so my feel on phenominon like that is that humans were likely much much more advanced than most people think.
people 1000 years ago, or even 10,000 years ago had the same brains as us. same imagination, same capacity for intelligence. there's no reason to assume they couldn't do fantastic things then like we do today. maybe people back then had flying machines.
1000 years is a REALLY REALLY long time, more than enough time for evidence of such things to disappear. even metals will disintegrate into dust in a matter of decades.
the laws of physics and aeronautics have always been there, it seems kind of a stretch to me that in the 2million year history of humanity people didn't figure out how flight worked until 1903. same with electricity. it is possible that ancient societies could have been just as advanced as us. all of the things we've invented in the 20th century were to solve a problem or a need in relation to human existence, and those problems existed back then too
people needed food, people wanted comfort, people wanted safety, people needed transporation, people needed all the things then that we do today, and there's no reason to think it's impossible that they came up with similar ideas or ways of solving these problems.
i'm not saying they had an internet or a car or machine guns or anything. but they could have had ways to solve these problems that we can't wouldn't understand.
you know in the pyramids, there is no residue of soot inside? seems to suggest electric light right? and you're telling me the people who built the pyramids couldn't figure out that a heated filament would burn and create light? it is NOT POSSIBLE to move the bricks of the pyramid without mechanical assistance. seems to suggest some kind of hydraulic power. fluid dynamics is a law of the universe a law of physics...it didn't take until the the greeks to figure out how that worked.
got off track I guess but to say "advanced shit was because of aliens because ancient people were stupid" makes no sense to me
I agree with what you are saying, in some ways more than others our ancestors were as intelligent as we ourselves now gloat, especially when it came to natural phenomena and the natural environment, for instance medicinal herbs and (un)common sense, as we see with today's woefully benighted (think of the chronically deluded in the US who worship a certain former failed real estate business man from NYC). With the divorce many of us have with the natural environment and the amount of disinformation there is out there, this causes a dual estrangements from the natural world and the world of ordinary humans. I can go on and on about the ignorant and deluded, but in the end I believe they cannot be blamed for their inner nature - that of stupendous ignorance - their upbringing, and the condition of their environment - poverty does measurable damage in the brains of children and so much more.
I've spent some time in Peru and seen the unreal masonry of the Incas, and let me tell you, those stones, hell boulders, are cut with LASER precision and are so tightly fit you can't even slip a piece of paper between them! What I learned from the locals was these stones - boulders in size actually - namely the ones in Sacsayhuaman, a ruin above Cusco, were hauled from 30 km to the present site, which is surrounded by hilly and rugged terrain. And the real quandaries regarding the construction of Sacsayhuaman and Macchu Picchu were several.
Firstly, the Incas didn't have draft animals to haul those
immense boulders, we're talking 50 plus tons for some of them, and llamas or alpacas aren't really draft animals and are not as nice as people think. It would take hundreds of people to haul a single stone, and is somehow they could arrange themselves to do that, it would've been a 30 kilometer walk!
Secondly, the Incas didn't have the wheel to ease transportation.
Thirdly, the Incas didn't have access to any serious cutting metals, all they possessed were bronze and gold, which are not hard enough to hew the boulders PERFECTLY straight and together, without mortar! In addition to this, the foundations of Sacsayhuaman were arranged in a zig zag sort of pattern to brave earthquakes, and every foundation of Inca construct in the city of Cusco to this day still endures the earthquakes there!
There were other considerations which I've forgotten this day, but it's very difficult for me and many other far more learned to figure out how they did it?
But in our days and times ancient indigenous wisdom is dying out, not only in the Americas but around the world as we continue to flounder ahead towards an increasingly dystopian world....
I have yet to get into Egyptology, including their myths which are of great interest to me, heck, most if not all myths are my love and passion!
Pictured is a photo of the 12 angled stone in Cusco, Peru.
