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Anyone watching the History channel's new show about ancient aliens?

Does anyone find this production as intresting as I do. I think it points out a very deep, thought- provoking concept, that can not easily be discounted!!. As crazy and sci-fi as it sounds, it makes more sense than any of the organized religions! There are refrences to things in the Bible that theoretically could be visitors from space. It also examines prehistoric drawings, and gods from pre-monotheistic times that the ancients claim descended from the stars--literally! It is a very well produced, researced, and entertaining series.

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Permalink Reply by Sandra Stott on May 11, 2010 at 5:30pm

LMAO that's what Robin Williams said - " you come all that distance just to look up my ass?!"

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Permalink Reply by Sandra Stott on May 11, 2010 at 5:50pm

Incidentally, that's how ranchers "milk" bulls. They stick an electric rod up the bull's anus and run a current through. This comment has got not much to do with aliens and anal probes, except that perhaps that's how they do it as well.

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Permalink Reply by SecularBob on April 28, 2010 at 10:01pm

I am seriously tired of History channel it use to be about history, now its compiled of crack pots and there off the wall theories. I did watch it because I am not 100% of anything, and I like to hear the supposed reasoning for this conclusion. I can't believe that any rational person would actually consider the evidence they presented as compelling. It was skeptical at best.

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Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on April 28, 2010 at 10:25pm

I am seriously tired of History channel it use to be about history
Amen Brother Bob! Sad but true between such informative fare as 2012 Dooms day, Nostradamus, Biblical hot spots, Revelation Horror, Ghost hunters, UFO's and Aliens ad nauseum. They sprinkle between with such gems as Ice Road Truckers, Guys cutting lumber in a swamp and a quest for Big Foot and his fairy tale friends -WTF, I'd settle for 40% history..

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on April 28, 2010 at 10:05pm

Giuseppe,
Thanks for posting this. I'll watch for the series, although I don't have cable now so will need to wait for Netflix distrib uting it.
I love stories of Ancient aliens. I don't beleive a bit of it, but I love reading about it, and would love to watch the series.

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Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on April 29, 2010 at 8:05am

Stephen Hawkins has warned that we may be wise not to be advertizing our presences as we don't know what kind of intelligence might hear us - they could be hostile and aggressive.

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on April 29, 2010 at 9:25am

Yes, but I'll take that risk if I get to find out what that alien anal probing is like.

Oops. Overshare.

Actually, this may be the source of Hebrew obsession with anal sex. By forbidding it, they were hoping to deprive aliens of a source of interest, and keep them away.

Im sure of it. Thus, the bible proves ancient alien involvement with human development.

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Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on April 29, 2010 at 11:34am

the bible proves ancient alien involvement with human development

Brilliant analysis. Then there is Ezekial, ole Zeke saw them saucer things - landed in his wheat field, Zeke thinks maybe they feed off wheat. Now that I think on it Zeke walked funny for a couple days...hummm..

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Permalink Reply by nick altman on May 8, 2010 at 12:49pm

Hawkings is paranoid, and most of the scientific community agrees on that :).

The Fermi paradox can demonstrate any race with the level of technology needed for interstellar travel would probably destroy itself long before ever reaching that level unless it was able to overcome the primitive violence and psychology that would drive a species to be hostile or aggressive to us. It does not make sense. A species could harness dynamic programmable matter long before folding time and space, they would have no need to pursue resources when they could create them from thin air.

This is all probability and open to debate of course, but Hawkings should know better than to be such a fear monger.

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Permalink Reply by Johnsky on April 29, 2010 at 3:40pm

While I contend that it's statistically near impossible that intelligent life doesn't exist elsewhere in the universe... I also contend that we have not made contact. Not yet at least.

For a species to make an effort to travel light years just to get here, this implies that they would have a vested interest in the planet. A vested interest would imply a willingness to interfere, especially considering what the majority of our species is ignorantly doing to this planet.

Yet there is no interference.

The same argument can be applied to a god. If a god had a vested interest in us, we would have statistical anomalies implying interference. Because there are none, clearly there are no gods, or at least none that care in the least as to what happens here.

One day, probably not in our life time, we will communicate with another species. Likely it will be a signal from deep space, and will take decades if not centuries just to send a reply back. I'm not holding my breath.

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Permalink Reply by Secular Forces 2013 on April 29, 2010 at 4:17pm

when bad headlines are abundant you'll get that stuff; on the flipside there's a sighting I had 9am-ish a few days after NASA? launched the mini-unmanned shuttle, military?

check it out (got it late in the track)

you can see the airliner and the object (looked like a reflectant white morphing, tumbling object)
strange thing is supposedly the shuttle was tracking an unknown object between it and the Earth.
It hung around for about 15-20 minutes.

I realize the thing looks like a star, lame pic etc. but..
that thing was looking pretty big, rectangular and stationary, then moved on... weird. South/West