Could Ancient Aliens Have Really Existed?

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  • Опубликовано: 10 июл 2023
  • Unveiling the truth behind the ancient alien theory: Explore the origins, questionable evidence, and the lack of proof supporting extraterrestrial visitations in this eye-opening examination of history and science.
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  • @sandybarnes887
    @sandybarnes887 11 месяцев назад +21

    I'm old. I remember the History Channel once covered actual history, not aliens 👾 I remember MTV once showed music videos, not reality TV crud

    • @creed22solar123
      @creed22solar123 11 месяцев назад +4

      culture is disintegrating, case in point, the new Cleopatra 'documentary'. Really pathetic what humanity has become.

    • @GiraffeCrab
      @GiraffeCrab 5 месяцев назад

      @@creed22solar123 It is not really pathetic though is it? It is just what happens when you pander to a consumer base of laypeople for profit rather than seeking quality over content within all aspects of life.
      Who is going to watch a TV show that you need a degree in history to understand or to fully appreciate? Who would make a movie that you need 20+ years of occult study to understand the references and subtext?
      Nothing kills a franchise more than if it makes people feel stupid. That lack of attention to detail is what gives room for people to just make up whatever they want to fill the gaps.
      Evidence of this can be seen in myths legends and superstition which has been a constant within human civilisation. Belief in superstitions/conspiracies/alternative facts becomes stronger the lower down the social ladder you go because there becomes a knowledge gap; and instead of seeking to educate themselves to overcome that gap, people just plug it with what ever they hear that mystifies them enough to stay fresh in their memory and fills those gaps without making them feel like they are stupid.
      Modern conspiracy politics is a fantastic example of this. Few laypeople understand governmental process or the intricacies of international politics thus they assume there is some sort of deep plot undermining governmental process which they use to explain why they cannot get a job or why crime in highly populated areas is higher than in areas with less people.
      What's worse is that that laypeople and humans ignorant of a specific field or knowledge base always resort to the same tired old theories and; as psychologists like Asch and his conformity experiments show, the longer people say something the more likely people will believe it even if it is not true.
      Humans are not pathetic, we are just consistent with the way our brains work and create monsters and gods within the shadows to explain things.

    • @davepowell7168
      @davepowell7168 4 месяца назад +2

      Last century memory? World Of Wonder 😃😄😁

    • @davepowell7168
      @davepowell7168 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@creed22solar123Tutankhamen ! 😂

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 13 дней назад +1

      I remember those days too! 😥

  • @DragonKingGaav
    @DragonKingGaav 11 месяцев назад +11

    "I am not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens!"

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 13 дней назад

      Ah where would we be without Giorgios Tsoukalos and his oh-so-useful meme?

  • @thewb8329
    @thewb8329 11 месяцев назад +25

    The God Apollo was an advanced alien. I saw it on Star Trek.

    • @Raygo.
      @Raygo. 11 месяцев назад +4

      That's right. But don't forget Leonardo da Vinci. Who was also Brahms.

    • @KonradTheWizzard
      @KonradTheWizzard 11 месяцев назад

      @@Raygo. I can't believe you guys are still using these outdated 20th century documentaries! Everybody knows that according to current knowledge Apollo was a commander in the ancient fleet that discovered Earth in pre-history. I believe he came in his mighty Battle Star. Just ask the ancient history scholar RD Moore!

    • @younghannibal7434
      @younghannibal7434 11 месяцев назад +3

      Also Stargate

    • @davepowell7168
      @davepowell7168 4 месяца назад +2

      The pissed one was only in one episode

  • @AcornElectron
    @AcornElectron 11 месяцев назад +34

    Yes but probably not.

  • @cozmothemagician7243
    @cozmothemagician7243 11 месяцев назад +6

    Elvis told bigfoot "You got some hairy ideas!"
    Bigfoot replied "I got them all from this book" and passed him the Hitch Hikers Guide... and another drink.

  • @austin65432
    @austin65432 11 месяцев назад +7

    That closing line killed me 🤣🤣
    "At least we REALLY f*€king hope there isn't" 😂😂😂

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 11 месяцев назад +9

    1:30 - Chapter 1 - The origins
    6:10 - Chapter 2 - The evidence of aliens
    11:25 - Chapter 3 - So you are saying there is a chance

  • @GarrettFrechette
    @GarrettFrechette 11 месяцев назад +6

    The aliens probably had the Romans sign NDAs, idk.

