Ancient Aliens: Real or Ridiculous?

psherman wrote:There is billion upon billions of planets that aliens can visit, and unless the aliens got lucky, they couldn't have found us. Besides, why would the aliens want to help us build pyramids? Don't they have anything better to do?

I guess they were students wanting to get extra credit XD

I wish I was a student that got to drive a interstallar travel equipped spaceship.

Well this has 2 possible theories.
1. Robot probes
This one seems the most likely, and is possible.
Any art modeled after said aliens would look machine-like in some form if this is true.

2. Actual aliens visiting the surface.
This is extremely unlikely, and is nigh-impossible.
It is unlikely that any alien would be able to even get close to the planet without dying of age.

These are just short theories, and feel free to add on to them if neccacary.

heskey30 wrote:It is completely impossible to say.

However, there is the fact that any alien space suit which belonged to a race that could get here from light years away would not be a clunky 20th century style model.

Anything alien would be nothing like anything modern. That is almost certain. We are not even close to inter-solar travel - by the time we are, if we ever are, many of our more advanced technologies will be very different, much more refined.

Also remember the human race is very creative and "coming from the heavens" and "special blood lines" make good stories.

Still, it is true that most religions involve or contain powerful creatures who dwell above the earth. I would need more proof either way to make a definite opinion.

Oh, and likely most aliens that could get here could disguise themselves to look like us. We already do it to them in bad movies.

Wb, heskey.

On the OP, none of those pictures that are supposed to look like "aliens" or "airplanes" look anything like "aliens" or "airplanes". In fact, they look like humans.

I still think Newton and Leibniz were aliens for coming up with Calculus, but oh well. xD Ahahaha.

I don't think that aliens visited in the Ancient World. The 3D art of the ancient world isn't exactly.. well refined with some cultures and that first example could be a lot of things. The human race survived through inventive thinking and manipulation of our environment, so I believe that the ancient world would have the brain to eventually develop pyramids, build temples and other things. I think some people underestimate some cultures back in those times (and all the labor they had at their hands).

Well, just my opinion anyway, don't know how credible or true it is.

I've always found the ancient alien theory a bit daunting, as it always hypes these aliens up to godlihood, even though they may not even be that benevolent let alone deserving of importance.

Therefore, I mostly do not really agree with it. However, the conclusions from the findings seem reasonable in the context, but fail to show this logic in the contextless, neutral face of mainstream science.

On the other hand, I'd always hypothesised that the 'alien' craft may be from a far future, but this would have to depend on backwards time travel (which may not be possible).

But again, challenging the mainstream has been the foundation of modern science, so that pretty much counts as an acheivement in itself, providing they can back up the claim.

Slyth33 wrote:I have yet to see a shred of evidence suggesting that aliens ever came here. Ancient people told stories of all sorts of absurd things (read a mythology book sometime) that had no grounding in reality but made great campfire tales.

If they did come they didn't leave any technology so they're jerks anyway.

You overestimate the human imagination.

You under-estimate the effects of shrooms, and the minds of folks like Stephen King.

SuperEagleGuy wrote:

Slyth33 wrote:I have yet to see a shred of evidence suggesting that aliens ever came here. Ancient people told stories of all sorts of absurd things (read a mythology book sometime) that had no grounding in reality but made great campfire tales.

If they did come they didn't leave any technology so they're jerks anyway.

You overestimate the human imagination.

You kidding me? Have you even played the game that this forum is for? People have made up some insanely exotic looking creatures and vehicles without even half trying.

The human imagination is a powerful tool.

Throw in some ancient grain alcohol and you have yourself the makings of a ton of insane tales.

Slyth33 wrote:

SuperEagleGuy wrote:

Slyth33 wrote:I have yet to see a shred of evidence suggesting that aliens ever came here. Ancient people told stories of all sorts of absurd things (read a mythology book sometime) that had no grounding in reality but made great campfire tales.

If they did come they didn't leave any technology so they're jerks anyway.

You overestimate the human imagination.

You kidding me? Have you even played the game that this forum is for? People have made up some insanely exotic looking creatures and vehicles without even half trying.

The human imagination is a powerful tool.

Throw in some ancient grain alcohol and you have yourself the makings of a ton of insane tales.

I know that you overestimate it because all of these creations that we make are (A) Limited to the parts in game, and (B) Inspired by something that we have seen with our own eyes. We can't truly make stuff up, as our brains can't comprehend something they cannot visualize or recreate in our minds.

Those are Spore's limitations, not ours. And we can obviously visualize someone in a fancy headress that looks vaguely like an ancient astronaut.

You can pretty much visualize anything with a shape.

wehrmacht223 wrote:Those are Spore's limitations, not ours. And we can obviously visualize someone in a fancy headress that looks vaguely like an ancient astronaut.

You can pretty much visualize anything with a shape.

Yes, but I don't think that ancient peoples could have comprehended something falling from the sky unless it really did. As far as they knew, the sky was a big blue ball and the stars were in it. To them, earth would have seemed to be all there was to the universe. The only explanation of them imagining someone coming from the skies is if they actually did.

You're saying that a species that turned this:

into this:

can't build something that it hasn't seen before? That's contrary to the core doctrine of science and engineering, where we try to invent things that have never been seen before. The human brain can and will create just about anything, be it a skyscraper, a diesel turbine engine, or a mental image of a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater.

Why not? Things can fall from a tree, it isn't a stretch to imagine something falling from higher up. Humanity is obsessed with the unknown.

You're severely underestimating the brain.

Slyth33 wrote:You're saying that a species that turned this:

into this:

can't build something that it hasn't seen before? That's contrary to the core doctrine of science and engineering, where we try to invent things that have never been seen before. The human brain can and will create just about anything, be it a skyscraper, a diesel turbine engine, or a mental image of a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater.

And who says that that wasn't influences by an alien species as well? As for the people eater, that is inspired by fierce predators, and human fear.