Good episode.

Don't underestimate the power of the human mind and body though, it isn't IMPOSSIBLE that they built these structures simply because it would have been hard.

I agree with Gortex, most of the theories discussed in AA are just so unlikely. And then they point to rock carving or something for evidence...

I agree with the Gortex, the show was great when it first started, but I think now it's time to call it a day and keep their credibility.

There's only so much that can be covered and connected to the ancient astronaut theory, with this series now i've noticed that they are either re-doing what has been done in previous episodes, or are making claims on just about anything.

You got to look at it logically, there isn't enough evidence out there to support 4 whole series of this show, at 44m an episode, they're going to run out of stuff to research and analyse for the show. As i watch it now, the evidence becomes either less and less credible, or I've heard it from a previous episode.

It's gotten to the point now where i wouldn't be surprised if they did an episode on the Titanic and make claims that UFO's had something to do with it sinking.

Nice documentary, but you know, I remember reading a link here on an article about the Parthenon, and basicaly one of the major reasons restoration work on the Parthenon is such a nightmare and time consuming process is because nobody has the skill/knowledge to carry out restoration work in the way it was built.

We dont know how they built it or what tools they used, the level of craftsmanship is far beyond anything we can produce today.

So I would then think, oh right, we have simply lost a lot of construction techniques, we used to know but because of advances in materials and design we have lost a lot of ancient knowledge on how it was built.

Never at any point does my mind point to aliens or an advanced race of super beings. Theres no evidence for it.

Originally posted by thesearchfortruth
Good episode.

Don't underestimate the power of the human mind and body though, it isn't IMPOSSIBLE that they built these structures simply because it would have been hard.

I agree with Gortex, most of the theories discussed in AA are just so unlikely. And then they point to rock carving or something for evidence...

The problem I have with the show is they do not offer anything BUT the alien connection...hense the name of the show. It is like the Finding Big Foot show...every noise in the woods the hear with their parabolic antenna is a "Quatch".

There is a great thread in ATS about Punku and how it all could be done without aliens, but that show just jumps right into that connection everytime on everyshow.

Originally posted by Ixtab

So I would then think, oh right, we have simply lost a lot of construction techniques, we used to know but because of advances in materials and design we have lost a lot of ancient knowledge on how it was built.

This is so true to the point. How many in the world know how to do things that were common 100 years ago, and we even saw this with Apollo rockets in more recent times. When we started to look at going back to the moon Nasa went to the rocket museums to rebuild diagrams of all the parts of the old Apollo rockets. The old diagrams were lost or destroyed in some way, and so they needed to get all that "ancient " technology back.

Now think about ancient cutting techniques and cement technique of thousands of years ago..... Those techniques were most likely lost and rediscovered over and over throughout history...hehe

Next week on AA - The connection between UFOs and Bigfoot. It's getting a little silly now!

Originally posted by Ixtab
Nice documentary, but you know, I remember reading a link here on an article about the Parthenon, and basically one of the major reasons restoration work on the Parthenon is such a nightmare and time consuming process is because nobody has the skill/knowledge to carry out restoration work in the way it was built.

Seriously? We know exactly how the Parthenon was built, the tools used and everything. Heck, we even have the instruction manual, lol. Just because you don't know something doesn't mean that anyone with even a passing interest in ancient culture doesn't know it too.

We dont know how they built it or what tools they used, the level of craftsmanship is far beyond anything we can produce today.

Are you still referring to the Parthenon, the one in Greece? Because they do know how it was built. Heck, go there and any tour guide can tell you, even show you models of the large wooden "machines" they used to make the columns (which was done segment by segment, they are not solid one piece columns). If you can go visit it, I guess google will have to suffice, but if you ever get the chance go visit it for sure.....Greece is beautiful (well it was until the dependent class started ruining the country but that's another story)

All ancient ruins were built by men, hundreds of men, thousands of men. Men were expendable, and cheap. Just like ants, get enough of them, and ants will eventually be able to move your house to a new address. People forget, and have no context because they live in a modern world now, where they can't even imagine a man actually doing something amazing. I mean, I bet most around here don't know or ever heard a busy tone over the phone, or remember that little white dot that stayed in the center of your tv screen for like an hour after you turned it off. And those that came before don't remember what it was like to step over horse poop in the streets, and those before them don't remember when there was....you get the idea.

However, reality is not exciting enough for some, for others it is too complicated to understand, so they subscribe to harebrained theories out of either ignorance, or even worse, willful ignorance.