The 'Ancient Aliens' Idea is More Realistic Than You'd Expect...

Are ancient alien theories pure fantasy or a lost truth? From pyramids to myths, history is full of mysteries that defy explanation. Could we have had a little extraterrestrial help?
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[@nothingruler14All]

I'd like to point out that just because our ancestors lacked some of the knowledge we have, does not mean they were stupid. Intelligence and knowledge are entirely different things. In addition, they lived in an environment that was less forgiving and required more ingenuity.

[@jeremyscungio16]

Also most everything someone learned was passed on and taught. Like reading is now. 500 years ago it was rare to read now it's rare to be illiterate

[@nukiesduke6868]

I mean if you take away smart phones, cars and electricity 90% of the population would be too dumb to survive.

[@justanamerican9024]

A pet peeve of mine is people saying the humans 'could not' do something because they were "primitive". Evidence the pyramids were made by humans is a drawing of an Egyptian supervisor on a stone at the top of a pyramid showing him with huge hard on. A sentiment we all can relate to.

[@martinportelance138]

Precisely. They had the intelligence, the perception and the time. With next to no luminal or atmospheric pollution, stars were likely very bright at that time, and there was nothing to do at night but to examine the starry sky.

[@justanamerican9024]

@@martinportelance138 No TV; Computers; "smart" phones= pyramids!

[@mbathroom1]

last time I was this early, the history channel covered history

[@Fevebblefester]

No one has ever been that early.

[@mbathroom1]

@@Fevebblefester lol

[@ku8721]

@@Fevebblefester No it used to play real things, but so long ago that the real History Channel could be a feature on the new one! When did I get old?!?

[@Dewey_Cheatum_and_Howe]

The last time I was this early, the dead sea was still sick!

[@mbathroom1]

@@Dewey_Cheatum_and_Howe great one!

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

I half expected to get ‘Rick Rolled’ upon clicking this video.

[@Lord_Ralph]

You and me, both.

[@willmfrank]

Except...A SimonRoll would probably autodirect to a clip of BlazeBoi shouting "Am I RIGHT, Peter?!"

[@Lord_Ralph]

@ 🤣🤣🤣

[@NathanAmiel]

Fallen angels = aliens. Its not that hard. Jesus Christ rose from the dead and destroyed them.

[@KingSlat730]

neva gonna give neva onna give

[@KhaoticKalm]

“My name is Simon and my alien captors have treated me well…”

[@Arlen.Kundert]

5:11 that’s 1/2 of the problem. The other half of the problem is that so many modern people today are much, much dumber than we’ve falsely believed ancient people to be.

[@BeckiLynn_N]

I like your statement that these mysterious things in our world deserve a close look. Our ancestors were ingenious, resourceful, and thought differently. We can still learn a vast amount of knowledge from them.

[@grandaddyoe1434]

Quite . . . . but what might that be ? If we look for what we don't know about, what do we look for ? Would we even recognise what we need to learn, if we found it ?

[@BeckiLynn_N]

@grandaddyoe1434 , that's a great point. As I've gotten older, I've realized that the sciences don't work in isolation. It's takes dozens of disciplines to come together to get a complete picture. Sometimes, it's just a random thought from a tangential branch that brings it all together.

[@obelic71]

2 recent now extinct technologies proof your hypothesis. 75 years ago handmanufacturing plain bearings for driverods of steam locomotives was a normal thing every mechanic in the shop could do. 65 years ago the famous Saturn 5 rocket J engines can't be reproduced today!

[@NathanAmiel]

@@BeckiLynn_N Just read the Bible. It has all the answers and more.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

They took vast amounts of, um, pharmaceuticals. Awesome!

[@JohnGDoe-rn9yd]

The one thing I think is forgotten is 'Time'. We expect a house to be built in months, a road in weeks, a brick wall in days. We seem to have missed the point that quite a few of these wonders may have been constructed over generations.

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@JohnGDoe-rn9yd according to the mainstream narrative of Egyptology the Great Pyramid of Giza was built in about 25 years.

[@Maibuwolf]

@@ChrisCTurner10 Considering their level of technology 25 years seems like a reasonable amount of time.

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@Maibuwolf their level of technology is believed by those same egyptologists to have involved only ramps as force multipliers and otherwise pure brute force of humans would have needed to be applied to each stone being placed every few minutes around the clock 24/7 with no interruptions for that entire time to build just the great pyramid.

[@Maibuwolf]

@ While it is obviously difficult to say what their exact tech level would be with any real certainty, i would expect them to have had better than just ramps. They had been building pyramids for some time at this point in their civilization. One would think they had learned a thing or two along the way.

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@Maibuwolf according to mainstream Egyptology the Great Pyramid was one of the earliest built. I believe it is considered 6th out of 43. Somehow they did their best work in the beginning of their civilization followed by construction in later centuries that isn’t even close to same scale, precision, etc.

[@jordansrowles]

2:48 that’s not stonehenge

[@killemall69]

Thank u

[@Mjfox3145]

Beat me to it. Stone Henge is on the open Salisbury plain, not in a wooded clearing

[@gh8447]

you're correct, it's not The Stonehenge, but it _is_ a stone henge none the less. There's _lots_ of henges of various types throughout Europe, it's just that the one known as The Stonehenge is the most notable.

[@goobytron2888]

Well said!

[@jimmyzhao2673]

It looks like a stonehenge to me.

[@intzbk1]

"Ancient Alien Theorists believe"... drink. Watching Ancient Aliens and drinking a shot every time they say that will get you drunk pretty quick.

[@the-chillian]

I started out tutting at this supposed lunacy, and I'm still tutting it at the end. The very first argument presented is lunatic: "We can't explain this, therefore aliens." It didn't help that the image the editor chose was of one of the Giza pyramids, which is pretty easily explained, actually. They used the same image for "The Great Pyramid". It's not the Great Pyramid. It's the second pyramid, instantly recognizable by the remnant of outer cladding near its peak, which is entirely absent from the Great Pyramid. No, its alignment with the cardinal points would not be a struggle for modern engineering. The geoglyphs of the Nazca plains have only been "puzzling" people since the mid-20th century, when researchers realized they were actual shapes rather than roads or an irrigation system. The navigation guide claim is absurd. I don't know what that is at 2:50, but it ain't Stonehenge. Holy shit, "charted the movements of Venus without telescopes"? You mean, they somehow tracked the position of the brightest and most easily spotted object in the night sky? Come on, this has reached the point of stupidity. If ancient knowledge "defied expectations", its solely because of the modern arrogant assumption that the people of the past were uniformly ignorant savages who couldn't possibly have learned anything. It's idiotic. I could go on. It's not the premise, but the facts presented in videos like this where I already know a considerable amount about the subjects being presented, that make me take everything Simon presents with a massive grain of salt.

[@yusefs3550]

While the topics at hand could be easily explainable except the ancient civilization knowing about another star system not seen by the naked eye. Its not outlandish that ancient humans had contact with aliens. I mean, that is what a lot of major religions are based on. Humans seeing ufos and entities and being told about a higher creator. Angles... all they are basically aliens

[@Titus9508]

Absolutely correct, want to set out the cardinal points? Three tall straight poles a few torches and campfires and a clear night long enough to see stars rise and fall. The rest is common sense and basic geometry.

[@michaelb1761]

The Nazca lines aren't even remotely difficult. I've seen much more intricate designs trampled into snow by a single person in a few hours. Yes, the objects in the snow are much smaller, only a few hundred feet across, but drawing stick figures that only a parent would praise should be much simpler.

