17 discoveries suggesting the existence of sophisticated prehistoric civilizations

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Judgeneo said:
This one wasn't even a mystery in 132AD, just extremely impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Heng#Zhang.27s_seismograph
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Ahh But.

Like the Antikythra mechanism.

The machine itself isn't actually that complicated (Nor is it hard to build for a skilled craftsman). It is the comprehension and analysis that went into designing it that boggles the mind.

In particular the Antikythra mechanism. There are aspects of its programming that would have required a competent analysis of detailed and accurate observations that must had been made over a very considerable amount of time (Possibly centuries)

(My own hypothesis is that the whole thing about the Ptolomaic Universe was actually a massive misinterpretation. All that happened is that somebody, who subsequently recorded the history that we now know, saw one of these machines (We know there must have been more than one) and misinterpreted the mechanism (With its concentric "spheres") as representing the true nature of the universe.

Of course it was just a planetarium. A model! The people/person who originally built it must have had a rather better understanding of how the solar system worked!
 
All I've learned from this thread is my french is better than everyone else on this forum and I'm not giving wikipedia any money for coffee, I need coffee more.

bon chance, le pomme de frite fromage douche.
 
Ayahuasca said:
I used to enjoy listening to Graham Hancock about this stuff until I found out he's a fraud.
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Explain?
Like I said in another thread yesterday, some of his theories are interesting and others are a bit 'wut?' but that doesn't make him a fraud even if he tries to make jigsaw pieces go in the wrong places.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Explain?
Like I said in another thread yesterday, some of his theories are interesting and others are a bit 'wut?' but that doesn't make him a fraud even if he tries to make jigsaw pieces go in the wrong places.
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Hancock doesn't strike me as a model of credibility:

He revealed that until relatively recently he had maintained a 24-year-long daily cannabis habit during which he was “stoned for 16 hours a day”, and had suffered from rages and paranoia as a result.

Hancock said he had been successfully cured by an experience with ayahuasca in South America, during which he experienced an arduous life-review by the Amerind spirit “Mother Ayahuasca”.
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(Source).

Hancock's Magicians of the Gods is reviewed here... unfavourably.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Explain?
Like I said in another thread yesterday, some of his theories are interesting and others are a bit 'wut?' but that doesn't make him a fraud even if he tries to make jigsaw pieces go in the wrong places.
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Agreed, I thoroughly enjoyed fingerprints of the gods 20 odd years ago. I get the impression he is trying to do good work but that he is prone to imagining up solutions to fill gaps. I heard an interesting radio programme where he talked about how much dope he smoked (and also ayahauasca or however you spell it) and that probably explains some of his leaps of pseudo-scientific faith.

edit: hadn't finished reading the thread, as above
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Explain?
Like I said in another thread yesterday, some of his theories are interesting and others are a bit 'wut?' but that doesn't make him a fraud even if he tries to make jigsaw pieces go in the wrong places.
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Some of his theories are fine but others he keeps trying to spin when he's been proven wrong time and again why they aren't possible.
 
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