Ancient Aliens

Viani · 2013-02-28 22:37:46

It's a show about....a theory regarding aliens, teaching humans the ropes about how to be a civilized society.

So, whatsa Heap think? Good or Wood?

Miss Miko Mayonegg · 2013-02-28 22:52:18

Very stiff alien wood. :)

Previous Calica · 2013-03-01 00:21:16

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PlutoniumFist · 2013-03-01 01:29:04

I like

lee4hmz · 2013-03-01 10:04:29

We need a Cthulhu edit of that show, now. :D

Obā-san · 2013-03-01 10:09:09

PlutoniumFist · 2013-03-01 12:24:00

Well I had typed out an entire two paragraphs about the guy's hair, but I guess the forum didn't want me to post that.

Mr. Darcy · 2013-03-01 14:10:27

Fun fact: the ancient astronauts hypothesis comes from H.P. Lovecraft via a 1960 French book called Les Matin des Magiciens (which is also the original source for other pseudohistory genres like Nazi occultism). It's documented by this guy.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-03-01 14:12:21

The Ancient Astronauts "hypothesis" is significantly older than 1960.

Mr. Darcy · 2013-03-01 14:15:32

As non-fiction? Because I just said the idea is older, as fiction.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-03-01 17:23:37

I find it interesting that all the "ancient aliens" theorists seem to be under the tacit impression that ancient humans were somehow stupid.

Tachyon · 2013-03-01 17:30:12

The thinking behind it always struck me as pretty patronizing, if not outright racist.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-03-01 17:32:22

Because assuming aliens implies that there's no way those silly brown people could do it under their own power, right?

I think ethnocentrism plays a large part in the ancient aliens conspiracy, rather than racism.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-03-01 17:40:05

Well, it's more about the bizarre assumption that people couldn't have figured out certain technological advances on their own, not just in places like Egypt and Peru but in England as well. It's like they believe that a lack of practical knowledge about the universe automatically equates to a lack of ingenuity. Of course, there is an ethnocentric colonialist element to it—the whole preconscious "enlightening the natives" thing—but I think it's more an arrogant misunderstanding of human progress.

Tachyon · 2013-03-01 17:41:56

That's probably more accurate, yes.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-03-01 17:43:27

for the record, Mr. Ancient Aliens himself has since changed his position from "there were ancient aliens" to "there were ancient sky guardians."

You tell me which is more ridiculous.

Obā-san · 2013-03-01 17:46:06

ancient sky guardians

Salix Babylonika · 2013-03-01 17:47:51

more or less

Tachyon · 2013-03-01 17:48:32

there's a pokemon for everything

Obā-san · 2013-03-01 17:49:35

did i ever tell you guys how my sigilyph took a super effective move from a pokemon 10 levels higher than it

and it's health bar was still in the green

sigilyph is not a pokemon you wanna fuck with

Obā-san · 2013-03-01 17:51:06

and that was without any buffing at all

Justice4243 · 2013-03-01 18:04:46

a8 said:
The thinking behind it always struck me as pretty patronizing, if not outright racist.

Mr. Darcy · 2013-03-01 18:47:01

Mojave Music said:

for the record, Mr. Ancient Aliens himself has since changed his position from "there were ancient aliens" to "there were ancient sky guardians."

So... the gods.

Maybe there were both! The first host of ancient aliens genetically engineered apemen to sapience, the second destroyed Atlantis, but by then Gaea, the world-soul of Earth's biosphere, had procreated a race of gods. The third host saw the gods as a confounding variable in their experiments on Earth, and so banished them to other planes.

ProfessorGator · 2013-03-01 18:49:47

Mr. Darcy said:
Gaea, the world-soul of Earth's biosphere

Could she no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet and sent five magic rings to five special young people?

Mr. Darcy · 2013-03-01 20:27:53

^ You bet she did.

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