[@MrBrock314]

@@Titus9508 You should try building it before saying it's easy. The Great Pyramid would exceed modern building codes in exactness. It's perfectly square to 35/3600th of a degree. You'd be lucky to get that precision using a laser. It's not impossible but your average building does not meet those standards.

[@MrBrock314]

Charting Venus without a telescope is harder than you're letting on. Venus is tagged the "morning and evening star" because it's only easily visible at those times. To chart its course is a lot harder than just watching it overnight since it's not visible all night easily without a telescope.

[@SingleMaltGamer]

Time travellers is my personal "hey let's entertain this" idea for several of the myths of ancient societies. The Greek/Roman myths in particular: gods are fallible, can communicate with us, understand human nature, produce offspring with humans, decide to leave us after a time of being among us, and even the fact they took an interest in humans is very human.

[@binkwillans5138]

Maybe they even helped design and build the pyramids and stonehenge so that modern history books would be correct?

[@solank7620]

Must have been the X-Men.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Zeus was a very well known horndog. What's to say he wasn't an ET visitor that Captain Kirk'd with the locals?

[@MG-gj7pv]

Aliens: *build ships to travel across the universe and make contact with alien species* Also aliens: sup y’all wanna move some rocks?

[@jaquestraw1]

😂

[@farmerlarbear2244]

How do you know they came from across the universe? Maybe they’ve always been here? Maybe they’re inter dimensional? Who knows? But there are thousands of yrs of “mythology” that are eerily similar to sightings reported by numerous astronauts,numerous fighter pilots,comercial pilots,physicists,Nuclear missile officers,Delta Operators, and so on. All those people must be nuts,right?

[@panderson9561]

Maybe they don't have rocks on their home planet?

[@MindBodySoulOk]

Fascinating eggskull

[@JerraNoid]

Go back in time with a smart phone and the dirt monkeys would try to eat it. Not impressed at ALL. But do some massive stone work and it shows that YOU are in charge. Take a look at Washington D.C. There's obelisks, huge columns everywhere, over sized monuments, etc. All massive stone work. Why? To tell everyone: We Are In Charge.

[@hrzrysglz5619]

Im a defender of the whole " Ancient Aliens are not imposible but improbable" idea, but im sorry, but as a fan of this channel this was the most surface level topic video on this matter (i know that might be the intent). Making the repeated ascertions others have been stating as fact when there have been multiple debunked demonstrations, like the "it couldnt even be built without modern tools". Like if these people didnt have all the time in the world to figure out how to square up a boulder and lift it n top of each other. (there is a few videos of a dude splitting a boulder with a bunch o' chisels...tell me that is a modern tool, even for the "bronze age")

[@BuildinWings]

It's also pretty bigoted. You rarely hear this theory said about europeans. Only "those people" who "weren't smart enough."

[@fleetingfacet]

He obviously has a bias.

[@fleetingfacet]

@@BuildinWings Regardless, some ancients cultures invented the wheel and others did not. Perhaps the wheel is overrated, or perhaps those who didn't invent it had some brain damage due to some poor water supply. Who knows?

[@robrick9361]

@@BuildinWings That's cause Europe is actually a very recent development in human history. We know pretty much everything there is to know, there's no mystery. Stop trying to find bigotry under every rock, it's very childish.

[@dipswewon4701]

@@fleetingfacet to utilise wheels you needed a flat hard surface to use it on, so any culture situated in a wet, rugged or otherwise unsuitable terrain would not have much use for it.

[@michaelgruber5938]

Alien mission: Travel many light years, build some pyramids or stonehedges, tell some astronomical trivia, leave?

[@GÓRAL-o2j]

So, if you visited an alien planet and aliens living there would be in a stone age, you would be teaching them, how to build computers?

[@antonvrb1510]

​@@GÓRAL-o2j Fair point. Just putting my theory down in this tiny part of the internet as a reply to you for no good reason. They do not come from a different place, but from a different dimension. We live right next to billions of dimensions, there is really just microns to pass through, not billions of miles.

[@paulford9120]

Gotta admit it's pretty laughable.

[@TheMrDarius]

@@antonvrb1510I don't wanna be that guy but a theory is something proven through the scientific method with multiple sources. I do believe you meant to say hypothesis. It is your hypothesis that it is that. I'm sorry man I just had to say it that way we can all be on the same page.

[@madalinmaximilian6899]

I got you .. I really do .. But .. Everything happen maybe 8000 to 12.000 years ago.. all the information that remained is just the tip of the spear ..

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

No 'experts' believe cutting the H blocks would require diamond tipped tools.

[@timsytanker]

Yep, give a skilled guy one job, from dusk until dawn, every day for year after year and even with basic tools he can produce something truly amazing.

[@501Mobius]

One of the biggest mysteries is why can the aliens cross hundreds of light years of space but often crash when they get to earth.

[@orbitaljellyfish808]

Probably the differences between characteristics of their home world(s) and ours; could be the presence or absence of countless variables; matter, forces, radiation, and/or things beyond our current ability to detect let alone understand let alone control. Our collective human mental noise, for instance, could be like navigation jamming to UFO craft. Just imagine trying to mow a lawn with a Mariah Carey wannabe screaming scales in your ears. Next thing ya know your own toes get cut off 😂

[@ayembic7933]

comets would glow and crash land, they'd also contain metals and minerals that ancient people wouldn't recognise

[@collguyjoe99]

Aliens be tired with no Intergalactic Dunkins coffee in the warp

[@RobertHawthorne]

Most of the UFO's you see in pictures or video's are small. No bigger than 2 man/being craft. Assuming the two creatures in the craft were male/female pairs. After a light years long trip together in a cramped ship, the couple were most likely pretty ticked off with each other. Madness had set in and the ensuing fight ended up crashing the ship. This is why you should always plan frequent stops when traveling long distances with a significant other if you don't want to end up single again and or maybe in jail.

[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

The only explanation is that Earth is the equivalent of a small village in galactic terms, and the only Aliens who visit us are actually drunk teens on drug fuelled benders who happened to veer wildly offcourse and crash into out planet. Or it's all bullshit. 😂😂😂

[@thebrain31]

Blink twice if you’ve been kidnapped, Fact Boy.

[@79Cody440]

HaHa.

[@ScottLovenberg]

Plot twist! Danny has Simon in his basement and he's forced to read scripts if he wants to eat.

[@NathanAmiel]

You guys do realize aliens are just fallen angels. How hard is it to realize you've been lied to your whole life?

[@thechrisandphaedrusshow]

@@NathanAmiel I don't read the bible....too many lies.

[@NathanAmiel]

@thechrisandphaedrusshow Well. You'll find out on judgment day how little you knew.

[@tacyak198]

Years ago I had to do a collapse rescue class. During part of the class we had to move a 5 ton block of concrete through an obstacle course (including passing it under a 3 ton block we had to raise, and up over other blocks). We had nothing but ropes, rollers and some wood. It was very doable and firmly answered my ‘how did they do that’ questions about ancient stone architecture. I think a lot of what people did ‘back in the day’ is simply because they had little else to do when they weren’t growing food.

[@MisterPatel]

Spot on

[@PelenTan]

5 ton. Do that with an 80 ton.

[@rayhinto]

And you believe big bang made the universe i bet...

[@carlgibson285]

​@@PelenTan there was an experiment done a while ago where one guy by himself managed to move a 5 ton block of stone using nothing but ropes and rollers, so 80 tons would've been no problem for the Egyptians who had a workforce of thousands working on the pyramids.

