ancient aliens

Monster Rain wrote:

I only saw part of that episode but what I saw was interesting. Did they ever say how long ago the star stopped being visible from Earth or if it was ever even bright enough to see with the naked eye?

BinauralJam wrote:

This is cool show, lots of speculation but some of the stuff really makes you wonder. There was one episode about a tribe in Africa i think that prayed to a star that wasnt there, but later science proved there had been one there until it went super nova, but how did these villagers know?

I think it was like 5,000 years ago, but it's been a while.

Cosmo wrote:

You know what?
After the humans are rendered extinct from the planet... and several thousand years come to pass...
The only written record of our existance will be the things carved in the stone by Neolitic Man.
The Great Wall my still show remnants... the Great Pyramids may be giant sand dunes... Hoover Dam may last a while... but books, photos? All gone.

Your bringing me down man

BinauralJam wrote:

This is cool show, lots of speculation but some of the stuff really makes you wonder. There was one episode about a tribe in Africa i think that prayed to a star that wasnt there, but later science proved there had been one there until it went super nova, but how did these villagers know?

The Dogon tribe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogon_peop ... d_religion
In late 1946 Griaule spent a consecutive thirty-three days in conversations with the Dogon wiseman Ogotemmêli, the source of much of Griaule and Dieterlen's future publications.[16] They reported that the Dogon believe that the brightest star in the sky, Sirius (sigi tolo or 'star of the Sigui'[17]), has two companion stars, pō tolo (the Digitaria star), and ęmmę ya tolo, (the female Sorghum star), respectively the first and second companions of Sirius A.[18] Sirius, in the Dogon system, formed one of the foci for the orbit of a tiny star, the companionate Digitaria star. When Digitaria is closest to Sirius, that star brightens: when it is farthest from Sirius, it gives off a twinkling effect that suggests to the observer several stars. The orbit cycle takes 60 years.[19] They also claimed that the Dogon appeared to know of the rings of Saturn, and the moons of Jupiter.[20]

Griaule and Dieterlen were puzzled by this Sudanese star system, and prefaced their analysis with the following remark:-

The problem of knowing how, with no instruments at their disposal, men could know the movements and certain characteristics of virtually invisible stars has not been settled, nor even posed.[21]

In 1976 Robert K. G. Temple wrote a book called The Sirius Mystery arguing that the Dogon's system reveals precise knowledge of cosmological facts only known by the development of modern astronomy, since they appear to know, from Griaule and Dieterlen's account, that Sirius was part of a binary star system, whose second star, Sirius B, a white dwarf, was however completely invisible to the human eye, (just as Digitaria is the smallest grain known to the Dogon), and that it took 50 years to complete its orbit. The existence of Sirius B had only been inferred to exist through mathematical calculations undertaken by Friedrich Bessel in 1844. Temple then argued that the Dogon's information, if traced back to ancient Egyptian sources and myth, indicated an extraterrestrial transmission of knowledge of the stars.[22] Neither Griaule nor Dieterlen had ever made such bold claims about a putative esoteric source for the Dogon's knowledge.

arthurdent wrote:

Cosmo wrote:

You know what?
After the humans are rendered extinct from the planet... and several thousand years come to pass...
The only written record of our existance will be the things carved in the stone by Neolitic Man.
The Great Wall my still show remnants... the Great Pyramids may be giant sand dunes... Hoover Dam may last a while... but books, photos? All gone.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html

this is awesome... thanks for posting

THE LOOK wrote:

themessenger wrote:

That show is interesting but I've only seen a few episodes in the 1st season. The guy with the crazy hair cracks me up, I can't take him seriously at all!

That dude with the crazy hair is the greatest mystery of all. Is it just me or does it seem to get larger with each episode? :shock:

Just Keeps getting Worse , I love this Guy!!!