@@ransakreject5221 Yes, and you could have been brought by the stork. If that is what you think, you will have to prove it. It is very difficult to prove a negative, so "you can't prove that it isn't true" is not a valid argument for anything.
If you take a shot of liquor every time they say that in an episode, you will become quite drunk. source: I've been binging the show the last few weeks while I've been hellishly sick. It's dumb, but kind of fun, and it does have a lot of legitimately interesting factual stuff in it. I will feel much better soon, and will probably never watch this show again, haha.
Ancient Aliens is one of those shows I watch for a good laugh. The answer to everything and anything is always aliens. My favorite episode was when they said aliens nuked the dinosaurs because they couldn't use them as slave labor. So it took the aliens over 100 million years to figure that out?
@@xyleblack2545 Volcanoes and meteor showers happen anyway does not mean aliens or gods did it. They could credit what happened to something else after the fact.
Btw are any of those sculptures contemporaneous? That's one of the issues I always had with Von Daniken when I was a kid; he would compare monuments that were often separated by thousands of years (as well a thousands of miles..).
_@Paulogia_ So true! Google : Rob Liefeld drawing hands and feet, and you will see that dificulty and artist laziness of which you speak collapse in on itself to create a perfect fractal core of bad art from which no one can escape unmarred!
@@jeremiahdssdentmorgan3341 out of the unlimited size of the universe you don’t even think there’s at least the slightest possibility of some other life? Or some other miracle being like us? Aka aliens?
you got a point there.. do not mess around with civilisations at a lower technological level. give someone new useful technology and the first thing they will do is find out how to weaponise it. (especially if it gets into the claws of some countries on this planet..)
I always thought that Ancient Aliens was supposed to be kinda goofy... the history channel version of Cheers or Three is Company... until one day a friend said that he now believed that aliens had created humans and actually used the show as "evidence" to support his belief. We stay far from those topics now... politics and religion are far safer subjects.
I look at ancient aliens the same way that I look at religious people. Imo it is ridiculous and there is no evidence for their beliefs, but as long as their beliefs hurt nobody, who cares...
I'd like to know what you believe with regards to how everything came to be. To discredit religion without having your own beliefs is to make oneself look foolish.
@dunnodatruth789 - I consider religion to just be mythology that people believe, often times with less evidence than the Ancient Astronauts/Alien crowd base their beliefs on. That said, the origin of reality is such a deep question, it feels mystical to me. Also, I don't think conscious experience can be scientifically explained, even in principle--at least not in terms of anything physical. This kind of makes me think that it's a fundamental aspect of reality. Maybe the only "thing" that really exists. You could call conscious experience "mind", and I don't really mind calling that "God". I mean, there's a lot more to the argument, but it's mostly philosophical in nature, and has a lot to do with the "Hard Problem of Consciousness", and the philsophical/scientific principle of parsimony. I'd consider myself a metaphysical idealist, or maybe a nondualist. But I don't consider this a religious belief.
I'll say this for Von Daniken, he's a very good salesman. He had me convinced for about a month that he was on to something even though he didn't really present anything. He has my thanks for really nailing into me what exactly an argument from ignorance is by example.
i agree. I used to be into all of these ancient civilization stories, and for a little while faithfully bought everything graham hancock put out and watched ancient aliens. then I picked up von daniken's chariot of the gods. it reads like it's written by a child. when I finished his book, I remember thinking, what the hell was that? I started to turn a more critical eye to the information being presented, and looked into the backgrounds of the people presenting. it's the funniest thing, the people who pushed me away from idiotic ideas like ancient aliens are the very people making a living pushing this BS
He should be after going to prison for being a con man multiple times. Having a voiceover repeat what was just said in an astonished voice isn't evidence convicted thief.
Also the read off cue cards cuz Giorgio talk so slow that you know they all talk so slow you can tell the reading off you guys it's all bulshit I just don't like to show until I watched debunking Ancient Aliens and it's just like that's how our world is today bunch of liars schemers and froud
Ancient aliens? Bunk! I was born in 1961, grew up in the 70's, and was in junior high and high school in the period when Von Daniken's 'Chariots of the Gods' was a phenomenon. One of my junior high school teachers was fascinated by Von Daniken's work. As an impressionable kid (around 13 or 14) I was impressed by all the pseudo-scientific bs. I loved science fiction, and was a big Star Trek fan, so I was prepared to buy into all of the hype. Later in high school, I asked one of my favorite science teachers what he thought of 'Chariots of the Gods', and Von Daniken's other books. His one word reply is unprintable. I soon learned that all of the 'Ancient Alien' material was pseudo-science based on fakery and misrepresentation. My favorite quote regarding Von Daniken is by Dr. Carl Sagan: “The kindest thing I can say about Von Daniken is that he ignores the science of archeology. Every time he sees something he can’t understand, he attributes it to extraterrestrial intelligence, and since he understands almost nothing, he sees evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence all over the planet." I'm glad that you've taken the time to refute some of the nonsense perpetuated by the Ancient Alien community. Personally, I can't understand how anyone could fall for it, unless they are also impressionable teenagers. Heck, even most modern teenagers are too sophisticated for this tripe. Keep up the good work, and best wishes,
It was entertainment and was mixed among great science fiction novels, the Twilight Zone and the fading dreams of the space race. Stupid has been taught in the US since then, shallow religious tripe meant to save god ideas and make wealth wealthier hiding in the curtains. It is criminal to make people ignorant on purpose.
patric44 I thought Sagan was entirely too kind to von Daniken. I preferred James Randi's comment about how racist von Daniken's ideas were in that von Daniken always assumed that _Non-European_ cultures were incapable of deep insight and innovation. Randi pointed out that von Daniken _never_ attributed the monumental works of European cultures to aliens.
"I cant understand how anyone could fall for it" Meanwhile there's Flat Earth Conventions... -60% of Americans believe in Noahs Flood -Christians want creationism taught in school -PragerU exists -People still deny climate change
I was born in 1956, so pretty much the same as patric44. I read most of Von Daniken's books and was intrigued and researched what others had to say and soon realized that Von Daniken knew pretty much nothing about any of his subjects. The final nail was that when he wrote the books he had never had actually visited the sites that he had written about.
Daniken seemed to spin a convincing narrative: when I was 10 or so. At 11 or 12, I found Hal Lindsey's cartoon/Heavy Metal version of Biblical Prophecy convincing. Before both, it was UFO's. Afterward, Sagan's Cosmos. I got lucky with that last one. Some folks weren't/aren't as lucky. Which just makes Digital Hammarabi's contributions that much more valuable. Seriously, give them money. They earn it. That is all.
Ancient Aliens was the last straw for me as far as the History Channel goes. I used to be hooked on all their docs on WW2 and Ancient Rome. Now, all they do is peddle BS to con laymen and get ratings. Bah!
@@JMM33RanMA yeah, they use selective editing and the like to make their BS seem more credible. If I was a mainstream expert I wouldn't even go on those shows. Imo, it's kinda like how Ray Comfort uses editing to make the scientists and atheists he interviews to badically quote mine them. Bah!
