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i have to disagree. I think you could easily play devil's advocate and say its obvious that people were way more advanced than we know or are told, rather than ancient non-tech shaman having true visions of the future. To me, at least, it seems possible, even probable that we aren't getting the full story about mankinds history. It's just a question of how much has been kept secret. Just my opinion of course no disrespect meant
To suggest that they had visions of the future is kind of far-out, but not nearly as far-out as suggesting they actually had flying machines.
Originally posted by Moonraker22
i have to disagree. I think you could easily play devil's advocate and say its obvious that people were way more advanced than we know or are told, rather than ancient non-tech shaman having true visions of the future. To me, at least, it seems possible, even probable that we aren't getting the full story about mankinds history. It's just a question of how much has been kept secret. Just my opinion of course no disrespect meant
To suggest that they had visions of the future is kind of far-out, but not nearly as far-out as suggesting they actually had flying machines.
Originally posted by redneckprincess
Ooparts are fascinating. Most other scientists adapt methods and theories based on new findings constantly. Even the way different animals have evolved has changed over the years. We started out thinking humans were descended from apes, then discovered it was a common ancestor. Homo erectus went from being an ancestor to being a cousin of our ancestors. What I have never understood is why so many artifacts that seem out of place are just explained as anomalies. I guess there is also the new ancient aliens theory...
Why is it so hard to believe humans could have had one or more highly advanced civilizations in the past?
Originally posted by redneckprincess
There are a lot of areas in South America that don't really fall into the category of ooparts but when studied don't match up with the technology that is supposed to be available at the time they were built. Tiahuanaco and Nazca are two areas that fall into the category of ooparts with potential explanations. They are areas the ancient alien theorists jump on, but there is just not nearly as much attention given to the fact that our intellectual ability is no different then it was then. All it takes is an advance in agriculture and no groups that are opposed to science (one of the reasons we are not even more advanced then we are now) to become technologically advanced. Look at everything we have now. Lets pretend an asteroid similar to the one that killed the dinosaurs magically appears tomorrow. Lets also pretend a few people manage to survive and reproduce. Well go with the theory that society tends to go through cycles since were basically pretending to prove a point. in 3000 years we have a brand new advanced civilization using who knows what in place of petroleum. Those archaeologists start digging around and find some non destroyed artifacts. How about a coin out of a machine in a museum with a dinosaur stamped on it. Did those people who made that live with dinosaurs or is it just a hoax. A strange plastic contraption that emits UV rays (tanning bed). Did they fry people for punishment? Much of the earths history was either not recorded or has been lost so we are completely dependent on what we can find in the ground, and figuring out exactly what it was is up to interpretation.
Originally posted by thetiler
I think the there could be beings that come around every so many thousands of years such as the annunaki theory were they terra form the earth. I just think it is more than coincidence how a civilization comes up from nowhere to be the first in everything such as the sumerian culture and Gobekli Tepe etc: Printing, astronomy, language, mathematics.
So in that time period things just shot up and high culture was established. So every so many thousands of years things get higher tec. I just don't think it is evolution. I think the Zacharia Sitchin theory is valid were he states that came down about 400,000 years ago. And who knows maybe 400,000 years before that etc,.
Originally posted by Buvvy
When considering the validity of an OOPARTs finding I always try to go back to the source. If the finding was debunked I try to find out who debunked it and if they even visited the site where the object was found prior to rendering thier opinion. Many opinions were rendered with very little scientific investigation....the OOPARTs were determined to be hoaxes just based on the existing and well-established theory of evolution.
Originally posted by Buvvy
Question: What would happen if an OOPART was 100% proven to actually have existed prior to the age of the dinosaurs? What would the impact be on the society that we live in, on religion, on our governing entities? I think that TPTB would have a vested interest in keeping conclusive evidence of a prior advanced civilization hidden.
Originally posted by Buvvy
If the prior civilization was as advanced as ours and it was obliterated...then how long do we have before it happens again? I DO NOT believe that mankind presently has the ability to construct the great pyramid of Giza.
Originally posted by Buvvy
It was too structurally perfect
Originally posted by Buvvy
....just mining the granite stones and transporting them would be close to impossible.
Originally posted by Buvvy
This one fact alone drives the majority of my belief that there were prior advanced civilizations. I believe that we could construct the lesser pyramids....but history shows that they were constructed well after the great pyramid. The lesser pyramids also were not constructed with the same precision as the pyramid of Giza.