  • @philly83
    @philly83 11 месяцев назад +5

    I'm glad you're taking this on. Love the commentary

  • @ambers7440
    @ambers7440 11 месяцев назад +13

    I cannot believe it took this long for this video to be made😊😊

    • @Tacom4ster
      @Tacom4ster 11 месяцев назад

      Quinton Reviews already destroyed those racist theories that erases nonwhite culture ruclips.net/video/vc3vt1Gqrn4/видео.html

    • @ThatWriterKevin
      @ThatWriterKevin 11 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, I'm honestly surprised it took me so long to think of it

  • @gso619
    @gso619 11 месяцев назад +93

    I wouldn't have as much of an issue with ancient aliens if most of the stuff involving them wasn't just "Bruh. Look at this pile of rocks. It is SO big, bro. So big. Like, way too big. It's so big I bet aliens made it."

    • @rookiexreviews
      @rookiexreviews 11 месяцев назад

      Well then you have no issue cuz the rocks are cut by machines might not be aliens actually but there absolutely something odd about how they cut the rocks so obviously REPTILIANS ARE HERE TOO EAT OURR SOULLS RUN FOR YOUR LIVESSS SHEEPLE

    • @SvetlinDimitrov
      @SvetlinDimitrov 11 месяцев назад

      Yep, some of the stones we cannot move today.. 1000 - 1200 tones that is.

    • @MrAchile13
      @MrAchile13 11 месяцев назад +7

      @@SvetlinDimitrov that is a myth pushed by shows like AA. Hotels of 1500+ tons have been moved on rails a few years ago. Also, check out the Thunderstone, moved by the Russians in the XVIII century. Proper knowledge of mechanical advantage can do wonders.

    • @daniellewis3330
      @daniellewis3330 11 месяцев назад +9

      ​@SvetlinDimitrov the only reason people think we "can't do it today" is because nobody wants to bother to get 1,000 slaves together, strap them to the brick with ropes, and tell them that they damn well better drag this rock or else the literal living god that is also their king will personally order their execution.
      Humans can do *anything* with enough time, manpower, and motivation.
      And ancient cultures had plenty of time, disposal manpower, and rulers so iron-fisted they'd put modern dictators to shame.
      The whole "ancient aliens" thing is just lazy modern people, with overactive imaginations and a poor grasp of basic physics refusing to believe that humans are as awesome as we are, and always have been.

    • @rookiexreviews
      @rookiexreviews 11 месяцев назад

      @@daniellewis3330 but not saying cuz the heavy tons of blocks which still sketchy but the cuts how some vases taper perfectly the perfect round holes cut out idk but most likely it is possible just it a mystery until we find the tools used but I understand basic physics and I think that where the issue comes up but hey your more likely to be right but both sides seem to be missing crucial evidence

  • @freedompodcast4518
    @freedompodcast4518 10 месяцев назад +2

    Jesus Christ another channel. Now I am convinced you own every RUclips channel on RUclips.

  • @erdossuitcase7667
    @erdossuitcase7667 11 месяцев назад +20

    It seems like he should have mentioned Erich von Däniken and Chariots of the Gods. Those books really popularized the ancient alien ideas.

    • @liwojenkins
      @liwojenkins 10 месяцев назад

      My parents had a copy, I read it in the 80s as a kid. 100% it was the basis for all this current year "it was aliens" stuff. The rise of "it was aliens" also coincides with the rise of "God does not exist", take that for what you will.

    • @2l84t
      @2l84t 9 месяцев назад +1

      Read it when it came out. There's a photo of one South American carving that still baffles me. The rest garbage resurrected by Netflix and the Les Nessman of Archeology .

  • @OrdinaryDude
    @OrdinaryDude 11 месяцев назад +11

    I tried to watch that show for the pure comedy of it. I got 26 minutes into the first episode and couldn't take any more.

    • @STAROMEGA54
      @STAROMEGA54 11 месяцев назад +7

      Same. Almost had a stroke watching it.

    • @justinwebb8831
      @justinwebb8831 11 месяцев назад

      My dad loves it... I've dealt with (not watched) several episodes leading into seasons...and I've found six total... potential "theories"

    • @ThatWriterKevin
      @ThatWriterKevin 11 месяцев назад +3

      The first episode of Ancient Aliens actually had real science in it if I recall. They talked about spectroscopic analysis of planets to determine the composition of their atmospheres and stuff...and then they went onto alien nonsense. The real science definitely didn't make it past season one.

  • @NavyDood21
    @NavyDood21 11 месяцев назад +7

    I know there is no way to prove it, but the Nazcha Lines make a lot of sense to me. They are making giant pictures, for whatever reason, for their gods to view all the way from the heavens.

    • @michaelb1761
      @michaelb1761 11 месяцев назад

      And, there are people who do much more complicated designs in the snow now without benefit of aircraft or satelites to direct their movements.

  • @maryellencook9528
    @maryellencook9528 11 месяцев назад +6

    Ancient Aliens is an adult version of Looney Toons cartoons. There is most likely life on other planets; if they've come here in the past, or current times, they have left because there is no intelligent life on this planet. Why couldn't things be from a previously advanced HUMAN culture that was destroyed by a natural disaster that preceded the Younger Dryas period.