Finally, a video analyzing Ancient Aliens for it’s fraudulent claims! It’s so hard just to find one video on RUclips that debunks this show. And yeah, there is that 3 hour film called “Ancient Aliens Debunked,” which does offer factual information, but it was made by a creationist who also was promoting his own views. So thank you for doing this from a non-religious perspective
Are you implying that if someone has religious beliefs they can't research historical and empirical evidence and facts? Regardless of his world view, at the very beginning of the video "Ancient Aliens Debunked" he said that he was not claiming that alien life does not exist, just that the claims made by the History Channel program are false. When he made reference to what is written in the Bible, he was pointing out that, (weather you believe the Bible is true or not) what Ancient Aliens was was implying about the meaning of what it says is false and not implying any religious views. You can point out that the Bible was correct when it said, long before anyone else did, to wash yourself after examining a sick person. That's correct without any religious implications. Next to nothing he said was presented from a religious point of view and when he did, at the last of the video, offer his view on the "Sons of God" he was clear about it being his opinion. Most of the founders science had strong religious beliefs and it did nothing to hinder their scientific abilities. Let's not dislike hearing what Newton, Einstein, Galileo and those like them proved because they had religious views.
Ancient aliens debunked gives a thorough and factual account of the stories hyped on Ancient aliens, regardless of the authors beliefs. I am really enjoying this video, but the Ancient Aliens debunked video is quite good.
@@richardrogers668 To be honest I watched all of that Ancient Aleins Debunked video and I don't even recall the religious element to it, so it can't have been very significant.
It doesn't help that they are all grouped as Mesopotamian which makes it easier to conflate the different civilisations and empires that existed in the region.
ancient aliens is an entertaining show, but that's all it is. they show theories and ideas for unexplained or weird things, what you do with them is your business, they do not claim to be factual. personally I find it to be quite entertaining. some things are obvious nonsense, but other thins are actually interesting in the fact that it is unexplained. (like: what happened in Roswell, new Mexico? what are those lights zipping around in different parts of the world? (CIA's toys for big boys out of area 51? not likely?) how come legends and recorded information from civilisations from different parts of the world show the exact same unexplained things? quite interesting, what it is, why and how it's possible are open questions that nobody have found an answer to yet.)
To be fair, I have access to air conditioning and VR. Yet I still walk into my muggy and humid backwoods looking for beetles and sticks that look like swords. Unga bunga caveman mode is fun.
Aliens would want to keep their best technology to themselves. They would not want earthling ruling over them. They would more likely want to be in charge if they existed.
i think because no matter how advanced you are if you want to leave a message or mark of your presence, megalithic structures are the ones where that information last longer, we had that in 1500s when Portuguese used to leave a mark of their discoveries with a stone pillar lto record significant landfalls and thereby establish primacy and possession, after more than 2000 years humans were still doing it. Today everything is digital and if tomorrow that disappear we dont have other proof of what we are doing today.
Used to be fascinated by this show when I was a teenager, but now I find the actual history of the ancient world far more fascinating, the fact that we built an entire global civilization over the span of 10.000 years is way cooler than some UFO theories that hold absolutely no water.
@@ricochetsixtyten Göbeklitepe proves civilization, in some form, has existed far before that date and truthfully, civilization is far older and more mysterious than what has been previously believed.. Çatalhöyük alone was founded in 7500 BC..
@@ricochetsixtyten but I 100% agree that aliens are not need to explain the past. I personally believe our human history is so much more than what we've discovered, but regardless it's absolutely an amazing subject to explore!
@@SonOfTheDawn515 civilization, as in written languages, cities, international trade, militaries, agriculture, metallurgy, etc generally began around 3500-3000bce. Anything before that is considered pre-history, or pre-pottery neolithic, i.e. the stone age. History is a brief blip of a few thousand years.
Viridiana Cortes Yeah and RUclips is trying to get ride of the fair use law I’d assume since this rise of Political Correctness. I hate the Ancient Alien Theory since I have friends and meet people that believe in this bullshit meme.
The pictured Armadillo clearly lost a lot of weight on the Ark. I might use it to start my "Noah's diet " weight loss centers TM, I'll just lock people in a wooden box that can't possibly store enough food for everyone; money up front please!
Regarding the position of the hands, might it be an artifact of the medium & crafting techniques they were using? It might be difficult to carve the arms anywhere but directly attached to the body & there are only so many places you can put the arms & hands.
I sculpted out of Clay for years... And I found that I kept putting them in the same pose for a while... I was complelty conscious of it... Untill about the 5th one... And yes it was to make the pose interesting but structured to be sturdy.. As the were clay!
My 6 year old niece would absolutely love it if the moon was populated by rainbow unicorns! I've never watched an episode of the hopelessly poor scholarship, which is why I love your channel, so that I don't have to watch junk like AE. Thank you for doing this, I'm glad the copyright issue was resolved. (by the way, a biologist would ask how the heck the alien chromosomes are supposed to pair with human chromosomes).
They're an advanced civilization who seeded life on earth, after they made and then nuked the dinosaurs. They wanted something of them to live on and one day they'll return for us 😂😂😂.
Given that Gobekli Tepe was not a tomb site or a settlement, I suspect it was a temple where the people of the area would come and gather together for festivals and ceremonies, & together over many years they came to build a place like this. In this manner, with slow improvements over many years even a hunter gather society could pull off something like this. An early example of humans coming together to build stuff, something we have have always done & still do.
i think the funniest part of the whole statue hand position thing is that they're using it to promote the concept of inhuman entities while it itself is likely the most human thing an artist could do. as an artist looking at those statues i can practically hear the artist's pain as they try to carve a human figure out of a rock with such limited tools, skills, and materials. they probably took one look at what they were trying to do in their restrictive medium and made the hands in the simplest way they could without it looking like trash. those hands reek of being the ancient statue-carver equivalent of artists now days shoving character's hands into their pockets so they don't have to draw them, i can feel it in my soul.
The statues at Gobekle Tepe and Rapa Nui ("Easter Island") have similar positions and the hands seem idle. In the others, the hands are doing something.
I love how the show uses the Easter Island statues and Göbekli Tepe as proof of some global civilisation due to the hands being "similar" but justs ignores the fact that there's a 11,000-13,000 year time difference between the two, lol. I'm sure all the other statues have wildly different time differences between them too.
Dont forget they fired David Wilcock because he realized the bible is true and he is in fact a Christian, The Gews that own the show did not like that. Remember Satan hates the truth and his children will always try to hide it.
Wonderfully done! I'm so glad you got the copyright strike removed. I would love if you did more stuff on he misuse of ancient culture for modern woo. Assuming it doesn't wreak havoc with your sanity!
'Clause Schmidt, the archaeologist...' GREAT! Did they concentrate the interview on him? No. The History Channel used to cover history (imagine that). Now they are just another point and laugh channel. Great video. Subscribed.
The reason their arms and hands are carved so close to the body is because it's more efficient than getting a much larger stone to carve the limbs further extended, and attaching arms after the carving is likely to fall off
One more thing, regarding the Totem at the end, they show asserted that the 2 faces were destroyed deliberately; but they provide no proof, or even evidence, that the damage was deliberate, and not just accidental. Another thing with this, they claim the totem was created to tell the story of human creation by an alien breeding program, but if the totems were created explicitly to tell the future this, why would they try to destroy the evidence by damaging the faces that would tell this story?
