Star Trek is attention grabbing. It doesn’t mean we should depend on time travel to save the whales. Not being able to separate fantasy from reality is not a scientific viewpoint. Actual education about any of this would be steering away from it, not into it.
The answer to all questions about advanced ancient civilizations existing is “probably not”. There are interesting examples that push back the earliest evidence of some things, like the Antikythera mechanism, but the only thing that is evidence of is that gears are older than previously thought. “Could there have been an ancient globe spanning civilization that only used wood or was on Antarctica or for some other reason has surviving no evidence?” is the same level of question as “Could there be a Discworld?”. The infeasibility of proving a negative is not the same as “yes this existed”.
Ancient Aliens level speculation on ancient civilizations is religion without a sacred text, inventing fantasies of a utopian past out of whole cloth because of an imagined fragment of a thread.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 months ago
That idea is just as ridiculous.
If you want an entertaining, well researched rebuttal from an actual archeologist, check this playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXtMIzD-Y-bMHRoGKM7yD2…
Gumus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Milo’s gonna have so much fun with season 2.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 months ago
And possibly a drinkijg problem afterwards
0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
lol I just watched them all last week. awesome videos. what a coincidence
krashmo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lots of things people are interested in could reasonably be described as ridiculous. Why is it so hard for you to see those topics as a conversation starter rather than basically calling people idiots for wanting to learn about something?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 months ago
Because while he dresses it up as scientific theories, he’s just spewing unfounded conspiracy theories?
Because this stuff is a conversation starter in the same way that “the moon landing was staged”, “the earth is flat” and “chemtrails turn the frogs gay” is?
Because instead of actual scientific education or archeological documentaries, this is the shit that gets funded? Because who knows how many people will now believe that his fanfiction of a theory is a legitimate interpretation of humanity’s history?
I’m sorry, I don’t mean to come off as condescending, I really don’t. But his entire “documentary” is deeply unserious at best, and an outright lie at worst.