[@wolfmantroy6601]

@@carlgibson285 You obviously have no understanding of how much 160,000 pounds is. It would very much be a problem to move with only primitive tools.

[@jackietreehorn]

I'm slowly watching the channels that I once looked upon as the cutting edge of knowledge, slowly devolve into Ancient Aliens.

[@ZackeryStang]

Simon has a giant flinch every time a other worldly being is mentioned 😂

[@DragonKingGaav]

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

[@ronray4294]

it must be true, then

[@NathanAmiel]

Aliens are fallen angels. Read the Bible

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

👽

[@dmo848]

​@@ronray4294crazy ass it sounds but yeah it's crazy folks were right all along

[@ericvanvlandren8987]

I think it is fairly well established at this point, Simon, that the workers who built the pyramids were not slaves but instead were regular workers that were paid for their labor.

[@mythrapi73]

who established that? whoever it was they are WRONG besides there's evidence the pyramids were built thousands of years even before the Pharohs arrived

[@DekesDiveClub]

Yup

[@goskateboarding1412]

Let’s talk about this. The labor is exchanged with what? What would make you work in the hot desert every day, moving and precisely arranging huge rocks that weigh thousands of pounds? Maybe food and/or water? How many workers are we talking about ? Hundreds? Thousands? How long do these projects take to complete? How many folks die during construction? Lots of risks for this “job” and this would require lots of agriculture and also implies there was a monopoly on resources, that someone had all of it to offer these “workers” you mention. I thought most folks grew their own food though 🤔 I don’t think it was slaves or paid laborers. We would have to have all been on the same page so much so that everyone was doing it for some greater cause. Makes me think of the theory that humans have a “worship” gene inside of us that drives us. Cargo cult makes the most sense. What do y’all think?

[@johnshawcross217]

Thank goodness they were not slaves. In these woke times, the whole pyramid would have to have been torn down.

[@harpo345]

Also there are pyramids that still have the remains of the ramps and platforms used in their construction still in place up against them.

[@craftyb22-x8p]

I demand a Decoding the Unknown debunking this entire video right now.

[@awsumaustin7650]

There already is one

[@riffdagg6701]

Demand? 😂

[@c.rackrock1373]

Nobody is debunking the inset 3 angle corners on the Puma Punku blocks. That's physically impossible without iron or something stronger.

[@BeechoMeats]

Exactly. There's a bunch of theories and conspiracies that can easily be dismissed, but it's always going to be stuff like that that lets me know we don't have the answer. They can't jive the tools with the methods and outcomes. I hate the arrogance ​@@c.rackrock1373

[@mrkshply]

​@@c.rackrock1373 What you're saying is you don't understand how they did it and therefore, magic.

[@jetmedia9602]

Someone call up Miniminuteman, Milo might want to come tackle this one...

[@WillHuizenga]

He can't even tell the truth about current events how can you trust him to tell you about the past?

[@TheLithp]

​@@WillHuizengaHe's an archeologist, so of course YOU think he can't be trusted on archeology.

[@OfficialFA]

The 'Cargo Cult' incident was just humans interacting with others who weren't aware of the technology... could this have been a case of advanced human civilizations meeting other humans who hadn't developed their level of enginuity...?

[@ninjanoodle2674]

2:07 - 30 meters equals 29.5 ft??? That's like 98.5ft...

[@HagandeVilliers]

I was thinking the same thing. What the heck.

[@cubeflinger]

About as speculative as the rest of the video

[@georgebrandy3896]

Don't do this to me at 10pm. I have work tomorrow, guys!

[@variaxi935]

10pm whoa it's 4pm here

[@Dannie-My0wnReality]

😂 I saw this and I was like ooohh I wonder where you’re from … then I checked the time 😂😂😂 hi from London

[@charlesplante]

Disregard lies, obtain sleep

[@morrismonet3554]

I don't. I'm drinking beer and will cook myself a cheeseburger after this.

[@timspiker]

Don't go to work, make excuses, prolong excuses for as long as possible. Come up with a plan to slack indefinitely and you're all set.

[@nialeemaria]

7:01 “Tools that definitely didnt exist in the ancient world.” HOLD UP. That's a big assumption. Are aliens really a better explanation than ancient man having advanced tech that was later lost?

[@leecoates3674]

Roman concrete is better than modern concrete.

[@kimboslicejr.5795]

6:55 “using advanced tools such as diamond tipped saws or laser technology. Tools that definitely didn’t exist in the ancient world.” Context matters at he was talking about those 2 things

[@DinkMeDaddy]

I don't think it's all explained away by aliens but we seem to have had some sort of outside influence given all the stories of guides turning up and teaching civilisation. Humans were far smarter than we give them credit for in ancient times, how they learned what they knew is the big question. I think it could be helpful to start asking questions rather than assuming we know how they lived.

[@MrBrock314]

@@kimboslicejr.5795 Lasers are kind of believable but there's no reason they couldn't have had diamond tipped saws - diamonds were readily available in the ancient era.

[@danielday36]

The "Ancient Aliens Theory" only makes sense if we didn't have the tools and know-how to create these great monuments. And technology gets lost all the time and we see that happening today when there's no money to be made in maintaining knowledge and skills like combustion engines that run on smoke or the engines on the Saturn 5 rocket.

[@Hedgevodka]

Awesome video! These mysteries deserved to be explored with an open-minded skepticism, not to be immediately dismissed and laughed at. Thank you!

[@ryanbeyer9078]

agreed. I think it's ridiculous that "god did it" is considered an acceptable statement but "aliens visited and these are the remains of their buildings" is considered a sign of mental illness

[@gavinknight8560]

It’s the obvious lying grifting shitheads like hankook who have actually stopped anyone being able to honestly address these issues.

[@astra6712]

You’re going to need to completely unbelief everything you’ve been taught. The famous line “You can’t handle the truth”

[@SuperFlyingElasticLaserMonkey]

Just because we aren't 100% certain of the precise methods, because we lack documentation, doesn't mean we have no idea how they did it and we absolutely would not struggle to build a pyramid today if someone was paying for it to be done.

[@Justacoustic79]

Yeah but we have modern tools and knowledge they did not have back then.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

We have lost many arts. We could remake a pyramid if we wanted. Yet it would first require us to train a vast amount of people in different skills. Skills we have lost. The hardest part would be sourcing the material in a way they did. We've depeleted so many easy to reach resources. Entire quarries of unique rock gone!

[@glennllewellyn7369]

LOL. Explain circular saw marks please.

[@Corndogg316]

The Egyptians documented everything specifically. We could tell you exactly how they mummified a corpse for example. Why then, did they not document the building of the pyramids? Almost like an older civilization built it and they were just worshipping it.

[@brianroyster7510]

We would have tremendous difficulty duplicating the great pyramid with an unlimited budget. We really don't have a clue how the ancient Egyptians accomplished it.

[@RHCole]

No it ruddy well isn't, Simon

[@devinedude3690]

🤔🫤

[@glennllewellyn7369]

They were here. Know it.

[@Mayan_88694]

@@glennllewellyn7369no they weren’t

[@Mayan_88694]

@@glennllewellyn7369no they weren’t, you have no evidence

[@nicolasfragoso]

I love how the script borrowed from the same tricks used in the show: Talk fast, try to wow and wonder, and then quickly switch to other subject before the audience has time to really think about it. That's why a single episode of Ancient Aliens touches in so many "misteries" in a single episode, but elaborate just one or two, usually distorting or ommiting information that would disprove their story...