A friend of a friend of mine’s cousin knew a bloke who’s first husband’s second wife, he’d previously been married and divorced, had a job working in a government facility where she had a very strange experience after watching Ancient Aliens. She’d been self-isolating and had been cheering herself up with wine and pills from the doctor that chilled her right out but made everything seem a bit vague and slightly frustrating. Anyway she’d been binging Ancient Aliens and ended up waffling on about this nonsense and some other bollocks and posting things on Facebook while she was pissed.
I'm no way near a PhD evolutionary biologist but I know enough about evolution to know that there is no trace of "alien influence" in the human genome. Simple enough to see that kind of tampering when you compare our genome to other primates. Where the meme (the ancient alien stuff is basically 19th century lost tribe of Israel racism): Stone Hedge = Magic *any other darker skinned people* Aliens!
@@JMM33RanMA There is however objective evidence of those hominid species ;). Funny thing is it means humans had to be closer to Neanderthals than we are to other primates... what's the horse hybrid? Mule? Donkey? Would mean we were closer genetically than that horse hybred to be able to have offspring that could breed.
@@JosephKeenanisme I was trying to be humorous. I have often found that the conspiracy and Ancient Aliens nuts will actually avoid real evidence in favor of their crackpot "evidence." They prefer alien gene mutation and completely ignore the real cross species mixing, just as they make elaborate and utterly implausible 9/11 conspiracies but ignore the real and well-known criminal conspiracy in the New York construction trades. If this isn't exactly the same as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, it should be called Däniken-Sitchens Dementia.
Great video! I would like to see more of this type of content from you guys. Either with more Ancient Aliens or with other History Channel's pseudo-history shows like: Curse of Oak Island (which I like to call affectionally "Grasping at Straws, the tv show"), or some of their other "Templar are secretely the illuminati and still around nowadays"-shows... They all make grand assertions and butcher scholarly work and history.
Unfortunately, this isn't new. Galen complained about producing nonsense and peddling it as his work. Citation: Richard Carrier on science and plagiarism in ancient Rome
Personnally I love Ancient Aliens. When I stumble upon it, I'm like "cool, I'll have a good laugh". And at the end of the episode, I'm like "damn, this was incredible". But well, they use the multi layers technique. A layer of true, a layer of fake...and suggestions and oriented questions. So I watch back from.a distance. But it's still fun to watch these guys and their fuzzy theories 😅😅😅
OOOOOH! THANK YOU 💕 I'm One of those "Armchair Explorers of Unusual Articles" : That is: I Love the stuff; Eat It Up; Don't Believe a Jot of It 😸 I enjoy the History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" program for a number of, "Personal Fantasy Life" aspects. And, It inspires me to do Real-World research into the subjects discussed. Also, let's face it, It's just plain Fun. The Ancient Aliens Theorists Are a kind of "Religion " as Are Devout Skeptics of all "Iffy" or "Unscientific" claims. For example: We know, As A Fact, that: "Dinosaurs Don't Have Feathers, because; they are Too Big to Need them, and are Cold Blooded to boot!" I mean: It's a FACT! There's ZERO Evidences of the origins of Feathers found in Dinosaurs Fossils! OOPS! Here's what we really know about Dinosaurs; Aliens from Space created Dinosaurs and Got disappointed with them never evolving beyond merely stupid brutes and, so; decided to wipe them All Out with nuclear weapons ~ as "Proven" by the High radiation levels in Dinosaur fossils! Then the Aliens created mankind and got angry with them and flooded the Earth and..... NO! WAIT! That's from the History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" show! 🤪🤣😸🛸 Did I mention that I like the show? I just take it with a grain of salt (And a couple pints of Budweiser🤪). It's sad that both skeptics and pseudoscience "LGM-worshippers" fail to just have Fun with These things! Oh 🙀 BTW: What REAL Science Is, nowadays, saying about Dinosaurs: They were Warm Blooded, Smart, Birds actually are Dinosaurs and (I, Seriously, Love This One) T-REX WAS FLUFFY!
Erich von Däniken has, to my knowledge, a degree or at least training in business administration, as he helped manage his family's hotel in Switzerland. Having read his books as a child and become a real archaeologist who ist currently writing his PhD, I find it refreshing on his part that he freely admits in Interviews that He makes it all up for entertainment. Not to defend his nonsense, but he seems at times afraid of his own most devoted followers.
I saw a video earlier from 11 years ago that was over 3 hours long debunking ancient aliens. It only takes 5 minutes to debunk Georgio but watching it done for long periods is priceless. He even disrespected the blaster on the Roswell rock episode after the guy made a beautiful copy. Up until then his science fiction show was entertaining. Hair jokes went wild. I haven't watched it since the rock episode.
@@qzh00k only lunar unicorns. It was a successful survival strategy considering the abundance of green cheese and the lack of fodder in the form of grass. 😁
Hi. While watching your video, which is excellent, I had on TV Ancient Aliens which twice a week on the "History Channel" (which is a joke) watching it with the sound off. You're so correct. Keep them coming!!
Great breakdown of these fables and good that strike was removed. Thank you DH channel. Maybe a lesson in Qualifiers and how they are used when mixed with words in a sentence by a professional? But I'm not a dentist.
You covered it well, when one is used to presenting to a discrete audience that needs those qualifiers as lead in to their own research areas it useful, to others they imply insecurity in the information presented or holes in the dome? Keep on, you got this :)
Those ancient carvings look a lot like children’s drawings, so an animal may not look exactly lifelike. The statues are very simplistic as well. It’s easier to carve a rectangular block of stone leaving it more or less a rectangle, and suggesting rather than actually sculpting features like arms and hands by positioning them against the body. Artist Constantin Brancusi made a similar called The Kiss in the early 1900’s.
@@atbfilms5999 That is one of the "proofs" offered by Eric von Dumkopf and most of the others, that humans couldn't have done it. Another common "proof" that their "theory" is bunk is that Scientists reject it and are thus part of the conspiracy to cover it up. If there weren't already a name for their mental state, Dunning-Kruger Effect, it could be named the Däniken-Sitchens Dementia.
We need more of these videos! Do von dänken! Maybe you did, but i'm new :) Came here from shannon q Edit: ah, so he is in it too :) I am amazed how supernatural depictions are seen as evidence for them actually happening. The assumption seems to be, that our ancestors were sooooo primitive they had nothing like... Idk... Imagination? After all no one is doing an episode about bow hans giger has met aliens and his pictures of aliens even though they are INCREDIBLY detailed, amazing and imaginative.
Great video. I watched it using a drinking game. Every time you hear "possibly", "I suggest" or just "perhaps" I drink a shot. Every time they provide proof... I drink a coffee. I can't feel my legs anymore and need to sleep. I didn't really think this through... I really needed a coffee
this is such an awesome episode, thank you. i love it! -i saw you on mythvision, totally subscribed here too. -at one time i was a huge fan of ancient aliens, even though i wasn't totally buying it, it's like i "wanted" to believe, but knew it wasn't likely. i had no idea how many outright lies they told and how much they distorted the truth.
I would propose that there is a very simple explanation for the vague similarities of the positioning of the arms and hands. When you carve a figure out of a soft stone, it is impossible to carve realistic limbs, using primitive stone carving techniques, without the limbs breaking off . The positioning of the arms and hands, sort of "wrapped" around the torso is an obvious solution to the problem i.e. it is simply easier to carve a figure with arms and limbs using this design.
