Three hour documentary debunking all stuff from the Ancient Aliens TV show. I watch the show from time to time as entertainment. There is some stuff toward the end in the last half hour where the narrator lets his religious views out that has irritated a lot of atheists, but a lot of the material on the building of ancient structures and artwork is very interesting. I never heard the stuff they discussed on how the Pyramids were actually built.
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Originally posted by goodlun View PostYou know it really does sadden me that someone had the need to make a film debunking the ancient aliens serious. I mean that program while fun, but was far from being credible and I weep at the thought that people took it seriously.
The whole badarchaeology site is very interesting, as is the related blog.
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Originally posted by ChuckWepner View PostI couldn't argue with him. He's too adorable. What is he and where / when is he from?
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Originally posted by Bezmond View PostHe's quite obviously a Mayan Spaceman. Proving beyond doubt that Mayans came from space. As Moby says, "We are all made of stars". Which is like really profound, but true also. You just need to open your mind and stop believing what the establishment and government scientists tell you.
I assume you are probably trolling, but if by some chance you are not, the bad archaeology site is a good place to start. You might enjoy a book on the Maya written by someone who has actually studied their culture and history, too. Ancient civilizations are even more fascinating and mind-expanding when we don't start from weird bigoted preconceptions that they couldn't have been sophisticated without extraterrestrial intervention. In fact, wrapping your mind around the realities of ancient cultures different from our own takes a *lot* more open-mindedness than accepting the "aliens did it" one-size-fits-all explanations that new age pseudo-scientists force onto superficial glances at evidence they can't be bothered to make the effort to understand in context, plus free association games played with ancient texts they don't have the background to begin to interpret.
Or you can go with Moby and Starchild (one of the biggest hoaxes of recent times).
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Originally posted by Bezmond View PostHe's quite obviously a Mayan Spaceman.
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Originally posted by ChuckWepner View PostSo far, most of the places I'm finding references to him describe him as coming from Ecuador. If one wants to understand an object, it's good to start by getting the culture it is from right. What makes you think it is Mayan?
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Originally posted by Bezmond View PostI think it's Mayan because I typed "Mayan Spaceman" into google. It's called "research".
Just for laughs, I repeated your Google search. Your picture showed up on the fifth page of images, by which point the relation to the search terms is usually very weak. Neither the name of the picture, nor anything on the website identifies it as Mayan. It is a new age pseudo-science site (crystalinks.com), so it calls the picture "ancientalienspacesuit," but nowhere on the site does it say anything about where the figure is from.
In short, not only do you not know what research is, you don't know how to use Google, you muppet.
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Originally posted by ChuckWepner View PostSorry. Concluding from the fact that something comes up when you type "Mayan spaceman" into Google that it is Mayan is pretty much the antithesis of research. I've found a website identifying it as from Peru and a couple saying it was excavated in Ecuador, but what I'd like is a reference to whoever found it or whatever collection it's in identifying it. So far, no go. Sadly, we missed the sale of a copy on ebay from Spain (for a mere $25), but no real info was given there, either.
You need to lighten up, Chuck.
At least I manage to amuse Doofaloofa.
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