There is nothing I loathe with more passionately than people making such idiotic remarks. This comment diminishes, no, spits in the face of one of the greatest human achievements, ever. It amazes me just how ignorant people can be in this day and age, thinking just because our technology is so awesome, surely those primitives couldn't have accomplished anything worthwhile.Quote from FreddyBenson
There is alot of eveidence that our ancestors worshiped gods that came down from the skies
the ancient Egyptians built the great pyramid over a 20 year period with just the basic tools ( IMO i dont think so)
You know, I watched a program on History Channel a while back, it was about modern blacksmithing. A guy who has been a blacksmith for the largest part of his life, and was clearly good at it, stated how far behind we are in this field. Because people were so competitive and secretive about their techniques, they only bestowed their knowledge from father to son, and so generations of advanced techniques were lost. Either that or aliens came down and built melee weaponry during the medieval age.
No, the pyramids were built by slaves who lived on site, and worked themselves to death for the glory of their gods and pharaoh. They did it in the name of devotion. So why was it so perfect? Well, they had a lot of practice, Egypt contains more than a hundred pyramids, and had some brilliant engineers at their disposal. Today there are quite a few hypotheses as to how they actually achieved everything they did. If scholars threw their arms in the air and had no clue as to how the Egyptians accomplished such feats, then fine, aliens it is. However, archeologists and engineers have some pretty good ideas on how it could have been accomplished with the techniques they had, and theories in the science community stand as very solid notions for proof.
I'm sorry for going off like that, but when people jump to supernatural conclusions just because they themselves don't understand all of the fact supporting an issue, then it really annoys me.
As for the topic. Yes, I know for a fact there are life beyond Earth. They found microbial life on Mars, which is already proof that life existed elsewhere. As for other planets, well, life doesn't need Earth environments to prosper. Hell, there are some life forms on Earth that survive hostile environments, like acidic and sulfurous systems. They have already scope Earth-like planets, which means Earth-like life forms may exists, but then there can also be many other life forms, there could even be non-carbon based life forms.
As for if we've ever encountered intelligent alien life. I highly doubt it. Why would species have any interest in us. If they posses FTL travel, then they must be highly intelligent, and possibly on a higher plane of understanding. Just look at what we project into the universe, Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Skyline, Battle: Los Angeles, to name a specific few. We must seem so incredibly paranoid and war driven, why would they have interest in us.
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Somebody better have a second look at that build.
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