re: Evidence of advanced ancient technology at ancient Wari ruins?

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How do you know they didn't come from another dimension?

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Because you don't need something wacky to explain what's observed. All the maybe's in the world don't change that.

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Using Occam's Razor to explain what's observed doesn't prove that the most likely explanation is the correct explanation.

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FWIW the Sumerians from around 3000 BC wrote complex financial contracts, including the equivalent of today's call options, business loans, etc. The Romans conducted financial audits. We know this because the documents survived.

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You do know the Sumerians recorded that gods came down from above and created the first human beings, don't you?

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Your problem is you're only halfway curious. Curious enough to watch/read this stuff and be amazed, but not curious enough to follow through and look for answers to obvious questions.

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Your problem is that you assume too much and don't know what you are talking about.

I've studied subjects like this all of my life and have read many books which also discuss the possible ordinary tools, technology and methods that were available at the time which could have been used.

However, when the so-called scientific community and pseudo-scientific skeptics use Occam's Razor as the only explanation for objects like those found at the Wari ruins then I question their explanation because I know the most likely explanation is not automatically the correct explanation.

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I'm not telling you not to enjoy this stuff, I know I do, but don't act like the skeptics are the ones standing on shaky ground, you should be more skeptical yourself.

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There you go assuming things about me again.

I am very skeptical about extraordinary claims just like every other "normal" person.

It is only when I see some evidence that convinces me there is some validity to the extraordinary claim that I begin to think "outside the box".

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Seriously, these shows are intellectually dishonest for the purpose of entertainment.

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You are talking to the choir.

On August 1, 2005 National Geographic Channel aired a TV program entitled, "Is it real? Monsters of the Deep" in which NG was intellectually dishonest about my brother's and my video and attempted to ridicule Dr. Edward Bousfield because he believed sea serpents exist and that our video shows images of several sea serpents.

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I never said or implied that. In fact, I haven't said that I believe it was done by aliens. It could have been done by an unknown ancient civilization that was from Earth.

However, anyone who is so sure it was done by ordinary tools and technology they had at the time and by some ordinary method should be able to state what ordinary tools and technology they used to bore those perfect holes and "conduits" in hard rock and what was their purpose.

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You're trying to have it both ways. You imply that these things are done by aliens then when someone refutes it you say you weren't implying it...

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Meh, just because I suggest all of the possible explanations including aliens (unlike the so-called scientific community and pseudo-scientific skeptics), that doesn't mean I am implying it was done by aliens.

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then you say they have to prove everything and if they don't then your implied alternate theory is correct or more viable than theirs.

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Nonsense.

I just expect someone who is so certain that there is no other possible explanation except the most likely ordinary explanation to explain how it was done by that most likely ordinary explanation.

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Your pseudo-intellectualism always cracks me up, gramps.

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Pseudo-scientific skeptics like you bore me.

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Maybe they decided to work with stones because it was all that was here to build stuff with at the time which they knew would last for millions of years.

If we ever visit another planet with the intent to colonize it then I'm sure we will look for natural resources on the planet that we can use rather than have to carry building material through space.

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So we didn't have the same natural resources in 1000AD as we do now? Why would you think that?

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Pseudo-scientific skeptics like you bore me.

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Stick to sea serpents, paw paw

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Ancient Astronaut Theorists like to imply hammer and chisel level sophistication, but they had drills back in the day too. Here are pics from a Nova special recreating an ancient drill.

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I have never heard anyone including Ancient Astronaut Theorists say that ancient Egyptian didn't have drills back in those days. In fact, it's been a well known fact that they did have drills ever since drilled beads were found in Egyptian tombs and other ruins.

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Besides cutting clean surfaces on their granite, the Egyptians also drilled cylindrical holes into their stones. A hole eight inches in diameter was found drilled in a granite block at the Temple of Karnak.

...Stocks was brought along to test his theories about how the cores were drilled. Inspired by a bow drill seen in an ancient Egyptian wall painting, Stocks designs a home-made bow drill. He wraps rope around a copper pipe that the Egyptians could have forged. Hopkins and Lehner then pull back and forth on the bow, which is weighted from above. The pipe spins in place, rubbing the sand, which etches a circle into the stone. With the assistance of the sand, the turning copper pipe succeeds in cutting a hole into the granite slab.

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Did Hopkins and Lehner say how long it would take to drill a hole in granite using that method?

BTW, the two photos appear to be showing two different holes that were drilled in the granite.

One photo shows them actually trying to drill a hole that's a few inches in diameter but the other photo shows a hand of someone who is touching or rubbing the granite surface of a hole that appears to be a foot or more in diameter.

Are the two photos showing the same hole that Hopkins and Lehner made using that method of drilling?

This Man Reforested an Entire Island

HUmans can do some crazy shite when motivated.

You know what those civilizations had? TIME! Mf time, man. If they weren't killing, fricking, sleeping, or eating they were building.

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Saying aliens are my thing is your thing, isn't it?

Rooting for the Georgia Bulldogs is my thing.

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That's a sad life, tbh

Time and pressure my negros.

Time and pressure.