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Originally posted by Phage
The "vertical stabilizer" makes no sense aerodynamically, there is no reason for it to be set behind the horizontal stabilizer. While it would work, it is poor aerodynamic design.
Originally posted by Unity_99
A look at some of the other ancient discoveries, and their implications to this "trinket".
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Aztec Lines
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Electric Battery
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Inside Battery
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In flight! The model flies as does the Egyptian one!
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[edit on 12-4-2010 by Unity_99]
saw these gold shuttle like objects quite a few years ago on some documentary somewhere, I really can't remember exactly. I do remember the host was discussing how it looked like the space shuttle and they were talking about authenticity, they felt they were legit.
Originally posted by Aliensun
I really get tired of punching holes in pet theories--because I have my own--but anyone that knows anything about R/C aircraft knows that you can make anything fly if it has enough propulsion. You Tube has dozens of R/C videos of demonstrating that feature.
I do not discound this guy's premise and I applaud him for making a "working" model. It must have been ful and thrilling. But in reality it proves nothing, but it does give us something more to think about in our relationship between our past and our future.
Why do any of you believe that these "mayan trinkets" are actually Mayan?
They look like something made recently.
Can anyone show me the proof that they are the age of the Mayans, or found in the regions that they inhabited?
Originally posted by flightsuit
BigFatFurryTexan has already pointed out the lack of logic in your statements. I will merely add that nobody's saying the Mayans literally had a Space Shuttle. I never even asserted that they had a plane, or a flying machine of any kind. That they may have had contact with others who possessed and operated flying machines, or had an inherited cultural memory of ancestors who did so, however, is a distinct possibility.
So don't talk to me about Section 8, because when you so carelessly throw insults around, especially when they're unwarranted and your own argument is baseless, all you achieve is that you make yourself look like a jerk in public.
These reliefs are cosmological representations. The snake that comes out of the lotus is equated with the shining deity Harsamtawy (Ihy) as he appears for the first time out of the primordial sea. He is again represented near the bottom of the crypt in the form of two snakes also coming forth, but this time wrapped in lotuses like protective envelopes. Sometimes those that were on the Mesktet-barque collaborated with Horus; other times the Mandjet-barque with its crew helped to reveal the god: Djed raises his body, a supreme manner of worship, attendant of the god's prestigious ka. The statuettes appear to have been used for the New Year celebration and the festival of Harsamtawy. It is likely that on these solemn occasions these objects were transported to the vault
-François Daumas
Originally posted by The Shrike
Originally posted by flightsuit
BigFatFurryTexan has already pointed out the lack of logic in your statements. I will merely add that nobody's saying the Mayans literally had a Space Shuttle. I never even asserted that they had a plane, or a flying machine of any kind. That they may have had contact with others who possessed and operated flying machines, or had an inherited cultural memory of ancestors who did so, however, is a distinct possibility.
So don't talk to me about Section 8, because when you so carelessly throw insults around, especially when they're unwarranted and your own argument is baseless, all you achieve is that you make yourself look like a jerk in public.
BFFT didn't do anything of the kind. And if you are the author of the video I criticized, my criticism still stands.
Originally posted by zaiger
reply to post by Unity_99
Okay the nazca lines were in south america and were not related to the bagdad batteries or the egyptian "lightbulb" picture. People have replicated those nazca lines using no technology without any huge problem.
The bagdad battery could be a battery. It also could be a method of storing paper scrolls. There have never been anything that would use a battery or have wires been found to connect this battery to an appliance. Those battaries found are dated much latter than advertised, some come from about 224-640.
That egytian glyph is a snake comming out of a lotus blossom inside a boat.
These reliefs are cosmological representations. The snake that comes out of the lotus is equated with the shining deity Harsamtawy (Ihy) as he appears for the first time out of the primordial sea. He is again represented near the bottom of the crypt in the form of two snakes also coming forth, but this time wrapped in lotuses like protective envelopes. Sometimes those that were on the Mesktet-barque collaborated with Horus; other times the Mandjet-barque with its crew helped to reveal the god: Djed raises his body, a supreme manner of worship, attendant of the god's prestigious ka. The statuettes appear to have been used for the New Year celebration and the festival of Harsamtawy. It is likely that on these solemn occasions these objects were transported to the vault
-François Daumas
So a lightbulb and a toy (that does not fly as is) is not proof of any ancient astronauts. Like today if everyone dissapeared and people found all of our things 2000 years later. They would find toy cars and they would find real cars they would find toy guns and find real guns. They would find toy x-wings but they would never find any x-wings.
Originally posted by spinalremain
What the heck are those little gold planes anyway? Some mysteries can really keep ya up at night.
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
holly strawman , batman
please go back and read what i actually wrote
you cannot reverse engineer a 3d component from a single photo
i will ask you directly - what is the underside profile ??????????
its a very simple question - the guy in the vid clearly states he used ONE picture - which only shows one aspect of the model
so its clear that he cannot have correctly modelled the bids he cannot see from the picture
its that chuffing simple
Originally posted by Aliensun
Ah, Mr. Flightsuit, if you know R/C planes, then you certainly have seen the You Tube video of a trick model that happens to lose one entire wing during its flight and still do amazing acrobatics including landing.