And I was faking it SOOOO well. :o

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 544849)

Maybe I will. Dammit, now I'm sad again. And I was faking it SOOOO well. :o

NO! Did the posie remark make you sad? Get posies AND some voddie. A nice, cold voddie with two olives. Or a bloody Mary. And salted nuts...and "Casino Royale" starring Daniel Craig...hey...gives me an idea....

I'm gonna watch it - got tivo set up too.

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Originally Posted by Beestie (Post 543439)

I remember the big fuss about the so-called landing strips etched into the landscape (I think in Peru). They were supposedly for ancient astronaut space ships.

So lemme see if I get this. A spaceship capable of travelling trillions of miles through space and time needs a landing strip? Please.

I read all the Daniken books as a kid and remember just shaking my head in amazement at how anything can look like anything if the bias is strong enough.

They are called the Nazca Lines. http://www.crystalinks.com/nasca.html
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/cs/s...a/PerNazca.htm

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 543393)

I was falling asleep last night watching the History Channel and they had a show on about Ancient Astronauts. There were some really interesting things that they brought up. They had found some ruins that we couldn't create even using today's technology and tools. They talked about "Baghdad batteries" and the ancient Egyptians using light bulbs to see in their chambers; some pyramids/ruins built which perfectly match the solar system and so on. I fell asleep and thats about all I remember. Anyone else seen anything about this? It was most interesting.

I love these kinds of shows. We've lost soooo much knowledge over the millenia, from the burning of THE Library at Alexandria, to all the knowledge destroyed by Christian Priests because they felt it posed a "threat." Very sad.

I know there is speculation about how the Egyptians lit the Lighthouse at Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. I believe sometimes they may have used mirrors and fire/daylight to light things, or crystals. My ex told me the ancient Greeks had steam-powered engines. I don't know if it's true, but if it is, you have to wonder what else they knew, that we lost and took ages to discover again.

hmmm, I guess there is some truth to it... http://campus.udayton.edu/~hume/Steam/steam.htm

Oh, love those photos. The author of the site went to Univ of Dayton!

I was in heaven when I toured The Berkeley at the Maritime Museum in San Diego.