ancient alien theories?

[a500lbgorilla]

ok ok guys. perhaps i was misleading in my original post. i have not jumped to any conclusions myself that 'omg i don't understand it, aliens must have done it!'
to clarify, i just think its perplexing that i can't find a solid scientific explanation of puma punku and other similar ancient world marvels. these sort of things have scientists, historians, archaeologists and the likes scratching their heads. <- might be flirting with the 'some people' aggregate. more or less, its just a fun topic of discussion. blaze me all you want internerds, but i'd rather have an actual discussion. perhaps i should rename this topic as 'lets talk about puma punku' or something because thats all i really want to do.

The scientific evidence is in the peer-reviewed articles. You should check them out if you're really interested in learning more. The difference between "some people" and "experts" is that some people are being interviewed by the History channel and the experts are publishing articles in scientific journals.

scholar.google.com

You don't get the luxury of saying "some people say it would be impossible" in a peer-reviewed publication. You have to say why it is impossible so that other people can reference you and your reasons.

edit I'd like to be clear about something - if historians, archaeologists and scientists alike are scratching their heads, then the reasons why would be published in scientific journals. You can't trust the word of the History channel that it's as big a mystery as they'd like you to believe. Remember, in the next half hour they'll claim that experts are baffled by ghosts.

[b-rabbit]

The scientific evidence is in the peer-reviewed articles.

the scientific evidence for what exactly?

anyways. in my search i stumbled across a different non-poker forum where the op shares similar views as me and is much more thorough. good pics as examples too.
Puma Punku

[a500lbgorilla]

the scientific evidence for what exactly?

anyways. in my search i stumbled across a different non-poker forum where the op shares similar views as me and is much more thorough. good pics as examples too.
Puma Punku

I don't really know as I haven't read them. But the best source you'll find on Puma Punku will be a peer-reviewed publication.

It's not a knock on you, I'm saying that if you were really interested in this stuff, you should google around on google scholar and see what you can find.

[Penneywize]

humans have only been able to fly for like the past 250 years or so

Am I missing something? wasn't the first powered flight in very early 1900s

[BennyLaRue]

Am I missing something? wasn't the first powered flight in very early 1900s

Hot air balloon, muthafucka!

(I wonder if those words have ever been put together before. I'd like to think not.)

[Jack Sawyer]

Am I missing something? wasn't the first powered flight in very early 1900s

LOL yeah, the Wright brothers was the first thing that came to mind. However, upon some digging, I found out that:

1)

The first generally recognized human flight took place in Paris in 1783. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes went 8 km (5 miles) in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers

2)

The first published paper on aviation was "Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air" by Emanuel Swedenborg published in 1716.

3) The first man to actually fly a heavier than air aircraft was a chap named Samuel Pierpont Langley, some time before the much more popular Wright brothers ever did.

I know "some people" frown at Wikipedia, but here's the link:
Aviation history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


While it is correct that the powered flight probably happened until the early 20th century, the theories and overall tech had to develop from since the people took to the skies, and that is why I rounded that number to about 250 years. But still, we have been able to accomplish a whole lot in a proverbial blink of an eye. I wonder what the future brings.