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Re: Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert

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Post by metalman » Sun, Nov 24, 2024, 7:38 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #16

vixen99 wrote: post #12

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How about IMO rather than FYI ? We can make up our own minds. 'ignores scientific consensus'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superseded_scientific_... 'promotes speculative theories without empirical evidence'. Haven't Peter Woit and Lee Smolin pointed out how String Theory does exactly that? Have their criticisms been made redundant by more recent research? I have no idea but maybe a physicist would care to c…

Sometimes (and often) pseudoscientific bullshit is just objectively wrong, and you'd have to be completely out of your mind, or just trolling, to "make up your own mind" to believe it. No sane flat earthers in this day and age actually believe the earth is flat, or deserve to have their presumed beliefs respected or even humored, because they're just being contrarian and trolling for attention, so it's perfectly vali…

hehehehe, While humans have actualy gone around the earth, and seen that is in fact a sphere,which is in the only criteria for scientific proof,:ie repeatable observations by credibel humans, this is not the case for the earth orbiting the sun, as no one has gone strait out far enough to see it happen ,and it is an infered phenonimon.Science has a rubber ruler problem. Where this is very important is in the habitual use of the most strict form of scientific proof, for things like ancient peoples crossing oceans and settling continents.....leaving there mark thereupon

Re: Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert

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Post by ipaddr » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 1:00 AM UTC

dyauspitr wrote: post #13

ipaddr wrote: post #9

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In fairness the same group believes many of the white man's (specifically US) achievements are from reversed alien technology.

The bar is so much higher for what white man’s technologies is considered alien technology. For other groups, building a basic building with lined up bricks seems to be too much to be attributed to them.

In many cases materials were used in areas not possible by our understanding of their level of technology. Or similar structures appear around the globe before global travel. Or folklore mentions contact with aliens or alien described technology.

I don't believe its a race division . In the past most ancient powerful knowledgeable civilizations were not white/European but when they were they were equally labelled like Stone Hedge is from white/european origin but often is linked to UFOS origin.

Re: Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert

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Post by dyauspitr » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 1:26 AM UTC

ipaddr wrote: post #22

dyauspitr wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The bar is so much higher for what white man’s technologies is considered alien technology. For other groups, building a basic building with lined up bricks seems to be too much to be attributed to them.

In many cases materials were used in areas not possible by our understanding of their level of technology. Or similar structures appear around the globe before global travel. Or folklore mentions contact with aliens or alien described technology. I don't believe its a race division . In the past most ancient powerful knowledgeable civilizations were not white/European but when they were they were equally labelled lik…

The quack archeology field is pretty massive. I see what you’re saying and I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a little bit of both column A in some cases and column B with others.

Re: Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert

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Post by numerosix » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:46 AM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #5

andrewstuart wrote: post #3

Chariots of The Gods.

FYI, Erich von Däniken's book "Chariots of the Gods?" is racist pseudo-scientific claptrap. My Archaeoastronomy professor at the University of Maryland, John B. Carlson, despises it. It attributes the achievements of ancient non-European civilizations to extraterrestrial visitors, undermining their intelligence and capabilities, promotes speculative theories without empirical evidence, misinterprets artifacts, ignore…

French here. 'Le matin des magiciens' has been written by Pauwels and Bergier...