I think you focus too much on the credentials of the "experts". In science, the argument should stand for itself, without devolving into a "I went to a better Uni than you"... Their arguments have huge flaws, and it would have been more interesting if you had spent more time discussing and debunking their actual arguments.
Finally it's available! I was waiting for this one. It drives me nuts to see all that rubbish claimed to be scientific but instead it's just horseshit. Thanks Megan and Dr. Josh. ❤️
Totem poles depict the lineage of various Northwestern Native American families. Like many similar peoples, they claim descent from various animals. How that works for ANY Native American nation is either lost or they aren't telling. The statue they're going on about on the show bears a superficial resemblance to a totem pole. It might not have had anything to do with ancestry. The faces (hanging out there where they were vulnerable) probably damaged over time while the close-carved arms survived.
The intro is absolute gold! "Could the moon be made of cheese and populated by unicorns?" Narrator: "Ancient Alien theorists say yes" LOL I spit iced tea all over my dam keyboard, I'm surprised it still works :D
I recently watched some of these ancient alien architecture episodes on Netflix. The aliens should have built something on the Moon facing Earth. That would have been much more persuasive.
I don't disagree with your focus on qualifications but I am slightly torn. I have poor A-levels, an HNC in Civil Engineering and a 28 year career in geo-engineering but I have still accumulated a reasonable amount of knowledge in certain areas of archaeology and science. Maybe the difference is that I don't make up shit and tell everyone who'll listen that it is true.
It’s a valid criticism, and someone else made a similar comment. You can definitely have an expertise or high knowledge base without any formal education in that field; I suppose my main issue with this is that none of these experts seem to have any actual archaeological experience, or even experience outside ‘looking at stuff and making shit up’. Experience/personal research is DEFINITELY valid and important, but these guys have neither.
These sorts of deconstruction of pseudoscience are so very much needed these days. I particularly enjoyed the observations on the contrast between actual scolars and the cryptoheads and how it is used. Keep it up.
I am an expert. I wrote a book you never heard of, called "Arse from My Elbow; My Search for the Difference". Curse those fools at the Institute! Could this mean I come from Alpha Centauri from a race of sentient weasels? (According to Ancient Astronaut theorists)
David Hatcher Childress is a world-class goof ball, incidentally.. Schoch is associated with the wholly misbegotten effort to misinterpret the Sphinx- especially the age of it. Joy.
I loved this video, was a pleasure to watch. I will say that I watch Ancient Aliens often and while it is easy to debunk their theories, it is impossible to say with certainty that Earth was not visited by aliens from another planet many centuries ago. I just don't see any evidence of it and would be impossible to prove. We humans believe in many things we can not prove, and usually television shows about those things are just as silly and easy to debunk :)
One point of contention, you mention Derinkuyu as being in the Byzantium empire until the 1500s ce. And while the Byzantium empire did last that long, the area where Derinkuyu lays was likely under the Sultinate of Rum/Ottoman Empire since 1100 ce.
I totally loved this episode! Thanks, and please, more of these!
Hell yes, please more actual, factual content please.
Exactly! And the real scientific analysis of topics like this is both informative and fascinating! @@joeyreliford705
If you hear someone ask: "Could the (...) be evidence of ancient aliens (...) in our distant past?", the answer is: "No!"
Well it COULD be. I mean they aren’t wrong. We can’t prove aliens didn’t come to earth to build stone buildings and then go back home for some reason.
@@ransakreject5221 Yes, and you could have been brought by the stork. If that is what you think, you will have to prove it. It is very difficult to prove a negative, so "you can't prove that it isn't true" is not a valid argument for anything.
@@MartijnHover Well said, and true.
They really just need to change the name of that show to "Ancient Astronaut Theorists Say Yes"
YES !!!
@@jeremiahdssdentmorgan3341Yes! 😂
@@denisehorner8448 indeed !!!
is such thing could happen ? ancient astronaut theory says yes
If you take a shot of liquor every time they say that in an episode, you will become quite drunk.
source: I've been binging the show the last few weeks while I've been hellishly sick. It's dumb, but kind of fun, and it does have a lot of legitimately interesting factual stuff in it.
I will feel much better soon, and will probably never watch this show again, haha.
Ancient Aliens is one of those shows I watch for a good laugh. The answer to everything and anything is always aliens. My favorite episode was when they said aliens nuked the dinosaurs because they couldn't use them as slave labor. So it took the aliens over 100 million years to figure that out?
Ha ha ha 😂
But is it possible that aliens actually nuked the dinosaurs?
😂
Well what ever, Debunking ancient aliens, is like debunking Bugs Bunny, why bother?
@@xyleblack2545 Volcanoes and meteor showers happen anyway does not mean aliens or gods did it. They could credit what happened to something else after the fact.
32:25 All this proves is that hands are as difficult to sculpt well as they are to draw well... and artists throughout history have been lazy.
Agreed!
Paulogia Talking from experience Paul? Even when I trace hands from photographs to make them realistic they still look wrong..
Btw are any of those sculptures contemporaneous? That's one of the issues I always had with Von Daniken when I was a kid; he would compare monuments that were often separated by thousands of years (as well a thousands of miles..).
I honestly don’t know for certain, but I HIGHLY doubt or
_@Paulogia_ So true! Google : Rob Liefeld drawing hands and feet, and you will see that dificulty and artist laziness of which you speak collapse in on itself to create a perfect fractal core of bad art from which no one can escape unmarred!
Some guy on the internet: Draws pregnant catbois
Some guy thousands of years in the future: ALIENS
Biggest problem with this theory: the aliens would have totally violated the Prime Directive.
oh pah-lease, that shit gets violated so regularly that it might as well be renamed the Prime Suggestion.
Aliens are bullshit !!!
very good. which is why they've not shown right the fuck up in public yet.....
@@jeremiahdssdentmorgan3341 out of the unlimited size of the universe you don’t even think there’s at least the slightest possibility of some other life? Or some other miracle being like us? Aka aliens?
you got a point there.. do not mess around with civilisations at a lower technological level. give someone new useful technology and the first thing they will do is find out how to weaponise it. (especially if it gets into the claws of some countries on this planet..)
I always thought that Ancient Aliens was supposed to be kinda goofy... the history channel version of Cheers or Three is Company... until one day a friend said that he now believed that aliens had created humans and actually used the show as "evidence" to support his belief.
We stay far from those topics now... politics and religion are far safer subjects.
I look at ancient aliens the same way that I look at religious people.
Imo it is ridiculous and there is no evidence for their beliefs, but as long as their beliefs hurt nobody, who cares...
I'd like to know what you believe with regards to how everything came to be. To discredit religion without having your own beliefs is to make oneself look foolish.
@@dunnodatruth789 the same way worms would emerges if you live a fruit past it date
The problem is that what these people espouse is basically a cult/religion of modern making.
It's not even a million miles from Scientology.
@dunnodatruth789 - I consider religion to just be mythology that people believe, often times with less evidence than the Ancient Astronauts/Alien crowd base their beliefs on.
That said, the origin of reality is such a deep question, it feels mystical to me.
Also, I don't think conscious experience can be scientifically explained, even in principle--at least not in terms of anything physical. This kind of makes me think that it's a fundamental aspect of reality. Maybe the only "thing" that really exists. You could call conscious experience "mind", and I don't really mind calling that "God".
