Does anyone here watch Acient Aliens on the History channel ?

Bucky said:

Yes, very interesting. Did you see the one about precision craftsmanship on stone scuptures - saws and drills in this day and age couldn't get the work done as well.

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Bucky said:

Yes, very interesting. Did you see the one about precision craftsmanship on stone scuptures - saws and drills in this day and age couldn't get the work done as well.

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The Sports Scientist said:

Yeah google that stuff. The show is kind of interesting but there are reasonable scientific explanations for the stuff on that show that they choose to not mention
For example the other night i saw the one about the massive stones that were stacked on each other in india or someplace, i googled that site and there are a couple scientists who have theories on how rocks that large were moved. they fail to mention this on ancient aliens. kind of speaks volumes doesnt it?

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RED EYE said:

Do you remember what those theories were on how those rocks could have been moved or stacked that tight together ?

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Roger Hopkins and Vince Lee have both[citation needed] theorized about how the megalithic stones were moved. They were both consulted about various megalithic moves around the world.
Roger Hopkins is a stonemason and sculptor who was consulted to do experiments in the movement of megaliths in Egypt (with Mark Lehrner) and other locations. He has suggested that the trilithon stones and 300 ton blocks were all moved with wooden rollers, demonstrating how this could be done by using steel rollers and levers to move a five to six thousand pound stone on a concrete platform by himself. He also participated in other experiments with larger stones, including some that may have been over 10 tons. These experiments required many more people. For 2 ton stones he was able to tow them with as few as 10 people at times and for faster results up to 20 people. Most experiments which have been done by Roger Hopkins and others to move stones 10 tons or more required well over 100 people.[16]
Vince Lee is an architect, explorer and author. He has suggested that these stones were moved by flipping them with levers. According to this hypothesis a row of people would use 20 levers to pry up the trilithon blocks a little at a time. Each time they pried it up someone would put additional shims under the megalithic stones. After this was repeated enough times the stone would flip over on the next side. There would be a log on the other side that the stone would fall onto so that one side would already be lifted off the ground each time making it easier for the next flip. This would require over 300 flips for each of the trilithon stones and even more for the smaller 300 ton stones to cover the 1 mile distance from the quarry. Roger Hopkins and Mark Lehner also experimented with this technique on a smaller scale in Egypt during a NOVA pyramid building experiment. They found that they could flip stones up to about 3/4 of a ton with only 4 or 5 men, and they successfully flipped stones at least 2 and a 1/2 tons with more men; however, they found this was too slow to explain how the pyramids were built in so short a time.[17]
Both Roger Hopkins and Vince Lee[citation needed] agreed that an earthen ramp would have been used to get the megaliths up the hill to the temple. They also agreed that the final placement would have involved flipping the megaliths and lowering it slowly by using sand to cushion the fall. The sand would have been placed where the trilithon stones were to be set, and when the stones were flipped into place the sand would be slowly removed.[18] Additional experiments moving megaliths with ancient technology were done at other locations some of which are listed here.

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Scientists and historians have rejected his ideas, claiming that the book's conclusions were based on faulty, pseudoscientific evidence, some of which was later demonstrated to be fraudulent and/or fabricated, and under illogical premises. For example, Ronald Story wrote a book rebutting Däniken's ideas in 1976 titled The Space Gods Revealed. A similar internationally bestselling book, entitled Crash Go The Chariots by Clifford Wilson, appeared in 1972.
A 2004 article in Skeptic magazine[1] states that von Däniken plagiarized many of the book's concepts from The Morning of the Magicians, that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. P. Lovecraft's short stories "The Call of Cthulhu" and "At the Mountains of Madness".

The iron pillar of Delhi, erected by Chandragupta II the Great, which Von Däniken claimed did not rust.


One artifact offered as evidence in the book has been disclaimed by Däniken himself. Chariots asserts that a non-rusting iron pillar in India was evidence of extraterrestrial influence, but Däniken admitted in a Playboy interview (vol.21, no.8, August 1974) that the pillar was man-made and that as far as supporting his theories goes "we can forget about this iron thing." However, neither this nor any other discredited evidence has been removed from subsequent reprints of Chariots of the Gods.

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quantumleap said:

Nope, between 100 and 150 years. It's hard to believe that man advanced that much in such a short time without scientific method.

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quantumleap said:

Does anyone know how long it was between the first pyramids built in Egypt and the Great Pyramid? Maybe 800 years? Maybe 2000 years?

Nope, between 100 and 150 years. It's hard to believe that man advanced that much in such a short time without scientific method.

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Doug said:

Same can be said for The Wright Bros to the moon in 65 years.....I suspect alien technology is involved there.

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wolfie_cr said:

argument from incredulity??

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