Ancient Aliens

Viani

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

Very stiff alien wood. :)

Previous Calica

Section42L

Previous Calica

PlutoniumFist

I like

lee4hmz

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

Obā-san

PlutoniumFist

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

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

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

Mr. Darcy

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

Sredni Vashtar

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

Tachyon

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

Yarrun XIX

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

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

That's probably more accurate, yes.

Salix Babylonika

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

ancient sky guardians

Salix Babylonika

more or less

Tachyon

there's a pokemon for everything

Obā-san

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

and that was without any buffing at all

Justice4243

a8 said:

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

Mr. Darcy

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

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

^ You bet she did.