I mean, there's a lot more to the argument, but it's mostly philosophical in nature, and has a lot to do with the "Hard Problem of Consciousness", and the philsophical/scientific principle of parsimony.
I'd consider myself a metaphysical idealist, or maybe a nondualist. But I don't consider this a religious belief.
I'll say this for Von Daniken, he's a very good salesman. He had me convinced for about a month that he was on to something even though he didn't really present anything. He has my thanks for really nailing into me what exactly an argument from ignorance is by example.
Yes, von Dumkopf cured my of my belief [or want to believe] in all kinds of UFOlogy and the like.
i agree. I used to be into all of these ancient civilization stories, and for a little while faithfully bought everything graham hancock put out and watched ancient aliens. then I picked up von daniken's chariot of the gods. it reads like it's written by a child.
when I finished his book, I remember thinking, what the hell was that? I started to turn a more critical eye to the information being presented, and looked into the backgrounds of the people presenting.
it's the funniest thing, the people who pushed me away from idiotic ideas like ancient aliens are the very people making a living pushing this BS
He should be after going to prison for being a con man multiple times. Having a voiceover repeat what was just said in an astonished voice isn't evidence convicted thief.
They're all fraud just to make money it's awful
Also the read off cue cards cuz Giorgio talk so slow that you know they all talk so slow you can tell the reading off you guys it's all bulshit I just don't like to show until I watched debunking Ancient Aliens and it's just like that's how our world is today bunch of liars schemers and froud
Ancient aliens? Bunk!
I was born in 1961, grew up in the 70's, and was in junior high and high school in the period when Von Daniken's 'Chariots of the Gods' was a phenomenon. One of my junior high school teachers was fascinated by Von Daniken's work. As an impressionable kid (around 13 or 14) I was impressed by all the pseudo-scientific bs. I loved science fiction, and was a big Star Trek fan, so I was prepared to buy into all of the hype.
Later in high school, I asked one of my favorite science teachers what he thought of 'Chariots of the Gods', and Von Daniken's other books. His one word reply is unprintable.
I soon learned that all of the 'Ancient Alien' material was pseudo-science based on fakery and misrepresentation.
My favorite quote regarding Von Daniken is by Dr. Carl Sagan: “The kindest thing I can say about Von Daniken is that he ignores the science of archeology. Every time he sees something he can’t understand, he attributes it to extraterrestrial intelligence, and since he understands almost nothing, he sees evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence all over the planet."
I'm glad that you've taken the time to refute some of the nonsense perpetuated by the Ancient Alien community. Personally, I can't understand how anyone could fall for it, unless they are also impressionable teenagers. Heck, even most modern teenagers are too sophisticated for this tripe.
Keep up the good work, and best wishes,
It was entertainment and was mixed among great science fiction novels, the Twilight Zone and the fading dreams of the space race. Stupid has been taught in the US since then, shallow religious tripe meant to save god ideas and make wealth wealthier hiding in the curtains. It is criminal to make people ignorant on purpose.
patric44 I thought Sagan was entirely too kind to von Daniken. I preferred James Randi's comment about how racist von Daniken's ideas were in that von Daniken always assumed that _Non-European_ cultures were incapable of deep insight and innovation. Randi pointed out that von Daniken _never_ attributed the monumental works of European cultures to aliens.
"I cant understand how anyone could fall for it"
Meanwhile there's Flat Earth Conventions...
-60% of Americans believe in Noahs Flood
-Christians want creationism taught in school
-PragerU exists
-People still deny climate change
I was born in 1956, so pretty much the same as patric44. I read most of Von Daniken's books and was intrigued and researched what others had to say and soon realized that Von Daniken knew pretty much nothing about any of his subjects. The final nail was that when he wrote the books he had never had actually visited the sites that he had written about.
Daniken seemed to spin a convincing narrative: when I was 10 or so. At 11 or 12, I found Hal Lindsey's cartoon/Heavy Metal version of Biblical Prophecy convincing. Before both, it was UFO's. Afterward, Sagan's Cosmos. I got lucky with that last one. Some folks weren't/aren't as lucky. Which just makes Digital Hammarabi's contributions that much more valuable. Seriously, give them money. They earn it. That is all.
Ancient Aliens was the last straw for me as far as the History Channel goes. I used to be hooked on all their docs on WW2 and Ancient Rome. Now, all they do is peddle BS to con laymen and get ratings. Bah!
I wonder if the real scientists that they use to peddle Woo could get their videos banned, or maybe sue them for character assassination.
@@JMM33RanMA yeah, they use selective editing and the like to make their BS seem more credible. If I was a mainstream expert I wouldn't even go on those shows. Imo, it's kinda like how Ray Comfort uses editing to make the scientists and atheists he interviews to badically quote mine them. Bah!
That's the formula that's profitable, unfortunately. Curiosity Stream looks fascinating!
@@doelbaughman1924 that's sad but true :(
Yeah, Curiosity Stream looks really good
Finally, a video analyzing Ancient Aliens for it’s fraudulent claims! It’s so hard just to find one video on RUclips that debunks this show. And yeah, there is that 3 hour film called “Ancient Aliens Debunked,” which does offer factual information, but it was made by a creationist who also was promoting his own views. So thank you for doing this from a non-religious perspective
Are you implying that if someone has religious beliefs they can't research historical and empirical evidence and facts?
Regardless of his world view, at the very beginning of the video "Ancient Aliens Debunked" he said that he was not claiming that alien life does not exist, just that the claims made by the History Channel program are false.
When he made reference to what is written in the Bible, he was pointing out that, (weather you believe the Bible is true or not) what Ancient Aliens was was implying about the meaning of what it says is false and not implying any religious views. You can point out that the Bible was correct when it said, long before anyone else did, to wash yourself after examining a sick person. That's correct without any religious implications.
Next to nothing he said was presented from a religious point of view and when he did, at the last of the video, offer his view on the "Sons of God" he was clear about it being his opinion.
Most of the founders science had strong religious beliefs and it did nothing to hinder their scientific abilities. Let's not dislike hearing what Newton, Einstein, Galileo and those like them proved because they had religious views.
Ancient aliens debunked gives a thorough and factual account of the stories hyped on Ancient aliens, regardless of the authors beliefs. I am really enjoying this video, but the Ancient Aliens debunked video is quite good.
He doesn't bring up any creationist stuff in the whole 3 hours. You're a fucking baby
@@richardrogers668
To be honest I watched all of that Ancient Aleins Debunked video and I don't even recall the religious element to it, so it can't have been very significant.
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Thank you for actually pointing out the time disparity between SUMERIAN and NEO-ASSYRIAN. I hate when people conflate.
It doesn't help that they are all grouped as Mesopotamian which makes it easier to conflate the different civilisations and empires that existed in the region.
When needed, “ancient” is all one time and place to pseudo-archaeologists
Wow - Look how similar those statues of people look - it's almost as if they are based on the same being - amazing
13 seasons of Ancient Aliens ...13. It hurts to think that over a decade of this show is out there,
And only one season of Firefly
It's 16 now.
ancient aliens is an entertaining show, but that's all it is. they show theories and ideas for unexplained or weird things, what you do with them is your business, they do not claim to be factual. personally I find it to be quite entertaining. some things are obvious nonsense, but other thins are actually interesting in the fact that it is unexplained. (like: what happened in Roswell, new Mexico? what are those lights zipping around in different parts of the world? (CIA's toys for big boys out of area 51? not likely?) how come legends and recorded information from civilisations from different parts of the world show the exact same unexplained things? quite interesting, what it is, why and how it's possible are open questions that nobody have found an answer to yet.)