[@xanderunderwoods3363]

There's an invention called the "pause button" you should look into it. Also you can slow the video down if it makes digesting it easier for you.

[@contemposuits1983]

Ancient Astronaut theorists say Yes.

[@skiphouston7392]

mysteries

[@dixonhill1108]

the irony is the most compelling evidence is the lack of evidence. The fermi paradox is a very real problem to solve. One of the best possible solutions is that the reason they haven't appeared before our eyes is because of prehistoric contact with humans. Humans simply requested that they leave earth alone. It'd explain why aliens would hide from us. And it would perfectly resolve the paradox.

[@justicejees]

The T Shirt is shockingly awful. 11:34

[@SamaronProductions]

So...I hate to say it, but I came here for this comment.

[@NotSoDaftGamecraft]

Sun's out guns out

[@burchified]

Plot twist: ancient humans had also heard tales of ancient aliens and wanted to see if they could conjure them up

[@OwlSaver]

Drawing big diagrams on the ground for a mythical god makes more sense than any sign for something flying. We use GPS. Interstellar travelers would not need these diagrams.

[@podunk_woman]

Devils advocate here, if the drawings were made by descendants or primitive people trying to communicate with their high tech visitors, they would still use the means they have at hand. So, if they were trying to communicate with "sky visitors" the Nazca lines would be logical to them.

[@SamSchott1]

Even so, the people making these giant diagrams might not know that.

[@MrBrock314]

I wouldn't say either of those explanations makes sense. The "easier" explanation is that those locations were below a mountain or hill at some point. It seems nearly inevitable they would've had to be made looking downwards to be done that precisely. Without aircraft, the easier answer is there used to be a tall place above them. Or, maybe they just built really tall scaffolding to view it made of biodegradable material which at this point has fully decayed.

[@Mute_Encore]

This not being on decoding the unknown is casually criminal

[@chrisjags]

Little known fact: the dinosaurs were actually killed by an ancient alien death ray, they weren't getting the hang of building H blocks fast enough

[@movimentoraeliano4713]

They were killed when the Elohim bombed our planet, an event known as "the flood". Read the message they gave to Rael.

[@PeteCasey-i4m]

Thanks Simon, that was fun. Instead of multiple shows totaling hundreds episodes full of fluff and conjecture, you invested the perfect amount of time and energy for this, 12 minutes. Intriguing subject with multiple strange coincidences that are very "sus", but mostly crap (but NOT all).

[@tyr0n313]

I do appreciate Simon’s sense of humor in this video. He just can’t keep a straight face and I can’t blame him.

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Am I wrong, but can't you create precision with string, a piece of charcoal and a couple sticks and hard rocks?

[@jimmyzhao2673]

no

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@michaelpipkin9942 yes you are wrong. The precision seen in these artifacts made out of granite is only able to be measured accurately using structured light and computer tomography scans and MRIs and modeling them in computer aided design programs built to aeronautical engineering tolerances.

[@Titus9508]

​@@ChrisCTurner10Nope, that's utter nonsense. There is nothing in Archaeological studies anywhere that agrees with that statement. Show me one peer reviewed dig report that states 'this cannot have been produced with technology extant at the time' and I'll send you my pension.

[@Titus9508]

Absolutely, talk to any surveyor or 'old school' draughtsman and they'll show you how precision is simply achieved.

[@neenee8194]

Just use the Pythagorean theorem

[@BallisticDamages]

Ok Simon, you have my attention 😆 most arguments for ancient aliens just boil down to people refusing to except that there have been incredible artisans and great intellects throughout ALL of human history

[@martinzihlmann822]

and ALL regions of the world. Ancient Aliens is just a thin veil around a racist core belief.

[@sa9110]

5:20 Simon, you have turned me into such a fucking skeptic, I seriously went back and checked to make sure this wasn't an old April Fools video re-uploaded!

[@theubiquitouspotato]

1:03 modern engineer here, we really wouldn't.

[@Jason_Abadi]

So do it

[@temparalflux914]

@@Jason_Abadi No reason to

[@theubiquitouspotato]

@Jason_Abadi we do, every day. i work on pipelines the theodolytes our surveyors use are accurate to 1mm horizontal thats as accurate as the most accurate parts of the pyramid and way better than some sections. Do you have any idea how tight the tolerances are on a building like the burj? Or elon catching his rockets? We dont build pyramids any more because of the highly wasteful nature of the structure. The burj is 6 times higher uses one sixth of the material and still takes up less floor space. It should rightly be considered a wonder of the modern world. Im not saying the pyramids not impressive far from it, just that we dont need to say aliens whenever we don't understand something like medieval peasants crying witch.

[@jbeattie02]

@@Jason_AbadiI’m a Draughtsman, we build with a lot more precision every day

[@kamukameh]

@@Jason_Abadi We build towers of the height of 828m, we carved thousands kilometers of tunnels through earth and stone, we can pump oil out of the ground of the ocean, we can fly around the world, ... So you think we couldn't build a 139m pile of rock? Funny how clueless you are 😄

[@KenanTurkiye]

.....and they ask why don't aliens contact us, have some respect, why do you have to be age-ist, calling them ancient and all, what's this obsession with youthness? *shakes head

[@Declan_Lyons]

"... And the precision; modern engineers would struggle to replicate it, even with advanced tools." They really wouldn't.

[@OldGeezerWithNothingBetterToDo]

Exactly

[@leecoates3674]

Yeah you could make it but how you getting it there? Some of these stones are HUGE.

[@Declan_Lyons]

@@leecoates3674 The same way they Italians moved Mussolini's column.

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@Declan_Lyons they really would. We do not currently make structures out of solid granite boxes like they did of that size and even the most advanced, diamond tipped, slurry cooled, industrial saws make slow progress of the granite we do cut. There are structures up to 200 tons and also extremely small and delicate items both made with tolerances so perfect that even modern aerospace metrology instruments have trouble detecting deviations beyond their margins of error. These items are all made out of extremely hard and brittle stones like granite and diorite.

[@Declan_Lyons]

@@ChrisCTurner10 No such items exist. There are people on youtube now who have made and moved these huge stones and shaped them with tools made from bronze but, more importantly, also with stone tools. These people can exceed the tolerances. Your poor, old former RAF engineer who appeared on Joe Rogan is simply wrong.

[@wingmanscreencasts6808]

Seems like the aliens who showed them how to align everything were probably equivalent to high school students doing an experiment, and being tested on their aptitude.

[@StarskyBuba]

2:47 that's not Stonehenge 😂

[@MatthewCornish]

LOL just saw that clip and was like... wait. What. Planters across the top? Trees? Anyone who has been to the actual stonehenge knows you can't get near it and there are no trees around it. We need a Seth Meyers Corrections thing for these videos.

[@StarskyBuba]

@MatthewCornish yes it was the trees almost immediately upon the henge, plus the "planters" across the top instead of the massive horizontal lintels that gave it away. God knows where this imitation has been constructed or why they decided to use it for their video.

[@davemeeks8109]

My trusted reliable source tell me the drones/UFOS are flown by aliens that say humans taste like chicken, needs salt.

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

Sounds legit...

[@vikitheviki]

Nah, needs garlic 😂😂

[@ScienceSummary]

Trust has no place in science and anecdotal evidence is low-quality data. That is why it needs scientists to actually put an effort into studying UAP like The Galileo Project does.

