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Originally posted by Harte
That is, however, easily explained by the fact tha Sitchin used their translations!
Sitchin cannot read cuneiform. IIRC, he has in fact never claimed that he could. He took a few legitimate translations and took out some words and put in words of his own.
[edit on 4/15/2010 by Harte]
Originally posted by serbsta
Don't want to be rude, but why would space aliens travel with such primitive technology? That is what you're implying correct? That these people modeled this 'rocket' from something they saw? I almost find it disrespectful to those people, have you investigated their heritage and their belief system? Maybe that object has something to do with their dogmas and just coincidentally happens to barely resemble a C20 rocket.
Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
Tell us why it is a rocket? Do you have any other reason than the shallow thought process of "it looks like it, therefore it must be it"?
What do archaeologists have to say about that artifact? Can you tell us why they are wrong, other than the shallow thought process of "it looks like it, therefore it must be it"?
And can you tell us why, if these people were in contact with aliens, that the aliens would be coming to Earth in the most primitive form of space-travel?
Originally posted by darkraver
Originally posted by Harte
That is, however, easily explained by the fact tha Sitchin used their translations!
Sitchin cannot read cuneiform. IIRC, he has in fact never claimed that he could. He took a few legitimate translations and took out some words and put in words of his own.
don't mind sitchin theories and all but
you do have proof for your claims right?
i'd like to see it...
proof of sitchin using their translations and proof sitchin can't read cuneiform...
ahh,I read entire www.sitchiniswrong and what astonishes me is they conclude even by the site's name that all of sitchin's work is bull 'cause he translated a couple of words of the entire opus wrongly....
fascinating...
what a leap of sceptical logic to proove own claim...
it's a paradox see...
you say he used proffessional university translation and yet a guy on the net prooved them,and sitchin, wrong in it's entirety...
Originally posted by Harte
Another "true believer" refusing to remove his blinders.
Fingers in ears.
"LA LA LA LA LA...!!!!"
Harte
Originally posted by Lucifer84
My downfall is i really want to believe him,
i dont have a religion through i believe in one god, the creator.
Originally posted by darkraver
ahhhh,thank you for a non reply...
I figured....
another true "dsibeliever" with no contra proof whatsoever....
Originally posted by darkraver
i guess again it DOES ressemble an exhaust system of a rocket
so for a disscussion the refference is a rocket
please provide a link on an arheological theory about the artifact you reffer to so we can deduct info....
Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
Unfortunately, there is little information available on what the artifact is, aside from Sitchin. The Istanbul Archaeology Museums does not appear to have an online gallery to view objects, much less even a web-presence. However, that is all moot. The onus is not on me to prove what the object is, I am making no claims about it. Sitchin and company, yourself included are; therefore it is on you to prove your claims.
Sitchin (and you) claim it is a rocket based on nothing more than your own biased, modern eyes. You want to look at it in a vacuum, without any context, disregarding the civilization that may have produced it. The totality of your evidence is, it resembles a rocket therefore it is a rocket.
Using the same shallow logic both you and Sitchin are employing and changing the perspective...
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/5f283b37fd08.jpg[/atsimg]
...it appears to be a fishman wearing a decorative headdress. This was drawn employing the same logic as Sitchin and yourself; it resembles a fishman wearing a headdress, therefore it must be.
While this is a bit facetious, one can make a case that it is a man wearing a headdress by examining the Urartu culture that supposedly made the artifact; a much stronger case than rocket-in-a-vacuum beliefs. Consider these Urartu artifacts and notice the headdresses...
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/37c0da8d5ad8.jpg[/atsimg]
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/f7163b55588a.jpg[/atsimg]
To be certain, I am not saying this object is a man wearing a headdress. I don't know what it is. Simply for the purposes of this discussion I am just applying the same logic as Sitchin and yourself to show the flaws in that logic. However, unlike Sitchin and yourself, I have supplied evidence from the culture in question to back up my conclusion.
this is why von daniken's ideas survive inspite of all the crap everyone put him through. because try as they might, people can't come up wiht the facts that prove his ideas are wrong.
From _The Space Gods Revealed_ by Ronald Story, 1976 ("The Chariot of the Gods turned into a pumpkin")
"... when I wrote _Chariots of the Gods?_ the information I had concerning this iron column was as I presented it. Since then, I have found that investigations were made and they came to quite different results, so we can forget about this iron thing."
A Primer in the Art of Cooked Science
"I am not a scientific man, and if I had written a scientific book, it would have been calm and sober and nobody would talk about it." - Erich von Däniken
Playboy: Are you, as one writer suggested, "the most brilliant satirist in German literature for a century"?
Von Däniken: The answer is yes and no. ... In some part, I mean what I say seriously. In other ways, I mean to make people laugh.
Originally posted by rapunzel222
this is why von daniken's ideas survive inspite of all the crap everyone put him through. because try as they might, people can't come up wiht the facts that prove his ideas are wrong.
Originally posted by darkraver
as for the perspective I believe you are wrong there...
modelling dynamics surely indicate the statue to be horizontal based ,not vertical(flat surfaces,structural mass distribution...)
Originally posted by darkraver
as for the details of...i can not see any face or limb detail in a vertical presentation to suggest a representation of a person other than the conical hat-a-like upper end that again does not have the intrinsic details of the headdress you mention...
Originally posted by darkraver
I guess I'm more open minded to the ancient astronaut theory than you, therefore I have no problem concluding that the detail of the figurine ressembless an exhaust system of some kind of a vehicle