I agree
And they are all repeats. They just throw in a scene from another show and call it new.
If I was a super advanced alien civilization I would definitely travel across the universe to super inefficient megalithic structures.
To be fair, I have access to air conditioning and VR. Yet I still walk into my muggy and humid backwoods looking for beetles and sticks that look like swords. Unga bunga caveman mode is fun.
Aliens would want to keep their best technology to themselves. They would not want earthling ruling over them. They would more likely want to be in charge if they existed.
i think because no matter how advanced you are if you want to leave a message or mark of your presence, megalithic structures are the ones where that information last longer, we had that in 1500s when Portuguese used to leave a mark of their discoveries with a stone pillar lto record significant landfalls and thereby establish primacy and possession, after more than 2000 years humans were still doing it. Today everything is digital and if tomorrow that disappear we dont have other proof of what we are doing today.
Used to be fascinated by this show when I was a teenager, but now I find the actual history of the ancient world far more fascinating, the fact that we built an entire global civilization over the span of 10.000 years is way cooler than some UFO theories that hold absolutely no water.
6000 years is more correct
@@ricochetsixtyten not even remotely true. That subhuman middle Eastern mythology contradicts itself and reality.
@@ricochetsixtyten Göbeklitepe proves civilization, in some form, has existed far before that date and truthfully, civilization is far older and more mysterious than what has been previously believed.. Çatalhöyük alone was founded in 7500 BC..
@@ricochetsixtyten but I 100% agree that aliens are not need to explain the past. I personally believe our human history is so much more than what we've discovered, but regardless it's absolutely an amazing subject to explore!
@@SonOfTheDawn515 civilization, as in written languages, cities, international trade, militaries, agriculture, metallurgy, etc generally began around 3500-3000bce. Anything before that is considered pre-history, or pre-pottery neolithic, i.e. the stone age.
History is a brief blip of a few thousand years.
the fact that this bullshit show has went on 14 seasons and still running with mass popularity, is absolutely horrifying.
The indoctrinating propaganda is endless with the mainstream media !!!
Congratulations on winning the fight and right to have your scholarship and analysis brought to a public audience on this platform.
Trevor Lunn
What happened? I missed it.
@@MMAGamblingTips I think, from comments below, that they had a copyright claim against them.
Oh wow. They got a copyright claim? Those Ancient Alien “experts” are terrible.
Viridiana Cortes Yeah and RUclips is trying to get ride of the fair use law I’d assume since this rise of Political Correctness. I hate the Ancient Alien Theory since I have friends and meet people that believe in this bullshit meme.
@@GreatTruth123 nonsense
This is great, good job.. It's not a copyright issue. This is a ' you're making us look stupid' issue.
Please continue degrading corporate ego.
The pictured Armadillo clearly lost a lot of weight on the Ark.
I might use it to start my "Noah's diet " weight loss centers TM, I'll just lock people in a wooden box that can't possibly store enough food for everyone; money up front please!
Regarding the position of the hands, might it be an artifact of the medium & crafting techniques they were using? It might be difficult to carve the arms anywhere but directly attached to the body & there are only so many places you can put the arms & hands.
That’s an excellent point, and I’m sure has something to do with it!
I sculpted out of Clay for years... And I found that I kept putting them in the same pose for a while...
I was complelty conscious of it... Untill about the 5th one...
And yes it was to make the pose interesting but structured to be sturdy.. As the were clay!
The way the ancient aliens narrator prefaces everything with "imagine if......" in every episode is rather a give away
“Were ancient aliens libertarians? Conservative alien experts say yes.”
So...1/2 way through and I want to see more like this. Great job, Megan!
Thank you! I’ll definitely do more in the future ☺️
Everyone share and reshare this video. Let's get it up in the metrics. Fb. Twitter. Reddit. Everywhere you can share thumbs up and reshare.
Yeah!!! So glad you were able to get this video online so soon!
This video was perfect. You covered that ridiculous episode amazingly. Loved it!!
The only history in the history channel is history.
My 6 year old niece would absolutely love it if the moon was populated by rainbow unicorns!
I've never watched an episode of the hopelessly poor scholarship, which is why I love your channel, so that I don't have to watch junk like AE. Thank you for doing this, I'm glad the copyright issue was resolved.
(by the way, a biologist would ask how the heck the alien chromosomes are supposed to pair with human chromosomes).
"[H]ow the heck the alien chromosomes are supposed to pair with human chromosomes?" Magic of course, i.e. God done did it!!!
They're an advanced civilization who seeded life on earth, after they made and then nuked the dinosaurs. They wanted something of them to live on and one day they'll return for us 😂😂😂.
Latin rhinoceros unicornis was what they called one horned rhinoceros.
Given that Gobekli Tepe was not a tomb site or a settlement, I suspect it was a temple where the people of the area would come and gather together for festivals and ceremonies, & together over many years they came to build a place like this.
In this manner, with slow improvements over many years even a hunter gather society could pull off something like this.
An early example of humans coming together to build stuff, something we have have always done & still do.
Yay! I'm Soo glad they removed the copyright strike so quickly! Whoo hoo!
The original History Channel: *Shows & Documentaries about real history*
The modern History Channel: "ALIIIIIEEEEEENNNNNNSSSSS!!!!!!!111"
Hey, we just got bored between hunts and got a little carried away with seeing who could build the coolest clubhouse.
Could this be true? Ancient Clubhouse theorists say "yes".
And Archeologists always jump on the religious explanation for everything. That was the main thrust of my comment.
Thank you for exposing this
Been trying to put something like this together for a long time to tell people how imaginative these guys are
When I was a kid, all this seemed so real. I even had that Time life series, Mysteries of the Unknown. Then I turned 12.
i think the funniest part of the whole statue hand position thing is that they're using it to promote the concept of inhuman entities while it itself is likely the most human thing an artist could do.
as an artist looking at those statues i can practically hear the artist's pain as they try to carve a human figure out of a rock with such limited tools, skills, and materials. they probably took one look at what they were trying to do in their restrictive medium and made the hands in the simplest way they could without it looking like trash.
those hands reek of being the ancient statue-carver equivalent of artists now days shoving character's hands into their pockets so they don't have to draw them, i can feel it in my soul.
The statues at Gobekle Tepe and Rapa Nui ("Easter Island") have similar positions and the hands seem idle. In the others, the hands are doing something.
I love how the show uses the Easter Island statues and Göbekli Tepe as proof of some global civilisation due to the hands being "similar" but justs ignores the fact that there's a 11,000-13,000 year time difference between the two, lol. I'm sure all the other statues have wildly different time differences between them too.
The whole jumping to conclusions about it being Aliens makes sense when you realize these guys make a living out of people believing aliens exist
Dont forget they fired David Wilcock because he realized the bible is true and he is in fact a Christian, The Gews that own the show did not like that. Remember Satan hates the truth and his children will always try to hide it.
Finally the video is back up !
Excellent video. Nice to see a reasoned rebuttal to Ancient Aliens.
