Could Ancient Aliens Have Really Existed?

[@sandybarnes887]

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]

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

[@GiraffeCrab]

@@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]

Last century memory? World Of Wonder 😃😄😁

[@davepowell7168]

​@@creed22solar123Tutankhamen ! 😂

[@phantomechelon3628]

I remember those days too! 😥

[@thewb8329]

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

[@Raygo.]

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

[@KonradTheWizzard]

@@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]

Also Stargate

[@davepowell7168]

The pissed one was only in one episode

[@cozmothemagician7243]

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.

[@AcornElectron]

Yes but probably not.

[@Radicalbutreasonable]

Tldr.

[@redneckshaman3099]

I'm addicted to pigger nussy 😻

[@GarrettFrechette]

The aliens probably had the Romans sign NDAs, idk.

[@DragonKingGaav]

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

[@phantomechelon3628]

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

[@austin65432]

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

[@ignitionfrn2223]

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

[@gso619]

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]

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]

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

[@MrAchile13]

@@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]

​@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]

@@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

[@erdossuitcase7667]

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

[@liwojenkins]

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]

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 .

[@ambers7440]

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

[@Tacom4ster]

Quinton Reviews already destroyed those racist theories that erases nonwhite culture kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJSWp6dnfNalpJY

[@ThatWriterKevin]

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

[@OrdinaryDude]

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]

Same. Almost had a stroke watching it.

[@justinwebb8831]

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

[@ThatWriterKevin]

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.

[@philly83]

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

[@NavyDood21]

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]

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

[@Chord_]

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]

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]

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

[@LisaAnn777]

​@@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]

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_]

@@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.

[@maryellencook9528]

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]

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.

[@freedompodcast4518]

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

[@Turd_Fergus0n]

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]

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]

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

[@Turd_Fergus0n]

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

[@dalelane1948]

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

[@creed22solar123]

@@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]

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]

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]

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

[@skleedleplotchnu3713]

@@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]

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

[@Marcopiano07]

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

[@laurensanford8629]

I miss the original channel name too!🎉

[@earlfrancart5687]

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

[@BriansCorner815]

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.

[@CrowBirdCannon]

"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.]

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

[@multiyapples]

I lost it at that.

[@geraldstiling3735]

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

[@liwojenkins]

Gears are as good as computers if made right.

[@TheOnlyGuermo]

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

[@7TheNumber7]

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

[@yanks7533]

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...

[@chrisshorten4406]

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.

[@jacquelynsmith2351]

"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]

I really appreciate this channel. Thanks Simon 😊

[@RyGuy13]

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.

[@whatthefunction9140]

Thank you

[@ThatWriterKevin]

You're welcome

[@Istandby666]

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

[@121Corey121]

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

[@kyleb4059]

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.

[@PeachM0de]

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

[@Raygo.]

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

[@mmerkley402]

Hmm just noticed the name change.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

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

[@darrenbishop92]

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

[@XiagraBalls]

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

[@southcoastinventors6583]

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

[@2l84t]

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

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

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

[@Chris-hx3om]

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

[@Raygo.]

@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.

[@Wormweed]

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

[@IlRyanWilsonlI]

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

[@dannyb7371]

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

[@bchin4005]

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

[@pattonmoore]

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

[@Perceptious37]

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

[@earlfrancart5687]

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

[@Velganice]

I think part of the problem is that some like to think that since people back then were primitive by our standards, then they weren't as smart as us. But they were us. Same brain power, same creativity, same ingenuity. Put enough people together with a common goal and some impressive shit can happen.

[@kathyclevenger1015]

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

[@John2r1]

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]

That's false

[@tomhenry897]

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

[@LaurieAnnCurry]

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

[@VO1D333]

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

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

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]

Or a Bronze Age boogeyman.

[@balazsvarga1823]

Where there is a whip, there is a way.

[@duncansouthern2255]

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]

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

[@lostbutfreesoul]

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.

[@chrisconner5777]

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

[@williamangeles9761]

The battery was for gold plating

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

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]

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

[@mikekeating]

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.]