[@rainyeyesparty]

Your own country goverment said aliens and ufo's exist lmao

[@MrBrock314]

@@rainyeyesparty It said UFOs exist - not aliens. Aliens are probable but no one has proof they exist.

[@JTArndt1991]

No it was just their LIFE. If their is Nothing but your ability to make a rock look a certain way.. and it is your job for life. It gets done, Well.

[@wombo696]

I tought I was going to watch a Decoding the Unknown video. It must have been hard for Simon to record this video with a straight face😂

[@MrKutamoz]

I kept on waiting for Decoding the Unknown Simon to come out. I bet he went to a decode script right after.

[@MrBrock314]

I mean, there's no real reason to dismiss the idea of ancient aliens out of hand. Mathematically, most scientists agree they could exist and could have visited us. We don't have any direct evidence of it but it's not impossible by any stretch of the imagination. It's certainly more plausible than something like world peace or ending racism. :) Those are good goals but they're inherently at conflict with the nature of humanity. So, a world where aliens stopped by is far less fictional than Star Trek's utopia for example.

[@AllanMogensen]

1000 years from now, some may find an X-man film in the ruins and decide it shows actual events, a documentary

[@Trancymind]

Spider Man does exist, he lives in India. Same as electro man.

[@MrBrock314]

Only if the other 10 billion references to X-men being fictional are lost. Unlike ancient history, we have a TON of backup evidence about what is real and what is not in modern day.

[@DrosityYT]

People like to debunk the easy things but then ignore the juicy bits of evidence.

[@Aviator27J]

Conspiracy theorists do this in reverse, or even worse, they just refuse to accept facts which means you can't debate them at all (and by their own logic, they can't argue their own either).

[@alexswanson7127]

Can we have a reality check here. We're supposed to believe that ancient aliens taught people advanced astronomy and precise stone work but not the use of iron or the elliptical arch.

[@cubeflinger]

More likely that they inspired buildings,.art works etc.

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@alexswanson7127 what we don’t know is how these granite structures/boxes/vases were made and we have only as a species in the last 50 years or so had the tools to measure just how precise these objects are in their construction. Attributing the creation of these artifacts to any particular group is conjecture but there is no evidence supporting the ability of Dynastic Egypt in building them. Even the dynastic Egyptians themselves said that these structures came before them during the time of Zep Tepi.

[@MrBrock314]

Since we have no reference point for the priorities of aliens, literally everything and anything is possible for them. We have no idea of their priorities - maybe stone pyramids are the equivalent of gold to humans.

[@src6339]

Id imagine that given the vast scale of time and space in the universe that the idea of advanced extraterrestrial civilisation existing in the distant past is totally plausible. As to whether there exists any overlap with human civilisation at any time in the past of future? Thats seem considerably less plausible, for the exact same reason as what makes such hypothetical alien civilisations plausible in the first place. The chances of any two advanced civilisations naturally occuring within communicable range of one another in such a vast expanse of space and deep time seems incredibly slim.

[@mmstick]

Distance in space becomes irrelevant once you are technologically advanced enough to close the gap.

[@dipswewon4701]

The temporal hypothesis theory, human civilization has so far only existed for a fraction of a fraction of the life of our planet, let alone the universe. And considering how likely it is that if we don't wipe ourselves out some cataclysmic event will do it. Even if we last 10 million years that's still peanuts in the grand spectrum of the universe. So if every planet with life has the same rate of intelligent life as us, it would be very unlikely it evolved and existed at the same time.

[@bsadewitz]

@@src6339You are going about this the wrong way. This is the first question: Are they here or not? Why are you presuming that they come from somewhere that far away? They could come from HERE. There could be things about time and space we don't know. If the universe is infinite, then you have two options: either we are the only ones, or it is teeming with life. There isn't just one other one lol. I'm not into this ancient aliens BS. Unfortunately, any academic who takes this seriously has their careers ruined if they don't have tenure, and even then it can be dicey, so it's not easy to find real scholarship on this. Who says that this has anything to do with "outer space"? Why is it either that or nothing at all? Why, because we know everything? The odds of an alien civilization being close by are the same as there being one far away. Why would the odds change based on how far away they are? That's not how probability works. That is the gambler's fallacy. "oh, I'm gonna bet red rn because it hasn't come up in a while".

[@src6339]

@@mmstick sure...assuming that: A. Such a thing is even possible over any scale. B. That there is no fundimental limit to "communicable range" (I.e. the more you advance, the bigger your net, the more chance that you'll catch something, but that net is still of I finite size) C. That A Civilisation can progression to that point before the point of stagnation or collapse (if so, we are an example of one... but our net is still very small) D. That any two civilisations are only separated by space and not thousands, millions or billions of years of time (if it's a near miss, by only thousands of years, xeno archeology might be a better way to go)

[@src6339]

@@bsadewitz OK.. I'm not sure if that addresses what I was talking about. My argument is probabilistic. Let's take your "bet red" example. You're in a casino. It has, say, 50 roulette tables on its floor, all operating at the same time, and it's 1 bet per spin. For you, it's even odds. You've got 1 chip, you bet red, you have an approximate 50% chance of scoring a win (18/37 or 18/38 depending on the style of wheel) For the casino, the chances that any of their 50 tables land red is a near certainty. The chance that a table will land red at all over the course of the night is a near certainty. But for you with you 1 chip, a single bet, that doesn't matter because for you, it's still 18/37 Say you win, you get a second roll, it's still 18/37, but the chances of getting 2 in a row are only 25%, it's longer odds But let's say you have a friend, you give them your spare chip, and they go to the next table, they also bet red, you each have a 50% chance of a win but the chances of you both winning at the same time are only 25% . Again It's longer odds But let's say you like longer odds and you want to win big. You bet it all on 7. The chances of scoring a win is 1/37, you win, you feel lucky so you let it ride, it's still a 1/37 spin but the chances of you pulling this off twice in a row arn't 1/74, they havnt halved like when you were betting red, they're now 1/1369. The odd of you pulling this off have lengthened considerably. It's the same for your friend, individually you each have a 1/37 chance of winning, but the chances of you both winning at the same time are again 1/1369 (only this time you stand to win less than winning twice in a a row because you have less money riding on it) Now apply this to civilisation appearing in the universe. (You can use the drake equation to estimate this, but I believe that the odds it produces are considerably longer than 1/37) Assuming that the chances of a civilisation anywhere in the universe are exactly the same, no matter where that might be, call if 1/x. From a universal standpoint, the chances of it occurring somewhere at any given time are a near certainty From the perspective of a civilisation is still 1/x, for it to independently occur in the same place within a detectable period of geological history is also 1/x^2. For it to occur within their comicacble bubble throughout their lifetime is also 1/x^2 So it is possible that some civilisations may beat the odds of successive games, but the chances that you're In one of them is incredibly slim. I.e. you're more likely to be casino foot traffic than a jackpot winner.

[@sgtgrash]

Ask yourself this question: If our civilisation were to fall today, eight to ten thousand years down the line, how much of what we have built would still be standing, bar the ghosts of building footings indelibly inked into the ground. Concrete would likely rot away into its constituent parts after a thousand years or so, as would the steel skeletons of those shiny skyscrapers we crave so much. For example, Neom would be just a line in the sand (Oh wait, it is already 😂). Future archaeologists would be presented with scant evidence of our existence and would be left surmising about how we lived and interacted. So, to the point. What if there existed eons ago a technologically advanced civilisation the equal of ours, or perhaps even more advanced, which collapsed under its own weight, much like the Roman Empire did. We see evidence still of Roman structures because, in historical terms, the collapse of the Roman Empire is a relatively recent thing. There would be little to discover of an advanced society which bit the dust ten thousand years ago or more, but for the odd 'gem' of a find. Just a thought...