    • @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88
      @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 11 месяцев назад

      In order for a past civilization to reach a similar level of technological advancements they would need to somehow be able to harvest metals from our crust. To smelt iron requires stupid high temperature, relative to the types of fuels available. Wood alone can not reach the needed temp, it has to be turned into charcoal first. And even then you have to force huge volumes of air into the fire. And fossil fuels weren't available in any abundance until terrestrial plants had long been on the scene, and then spent tens of millions of years buried under miles of rock, if not longer.
      And if a past species did somehow manage to develop advanced technology they would have left some sign in the fossil record. And although there are sections of "missing" fossil records, there are still enough records left that we see no changes to the environment that would coincide with exploitive practices that come with these advancements.
      In short, no one has left any signs of technological advancements that goes beyond the shadow of doubt needed to make such bold claims.

  • @Chord_
    @Chord_ 11 месяцев назад +52

    It's also noticeable that ancient alien "theorists" never claim that something like the Coliseum or the Parthenon were created by aliens. Can't help but wonder what the difference is... 🤔

    • @mrpink8951
      @mrpink8951 11 месяцев назад +6

      I’ve heard some claims that Stonehenge is proof of ancient aliens, but that is about it. And it wasn’t even reconstructed properly! Some random dude who could afford to rent a crane and some trucks went “that looks about how I think it should look” and called it a day 😂

    • @greyhound7892
      @greyhound7892 11 месяцев назад +2

      The difference is they can still be reproduced using ancient methods today.

    • @LisaAnn777
      @LisaAnn777 11 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@greyhound7892we can replicate any ancient monument if the motivation was there. The pyramids took a long time and hundreds of thousands of people to construct, there's no reason to do that today. But we absolutely could if we wanted to.

    • @balazsvarga1823
      @balazsvarga1823 11 месяцев назад +1

      Or were they? Who knows that the Greeks and Romans did not have alien friends? Zeus and his raygun beg to differ! On his planet it is totally normal to seduce anything that moves we swear.

    • @Chord_
      @Chord_ 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@greyhound7892 Any time you watch one of those Ancient Aliens- style shows, and they're on location at someplace like the pyramids, just know that, slightly off-camera, there are dioramas set up to demonstrate to tourists *exactly* how they were built.

  • @Marcopiano07
    @Marcopiano07 11 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you for another great episode of "The science of science fiction" 😉

    • @laurensanford8629
      @laurensanford8629 11 месяцев назад +1

      I miss the original channel name too!🎉

  • @Turd_Fergus0n
    @Turd_Fergus0n 11 месяцев назад +54

    Thank you for having so much good content, totally got me through a 6 hour ER visit yesterday while hooked up to machines while thinking thank God I don't live in the past cause well you know it was the worst

    • @SitInTheShayd
      @SitInTheShayd 11 месяцев назад +5

      I feel you. Broken leg, same deal waiting in a hospital hallway for a long time, overall stay, 6 days. So much Simon content

    • @SitInTheShayd
      @SitInTheShayd 11 месяцев назад +5

      The good news is I'm Canadian, so I didn't pay a cent for my treatment

    • @Turd_Fergus0n
      @Turd_Fergus0n 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@SitInTheShayd veteran here so thankfully I didn't have any out of pocket cost

    • @dalelane1948
      @dalelane1948 11 месяцев назад

      dude that was an AI bot presenter pieced together from the 1000s of videos Mr Whistler has made.

    • @creed22solar123
      @creed22solar123 11 месяцев назад

      @@SitInTheShayd Canadian? you're lucky they didn't euthanize you by mistake, I bet they asked you all kinds of questions to get you to agree to it, and for free too 😂

  • @justinanderson267
    @justinanderson267 11 месяцев назад +11

    Wait... What?
    The Antikythera Computer was geocentric?
    I think this is the first I've heard of that. Interesting that everyone else let that little piece of info fly under the radar.

    • @skleedleplotchnu3713
      @skleedleplotchnu3713 11 месяцев назад

      it was made with earth as point of view in order to know where the visible bodies would be, not as a model of the system about which not enough was known at the time to think in non-geocentric terms

    • @SFELNMOD
      @SFELNMOD 11 месяцев назад

      Not, it wasn't, because the geocentric model wouldn't work based on gears due to the complexity of retrograde motion.

    • @skleedleplotchnu3713
      @skleedleplotchnu3713 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@SFELNMOD Sources that agree with me (and Simon/his writer and Justin above)--Smithsonian Magazine, Nature Journal, Wikipedia, BBC Science, Understanding Science, New York University, and countless others. Couldn't find any that agree with you.