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

[@patrickjorda5523]

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]

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

[@patrickjorda5523]

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

[@genxmum5569]

I love the idea of Nibiru and the Annunaki

[@curtislindsey1736]

Just noticed you changed the name of the channel

[@sam5miy]

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

[@honeybadger036]

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]

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

[@thetangieman3426]

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. 🧐

[@magus104]

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

[@Human_01]

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

[@jjasper7512]

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

[@hair_ofthedog5023]

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

[@ME-ke7qc]

well that burst my bubble about ancient aliens

[@megret1808]

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

[@duncancurtis5971]

Left hand drive only.

[@Raygo.]

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

[@01oo011]

One of Simon's favourite topics

[@l3lue7hunder12]

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]

Barbarians Like what is happening now

[@58singleman]

Two comments: 1. Historical Report: Chapter 1 of the book of Ezekiel ( Old Testament ) This is a report of an encounter with a "Flying Saucer " 3000 years ago. Since a saucer had not been invented 3000 years ago Ezekiel called it a big wheel in the sky. There are of course many versions of the Bible so the descriptions of the great wheel in the sky is different from book to book. What remains the same in most versions is that the wheel landed and 4 living "creatures" came out of the wheel. 2. At the Pyramids in Egypt, a great many stones appear to have been cut with a powered rotary saw. Some stonework is done with so much precision that it seems impossible for the Egyptian workmen to have accomplished it. Stuff on KZbin about this. Arthur C. Clark -- " Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

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?

[@PitboyHarmony1]

Methinks Simon actually enjoyed that one.

[@burieddreamer]

The issue is not the space being large, but the time being long. What if civilisations come and go, but seldom at the same time?

[@jsinope2786]

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

[@jadedcrusader1767]

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

[@TheeohnM]

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?

[@HorrorRabbit9019]

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 😂

[@JT-ls3ly]

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

[@georgejones3526]

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

[@alanmartinez45]

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!

[@theawesomeman9821]

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.

[@earlfrancart5687]

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

[@TRD-667]

Your title asks the wrong question, which should instead be about the validity (or otherwise) of the claims made about ancient aliens.

[@ozzyangel82]

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

[@reyalsregnava]

There's some great examples of people moving big rocks. Here's one guy building a Stonehenge by himself. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2bTi2qrh5upbsU 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.

[@sbsstorytelling]

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

[@marcelogaea1064]

All that 💩 came from ingesting ‘shrooms and other substances in our quest to find more sources of nourishment. Some likely died, some took trips 🛸👋🏻🤣

[@lawrenceolson5351]

I don't attribute advances in ancient cultures to aliens, but there is compelling evidence that the ancients may have been more advanced than we think. One location where this is evident is Puma Punku. Interlocking granite blocks which show signs of precision machine tooling, despite archeologists claims that the only tools available at the time were stone, wood and bone.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

These are far more interesting then the pyramids! Like you, I take it as a chance to marvel that what our ancestors where capable of. A sign of what our bio-processors are capable of even without advanced tools and the collective knowledge of generations on how to use them. Little bit of hope too, that we will carry forward the ability to observe and then do something that requires advance reason on our observation.

[@Whowascooley]

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

[@olencone4005]

It used to be The Science of Science Fiction.

[@Whowascooley]

@olencone4005 Ah! There we go. Thank you!

[@ahmedsouilm4618]

3:16 Yo H. P. LOVECRAFT looks exactly like Mark Zukerberg. Solid proof that ancient aliens existed who knows how many centuries this alien has been disguised as a human.😮😂

[@dwaynelangerhr6985]

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.

[@yt.personal.identification]

If there were lights on other planets, we have no way to detect it... yet.

[@SitInTheShayd]

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

[@ruin1619]

Could you make a video about railguns?

[@another3997]

Some ancient alien theorists have suggested that Donald Trump has an ancient alien on top of his head, masquerading as "hair". They propose that it is there to cause disruption on a global scale. However, the general consensus amongst sceptics is that it's actually just an old, sleepy, ginger cat. But everyone agrees, whatever it is... it has a much higher IQ than Donald himself. 😂

[@Drew-bc7zj]

I like the cat theory. The orange crap on his face is rancid cat piss.

[@TheRetroEngine]

"bit of a helping hand"

[@DNS-FRANK09]

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

[@Unknownagon]

but what is on the other side of the moon?

[@michaelb1761]

More moon!

[@TheKulu42]

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]

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

[@vipbaepsae]

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?

[@RHCole]

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

[@MrLinconn]

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