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@sgtgrash yep, remnants of dams like Hoover and a few Granite works like Mt Rushmore would be about it.

[@DrSuperKamiGuru]

Concrete doesn't rot.

[@Titus9508]

Surely an advanced Civilisation would develop in a similar way to ours, they had exactly the same raw materials to work with, so the stuff that would survive longest would be trace elements from production and nuclear materials. Also the results of massive quarrying and mining etc.?

[@petervermeer.4904]

@@DrSuperKamiGuru ..but it does fall apart in time. They say the Roman concrete is stronger than what we make today.

[@DrSuperKamiGuru]

@@petervermeer.4904 Maybe. But it doesn't rot.

[@Gomorragh]

truthfully, with approximately 65 million years of gap between dinosaurs and humans, its hard to actually believe that there hasnt been other rises and falls of civilisation, even if some of the cave paintings where there are dinosaurs and stick figures together doesnt mean that it was humans doing the drawing, just that they were humanoid, the one thing about the humanoid form is that it can hide in narrow areas that might stop things attacking, and then leggit when the coast is clear, all the while holding a stick to poke things, its not a superior design for anything other than trying to keep danger at arms length, or further with a tree branch. If we assume a great civilisation can rise and fall and basically be wiped out by natural causes over a 2 to 3 million year period (less than that when you consider people believe in Sodom and Gomorrah yet, even with probably having tax record from those times stored somewhere noone exactly knows where they were) that means we could have had between 20 to 33 great civilisations exist to the point we are now (33 if you include a lizard based race or silurians i think theyre now called that may have originated when dinosaurs walked the earth) With this as a pretext we could also assume that any aliens visiting might actually be people who originated in these earlier civilisations who for millions of years had left earth to visit various star systems, evolving extrapolated sciences that are less based on earthbound physics, but the cracks that open up when high gravity and refracted light are taken out of the situation, with the addition of huge amounts of cosmic radiation now overwhelming the radiation our planet evolves with, now with the further technologies these races might pop back occasionally, to find out they went extinct on this planet and are either seeing evolving or self destructive populations and are either helping or hindering them so they can escape the ever changing world they no longer recognise as thier origin planet.

[@julia061174]

Literally no one thinks ancient sites were built by aliens. And that is my special interest.

[@fleetingfacet]

BS. We can't honestly calculate the odds of life out there, as we don't know how life started, thus it doesn't matter how many planets there are or whatever. Also, claiming "the universe is so big" is silly, because as far as we know, the visible universe is infinitesimally small compared to what else is out there, which we will likely never see.

[@MrBrock314]

The universe is vastly large, even moreso if we can't see all of it. It's 100 billion light-years at this point. That's incomprehensibly large under any definition. You're right that we can't accurately calculate the odds of life. However, suggesting that it's even one in a million per habitable planet (which seems pessimistic) would lead to billions of civilizations. Based on the science of our own planet, life kicked off within the first 100 million years after planet formation. So, either our planet is EXTREMELY lucky or life isn't rare. Based on Earth's history, it would seem likely that most planets with life wouldn't have intelligent life as we would define it though. We don't really know how long intelligent life lasts as we're the only sample that we have and so far, it's pretty short and we seem likely to self-terminate within decades to centuries. If this were common for space-faring civilizations, it would be extremely likely that intelligent species would never meet another. So, it depends greatly on whether intelligent life tends to last for millennia. If they do, it would be likely they had met other intelligent life. Even without faster than light travel, if your spacefaring civilization survives for a thousand years, you could explore a small but reasonable fraction of a galaxy (visiting thousands of stars and millions of planets). And we have no true reason to believe faster than light travel is impossible.

[@AndyEmerald]

I lean more towards the ancient apocalypse theory - the idea that there was an advanced civilization during the last ice age, which was destroyed by a cataclysm, and whose knowledge was passed on by survivors to hunter-gatherers around the world, giving rise to the earliest known civilizations.

[@christopherpekel6096]

Likely many civilisations, not just one

[@Titus9508]

How can you believe something without evidence? Unless it's religious or cult thinking??

[@AndyEmerald]

@ What makes you think there's no evidence? There's loads of evidence supporting this hypothesis. Just as the most mind-blowing examples, look up UnchartedX videos about the ancient egyptian granite vases, as well his documentary about the Barabar caves.

[@AndyEmerald]

@ Possibly. But there's no evidence of that, not that I know of.

[@AndyEmerald]

@@Titus9508 What makes you assume there isn't evidence? There is evidence, it's just hard to find, or hidden in plain sight. I suggest you look up videos speaking about recent discoveries with Ancient Egyptian Stone Vases, as well as the Barabar granite caves, in India. Both discoveries are mind-blowing, yet widely ignored by mainstream academia, because the evidence doesn't support the established historical narrative.

[@vonkug]

Having done masonry work: the interlocking stones question is simple. A LOT of time and a LOT of sanding.

[@the.amazing.spatterman]

THANK YOU!! I was getting scared that nobody would've pointed that one out. A point that should've been mad in this video.

[@corwinzelazney5312]

For most of it yes. But we have documented pieces with such incredible precision edges, and smooth surfaces that they cannot be achieved without micron measuring equipment. Experts in stoneworking, engineering and machining stone have brought their tools to Karnak and Dendera and measured them with laser precision instruments. There's entirely too many pieces that've been documented. The research, testing and results are published. And for the record, those who've been doing this work for several decades conclude that these particular pieces and the ones like them in India and other locations, were made using advanced precision tools. Used by humans. Not a one of them attribute it to aliens. None of them. Neither do I. But there's more than enough evidence of a previous human civilization that were advanced enough to have precision machines.

[@paulford9120]

Exactly. Just because the average "lack of knowledge or imagination" person can't figure it out doesn't mean some intergalactic stone cutter was involved.

[@MrBrock314]

@@paulford9120 But it also doesn't mean that it wasn't that.

[@dpinsy]

2:08 Not sure what you meant to say, but 30 meters is like 97.5 feet. 32.5 Yards. Just my 2 cents... the most mind blowing stuff I've seen is actual small stuff. Not that the large obelisks aren't amazing, but some granite jars/pots (can't remember what they're actually called), are perfectly precise, to thousandths of an inch. Like smaller than a human hair, away from perfectly round, or perfectly symmetrical. That is mind blowing. To do that with granite, to that level of precision, almost isn't possible right now with the technology we have today. How did they even measure to such precise dimensions?

[@djtigerstripes]

I'm not saying it was slaves. But it was slaves.

[@EstamosDe]

SIMON!! BLINK IF YOU ARE BEING F0RCED TO SAY THIS!! 🫨

[@ZoroasterIsMyCopilot]

Imagine being able to track Venus, one of the brightest objects in the night sky, without a telescope. Yep, definitely needed aliens for that feat.

[@cliffprowse3341]

What about Sirius B, which wasn’t visible with the naked eye?

