There aren’t any because the truth has been suppressed! WAKE UP SEAPLE
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This is off on a tangent from ‘ancient apocalypse’ and its BS content… there is an interesting Kurszgesagt video about how it’s possible that there could have been an advanced civilization on Earth long enough ago that geological time would have just destroyed evidence of it.
It wasn’t so much about how likely that was to have happened, more about how geological time would have erased it and so we just wouldn’t know. I think that’s a brain-melting concept.
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sure why not
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Oak Island is at least a real legend though. People used to tell stories about it out on the Mira.
Hancock’s ideas are just his own invention to try to deny non-white people credit for their accomplishments.
Joe Rogan is a fascist.
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When I was taking geology classes at college the feeling of just how deep deep time is was astounding. It’s like those illustrations of how much is a billion versus a million. A million is one football pitch and a billion is 57 miles.
All sorts of stuff could have happened in those gaps in the geologic record and we would have no way to know…
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cough “atlantis”
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so I don’t plan on rejoining Netflix, least of all for this series. Do they promote the delusions of Edgar Cayce, who somehow has enough money to fund all sorts of ill-conceived expeditions?
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Not helping Galileo and Copernicus was the fact they were actually wrong. Their system didn’t work any better than the prior one. Neither had an adequate explanation for retrograde movement. They presumed orbits were a perfect circle. The idea of perfect symmetrical orbits being a non scientific bias they couldn’t break from.
Kepler was the one who made it work by breaking with such biases and surmising elliptical orbits. You still one of going to claim you are going against prior thinking. It’s quite another to produce evidence to support it. Every scientist wants to do that, it gets them famous.
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Fascinating example of projection by the Claremont Institute.
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It’s better with the song included.
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Erm, BG is grounded in Mormon theology, rather than Van Danikan, but he was probably an influence.
Strange how no one has done a series based on Nation of Islam theology, which has actual motherwheel ships. They do flip it around and the white race was the relatively recent creation of an evil mad space scientist. Oh well, one of life’s mysteries.
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It’s a very interesting conceit for fictional works too. One of the main things driving it in my imagination as possible is the very same confusion people have about the dinosaurs.
We’re closer to the last dinosaurs now than the first dinosaurs were to them. That’s the type of time scales we’re dealing with, and we know next to nothing about huge sections of that time. We’ve been around in our currently recognizable form for a little under 300k years and our ancestors that we would recognize as one day turning into us are just 6,000,000 years old. Dinosaurs existed roughly 900 times longer than modern humans have.
So it’s a neat little thought experiment to see what could have happened in that time, but the whole point of “and they wiped themselves out without a trace” is that we don’t have a trace.
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I would note the problem wasn’t contradicting the Bible, it was contradicting dead pagan Greeks like Aristotle and Ptolemy whose ideas had been adopted by the Church. Which just shows that what was considered dogma was often different and weirder than people commonly think.
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780,000 years ago for fish. 12-20 thousand years ago until they combine it with chips, and within 500 years ago until they could add the slice of lemon.
James Burke: “And then that lead to the invention of the newspaper wrapping…”
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