MM, there's a reason their new tagline is "We Make History." Making shit up is so much cheaper than the alternative!
(Except I'm pretty sure the Ancient Astronaut show is bought-in from the BBC, which means I get to be embarrassed about it twice.)
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2009 4:42:19 am PDT #11226 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Miracleman - Mar 18, 2009 4:42:55 am PDT #11227 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
(Except I'm pretty sure the Ancient Astronaut show is bought-in from the BBC, which means I get to be embarrassed about it twice.)
So it's YOUR FAULT!!
Jessica - Mar 18, 2009 4:48:00 am PDT #11228 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh wait - Horizon: Case of the Ancient Astronauts was from 1977. So it's probably a new show cut from most of the same footage with new pseudoscientist interviews.
Miracleman - Mar 18, 2009 4:50:24 am PDT #11229 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I think what really galls me about most of these ancient astronaut wackjobs (aside from the fact that they get paid to be fucking retarded, while I do it for free) is the continuing refrain of "...and humans just couldn't have done that!"
Stonehenge: Rocks were moved miles! Big rocks! Miles! "Humans just couldn't have done that!"
Mayan calendars: Advanced. Highly mathematical. "Humans just couldn't have done that!"
Positing that the sun was the center of the solar system before Copernicus: "Humans just couldn't have done that!"
Gears in a box: "Humans just couldn't have done that!"
These people sit in front of cameras that reproduce their image and those images are recorded for active replay of their every motion and word later on and those replays will be broadcast through the air or over fiber-optic or coaxial cable to televisions all over the globe or into computers that are linked into the greatest communication tool ever conceived and tell me that our ancestors could NOT have figured out where the sun is or how to make clockwork or how to move rocks.
How am I typing this into a sophisticated multi-tasking computational device run on magic wall-lightning and sending it to you all if my ancestors were, evidently, functionally lobotomized ape-men peeing into their mouths all the time?
Oh, right! ALIENS GAVE US THE INTERNET!
Jessica - Mar 18, 2009 4:53:43 am PDT #11230 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
These people sit in front of cameras that reproduce their image and those images are recorded for active replay of their every motion and word later on and those replays will be broadcast through the air or over fiber-optic or coaxial cable to televisions all over the globe or into computers that are linked into the greatest communication tool ever conceived and tell me that our ancestors could NOT have figured out where the sun is or how to make clockwork or how to move rocks.
Oh go on - humans moving rocks? Without alien intervention?? Next you'll be telling me we invented the wheel and discovered fire!
Jessica - Mar 18, 2009 4:53:59 am PDT #11231 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also, Copernicus was an alien. Galileo too.
Miracleman - Mar 18, 2009 4:55:59 am PDT #11232 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Next you'll be telling me we invented the wheel and discovered fire!
No, our ancestors got the idea of the wheel from watching a HILARIOUS flying saucer crash. Fire was the result of a death ray demonstration.
Sue - Mar 18, 2009 4:58:04 am PDT #11233 of 30000
hip deep in pie
You guys, Chariots of the Gods is real!! Don't be silly.
Kat - Mar 18, 2009 4:58:18 am PDT #11234 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Next you'll be telling me we invented the wheel and discovered fire!
Wait. Didn't we get fire from Prometheus?
amych - Mar 18, 2009 4:58:42 am PDT #11235 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Prometheus?
Alien. Obviously.