    • @ajstevens1652
      @ajstevens1652 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@SFELNMODNonsense. There was no prevailing concept of heliocentrism when it was constructed.

  • @Wormweed
    @Wormweed 11 месяцев назад +13

    I watched ancient alies because they show lot of rarely seen historic places, but most of their theories are very farfetched!

    • @IlRyanWilsonlI
      @IlRyanWilsonlI 11 месяцев назад

      Yes! I loved the show back in the day for that exact reason. Nowadays its just nonsense unfortunately.

    • @dannyb7371
      @dannyb7371 11 месяцев назад

      Far fetched, yes that's what they probably said about planes, rockets and submarines not too long ago as well.... 😆😆

    • @bchin4005
      @bchin4005 11 месяцев назад

      ​@dannyb7371 hell, Bill Gates said computers would never need more than 486k of RAM 40 years ago...

    • @pattonmoore
      @pattonmoore 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@dannyb7371 ...yet mankind achieved these things with our own ingenuity not help from space aliens...

    • @Perceptious37
      @Perceptious37 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@pattonmoore but we got all this new technology from all the ufo crashes around the world obviously 🤣

  • @jacquelynsmith2351
    @jacquelynsmith2351 11 месяцев назад +2

    "Earth is the Las Vegas is the universe. Why else would aliens be crashing their ships here all the time unless they're partying, getting drunk and drag racing above the planet?" - heard from someone making fun of alien conspiracy theorists. I laughed so hard

  • @cassiechristian1147
    @cassiechristian1147 11 месяцев назад +2

    I really appreciate this channel. Thanks Simon 😊

  • @CrowbirdCannon
    @CrowbirdCannon 11 месяцев назад +12

    "Which is that airplanes look like fucking birds!" killed me. I love when Simon lets his composure slip just a bit because of the sheer stupidity he's having to address

    • @Raygo.
      @Raygo. 11 месяцев назад +3

      His scriptwriters do a bang-up job with those f-bombs for sure.

    • @multiyapples
      @multiyapples 5 месяцев назад

      I lost it at that.

  • @geraldstiling3735
    @geraldstiling3735 11 месяцев назад +4

    10:30 Antikythera mechanism is truly amazing. It even predicts the motion of the moon and planets

    • @liwojenkins
      @liwojenkins 10 месяцев назад

      Gears are as good as computers if made right.

  • @TheOnlyGuermo
    @TheOnlyGuermo 11 месяцев назад +2

    Now I wish "it's probably not aliens" had Simon as a guest.

  • @yanks7533
    @yanks7533 11 месяцев назад +2

    It's stupid to think there aren't aliens and a lot of them. Question is how many, how close, how advanced and did any of them have interest in us yet...

  • @7TheNumber7
    @7TheNumber7 11 месяцев назад +1

    “Ancient astronaut theorists believe”… some of the best TV on a Sunday morning hungover 😂

  • @RyGuy13
    @RyGuy13 11 месяцев назад +2

    While I love Simon's videos, this one dismisses a lot of Ancient Astronaut Theory as fantastical and absurd, when there are some aspects of the theory that make a lot of sense- such as how mankind evolved from a common ancestor at a rate that is far too fast for science to explain, and how many ancient structures with stones weighing thousands of tons and cut with laser precision being constructed by a primitive human culture. Some are absurd, but some of the theories are actually pretty legit sounding.

  • @earlfrancart5687
    @earlfrancart5687 11 месяцев назад +1

    the bird model shows that the egyptians had figured out enough about flight to create a small glider toy.

  • @mmerkley402
    @mmerkley402 11 месяцев назад +3

    Hmm just noticed the name change.

    • @ThatWriterKevin
      @ThatWriterKevin 11 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, we wanted to be able to talk about things beyond just science fiction

  • @XiagraBalls
    @XiagraBalls 11 месяцев назад +11

    Alien life exists out there, but the universe is a dark forest.

    • @southcoastinventors6583
      @southcoastinventors6583 11 месяцев назад +1

      Great analogy, I give this comment 5 I am not saying its aliens but its aliens out 5.

    • @2l84t
      @2l84t 11 месяцев назад +2

      Not much point in visiting a nearby star if your Civilization is gone when you get back.

    • @ThePhysicalReaction
      @ThePhysicalReaction 11 месяцев назад +2

      Plus the smart aliens would likely know that there is a large degree of risk advertising your location to other unknowns.

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om 11 месяцев назад +2

      "but the universe is a dark forest."
      And ginormous!

    • @Raygo.
      @Raygo. 11 месяцев назад

      @SmashBrosInitiative It's not "mathematically impossible" at all. Pure nonsense. It just *_seems_* that way to little human brains that can't comprehend big numbers.

