[ten]

Just to derail the discussion entirely (now that dinosaurs roaming the earth and 90 degrees on Mars have been debunked). If you haven't happed upon the amusing story of John Titor, time traveller, it might be worth spending 15 min on: http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com/

[Nilwort]

It's the truth ^

[eyewoo]

Good Lord... I am OTFLOL .... I can't stop.... call 911

[Lunatique]

Heh, I just downloaded another program called Mysterious World: Search For Ancient Technology. It basically talked about Congo Cults and how that same mentality must've been at play during the construction of many of the ancient structures--to emulate possible extraterrestrial "Gods" and wanting them to return to earth. One particular bit that was exciting was the Pre-Columbian gold amulets in the shape of airplanes. When they replicated one using molded plastic in larger scale, the thing actually flew very well. They had one version with a propeller, and another version with a propulsion engine--both version flew flawlessly as remote controlled planes. I searched about that on google but could only find one reference to it:

"In 1956, �the gold airplane� was among exhibits of the Pre-Columbian Gold exhibition in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The deltoid wing and the vertical plane of the tail unit atypical of birds drew attention of American aircraft designers. The directors of the exhibition allowed testing the ancient �aircraft� in a wind tunnel. It turned out that the gold model could soar at supersonic speed, the issue which was widely studied in that epoch. The ancient model helped aircraft designers of Lockheed create a supersonic plane, the world's best for that period."

Just to be clear, I have no tin-foil hat tendencies. More than anything, these mysterious are simply entertaining. I've been fascinated by these unsolved mysteries since as a child. Everytime I see some program on TV about ancient civilization with engineering skills that baffle a technologically advanced civilization like ours--I'm immediately glued to the TV set. Throw in some extraterrestrial stuff about how they might have helped build all the giant structures that were impossible for primitive technologies at the time-I'm ready to bust out the popcorns.

[Ranath]

[lysander]

with a hair-doo like that, how can you refuse?
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[Godwin]