Ancient Aliens
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Hi Gary,
Gary Wheeler wrote:
Where's One True[^] when you need it?
Do you have "auto-update" turned off ? The "on-demand" features of the latest versions require less daily sitting motionless with "mind" loosely coupled to the movement of the breath in the lower abdomen in order to remain reactive. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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Hi Gary,
Gary Wheeler wrote:
Where's One True[^] when you need it?
Do you have "auto-update" turned off ? The "on-demand" features of the latest versions require less daily sitting motionless with "mind" loosely coupled to the movement of the breath in the lower abdomen in order to remain reactive. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
Ah. That explains it. Or maybe it was the Guiness Friday night...
Software Zen:
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Jerry Hammond wrote:
Maybe the Aliens were eco-Aliens
Of course! Eco-Aliens don't travel in space because starships have too big an anti-matter footprint, so they mind-project themselves through the universe. Ergo, when they embark on an absolutely useless building project they have to posses the minds of the planet's inhabitants and use materials at hand.
Jon 'When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.' ~ Montesquieu Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
Oh, that's just fucking great. Alien mind-control spammers. Wonderful.
Software Zen:
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Ok here is a quick example to explain everything. I believe, we were wrong about how advanced they were. They were probably way advanced for their time. An example would be like if we compared ourselfs to the tribes in south american jungles. People would say they are not very advanced, but yet they live in a time where we are very advanced. I think that is what happened back then. Most advancements were probably kept secret and when another culture came and attacked them and destroyed it, or it became lost in translation. Its kinda silly to think anyone can make sense of their language and drawings and truly interrupt it correctly. But you would think if aliens did make them, why use stone? Why not use metal or carbon or diamond? Why make them in a pyramid shape? Why not a skyscraper or dome? Why make them in the desert? Why carry rocks across a desert to make it? Why were human pharaohs buried in them, why not aliens?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Mark Twain
Hi VectorX, Great quote from Mark Twain there ! Before running amuck here, as advocatum diabolus in the case of Alien et. al., let me say that I personally believe there were no aliens, there are no aliens, but that nothing is more alien to ourselves than what we really are which is, itself, the primum mobile, which leads us to invent Aliens. And I believe the ancient Egyptians were remarkable people whose genius deserves full credit as ab origine. Using my old, rusted, pitted, but genuine Ockham (not an ersatz "Occam" knock-off made in sweatshops in Guangzhou by peasants from Harbin who never shave) brand razor, I can pin the tail on the donkey-minds of fools with some simple hypotheses :
VectorX wrote:
why use stone? Why not use metal or carbon or diamond?
The Prime Directive.
VectorX wrote:
Why make them in a pyramid shape? Why not a skyscraper or dome?
The Prime Directive, and likely the fact that the pyramid is a naturally occurring rock crystal form already salient to humans of the time. And maybe they grooved on simpler geometry as being a "purer" expression of the GodHead ? After all, why were there "five Platonic solids" : in the Pythagorean mystery tradition (inheriting from Egyptian cults) geometry is sacred, and these forms reflected spiritual ideas.
VectorX wrote:
Why make them in the desert? Why carry rocks across a desert to make it? Why were human pharaohs buried in them, why not aliens?
They liked the climate of what is now Egypt. They liked watching humans work in big organized gangs the same way schoolchildren like seeing ant colonies exposed in glass frames. Why wouldn't the human rulers co-opt the biggest status symbols of all time if they could get away with it. Maybe the aliens did not die because they are self-renewing or, in our human terms, "immortal." Humans probably saw them eating tar raw and got the idea from that of mummification. And, so, assembled Prelates, I rest my case against the proposed beatification of Alien by demonstrating how preposterous the so-called evidence presented here has been through, volta face, imaginary experiments of the type commonly used to advance the cause. As to the so-called miracles attributed Alien, the only evidence of "miracle" anyone with a reasonable mind can see is in the unjustified success of writers of books like Von Doniken, who,