  • @BriansCorner815
    @BriansCorner815 11 месяцев назад +1

    A note about the pyramid's construction: I read that they think some of the stones were actually poured and formed like concrete rather than quarried and moved long distances based on the stone's internal structure. They say it doesn't match other quarried stone but rather a solution that was poured and hardened like an early form of concrete. Google "Did the Great Pyramids' builders use concrete?" It's an interesting theory that could explain things like the walls of Saksaywaman where the stones fit so perfectly together. Check it out it's worth a read.

  • @SoManyRandomRamblings
    @SoManyRandomRamblings 11 месяцев назад +3

    It's their fragile egos.....we can't figure out how they did it, so rather than admit we don't know everything, instead claim it must be aliens.

    • @2l84t
      @2l84t 11 месяцев назад

      Or a Bronze Age boogeyman.

    • @balazsvarga1823
      @balazsvarga1823 11 месяцев назад

      Where there is a whip, there is a way.

  • @kyleb4059
    @kyleb4059 11 месяцев назад +1

    I just hope they’re not like us. Every time two cultures encounter each other for the first time on earth, there’s usually war famine and subjugation. Let’s hope they’re better than we are.

  • @hair_ofthedog5023
    @hair_ofthedog5023 11 месяцев назад

    LOL last sentence hits the nail on the head thanks for the laugh!

  • @duncansouthern2255
    @duncansouthern2255 11 месяцев назад +1

    Simon... You are by far my favourite creator. Not sure it's because you've got like a gazillian channels. Either way, love ya. X

    • @dalelane1948
      @dalelane1948 11 месяцев назад +1

      mate hate to tell you this wasn't Simon. It was an AI presenter pieced together from his 1000s of videos - the Whistlerbot V3.1.2

  • @darrenbishop92
    @darrenbishop92 11 месяцев назад +2

    Do a video on Bob Lazar please Simon, would love to hear your thoughts on him

  • @PeachM0de
    @PeachM0de 11 месяцев назад +1

    Simon superimposed on Napoleon. An image I didn’t know I needed to see

    • @Raygo.
      @Raygo. 11 месяцев назад

      For real, he looks much better with that awful beard mostly covered up, even if it's just by a poorly executed video effect.

  • @kathyclevenger1015
    @kathyclevenger1015 11 месяцев назад +2

    So, when did you change the name of this channel? I liked the "Science of Science Fiction" name.

  • @whatthefunction9140
    @whatthefunction9140 11 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you

  • @LaurieAnnCurry
    @LaurieAnnCurry 11 месяцев назад

    Loved, loved, loved, Simon’s commentary😂😂😂😂

  • @SitInTheShayd
    @SitInTheShayd 11 месяцев назад

    Did simon make another channel or did he change the name or science of science fiction

  • @sbcee2220
    @sbcee2220 11 месяцев назад

    Okay, when did the title of this channel change? Or has it not?

  • @01oo011
    @01oo011 11 месяцев назад

    One of Simon's favourite topics

  • @chrisconner5777
    @chrisconner5777 11 месяцев назад

    Before the video even starts: Sounds like mire fun at the expense of the so-called "History" Channel! Let's goooo!!!!

  • @honeybadger036
    @honeybadger036 9 месяцев назад +1

    I don't know much about ancient aliens, but after watching hours of in-depth mainstream archaeology about ancient Egypt. I am pretty certain the great pyramids were built by another earlier civilisation. Why would I say this?
    Firstly they were around since the old kingdom.
    Secondly, because ancient Egypt was insanely obsessed with using hieroglyphs to portray the divine connection between the pharaoh of the time and the gods or earlier pharaohs. Why go through all the effort of building the greatest pyramids on earth, only to not put a single hieroglyph anyway inside or outside? It makes no archaeological sense.

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 7 месяцев назад

      The outside stones were removed
      The inside may have been painted and disappeared to time

  • @121Corey121
    @121Corey121 11 месяцев назад +6

    I love how worked up Simon gets when discussing aliens or ghost 👻 👽 😄

  • @earlfrancart5687
    @earlfrancart5687 11 месяцев назад +1

    ive never heard anyone claim that the antikythera mechanism was influenced by aliens. but that humans were more clever and intelligent that we gave them credit for

  • @John2r1
    @John2r1 11 месяцев назад +1

    Some scientists did actually make a reproduction of the Baghdad battery. And it did produce voltage.
    And they theorize that it was used for electroplating of metals

    • @SFELNMOD
      @SFELNMOD 11 месяцев назад

      That's false

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 7 месяцев назад

      No
      Did make the battery
      Very low power
      Guessed on how used

  • @georgejones3526
    @georgejones3526 11 месяцев назад

    “Look! Up in the sky!”
    “It’s a bird!”
    “It’s a plane!”
    “It’s… an alien construct!”

  • @Human_01
    @Human_01 11 месяцев назад

    10:33 This reminds me of an elaborate 'clock'. ⌚ ⏰ ~ A very fancy one no less.