[@Coko717]

​@cliffprowse3341 you can't mention that, it doesn't fit their ignorant views

[@j.f.christ8421]

@@Coko717 Speaking of ignorant, you should read up on the 'Yeah, about that..." on how some French dudes told them about it. I hereby await your "Well, that's what THEY want you to believe!" for reasons you can't articulate. This how video is bollocks. Humans (not you) are pretty smart and can do a lot with that smarts, time & patience. All of these "mysteries" have explanations and we can replicate how they were done. No aliens needed.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

The complexity of Venus orbit from one position means you don't see it so you at least have advanced math. And it would take quite a bit of data it isn't a circular orbit.

[@Titus9508]

​@@cliffprowse3341It was visible to the C19 French Astronomers that stayed with the Dogon for 5 weeks observing Sirius.

[@graphixkillzzz]

think about this: that uncontacted culture in the Pacific made very good representations of what they saw. they didn't embellish, they didn't make something ambiguous, they made a very exact representation of a propeller airplane. they didn't make a statue that could be interpreted as a plane, they made a very obvious plane 🤔🤷‍♂️

[@binkwillans5138]

Good point.

[@jkdwarrior3]

I only know of this information in passing. Could you direct me to information about these aircraft? I wonder if its just someone trying to view things through a modern lense with no other evidence than "it looks like it" Again, I havent delved into this but Id be interested to see what you mean?

[@alexmin4752]

Well those mockup planes were built by those who have personally seen a real plane. What if some person few thousand years ago has seen an alien starship, made a realistic mockup of it but that thing got destroyed so now we only have a copy of a copy of a copy...

[@thegray5730]

Our ancestors weren't on social media all day, they had imagination and motivation.

[@trishapellis]

I'm not picturing some aliens on a space ship 5000 years ago poring over a timetable like: "What are we teaching these ones?" "Concrete." "Bit more useful than the ones on the other side of the ocean, no? What was the point of telling them about double star systems, exactly? They can't even see Sirius. Like... why don't we teach them the telescope?" "Dunno. Boss's orders. I hope we're done here soon, I wanna go 'check on' Egypt. There should be a crop of dates coming in soon."

[@MrBrock314]

This assumes a human culture among the aliens. For all we know they were a hive mind and the hive mind was obsessed with binary star systems.

[@theblitz9]

Aliens: Let's fly 2,000 light years and build things with rocks.

[@ChrisCTurner10]

As opposed to building them with what?

[@theblitz9]

@ChrisCTurner10 advanced materials. After all, they know how to build interstellar craft.

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@ we know how to build advanced aircraft and also from that knowledge know that it makes little sense to make our buildings out of the same materials. If you look at current plans for building bases on the moon and Mars you will see that making use of the resources of those environments is considered an absolute necessity. Just because a civilization is advanced enough to fly through space doesn’t mean they are magical.

[@theblitz9]

@ChrisCTurner10 resources - like metals?

[@ChrisCTurner10]

@@theblitz9 current plans for building enclosures on the moon and Mars use regolith as the main ingredient in a sort of concrete.

[@HieronymousCheese]

Wow. Simon actually managed to present a whole video on this topic without sneering. This is a big change...and a welcome one. Acknowledging that we don't know or understand everything, including some of the ridiculously advanced remnants from the distant past is a huge step forward. Perhaps the recent publication of the results of the sample analysis from asteroid Bennu (containing 14 of the 20 amino acids used to make proteins and all five nucleobases, the genetic components of DNA and RNA in all life on Earth) has opened some eyes (and minds) to how life is transported around the universe and could so easily have occurred elsewhere. Whatever...well done!!!

[@Ran-o4z]

He's just a grifter. have some more self respect. he doesn't, neither for the subject nor for you. Bob Gymlan is honest. lots of others as well that see you as a person, not a grift chip.

[@TheLithp]

You like this because it's uncritical of bullshit. Much of this is flatly untrue.

[@harpo345]

9:45 The chances of us being the only intelligent life are "incredibly slim" until you begin to consider the number of factors necessary to bring it about. There are dozens of conditions needed, some of them very unlikely - a single moon of exactly the right size, an atmosphere capable of supporting fire, a Jupiter type planet in the right place to mop up stray asteroids, a stable sun... Start multiplying these together and THEN you reach odds that are not only incredibly slim, but pretty damn close to impossible.

[@MrBrock314]

The moon is not required for life. It might be helpful for us but it's not necessary for all forms of life for sure. Bacteria living inside the Earth are not affected by the moon.

[@KozKalanndok]

The odds that there are other civilizations is actually quite high due to the sheer number of samples in the whole observable universe. What the probability that they are in temporal and spatial range to us is so small that you would rather call it "almost zero".

[@arkchibald-]

After 10,000's years working with sticks and stones, they'd all be stone professors

[@steelvalleysportsmen7737]

So as a modern carpenter, we have lost tons of skills in the last 2 generations alone. Look at all the skills lost in Europe after the fall of Rome. The idea that they couldn't do it because we don't know how they did is just insane.

[@setharookazoo]

1:59 Yes, because Aliens that could travel interstellar would need little pictures on the ground to navigate 🤦🏼‍♂️.

[@Ran-o4z]

they might need them to find people, or people might need to signal them in order to be found. But hey all you seem to need is unimaginative contempt. Doesn't matter anyway. the question Is and remains what were they built for at all either way. but hey, just mock , don't think. good enough for the likes of you.

[@MrBrock314]

Have you considered that aliens might value art more than science? Aesthetics are enough reason on Earth, I don't see why they wouldn't be for aliens.

[@Ran-o4z]

@@MrBrock314 have you ever considered proof reading crp sentences like this before you send them? -"Have you considered that aliens might value art more than science? Aesthetics are enough reason on Earth, I don't see why they wouldn't be for ", and yes I probably have considered it. My imagination is obviously much more capable than yours. remember. Proof read your stuff if you are going to be too simple to understand metaphors it's a double standard to spew out actual incoherence yourself. Dullard.

[@Ran-o4z]

@@MrBrock314 reason for what couch potato. make a point if you are going to make a point. don't just catch phrase thick one.

[@DrosityYT]

He literally did not say that. The humans would have made them to try to contact the aliens smh…

[@-DM]

The porn bots seem to know when a video is made for suckers.

[@matthewbaker2573]

As for the Nasca lines. it's amazing that no one has thought it's possible that they built towers made of wood to get an elevated view. The longest Nasca line is less than 400 meters. A 20 meter high tower would give more than good enough view to manage it's construction. you just need a guy shouting "up a bit, down a bit" Crazy how something so simple in beyond a lot of you

[@cubeflinger]

(it's just a what if)

[@LastZepp1]

But you have to consider thar Peruans did not really use much wood for constuction (its pretty scarce relatively speaking) If it was for construction then they most likely would,ve build clay or stone foundations - none was found tho. Also should mention that 20 meter tower equals to modern 5 story building, its not an easy task as it is, let alone building with only wood. Also you would probably need nails or other constuction methods just to dissassemble the tower after couple of months?

[@Rodger_Phillips]

actually the amazing thing is that you clearly have no interest in any of the theories if the Nazca lines as "Alien" or man made, and yet you assume to think that what you said has never been thought of before, by far more knowledgeable people than yourself, Yes lets build a 20 Meter wooden tower all about the plains to view these creations we make, in spite of the fact that Wood it s rare commodity in the region and the people do not use it create such constructions the region, with no archaeological indication what so ever that the Peruvians ever used wood in that manner anywhere near Nazca, no of course you know better than any one else, and we mere crazies never ever ever thought of this before... Look no one is actually saying it was Aliens, even most on said TV show, what they are saying is there is no clear and present means of how they made them and knew how to look at these from above, What is crazy is that the simple facts that people HAVE thought of this and that your own person uninformed logic is beyond you own reasoning to stop and think that oh maybe people have thought of it. instead you stop thinking and attack people for thinking deeper and with more curiosity than you possess yourself. bottom line is, it is right now just as possible that you are right as it is that they had the means to float above the area in hot air balloons as it is that they had help from Aliens.

