reply to post by spacebot
this is going to sound lame but honestly i can't remember where i read it. there was a very solid debunking of vimanas. hehe, could've been right
here on ats. i don't remember the details but it was solid.
i love believing in the ancient hindu scripts and the hopis as well.
i'd like to make some additions. i figured it would come to this but it's a valid point however unlikely.
that is the "pyscho marauding random alien death squad" theory.
without an entire culture supporting this habit through millions of years of evolution in slaying each other then finally resting on science to futher
their deeds this would be impossible from the get go. an opposing faction of same alien race would neutralize the threat until one or the other wins.
however, this, sadly, is a possibility. it could very well be that a maverick group of aliens stole or otherwise came across the knowledge/technology
to support their heinous deeds and are now free to roam and cause chaos wherever they go.
corruption would win in any society based on these morals and would very likely not survive longer than a few thousand years, if that. which means
they could only conquer so many planets before collapsing. how old is the universe? you get my point.
the only other alternative to this section of alien life would be a "galactic" overlord that has managed to gain control through a series of
subversive, manipulative techniques designed with the express intent of nothing but destruction. again all we have to do is look at the probabilities
to clear this up.
first off, what would cause such an overlord? surely he would not arise in a vacuum. he wuold be intimately connected to another race that pissed him
off to begin with. which means he would be grounded so to speak and his methods would dictate a "just" outcome in his own mind. meaning that humans
were somehow involved from the start or near thereafter and probably instigated it. we have done no such thing.
secondly, the galactic overlord would only be concerned with humanity if we were prized POW's. in this case, yes, it would affect us greatly but this
entire line of thinking is so abyssimally improbable it's just plain dumb.