Wonderfully done! I'm so glad you got the copyright strike removed. I would love if you did more stuff on he misuse of ancient culture for modern woo. Assuming it doesn't wreak havoc with your sanity!
'Clause Schmidt, the archaeologist...' GREAT!
Did they concentrate the interview on him?
No.
The History Channel used to cover history (imagine that). Now they are just another point and laugh channel.
Great video. Subscribed.
he passed away yrs ago
YES!!! It's finally released! Congrats Megan! Appreciate the hard work.
Thank you!
Yeaa, got to watch it!! Reality is so much more exciting even if all of the reality is still not known yet.
The reason their arms and hands are carved so close to the body is because it's more efficient than getting a much larger stone to carve the limbs further extended, and attaching arms after the carving is likely to fall off
Thank you my son loves watching ancient aliens being corrected he's 12
Oh that’s amazing! I’m really glad 😁
The fact this video and channel doesn't have a larger view count is criminal. Very thorough and no mud slinging - facts always win out, awesome work!
One more thing, regarding the Totem at the end, they show asserted that the 2 faces were destroyed deliberately; but they provide no proof, or even evidence, that the damage was deliberate, and not just accidental.
Another thing with this, they claim the totem was created to tell the story of human creation by an alien breeding program, but if the totems were created explicitly to tell the future this, why would they try to destroy the evidence by damaging the faces that would tell this story?
Glad you got the video back up! Loved it, hope to see many more!
Ah, I see why they wanted to get rid of your video... Great work.
A friend of a friend of mine’s cousin knew a bloke who’s first husband’s second wife, he’d previously been married and divorced, had a job working in a government facility where she had a very strange experience after watching Ancient Aliens.
She’d been self-isolating and had been cheering herself up with wine and pills from the doctor that chilled her right out but made everything seem a bit vague and slightly frustrating.
Anyway she’d been binging Ancient Aliens and ended up waffling on about this nonsense and some other bollocks and posting things on Facebook while she was pissed.
Can I give you guys a few thumbs up for having logic?
I'm no way near a PhD evolutionary biologist but I know enough about evolution to know that there is no trace of "alien influence" in the human genome. Simple enough to see that kind of tampering when you compare our genome to other primates.
Where the meme (the ancient alien stuff is basically 19th century lost tribe of Israel racism): Stone Hedge = Magic *any other darker skinned people* Aliens!
@@JosephKeenanisme Well, there is genetic evidence of Humans mating with non-Homo sapiens sapiens, that is Neanderthals and Denisovans.
@@JMM33RanMA There is however objective evidence of those hominid species ;).
Funny thing is it means humans had to be closer to Neanderthals than we are to other primates... what's the horse hybrid? Mule? Donkey? Would mean we were closer genetically than that horse hybred to be able to have offspring that could breed.
@@JosephKeenanisme I was trying to be humorous. I have often found that the conspiracy and Ancient Aliens nuts will actually avoid real evidence in favor of their crackpot "evidence." They prefer alien gene mutation and completely ignore the real cross species mixing, just as they make elaborate and utterly implausible 9/11 conspiracies but ignore the real and well-known criminal conspiracy in the New York construction trades. If this isn't exactly the same as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, it should be called Däniken-Sitchens Dementia.
Great video! I would like to see more of this type of content from you guys. Either with more Ancient Aliens or with other History Channel's pseudo-history shows like: Curse of Oak Island (which I like to call affectionally "Grasping at Straws, the tv show"), or some of their other "Templar are secretely the illuminati and still around nowadays"-shows... They all make grand assertions and butcher scholarly work and history.
Unfortunately, this isn't new. Galen complained about producing nonsense and peddling it as his work.
Citation: Richard Carrier on science and plagiarism in ancient Rome
Superb analysis - very well done! I was still studying when they excevated it.
Personnally I love Ancient Aliens. When I stumble upon it, I'm like "cool, I'll have a good laugh". And at the end of the episode, I'm like "damn, this was incredible".
But well, they use the multi layers technique. A layer of true, a layer of fake...and suggestions and oriented questions. So I watch back from.a distance.
But it's still fun to watch these guys and their fuzzy theories 😅😅😅
Nice to see strike has been lifted! I’ve been looking forward to this!
OOOOOH!
THANK YOU 💕
I'm One of those "Armchair Explorers of Unusual Articles" : That is:
I Love the stuff; Eat It Up; Don't Believe a Jot of It 😸
I enjoy the History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" program for a number of, "Personal Fantasy Life" aspects. And, It inspires me to do Real-World research into the subjects discussed. Also, let's face it, It's just plain Fun. The Ancient Aliens Theorists Are a kind of "Religion " as Are Devout Skeptics of all "Iffy" or "Unscientific" claims. For example:
We know, As A Fact, that: "Dinosaurs Don't Have Feathers, because; they are Too Big to Need them, and are Cold Blooded to boot!" I mean: It's a FACT! There's ZERO Evidences of the origins of Feathers found in Dinosaurs Fossils!
OOPS!
Here's what we really know about Dinosaurs;
Aliens from Space created Dinosaurs and Got disappointed with them never evolving beyond merely stupid brutes and, so; decided to wipe them All Out with nuclear weapons ~ as "Proven" by the High radiation levels in Dinosaur fossils! Then the Aliens created mankind and got angry with them and flooded the Earth and.....
NO! WAIT! That's from the History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" show! 🤪🤣😸🛸
Did I mention that I like the show? I just take it with a grain of salt (And a couple pints of Budweiser🤪).
It's sad that both skeptics and pseudoscience "LGM-worshippers" fail to just have Fun with These things!
Oh 🙀 BTW: What REAL Science Is, nowadays, saying about Dinosaurs:
They were Warm Blooded, Smart, Birds actually are Dinosaurs and (I, Seriously, Love This One)
T-REX WAS FLUFFY!
You hit the alien on the head 😂
“Very practical for hiding from a flood” 😂😂😂 I’m dying and it’s only 8 am. Thanks for this!!!!!!
Erich von Däniken has, to my knowledge, a degree or at least training in business administration, as he helped manage his family's hotel in Switzerland. Having read his books as a child and become a real archaeologist who ist currently writing his PhD, I find it refreshing on his part that he freely admits in Interviews that He makes it all up for entertainment. Not to defend his nonsense, but he seems at times afraid of his own most devoted followers.
He really admitted that?
@@aharonbaalshem
He uses lots of question marks
I saw a video earlier from 11 years ago that was over 3 hours long debunking ancient aliens. It only takes 5 minutes to debunk Georgio but watching it done for long periods is priceless. He even disrespected the blaster on the Roswell rock episode after the guy made a beautiful copy. Up until then his science fiction show was entertaining. Hair jokes went wild. I haven't watched it since the rock episode.
Cheese-eating rainbow unicorns on the moon are more credible than the 'ancient alien astronauts' theories.
I thought so :D
So unicorns are not true vegans? I did not know that
@LeeTubular
The Chinese are obviously trying to turn the moon into mooncakes! It's almost Chinese new year after all!
@@qzh00k only lunar unicorns. It was a successful survival strategy considering the abundance of green cheese and the lack of fodder in the form of grass. 😁
Well obviously unicorns are in the Bible aliens arent... joking
Educational, entertaining and thoroughly fun to watch.
Hi. While watching your video, which is excellent, I had on TV Ancient Aliens which twice a week on the "History Channel" (which is a joke) watching it with the sound off. You're so correct. Keep them coming!!
