There’s a great video out there called Ancient Aliens Debunked and it tears into all the dumb shit that was claimed on that show.
I never understood why, WHY would you have such crazy people on a nationwide TV show like that?
Comment on The History Channel, now in the fantasy section.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 10 months ago
History channel 24/7 in 2023: “All accomplishments of ancient societies, but especially non-European societies, were impossible. The only explanation is aliens. Now here’s a racist who failed grade 9 world history to explain why.”
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 10 months ago
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Which one? There are several
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Probably all of them? Idk the one I have is from the 2010’s
Lowpast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you considered that it’s a ploy to get people to learn about history through and absurd entertaining format? They present real history and then rather than trying to explain it, they give you nonsensical evidence, that, truly, very people believe. And for the people that claim to “believe” it maybe you should look into Poes law
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 10 months ago
No
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 10 months ago
Oh get off Lemmy, Giorgio Tsoukalos.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
👋🏽🧑🏽🖕🏽 “no”
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 10 months ago
What’s more likely, humans independently discovered chiseling and grinding stones to a smooth square finish and stacking them into the most structurally sound shape in more than one place, or aliens used space lasers to build pyramids?
dingus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Obviously space lasers
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought we didn’t get the technology to circumcise space lasers (all the best space lasers are Jewish) until the middle of the industrial revolution.
plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I read something a while ago that really put all these “ancient mysteries” into perspective: Modern humans with modern brains have existed in our current form for at least tens of thousands of years. During that time we’ve seen huge advancement as a society thanks to the accumulation and sharing of scientific knowledge, but any individual human today has no brainpower than one living 10,000 years ago.
In other words, if we can sit around today and brainstorm a dozen different ways to build a pyramid with nothing but ramps and levers, there’s absolutely no reason to think that the smartest builders in ancient egypt couldn’t have come up withl the same ideas or better.
Attributing these achievements to aliens, or divine intervention, or anything other than raw human ingenuity is a disservice to our ancestors.