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 11 месяцев назад +1

    No mention of H.G.Wells and his book War of the World's.

  • @HorrorRabbit9019
    @HorrorRabbit9019 11 месяцев назад

    Simon,I'm reminded of a line from an old men at work song called underground. All the plants to whom us spoke,are trying their best to play it down 😂

  • @jsinope2786
    @jsinope2786 7 месяцев назад

    There should be a Simon meme… “I’m not saying it wasn’t Aliens… but it’s NEVER aliens.”

  • @TheeohnM
    @TheeohnM 5 месяцев назад +1

    I know I'm late but you didn't even mention how the Greeks didn't have the technology to cut the gears in the antikythera mechanism...not aliens but seriously how did they make that thing without the tech to, you know...make it?

  • @l3lue7hunder12
    @l3lue7hunder12 11 месяцев назад +1

    Well it obvious that at least an 12,5k+ years B.C. highly advanced civilization, once advanced enough to travel the world to both distribute construction and astronomical knowledge and generally influence other cultures, did exist.
    It is also proven that there were many more humans, or at least humanoids, in the past, most notably distinguished by their size and shape of (prolonged) head.
    Our current civilization developed from horse riding tin-cans to quantum computers in round about 300 years, and we know of several civilization such as the ancient Greeks who were at least equally advanced than this.
    Putting that in perspective great a many civilization as advanced as ours could have existed, making me really scared as how literal the story of Babylon could be taken.
    Most notably, those could have existed even without Alien influence.
    This however also leaves many questions:
    1. What exactly happened to those old civilizations ?
    2. What happened to the other humanoid races ?
    3. What happened to all the remnants of old ?
    4. We know something killed the dinosaurs, we know of the ice age, we heard about many at least civilization ending events and we currently observe massive worldwide changes in climate, the earth magnetic field, ... . What else don't we know about, what got destroyed and erased from history, and are we next ?
    5. And generally, aren't we greatly and profoundly underestimating our ancestors ?
    The more I think about it, the more surprised I am not that we exists, but that we do still.
    There likely is alien life out there, and earth has been around long enough for at least someone to take a detour - provided said life managed to get past "the great filter" of course, of which we already can safely say there are actually many, such as:
    1. "Hunters and gatherers" ( community life with enough stability and protection for growth beyond that stage )
    2. "City life" ( simple laws and community constructs, unnatural life, medicine )
    3. "Age of plagues" ( advanced medicine and hygiene, sufficient stability to overcome calamity )
    4. "Government body requiring civilizations" ( abstract laws and indirect forms of authority and power )
    5. "Industrial Age" ( large scale procurement network, mercantile trade, sciences )
    6. "Atomic age" ( managing forms of power too great to be safe )
    7. "World-Trade" ( leading war not with classical warfare and armaments, but maintaining balance through economic means )
    8. "Computer science" ( when development gets accelerated to a level that it exceeds what it's society can keep up with )
    9. "Artificial intelligence" ( when humans become second class in many fields )
    ... as just one version of listing major hurdles on our way to becoming a "Space age" civilization.
    This means ancient Aliens are possible, but unlikely, and equally unlikely to have made much of a difference if they had been around at some point.
    Me personally I just think that the great unknowns come down to achievements of the people of old, though I wouldn't be surprise if we had visitors who came to at least watch every now and then just for the spectacle of it. 😅

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 7 месяцев назад +1

      Barbarians
      Like what is happening now

  • @curtislindsey1736
    @curtislindsey1736 11 месяцев назад +1

    Just noticed you changed the name of the channel

  • @scottdoesntmatter4409
    @scottdoesntmatter4409 11 месяцев назад +1

    You know what cracks me up about all of this? Tell me, UFO conspiracy theorists out there, what makes you think the Earth is important enough to traverse mind boggling distances of the galaxy JUST to visit?

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 11 месяцев назад +1

    The only way to prove that Ancient Aliens didn't exists, that is the Aliens themself comes to us and tell us that they didn't exist.

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition 11 месяцев назад +1

      True, you can't prove a negative. However, lack of evidence for something should temper any belief in that something.

  • @thetangieman3426
    @thetangieman3426 11 месяцев назад +1

    I'll need to disagree with the dismissal of helicopters. 🤨
    There's no reason to think aliens wouldn't use helicopters in atmosphere. 🤔
    We literally sent a helicopter to explore Mars. 😏
    IJS. Physics don't change. 🧐

  • @lostbutfreesoul
    @lostbutfreesoul 11 месяцев назад +1

    My roommate once asked me why I was adamant large amounts of time existed. Of course I pointed to the whole of human history as we know it, with archeological evidence to support. It is quite the large claim I will admit, hundreds of thousands of years of human history and that being just the beginning, but there is a lot of evidence to support it.
    Some people out there think time itself is a conspiracy....
    But this world... this world be old, and beautiful.