Great breakdown of these fables and good that strike was removed. Thank you DH channel.
Maybe a lesson in Qualifiers and how they are used when mixed with words in a sentence by a professional? But I'm not a dentist.
That’s an excellent idea, thank you ☺️
You covered it well, when one is used to presenting to a discrete audience that needs those qualifiers as lead in to their own research areas it useful, to others they imply insecurity in the information presented or holes in the dome? Keep on, you got this :)
Great video!! Love your work. All of it.
Those ancient carvings look a lot like children’s drawings, so an animal may not look exactly lifelike. The statues are very simplistic as well. It’s easier to carve a rectangular block of stone leaving it more or less a rectangle, and suggesting rather than actually sculpting features like arms and hands by positioning them against the body. Artist Constantin Brancusi made a similar called The Kiss in the early 1900’s.
Yes, I'm so happy this is out!
Megan's expressions won me over😂😂😂😂
beautifully done, Megan. Glad you won!
Could it be possible I am amazing? Ancient Alien theorists say a resounding YES.
Megan, Awesome Job!!! Maybe your most entertaining video yet!
Thank you, Seth!!
Yes agreed!
If anything the most awaited. I never liked this series, because the don't like to give ancient people any credit for having brains.
@@atbfilms5999 That is one of the "proofs" offered by Eric von Dumkopf and most of the others, that humans couldn't have done it. Another common "proof" that their "theory" is bunk is that Scientists reject it and are thus part of the conspiracy to cover it up. If there weren't already a name for their mental state, Dunning-Kruger Effect, it could be named the Däniken-Sitchens Dementia.
We need more of these videos! Do von dänken!
Maybe you did, but i'm new :)
Came here from shannon q
Edit: ah, so he is in it too :)
I am amazed how supernatural depictions are seen as evidence for them actually happening.
The assumption seems to be, that our ancestors were sooooo primitive they had nothing like... Idk... Imagination?
After all no one is doing an episode about bow hans giger has met aliens and his pictures of aliens even though they are INCREDIBLY detailed, amazing and imaginative.
I wonder why they haven't used artwork from Hindu temples to prove that blue multi-armed aliens visited Earth.
I love these videos of yours Megan.
Thank you so much!
Great video. I watched it using a drinking game. Every time you hear "possibly", "I suggest" or just "perhaps" I drink a shot. Every time they provide proof... I drink a coffee. I can't feel my legs anymore and need to sleep. I didn't really think this through... I really needed a coffee
this is such an awesome episode, thank you. i love it! -i saw you on mythvision, totally subscribed here too. -at one time i was a huge fan of ancient aliens, even though i wasn't totally buying it, it's like i "wanted" to believe, but knew it wasn't likely. i had no idea how many outright lies they told and how much they distorted the truth.
I would propose that there is a very simple explanation for the vague similarities of the positioning of the arms and hands. When you carve a figure out of a soft stone, it is impossible to carve realistic limbs, using primitive stone carving techniques, without the limbs breaking off . The positioning of the arms and hands, sort of "wrapped" around the torso is an obvious solution to the problem i.e. it is simply easier to carve a figure with arms and limbs using this design.
I think you focus too much on the credentials of the "experts".
In science, the argument should stand for itself, without devolving into a "I went to a better Uni than you"...
Their arguments have huge flaws, and it would have been more interesting if you had spent more time discussing and debunking their actual arguments.
Finally it's available! I was waiting for this one. It drives me nuts to see all that rubbish claimed to be scientific but instead it's just horseshit.
Thanks Megan and Dr. Josh. ❤️
Totem poles depict the lineage of various Northwestern Native American families. Like many similar peoples, they claim descent from various animals. How that works for ANY Native American nation is either lost or they aren't telling.
The statue they're going on about on the show bears a superficial resemblance to a totem pole. It might not have had anything to do with ancestry. The faces (hanging out there where they were vulnerable) probably damaged over time while the close-carved arms survived.
Very interesting, insightful and enjoyable video. Thank you.
Thank you Megan for your excellent presentation,critical work and commitment to truth.
That was awesomely put togeather and very well presented!!!!
Do more of these. Idk why people dont make these debuning videos. Very easy and entertaining.
This was the first one of your videos I've seen, it was really well done!
Thanks for putting it together 👍👍
The intro is absolute gold! "Could the moon be made of cheese and populated by unicorns?" Narrator: "Ancient Alien theorists say yes" LOL I spit iced tea all over my dam keyboard, I'm surprised it still works :D
Video starts out with bad production, but once it settles down the content is well worth the wait. Great info...thanks.
I recently watched some of these ancient alien architecture episodes on Netflix.
The aliens should have built something on the Moon facing Earth. That would have been much more persuasive.
The reason that they didn't is because aliens don't exist !!!
I don't disagree with your focus on qualifications but I am slightly torn. I have poor A-levels, an HNC in Civil Engineering and a 28 year career in geo-engineering but I have still accumulated a reasonable amount of knowledge in certain areas of archaeology and science. Maybe the difference is that I don't make up shit and tell everyone who'll listen that it is true.
It’s a valid criticism, and someone else made a similar comment. You can definitely have an expertise or high knowledge base without any formal education in that field; I suppose my main issue with this is that none of these experts seem to have any actual archaeological experience, or even experience outside ‘looking at stuff and making shit up’. Experience/personal research is DEFINITELY valid and important, but these guys have neither.
Digital Hammurabi Absolutely.
And don't get me wrong, if I wanted the answer to something I would ask a qualified expert first.
These sorts of deconstruction of pseudoscience are so very much needed these days. I particularly enjoyed the observations on the contrast between actual scolars and the cryptoheads and how it is used.
Keep it up.
Thanks Megan you are awesome, Oh and Josh as well. Cheers
I am an expert.
I wrote a book you never heard of, called "Arse from My Elbow; My Search for the Difference". Curse those fools at the Institute! Could this mean I come from Alpha Centauri from a race of sentient weasels? (According to Ancient Astronaut theorists)
Thank you for giving us back some of our freedom of the press with your time .
David Hatcher Childress is a world-class goof ball, incidentally.. Schoch is associated with the wholly misbegotten effort to misinterpret the Sphinx- especially the age of it. Joy.
I loved this video, was a pleasure to watch. I will say that I watch Ancient Aliens often and while it is easy to debunk their theories, it is impossible to say with certainty that Earth was not visited by aliens from another planet many centuries ago. I just don't see any evidence of it and would be impossible to prove. We humans believe in many things we can not prove, and usually television shows about those things are just as silly and easy to debunk :)
Btw... Love the content here. Thank you all for doing the work.
Season 12? You mean to tell me there are 12 seasons of this...
Seriously?
I know right?! And only one season of Firefly. It hurts.
There is more than 12 seasons of this crap show on the HISstory channel !!!
Entropy! I actually finished this thing sober. Now vodka needed... Much vodka.... Much much vodka...
One point of contention, you mention Derinkuyu as being in the Byzantium empire until the 1500s ce. And while the Byzantium empire did last that long, the area where Derinkuyu lays was likely under the Sultinate of Rum/Ottoman Empire since 1100 ce.
Hitchens razor: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
von Dumkopf's razor: Extraordinary claims are self-evident. Or was it clams?
that is a quote of Carl Sagan...