[@matthewbaker2573]

@@Rodger_Phillips wow you popped a big one there. It's fun fishing you lot out. Do you also think the world is flat? And that we have ice walls around us being guarded by the military. Have I got a double bubble 🤪

[@matthewbaker2573]

@@Rodger_Phillips let me guess. You are one of those, because Nikolas Tesla said it, it's true. Aren't you 🤪

[@argumentativelysound2001]

Ancient Earth civilization or Alien or both, we can't exclude any of it with our current knowledge. We still haven't found a missing link.

[@Ran-o4z]

Well we have found about five of them, but the other 1000 we continue to lie to ourselves about.

[@argumentativelysound2001]

@@Ran-o4z 5 missing links?

[@Ran-o4z]

@@argumentativelysound2001 well Neanderthals , Denisovans, the hobbit things the found in new Zealand. the native Americans have some pretty interesting stories about alternate human branches. the myths from North America don't have evidence yet, but when I was a kid they would say Neanderthals would be the missing link but we couldn't breed so it was impossible and the link was some other hominid. Since then they have not only admitted that we can and did half breed with Neanderthals but the Denisovans and others have joined that distinction as well. So the old term 'missing' link is just about the same as 'swamp gas' at this point when it comes down to it's falseness, and 'links' is a better word for it, and there be many upon many. and more to be found. Have fun ArgSound. Peace.

[@argumentativelysound2001]

@@Ran-o4z Neither of you've listed are the missing links, all proven to develop as separate species. And the Neanderthals? Really? My goodness...

[@MrBrock314]

@@Ran-o4z Swamp gas is a real thing - methane.

[@eclecticx]

How ancient, seemingly miraculous feats were achieved, I have no idea. What I do know is this. That we are the most technologically advanced humans ever doesn't mean we're the smartest humans ever.

[@MrBrock314]

We don't even know if we're the most technologically advanced humans. That's a conceit among us. Our version of history suggests we are but we know history is incomplete so it's not something we can know for certain. Probable, yes. Definite? No.

[@eclecticx]

@@MrBrock314 Very good points.

[@SkyForgeVideos]

Not even close.

[@LordBrittish]

Leonardo DaVinci saw UFOs then tried to build one for himself.

[@JohnSmith-bv1jg]

Oh simon, i cant take this video title seriously when your picture is in the thumbnail lmao. Oil and water, the two of you dont mix 😂

[@ObsidianQuasar]

I like the idea they came here long ago and saw us then and thought “nope, this one’s not quite done yet” and put a pin to return later.

[@0Zolrender0]

I totally lost my shit and burst out laughing at the "History Channel" joke.

[@larrys9879]

The present day evidence for extraterrestrial life is significant for those that are paying attention.

[@芦白龙]

'The Why Files' explains things like this and lots more, Keep an eye on that Heckle Fish though

[@pdallen8355]

Beware the Crab Cat!

[@芦白龙]

@ 😂

[@ScorpIron58]

Aside from all the questions about building Pyramids, for me the most inexplicable things are the basalt boxes , carved (?) to ultra high precision , that are in the serrapeum at Saqarra , Egypt. Not forgetting the vases of granite, diodorite etc. found under one of the Pyramids, that truly defy explanation, coming supposedly from a culture that had only copper chisels. PLUS the 100ton pink granite statue , with its perfect facial symmetry, and the same for many of the other statues. This we can not achieve...not with any tools we have at present anyway. The vases are particularly challenging ; difficult enough just analysing them !

[@DrSuperKamiGuru]

Maybe they tried carving many, many boxes until they got it just right? It's clearly not impossible, just really, really difficult and uses up a lot of copper chisels.

[@ScorpIron58]

@DrSuperKamiGuru Na mate, they were obviously really f'in good at it. There's 24 of them, all "aircraft" precision perfect. Not done with copper chisels, not even possible to even the best stonemasons (I was one) with tungsten carbide chisels. These things are made, top and bottom, from one piece ; you try to cut 10 tons off the top of a 60 ton block with copper chisels... well I think you may struggle, just a little!

[@jp12696]

Looks like you’ve been working out Simon! 💪

[@distant2050]

Never thought I'd see the day when Simon gives Ancient Aliens a fair look. IDK if its aliens, but one thing we are discovering: ancient myths should not be dismissed as pure fantasy.

[@rainyeyesparty]

Even less when the ancient fantasy is clearely depicting advanced technology, and that ancient fantasy is written all over the place, there's even cave painting of aliens and ufo's, but somehow that is not enough proof something clearely happened back in the day that made everyone draw it anywhere they could

[@Mayan_88694]

Yes they should, they are pure fantasy

[@Mayan_88694]

Yes they should, they are pure fantasy.

[@MrBrock314]

@@Mayan_88694 No one knows this. It's like knowing whether God exists - it's not something that can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[@Mayan_88694]

@ wrong. We do know that it was Egyptians who built the pyramids, there is overwhelming evidence for it. And there is also no evidence that any god exists.

[@joelcarson4602]

Ah, yes! The Eric von Whackyone theory about "Hot Rods of the Gods" when ancient aliens turned Earth into an Intergalactic Drag Strip.

[@madmartigan4141]

Saying that aliens built ancient structures like the great pyramid is an insult to the ingenuity of our ancestors.

[@mikurox3389]

Conclusion: "Aliens built the pyramids and carved the NASCAR lines"

[@DæmonV86]

2:47 Paying tribute to the great God: Quadruple H in style.

[@xx99strrxx]

I feel like this is the result of ancient people that really figured life out going down a different route than we did. No metal/electricity

[@seantlewis376]

Ancient humans were not dumb. They figured out maths, including trigonometry. They didn't invent computers, but they were fantastic architects.

[@peterbaxter8151]

I find it amazing that people can observe the constant development and collapse of civilisations without considering that the technologies they developed probably died with the civilisations.

[@KWG-ln4on]

3:30 You forgot the most important thing. Myths are first of all archetypical, which means they come from the collective subconscious. Modern people have a very differently structured mindset than ancient people, who had a far easier access to their subconscious (individual and collective!). Nowadays people struggle about it and need meditation techniques, psychologists or chemical agents to get in touch with subconscious realms. This is also the reason why people don't understand ancient scriptures anymore like the Bible, the Vedas etc. Today people often ridicule them and say they are written in a primitive manner, which is not the case at all. They are simply written in a completely different mindset. They are not merely a description of historical events seen through the lens of a primitive worldview, but can be compared to dreams and visions of the subconscious.

[@Hellseeker1]

It's the guy with the hair that looks like he took the world's biggest bong rip that puts me off, and I'm a pothead.

[@spacemanspiff6332]

I can't understand why anyone would think ancient aliens is a farfetched idea.

[@williamhardes8081]

so where did all this technology go? that's the bit i don't get. "Hey harry"! "yeah"? "we're out of work tomorrow when the aliens take away our machines, the manuals and mind wipe us"! "nobody's gunna believe this shit". "fuck, what do i tell the wife"? "HA HA HA".

[@slatey2609]

OMG I just realised that I had not clicked on the subscribe button 😳 love your style Simon and your subject matter👍