That Ancient Aliens thing is garbage, I'm pretty sure it was written and directed by Zecharia Sitchin as they pretty much quoted every episode verbatim from his work. Although I do like Giorgio Tsoukalos, he's well cool. And the little fat bloke with the red face, he's funny too. David Childress is it? The show's format is really crap and typically American, spending five minutes explaining what had been said before the last ad break, straight after the ad break, repeating questions. Running time 30 minutes, original content 30 seconds.
As to the technology side of it, I'm not sure what sort of influence there's been, but you look at the evolution of technology over the last century and it's phenomenal. We went from a really crappy Wright brothers plane (1903) to apparently landing a man on the moon 63 years later. Having previously gone 250,000 odd years without any sort of tech, we develop everything we have now in a century? Yeah, ok. I'm not saying there were aliens saying "here you go, have some technology", but I think there might've been some reverse engineering going on. You think of the way our cars run, fossil fuels, it's very human. We burn stuff to make stuff go. Basic. Or we used steam to power trains. Not electricity, that had been around for years, how long did that take to apply to trains? And if it was applied to trains, why wasn't it straight away applied to cars? Why has it taken this long to get an electric car on the market? Not many electric ferries or aeroplanes either, yet it's quite clearly a clean energy strategy that would work. If you can take that tech and apply it to trains and cars, why not planes and boats?
You clearly forgot to add the usual "IMHO" wrt your "garbage" comment.
Your "typically American" jibe is both gratuitous and fatuous -- more becoming of an uneducated, English old fart, than a young person claiming to have a solid grounding in science. Where do you think many of the recent Nobel Prize winners and top universities are located these days? *****lia?
Diego has eloquently detailed some of the points I was going to address, and I agree fully with what he has said.
You are also casually forgetting the many "ancient technological" feats (multiple, similar pyramids worldwide , impossibly close-fitting stones, and much, much more) that we could barely match today even with current technology. The
excellent AA series had many examples of such ancient, even prehistoric, allegedly 'human' achievements.
I watched every season of the AA series (including contributions from several top-notch scientists I have personally known and respected for decades). I found the content to be generally of extremely high calibre (with just a few exceptions), and very well-produced and directed. Most of the contributors are well-respected in their respective fields,
not just hack pseudo-scientists.
Your estimate of the real-content ratio of AA is ridiculous. I pre-record everything I watch, and FF through all the ads, etc. Often I will go for a break (short or long), and the after-break recap is often very much needed and appreciated.
Finally, I can
absolutely assure you, based on decades of personal experiences, that a great (global) government-inspired cover-up of new scientific discoveries has been going on since at least the days of Tesla, arguably the greatest scientist since Newton. What the bastards also more recently did to Eric Laithwaite was disgusting. The ideas of both of these exceptional minds, and others, are now being pursued in quarters waaay beyond the sight of any government, and will be vindicated in the near future.
It's going to be a very interesting next few years. I hope I live long enough to see the way it all unravels.