  • @genxmum5569
    @genxmum5569 11 месяцев назад

    I love the idea of Nibiru and the Annunaki

  • @VO1D333
    @VO1D333 11 месяцев назад +1

    Varginha Case. Aliens came here and the USAF flew them to area 51

  • @mikekeating
    @mikekeating 11 месяцев назад +1

    It's not silly to think that an advanced civilization would use a helicopter to explore an unknown planet.
    What was it again we were flying around mars?

    • @Raygo.
      @Raygo. 11 месяцев назад

      So... we are an "advanced civilization"? 🤔

  • @RHCole
    @RHCole 11 месяцев назад +1

    Sure, but they didn't build the pyramids.
    BTW when did you rename Decoding the Unknown and replace all it's videos?

  • @patrickjorda5523
    @patrickjorda5523 11 месяцев назад +1

    I tend to think that there's a barrier that civilizations meet eventually but only a select few would ever get past this and succeed at galactic travel without destroying their world first

    • @adarmus4768
      @adarmus4768 11 месяцев назад +1

      You seem to be describing the idea of The Great Filter, one possible solution to the Fermi Paradox.

    • @patrickjorda5523
      @patrickjorda5523 11 месяцев назад

      @@adarmus4768 yeah it occurred to me that it was a real theory after icr where I heard it but I like it

  • @jadedcrusader1767
    @jadedcrusader1767 11 месяцев назад

    It is similar as the odds of slamming into a wall and suddenly phasing through it; unlikely, but not entirely impossible...

  • @JT-ls3ly
    @JT-ls3ly 11 месяцев назад +2

    I want to believe..... but I don't.

  • @earlfrancart5687
    @earlfrancart5687 11 месяцев назад

    small point of contention.. the animal geoglyphs are not asserted as being the landing strips. they are suspected glyphs of a type of a cargo cult. the suspected landing strip is the flatend moutain nearby that very distinctly looks like an airport.. or the remains of one. the clip you showed had a brief pic of that

  • @sam5miy
    @sam5miy 11 месяцев назад

    I wish this was a Brain Blaze episode so we could hear Simon go off

  • @PitboyHarmony1
    @PitboyHarmony1 11 месяцев назад

    Methinks Simon actually enjoyed that one.

  • @magus104
    @magus104 11 месяцев назад

    I think the helicopter though might have just been like "Biggles: Adventures in Time" part 2 or something?

  • @jjasper7512
    @jjasper7512 11 месяцев назад +2

    If Congress finds secret alien craft, the montage of you decrying aliens before anouncing it's aliens is going to be epic!! Loving the content

  • @ruin8891
    @ruin8891 11 месяцев назад

    Could you make a video about railguns?

  • @alanmartinez45
    @alanmartinez45 10 месяцев назад +1

    There is something that i always wondered, not aliens, but a previous civilization to ours that went extinct from something... We believe that our own civilization would disappear from the face of the earth in about 15000 years and the more we advance technology the more ephemeral our objects seem, so a combination of that fact with an overwhelming ammount of common themes and shapes in ancient ruins and stories from civilizations that should not have met eachother nor do we think they did, descriptions of deities that when read in the original language seem like descriptions of modern ships, drones, tablets, medicine that we have today! It seems a lot more probable as sn explanation to those things that make people go: ALIENS!

  • @megret1808
    @megret1808 11 месяцев назад +3

    Be careful. Imagine ancient peoples coming to the conclusion that other societies didn’t exist because they haven’t detected alien smoke signals

    • @duncancurtis5971
      @duncancurtis5971 11 месяцев назад

      Left hand drive only.

    • @Raygo.
      @Raygo. 11 месяцев назад

      Reasoning by analogy is such a bitch though, isn't it.

  • @reyalsregnava
    @reyalsregnava 11 месяцев назад +1

    There's some great examples of people moving big rocks.
    Here's one guy building a Stonehenge by himself.
    ruclips.net/video/E5pZ7uR6v8c/видео.html
    I can't find the other one anymore. But it's an Archeologist and three students dragging a four ton concrete slab up a hill using a ratchet system made of two levers and a fixed point. It worked best with several people. But to make a point they lifted the stone about a foot up a 60 degree slope with just two people.
    If you can build a pyramid with two blokes and enough determination you don't NEED aliens to explain anything.

  • @williamangeles9761
    @williamangeles9761 11 месяцев назад +1

    The battery was for gold plating

  • @dannymartin6079
    @dannymartin6079 11 месяцев назад

    Simon you need to do a video on 0 pecent energy

  • @Whowascooley
    @Whowascooley 11 месяцев назад +2

    Wait a minute... What was this channel called before? I feel like I missed a name change.

