Did Aliens visit Ancient Civilizations?

[The Korean Confederation (Ancient)]

I was watching Ancient Aliens on the so called "History" channel today, and I'm wondering, do you believe that extraterrestrials visited and possibly even influenced the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Maya, Nazca, etc? Explain your reasoning.

[Farnhamia]

I was watching Ancient Aliens on the so called "History" channel today, and I'm wondering, do you believe that extraterrestrials visited and possibly even influenced the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Maya, Nazca, etc? Explain your reasoning.

No. And don't insult ancient people by saying they couldn't build what they built without help. No.

[Free Georgizm]

Yeah it actually happened a couple of times.

[Yootwopia]

Nobody knows, and nobody ever will know. It does seem implausible, though.

[The Blaatschapen]

I was watching Ancient Aliens on the so called "History" channel today, and I'm wondering, do you believe that extraterrestrials visited and possibly even influenced the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Maya, Nazca, etc? Explain your reasoning.

No. And don't insult ancient people by saying they couldn't build what they built without help. No.

Well, the Egyptians actually had help. From the Jews *nods*

[Ifreann]

Though seriously, there's absolutely no reason to think so. It could have happened, in much the same way that Aristotle could have secretly been a kangaroo.

[Farnhamia]

No. And don't insult ancient people by saying they couldn't build what they built without help. No.

Well, the Egyptians actually had help. From the Jews *nods*

They had financing, maybe. Have you ever seen Jewish construction worker?

[Mike the Progressive]

There's a South Park episode about this.

[The Blaatschapen]

Well, the Egyptians actually had help. From the Jews *nods*

They had financing, maybe. Have you ever seen Jewish construction worker?

Yes, who else is building settlements in/on the West Bank? (figures though that they have to call the area a 'bank' )

[Immoren]

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
I don't think we have unveiled any evidence to point that ETs helped ancient civilizations.

[Ifreann]

They had financing, maybe. Have you ever seen Jewish construction worker?

Yes, who else is building settlements in/on the West Bank? (figures though that they have to call the area a 'bank' )

They have ancient alien technology and/or slaves, naturally.

[Marshmellowstan]

Ancient alien theroists/nuts are the people creationists and scientists can agree to hate. The show is just more proof that freedom of speech isn't all that good.

[Farnhamia]

They had financing, maybe. Have you ever seen Jewish construction worker?

Yes, who else is building settlements in/on the West Bank? (figures though that they have to call the area a 'bank' )

Those a re mostly Eastern European Jews, not the same kind as underwrote the Pyramids.

[Ifreann]

Ancient alien theroists/nuts are the people creationists and scientists can agree to hate. The show is just more proof that freedom of speech isn't all that good.

On the contrary. This is an example of yet another advantage to free speech. People will say stupid things and we can laugh at them.

[Ovisterra]

*Sigh*

At this point I'm literally copying and pasting reasons why aliens likely haven't visited and likely won't visit.

It's basically not gonna happen. The nearest star to us is 4.2 light years away. That means it would take the fastest human spacecraft in history approximately 450 years to reach it . Remember, that's the closest star. Now, there are about 200 billion stars in the galaxy. Less then ten percent have even a small chance of providing life (according to one report. Opinions differ but rarely go above about ten percent). If one or more have life, we're assuming many things:

-They're close. Very close. See numbers above and realise why
-They're advanced. Just because a planet has life doesn't mean that life is bigger than single cell yokeys. For them to even have a chance at finding us, assuming all of these bulletin points apply, they'd have to be evolved enough to even be physically able to make spaceships, sentient, and around a long time to get to the interstellar travel stage. Even if every one of those 20 billion star systems contained life, a tiny, tiny portion would be sentient, let alone space faring.
-They're looking for us
-Even if they are looking for us, remember the 200,000,000 solar system statistic. The chances of them finding us are tiny, even if they only search the less than 10% that might contain life.
-They care about finding life. As you can see from what I've been saying, it's a lot of effort. Also, if you're at the interstellar stage, finding tiny underdeveloped species might not interest you.
-They left their planet to search for us millions of years ago

That's a lot to assume.

[Pendragonia]

It has always struck me that if Aliens build the Nazca Lines, the Bimini Stones and the Gaza Pyramids, we'd have more evidence to support those claims. As it stands, the evidence is very phantasmal.

[The Blaatschapen]

Yes, who else is building settlements in/on the West Bank? (figures though that they have to call the area a 'bank' )

Those a re mostly Eastern European Jews, not the same kind as underwrote the Pyramids.

Yet back in the Egyptian pyramid time Jews were not well-known (yet) for financing afaik. The whole jews being in financing was actually because they could get no other employment in medieval Europe.

Anyway, my point stands: The egyptians had help -> slaves(which were not necessarily egyptian).

[Immoren]

Ancient alien theroists/nuts are the people creationists and scientists can agree to hate. The show is just more proof that freedom of speech isn't all that good.

On the contrary. This is an example of yet another advantage to free speech. People will say stupid things and we can laugh at them.

I agree to this.
As long as they can't get to spout their bullshit in places where it matters, that is.

[Farnhamia]

Ancient alien theroists/nuts are the people creationists and scientists can agree to hate. The show is just more proof that freedom of speech isn't all that good.

On the contrary. This is an example of yet another advantage to free speech. People will say stupid things and we can laugh at them.

And we can identify them, so that when our daughters say they want to marry them, we can lock them up in convents. Our daughters, I mean, no the ancient astronuts.

[The Blaatschapen]

On the contrary. This is an example of yet another advantage to free speech. People will say stupid things and we can laugh at them.

And we can identify them, so that when our daughters say they want to marry them, we can lock them up in convents. Our daughters, I mean, no the ancient astronuts.

*picks lock*

[Farnhamia]

And we can identify them, so that when our daughters say they want to marry them, we can lock them up in convents. Our daughters, I mean, no the ancient astronuts.

*picks lock*

I wouldn't open that door, the Mother Superior never sleeps and you do not want to meet her in the middle of the night.

[Ifreann]

On the contrary. This is an example of yet another advantage to free speech. People will say stupid things and we can laugh at them.

And we can identify them, so that when our daughters say they want to marry them, we can lock them up in convents. Our daughters, I mean, no the ancient astronuts.

Unless our daughters are ancient astronauts.

[Gladia]

There's no evidence that the Aliens did visit Ancient Civilization, but there's no evidence that the Aliens didn't visit Ancient Civilizations.

*Non-serious South Park reference. Don't post some giant paragraph about negatives and all that.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Yes.

Many people foreign to ancient civilizations visited them, and they were, in fact, foreign to each other and to us today.

[Bulgislavia]

whether aliens visited and influenced Ancient civilizations and planet Earth is just some nature reserve planet that some intergalactic organization/community has been observing and influencing for thousands of years is a very very entertaining and interesting concept.

People can hate and ridicule on it all they like but these people really think outside the square and I like that. Also I think its good for free speech because it can get people thinking about concepts, ideas and theories that otherwise would not be able to exist without free speech.

Personally I think its a possibility

Also what if Earth is already one of "Their" planets and they are just looking after it until we reach a point where we can be integrated into their community.

Or what if long ago they created a planetary transportation network in the form of something like Star gates so Aliens could more easily travel between their planets and ours