This is one of the few theories I actually agree there could be something going on. I mean I know calling ancient humans anything other than the most incredible and smartest species in the history of time is pure blasphemy to many but just maybe.....
thank you interesting ; however a lot of it doesn't debunk anything it gives alternate scenarios to how they "might have done it" using sand and ropes.
I still ask how can the cuts be so detailed and smooth? i have worked with waterjet machines,laser machines,coldsaws,and every amada saw that is out there, the cuts are still not as good.
thank you interesting ; however a lot of it doesn't debunk anything it gives alternate scenarios to how they "might have done it".
Right, yes, it only provides alternate scenarios because that's all that can be done with ancient alien theory. "Ancient aliens did it" is an unfalsifiable hypothesis.
As far as modern technology being able to replicate the cuts I don't see why one would expect it to. We don't built intricate megalithic structures with carefully carved blocks of stone, so we don't have the techniques for doing it. Same thing with lifting 1,000 ton blocks. We don't ever have the need to do that so we don't have the procedures in place for getting it done.
Some ancient societies were different. They had generations of experience trying to develop exactly the tools and techniques that worked and had stonecutting specialists who had devoted their entire lives to obtaining the proper results. I guarantee you, if you gave me three lifetimes to work at the problem I could obtain exactly the same results you see at Puma Punku with the tools they had available.
using sand and ropes
Actually, if you read the references provided they used chisels for the inside cuts.
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if you gave me three lifetimes to work at the problem I could obtain exactly the same results you see at Puma Punku with the tools they had available.
If they solved so many problems is such short time why did they stall there? Seemed like there were few advancements for quite a long time after the pyramids, which are amazing feats. Puma Punka seems pretty advanced but nothing afterwards?
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As far as modern technology being able to replicate the cuts I don't see why one would expect it to
to dispute the notion this was done by" Aliens",to learn more about the method; all else is speculated guesses.
I guarantee you, if you gave me three lifetimes to work at the problem I could obtain exactly the same results you see at Puma Punku with the tools they had available.
doubt this one; since we need solid proof this is the way it was done. thank you for the research and details!
doubt this one; since we need solid proof this is the way it was done. thank you for the research and details!
Academia does not exist to prove trivia to people who hold fringe beliefs, especially unfalsifiable beliefs. If your standard is that someone has to actually make a replica of a Tiwanaku carved stone block with a copper chisel then you can rest assured you will never, ever see it - not because it can't be done, but because no one is going to waste their life doing it. Archaeologists, quite frankly, have better things to do with their research time than to prove to David Childress that he's wrong about... everything.
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by troodon311 ยป Academia does not exist to prove trivia to people who hold fringe beliefs, especially unfalsifiable beliefs...
...Archaeologists, quite frankly, have better things to do with their research time than to prove to David Childress that he's wrong about... everything.
You mean like come to obscure internet message boards and ridicule those who maintain the opinion that some of those same archaeologists, quite possibly, don't know...everything....about the history of the Earth and it's past civilizations just yet?
It's very easy to just say the specific subject is too trivial to actually have to prove, but in doing so, you are then doing the very same thing (proposing an alternative based on speculation) you are ridiculing/dismissing someone else for doing.
I suppose that's good work if you can get it though... reply share
If your standard is that someone has to actually make a replica of a Tiwanaku carved stone block with a copper chisel then you can rest assured you will never, ever see it - not because it can't be done, but because no one is going to waste their life doing it.
I guess that we must be ever so grateful that the ancients DID have the time to waste then...
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It wasn't a waste of time to them, it was their occupation. They were stone cutters using their services to try to help build structures that these people considered important to their society. Hell, they probably considered it to be one of the best possible uses of their time.
by troodon311 ยป It wasn't a waste of time to them, it was their occupation. They were stone cutters using their services to try to help build structures that these people considered important to their society. Hell, they probably considered it to be one of the best possible uses of their time.
So you're claiming that it would be a waste of archaeologists time to try to explain/prove how/why ancient man did things the way they did?
Well pardon me, but isn't that the very definition of what archaeologists are supposed to do?
For someone claiming that an archaeologists work' is not to prove everything Childress says is wrong, you sure do seem to be providing contradictory evidence for supporting that conclusion.
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THIS SHOW MAKES IT SOUND LIKE HUMANS ARE TO STUPID TO PUT ROCKS ON TOP OF OTHER ROCKS! LIKE ALIENS USED STONE INSTEAD OF A HIGH TECH HAB TO LIVE ON EARTH! THERE IS NO PROOF JUST IDIOTS LIKE TSOUKALOS SPOUTING NONSENSE!
I love when my main man David Hatcher Childress puts the right angle ruler on the block and it hangs out a 1/4 inch. Yes I do believe ancient man was capable of cutting a straightish line