    • @olencone4005
      @olencone4005 11 месяцев назад +2

      It used to be The Science of Science Fiction.

    • @Whowascooley
      @Whowascooley 11 месяцев назад +2

      @olencone4005 Ah! There we go. Thank you!

  • @ME-ke7qc
    @ME-ke7qc 11 месяцев назад

    well that burst my bubble about ancient aliens

  • @ozzyangel82
    @ozzyangel82 11 месяцев назад +4

    Excellent writing as always, Kevin! Great video, Simon.

  • @dwaynelangerhr6985
    @dwaynelangerhr6985 11 месяцев назад

    No aliens would load up the spaceship with a helicopter to visit another planet. Which reminds me, I wonder what Ingenuity on mars is doing right now.

  • @vipbaepsae
    @vipbaepsae 11 месяцев назад +1

    you changed the name of the channel? 😢 I liked "Science of Science Fiction" more, had such a nice ring to it, rolled right off the tongue. Anyway, guess you wanna go broader with the topics?

  • @TheKulu42
    @TheKulu42 11 месяцев назад +1

    I enjoy watching "Ancient Aliens" for its entertainment value For instance, if you had a drinking game in which you gulp down a shot every time you hear "Ancient Alien Theorists Say Yes" you'll be smashed by the time the episode's over.

    • @jdizzle3740
      @jdizzle3740 5 месяцев назад

      I think you meant to say smashed by 20 minutes in....lol

  • @Martiandawn
    @Martiandawn 11 месяцев назад

    I think it is more likely that extraterrestrial visitors would use a helicopter to travel around the Earth than, say, a tic-tac that defies the laws of physics. That said, the notion that Egyptian hieroglyphs depict helicopters is sheer lunacy 😂

  • @chriswise7978
    @chriswise7978 11 месяцев назад

    Humans did not build the great pyramid and it is much older than most believe. Interesting that the much newer pyramids are much less precise

  • @MrLinconn
    @MrLinconn 11 месяцев назад

    It's quite hubristic to allude Egyptian hieroglyphs with modern day fictional cartoon like Garfield. So, the ancient Egyptians just making large scale comic strips? BS if I ever heard it. Sometimes people can be so skeptical as to be illogical and absolutely ignore evidence of something that they don't feel comfortable wit

  • @rosswalker1609
    @rosswalker1609 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks for this one😂

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 11 месяцев назад

    I believe in the idea that alians exists, I just don't believe that there are alians capable of making sophisticated civilizations on earth like humans.

  • @mikeaxle2008
    @mikeaxle2008 11 месяцев назад

    Forget the history channel shows. Ancient aliens were first mentioned in ancient myths. Zulus, Dogon, Sumerian, etc. It’s not anything new.
    We now know that most stars in the sky have exoplanets! Trappist 1 solar system has more than 4 in the habitable zone. With this knowledge, life is very possible on other planets. Those civilizations may be older than ours.
    The last part is speculative. But still, you cannot dismiss ancient aliens so easily!
    This “extremely logical” approach is based on what we know, which is the correct way. But our body of knowledge changes as we learn more about the universe. When the existence of aliens is proven a fact, I would love to see the videos you would make.

  • @Saphykitten
    @Saphykitten 11 месяцев назад

    It was actually me, I went back in time and gave them wrong information. Take that Greeks

  • @PearlJamaholic
    @PearlJamaholic 10 месяцев назад

    For all we know, and may ever know, aliens came here when dinosaurs lived and thought this is a cool planet, made some notes and went on their way. Unless aliens come back and tell us they were here long long ago we'd never know cause their just isn't any good evidence right now to say otherwise.

  • @TheRetroEngine
    @TheRetroEngine 11 месяцев назад

    "bit of a helping hand"

  • @seantlewis376
    @seantlewis376 11 месяцев назад

    The ancient aliens hypothesis is much like the God theory. If something exists that you don't understand, "ALIENS!", or "GOD!" Just because I can't design a new antikythera mechanism, doesn't mean that no one can.

  • @balazsvarga1823
    @balazsvarga1823 11 месяцев назад +1

    Ancient structures were built by humans, after the aliens gave them the whip technology.

  • @DNS-FRANK09
    @DNS-FRANK09 11 месяцев назад

    None of those aliens had a beard as glorious as Simon's

  • @seanbrazell7095
    @seanbrazell7095 11 месяцев назад

    Simon's head on the gold Egyptian pharaoh death mask lingered just a biiiiiiit too long... 🖖😉

  • @chrisshorten4406
    @chrisshorten4406 11 месяцев назад +1

    Could they have existed? Yes.
    Do we know for sure? No.
    Are ancient humans more intelligent and clever than people give them credit for? Absolutely.