ET's/Aliens yes or no?

[z06boy]

Originally Posted by Dave

I hope yes, hostile invasion may be the only thing that can get humans to understand our true nature and get our shit together.

Originally Posted by Particle Man

That was awesome

Original topic question: yes. I think it's presumptuous to believe that in the entire Universe we're the only "intelligent" species

Originally Posted by Avatard

Consider the vastness. It would be naive to think we're the only form of life in such a vast universe...the odds are against it.

All of the above

[Homeslice]

The large governments would always conspire to keep it secret, if they knew about it.

[CrazyKell]

yes

[Trip]

I don't think it will matter in our life time. We will die without knowing.

[KSGregman]

Yes. But honestly, I don't think that is even the most interesting or relevant question. A more interesting question is what have we forgotten about ourselves as a species? It seems that we have collective amnesia as a species....what we DON'T know about ourselves....where we came from...what we might already have accomplished along the way and forgotten about is far more interesting to me.

The evidence of things being done that are beyond current ability to explain and or reproduce are scattered all over the world. Megalithic building for example...Puma Punku in Boliva...The Pyramids at Giza...Ba'Albek in Lebanon. These structures would be difficult to reproduce using modern tools and machines...and yet, there they stand...Ba'Albek is particularly difficult to explain. How do you move 3 stones that weigh 800 tons a piece a half mile from where they were quarried and then place them onto a wall 20 feet off the ground? The quarry where these megalithic stones were taken contain two additional stones estimated to be over 1,000 tons each still sitting there. The stones at Puma Punku are diocite....extremely durable material...and yet virtually every stone has been "machined" to a high degree...the stones fit together perfectly...like legos. How was it done? How do you "machine" a stone like granite....or diocite...with the tools we ASSUME those people had available at the time we THINK these places were built?

Where did the technical know how required to move objects that large go? Where did the tools required to "machine" stones of that hardness go? Apparently, we had the required technical expertise and tools at one time as the structures are there....you can see them with you own eyes. It's the HOW that has been lost and to me that is more interesting than any "ET."

[Trip]

Originally Posted by KSGregman

Yes. But honestly, I don't think that is even the most interesting or relevant question. A more interesting question is what have we forgotten about ourselves as a species? It seems that we have collective amnesia as a species....what we DON'T know about ourselves....where we came from...what we might already have accomplished along the way and forgotten about is far more interesting to me.

The evidence of things being done that are beyond current ability to explain and or reproduce are scattered all over the world. Megalithic building for example...Puma Punku in Boliva...The Pyramids at Giza...Ba'Albek in Lebanon. These structures would be difficult to reproduce using modern tools and machines...and yet, there they stand...Ba'Albek is particularly difficult to explain. How do you move 3 stones that weigh 800 tons a piece a half mile from where they were quarried and then place them onto a wall 20 feet off the ground? The quarry where these megalithic stones were taken contain two additional stones estimated to be over 1,000 tons each still sitting there. The stones at Puma Punku are diocite....extremely durable material...and yet virtually every stone has been "machined" to a high degree...the stones fit together perfectly...like legos. How was it done? How do you "machine" a stone like granite....or diocite...with the tools we ASSUME those people had available at the time we THINK these places were built?

Where did the technical know how required to move objects that large go? Where did the tools required to "machine" stones of that hardness go? Apparently, we had the required technical expertise and tools at one time as the structures are there....you can see them with you own eyes. It's the HOW that has been lost and to me that is more interesting than any "ET."

Is Puma Punku the site with the perfect square cuts into the stones that are amazingly accurate?

[AquaPython]

i have about 10 pages left in Chariots of the gods, did you copy and paste that directly?

it is the best book i have ever read. HIGHLY fucking suggest it.

[KSGregman]

Originally Posted by Trip

Is Puma Punku the site with the perfect square cuts into the stones that are amazingly accurate?

Yes.









That stone with the vertical line and bore holes boggles my mind. The stone is diocite...the only material on earth harder than diocite is diamond. How did they machine that stone? The line is of uniform width and depth..and is perfectly straight. The bore holes are equidistant and are of uniform diameter and depth. HOW?!

[Trip]

Originally Posted by KSGregman

That stone with the vertical line and bore holes boggles my mind. The stone is diocite...the only material on earth harder than diocite is diamond. How did they machine that stone? The line is of uniform width and depth..and is perfectly straight. The bore holes are equidistant and are of uniform diameter and depth. HOW?!

Yeah I remember seeing that shit, how in the fuck they did that is no fucking joke.

[LeeNetworX]

Originally Posted by KSGregman

That stone with the vertical line and bore holes boggles my mind. The stone is diocite...the only material on earth harder than diocite is diamond. How did they machine that stone? The line is of uniform width and depth..and is perfectly straight. The bore holes are equidistant and are of uniform diameter and depth. HOW?!

I'm betting they had tools made of douchebag.