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Is it possible for humans to advance to our technological levels in the ancient past without alien intervention?
Originally posted by TLomon
Originally posted by Harte
How long will it take the faces on Mount Rushmore to erode away?
Probably about 100-200 years. It has to be maintained constantly as plants growing in it will break way the faces, cracks can then contain water, water expanding and contracting, buy buy faces. A lot of people don't realize just how much physical maintenance needs to be done to keep our cities and structures intact.
Skyscrapers have concrete foundations that go hundreds of feet down into the Earth. Evidence like that isn't going anywhere, regardless of how much time goes by, until it recycles back into the mantle of the Earth (if that ever happens.)
Wrong again. Water is the great destroyer. Especially concrete, which is subceptible to water damage.Concrete is currently expected to last 75-100 years WITH maintenance... now imagine it without. The chemicals used in concrete to speed up curing time, make it stronger, etc. are also it's downfall. It all reacts to water. It's one of the reasons why it doesn't have the durability that the concrete used in BC era has.
Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
Stuff like this:
www.xpeditionsmagazine.com...
Seemingly it's forgotten. I don't know if it's true. It does make me think, cause it's definitely not the weird discovery.
Originally posted by Sinter KlaasWhy would the Hopi Indians come up of with that legend ? I do understand why they would be saved, as they did live balanced lives with nature.
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built. For some time it has been established that there is a very high rate of birth defects and cancer in the area under construction.
The levels of radiation there have registered so high on investigators' gauges that the Indian government has now cordoned off the region. Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people. One researcher estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of the ones dropped on Japan in 1945.
Originally posted by anti72
Yes, it seems quite obvious that human history repeats itself.
Ancient City Found in India, Irradiated from Atomic Blast
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built. For some time it has been established that there is a very high rate of birth defects and cancer in the area under construction.
The levels of radiation there have registered so high on investigators' gauges that the Indian government has now cordoned off the region. Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people. One researcher estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of the ones dropped on Japan in 1945.
veda.wikidot.com...edit on 8-7-2013 by anti72 because: (no reason given)
The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked the continent.
"A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe…An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor…it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race.
"The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white.
"After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river."
Historian Kisari Mohan Ganguli says that Indian sacred writings are full of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He says references mention fighting sky chariots and final weapons. An ancient battle is described in the Drona Parva, a section of the Mahabharata.
Homo Sapiens have been existence since 250,000 years ago and it took 5,000 years for us to advanced from Spears to Nuclear Weapons.
Originally posted by _damon
reply to post by starwarsisreal
There are so much archeological anomalies that confirm this
Originally posted by Logarock
Well be they whatever, very old histories from around the world speak of great civilizers, powerful personalities that showed men the arts and civilization. These persons are often described as freakishly well equipped.
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by starwarsisreal
Without people maintaining the cities, eventually they will be gone because wildlife would have reclaim them and plus the buildings would have been destroyed due to erosion. Modern Buildings like Steel Skyscrapers wouldn't last very long. This may explain why if the a hypothetical advanced civilization were to exist in the past there wouldn't be any traces left.
Bad examples.
Skyscrapers have concrete foundations that go hundreds of feet down into the Earth. Evidence like that isn't going anywhere, regardless of how much time goes by, until it recycles back into the mantle of the Earth (if that ever happens.)
How long will it take the faces on Mount Rushmore to erode away?
Road beds leave obvious traces that can be found by even amatuer investigators. Especially roads like freeways.
In this case, no evidence pretty much means no such thing existed.
Harte
Originally posted by Hanslune
Originally posted by Logarock
Well be they whatever, very old histories from around the world speak of great civilizers, powerful personalities that showed men the arts and civilization. These persons are often described as freakishly well equipped.
Many cultures, civilizations and religions point to 'gods' providing the x, y and z of technology, from fire, to language to agriculture. This probably reflects stories made up to explain where these things came from long after the event had occurred, the man or woman who actually made the advance is forgotten and the spiritually inclined direct the ;step up; to a favoured god.
Originally posted by Logarock
reply to post by Hanslune
When taken as a whole however your explanation hardly covers it. I will grant that in some cases we are talking cultures that collided and to the shock of one the technological/cultural capacities of the other was just more than they could properly fathom.
Originally posted by Hanslune
Originally posted by Logarock
reply to post by Hanslune
When taken as a whole however your explanation hardly covers it. I will grant that in some cases we are talking cultures that collided and to the shock of one the technological/cultural capacities of the other was just more than they could properly fathom.
No you have a choice; one that humans are complete morons who have to be given every single technological advance by other advanced humans (one has to wonder how they figured it out), aliens or supernatural beings - or they did it themselves.