What do you think the chances are that there may have existed an ancient and technologically advanced society which was wiped out, with nearly all evidence removed? |
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What do you think the chances are that there may have existed an ancient and technologically advanced society which was wiped out, with nearly all evidence removed? |
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Last edited by Original Poster; 05-07-2013 at 01:07 AM.
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I think a key here is the assumptions that go along with the phrase 'technically advanced'. Several past civilizations had very good engineering and architecture. This doesn't however imply things like engines or electronics. Archimedes is said to have said that given a suitable place to stand, he could move the world with a lever. I think that there's something to be said for that. I've moved and positioned objects weighing several thousand pounds using just levers, rollers, blocks, and careful planning. Maybe someone who didn't see the result or didn't have a good intuitive understanding of statics and dynamics would assume that I must have used levitation or some advanced technology. |
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I do agree with the possibility that very advanced lever and pulley systems could account for many of these ancient monuments. However there is still more significant data available, such as the precision of the cuts and measurements. In Giza, specifically, there are hallways which are completely straight down to the millimeter. |
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Last edited by Original Poster; 05-07-2013 at 03:10 AM.
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I don't think that's a fair characterization of my understanding and experience. But I agree that me writing pages and pages trying try to flesh all of that out better probably isn't going to do either of us any good. I think that me telling you what I think about vortexes is likely to be a waste of time for the same reason. Anything I say will from the outset seem inadequately supported and contrary to possibilities you want to consider, but if I take the time to support it more rigorously that will just seem like a more and more persistent attack. |
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I think it was at Puma Punku, where they looked at tool marks left on building blocks under powerful microscope to compare them to tool marks left by cutting-edge modern technology. They came to conclusion, that walls build in Puma Punku were cut by technique or tools that are far more advanced than our modern tools are. |
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Puma Punku (spelling?) blows my mind away!! |
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I agree that when I say technologically advanced, it can be interpreted to mean I'm implying they had particular technology that there's no evidence of. Granted, they did find in Gabon that the uranium they've been mining has already been used, as though a nuclear reactor did exist in prehistory. |
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Last edited by Original Poster; 05-07-2013 at 07:51 AM.
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The existence of an natural reactor does not at all imply nuclear technology (Natural nuclear fission reactor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Similarly the existence of a mine with uranium in it also does not imply uranium mining. Uranium ore is typically only about 0.1% Uranium, and Uranium decays into Radium and Lead, both of which have primitive (though toxic) uses. Maybe this was your point, but it wasn't clear to me. |
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Here's a couple of thoughts: |
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Shadowofwind - I want to avoid a bickering match. I want to avoid defensive attitudes. I don't have my mind made up on the subject and defensiveness won't get me anywhere. I am merely presenting all the evidence I've obtained. Some of it is obviously debunkable. |
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Last edited by Original Poster; 05-07-2013 at 08:47 PM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
All these myths must originate from some kind of truth |
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” - Albert Einstein
One should be wary of the type of pyramid. Giza is actually 8-sided, and this has a beneficial effect but a 4-sided pyramid is actually harmful to the body in the long run. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Here's what I think bout Atlantis. It was the Indus Valley civilisation. Look it up. I think Plato put all the myths that had accumulated about it into a cohesive story, like Rick Riordan did with The Kane Chronicles |
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Damn I remember this thread. Recently I learned that the Bermuda Triangle doesn't actually account for a statistically relevant number of ships or planes lost than any other portion of the sea that size. So perhaps calling them "Vile vortices" isn't fair but it's how they're recognized. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Atlantis was a story. Lemuria was a hypothesis as to why there were lemur ascestral fossils in both India and Madagascar. There isn't any real basis for the existence of either. |
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Question: Why couldn't we recreate the pyramids even with today's advanced technology in the precision they were created? Why do ancient sites form their own equator? Why do ancient ruins exist in the friggin ocean? Etc. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
This thread exists to provide hypotheses not debunk them, friend. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Debunking hypotheses is part of any effective process of forming hypotheses. |
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Some more context for this statement....My current company, which is pretty low tech, uses granite that's engineered to micrometers. My previous company dealt with crystals that were polished with tolerances in nanometers, almost layers of atoms. These are not architectural applications of course. But that's because modern people with money don't desire that kind of precision with architecture. If they did, engineers could be hired to do that. And if it needed to be done without the assistance of lasers and whatnot, that could be done too, it would just take more time and resources to develop a solution, which would cost more. |
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The article linked by StephL debunks the alien theory which was never made in this thread, fails to explain the precision of the stones and calls it a day. That isn't constructive by a long shot. |
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Last edited by Original Poster; 02-12-2014 at 01:45 AM.
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Hitting a few highlights, not in order.... |
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The precision of those sort of things are not anything special. If you just put a ruler across two blocks you can make sure they are even in size with each other. It doesn't take any advanced technology what so ever. It just takes some guy with a ruler. |
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Shadowofwind - I never did say aliens were necessary to explain this. Not once. The link debunks aliens, which is a hypothesis I never brought up. This is something I'm having a problem with. My position is being made for me by virtue of the fact that I bring up these questions. If I were to ask "Why is there something instead of nothing?" Would it be considered feasible to respond "Not because of aliens?" This is not a thread where I try to prove a claim, the intention was made very clearly that this thread is here in order to discuss ancient mysteries, not argue whether or not they came from aliens. If someone wants to provide evidence they came from aliens and another person wants to then respond why it's improbable that falls in line with the thread, but StephL's link was non-sequitur. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
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