History channel 24/7 in 2023: "All accomplishments of ancient societies, but especially non-European societies, were impossible. The only explanation is aliens. Now here's a racist who failed grade 9 world history to explain why."
I read something a while ago that really put all these "ancient mysteries" into perspective: Modern humans with modern brains have existed in our current form for at least tens of thousands of years. During that time we've seen huge advancement as a society thanks to the accumulation and sharing of scientific knowledge, but any individual human today has no more brainpower than one living 10,000 years ago.
In other words, if we can sit around today and brainstorm a dozen different ways to build a pyramid with nothing but ramps and levers, there's absolutely no reason to think that the smartest builders in ancient egypt couldn't have come up withl the same ideas or better.
Attributing these achievements to aliens, or divine intervention, or anything other than raw human ingenuity is a disservice to our ancestors.
There's a great video out there called Ancient Aliens Debunked and it tears into all the dumb shit that was claimed on that show.
I never understood why, WHY would you have such crazy people on a nationwide TV show like that?
Which one? There are several
Probably all of them? Idk the one I have is from the 2010's
Have you considered that it's a ploy to get people to learn about history through and absurd entertaining format? They present real history and then rather than trying to explain it, they give you nonsensical evidence, that, truly, very few people believe. And for the people that claim to "believe" it maybe you should look into Poes law
No.
Because it isn't.
Oh get off Lemmy, Giorgio Tsoukalos.
👋🏽🧑🏽🖕🏽 "no"
Whoosh 😆
What's the whoosh part?
Think about it. A show with no grounding in facts. A series full of outlandish propositions. 200+ episodes that invalidate the accomplishments of the most intelligent species in the history of the planet... and get that very same species to believe it. How could such a thing be possible? Could it be that the producers of the show had help from beings of a different species altogether? And could that species have come... from a different planet altogether?
Or could it be, the average person won't sit through an hour-long documentary… or worse, a 6-hour series, at a set time in a set place every week, but "factual entertainment"? The history channel has become extremely good at delivering interesting nuggets of information with very little elaboration, and if you were interested you could look it up on Wikipedia.
Or don't. Think that this extremely well produced and funded show is about proving aliens is real, and not about getting viewers.
I'm not high enough to properly respond to this ramble.
History channel 24/7 in 2023: "All accomplishments of ancient societies, but especially non-European societies, were impossible. The only explanation is aliens. Now here's a racist who failed grade 9 world history to explain why."
I read something a while ago that really put all these "ancient mysteries" into perspective: Modern humans with modern brains have existed in our current form for at least tens of thousands of years. During that time we've seen huge advancement as a society thanks to the accumulation and sharing of scientific knowledge, but any individual human today has no more brainpower than one living 10,000 years ago.
In other words, if we can sit around today and brainstorm a dozen different ways to build a pyramid with nothing but ramps and levers, there's absolutely no reason to think that the smartest builders in ancient egypt couldn't have come up withl the same ideas or better.
Attributing these achievements to aliens, or divine intervention, or anything other than raw human ingenuity is a disservice to our ancestors.
There's a great video out there called Ancient Aliens Debunked and it tears into all the dumb shit that was claimed on that show.
I never understood why, WHY would you have such crazy people on a nationwide TV show like that?
Which one? There are several
Probably all of them? Idk the one I have is from the 2010's
Have you considered that it's a ploy to get people to learn about history through and absurd entertaining format? They present real history and then rather than trying to explain it, they give you nonsensical evidence, that, truly, very few people believe. And for the people that claim to "believe" it maybe you should look into Poes law
No.
Because it isn't.
Oh get off Lemmy, Giorgio Tsoukalos.
👋🏽🧑🏽🖕🏽 "no"
Whoosh 😆
What's the whoosh part?
Think about it. A show with no grounding in facts. A series full of outlandish propositions. 200+ episodes that invalidate the accomplishments of the most intelligent species in the history of the planet... and get that very same species to believe it. How could such a thing be possible? Could it be that the producers of the show had help from beings of a different species altogether? And could that species have come... from a different planet altogether?
Or could it be, the average person won't sit through an hour-long documentary… or worse, a 6-hour series, at a set time in a set place every week, but "factual entertainment"? The history channel has become extremely good at delivering interesting nuggets of information with very little elaboration, and if you were interested you could look it up on Wikipedia.
Or don't. Think that this extremely well produced and funded show is about proving aliens is real, and not about getting viewers.
I'm not high enough to properly respond to this ramble.