Space Weather

[sidherose]

Yes, I have to admit....I do collect a lot of things....much to the dismay of many LOLOL....

And I always said "Someday I'll sort these and see what I've got."  The comics are the first items I can truly say I started to sort....and look how long that's taking LOLOL...

But I LOVE IT....

Uh....yeah :smile:

[thelufias]

Can you imagine, back before the Parthenon was built or even conceived of in the mind of it's architect? He's sitting on a hill one night - perhaps that very one where it stands now, and sees something like that. He's had a 'vision from the gods' of their halls and temples, and then builds it.

I know....right....

Our future builders will not have any idea as to how to proceed with any type of project like that without consulting all of their "Thinking Devices".   When's the last time you heard a child say they looked something up in an Encyclopedia?   

Or kids having to use tablets in school to do math problems and then they'll become the cashiers who can't count out change to you.....even when the machine tells them what your getting back....

[sidherose]

I know....right....

Our future builders will not have any idea as to how to proceed with any type of project like that without consulting all of their "Thinking Devices".   When's the last time you heard a child say they looked something up in an Encyclopedia?   

Or kids having to use tablets in school to do math problems and then they'll become the cashiers who can't count out change to you.....even when the machine tells them what your getting back....

On-line encyclopedias, yes but actual book with pages, no. I have to admit even though I have a dictionary or three around here, Roget's Thesaurus, etc. I look on line too. It's faster than unpiling the books and putting them back.

I learned to count change just so no one short-changed me. I'd have it all figured out by the time I got to the register and knew what I was supposed to get back. Back in the day when a dollar and some change went quite a way toward a fun afternoon. Maybe even a movie, pop and popcorn.

Yes, those Ancient Architects were amazing men. I can see why Imhotep was made a god. Or Thoth as "The Builder". There were architect gods in India as well, I know. Who taught them all what they knew??? Far ahead of most today...with only a clay tablet.

[thelufias]

Thus my fascination with Ancient Aliens.  Some of the stuff is hard to swallow....but some of the stuff I agree with....  And keeps me thinking of......and fascinated by.....anything to do with space and aliens....

[sidherose]

Thus my fascination with Ancient Aliens.  Some of the stuff is hard to swallow....but some of the stuff I agree with....  And keeps me thinking of......and fascinated by.....anything to do with space and aliens....

If I didn't have to listen to Ermagerd (Gorgio?) and vonDaniken it'd be okay. I can deal with some of those people on there - like Hancock, Schock, Bauval and Collins. They tend to be more sensible. Or even Mohan (the Indian guy). It's when they fudge things and make outrageous claims I want to turn it off. That's largely Giorgio, I think.

One cannot escape there were those who knew some pretty amazing things that we still don't know for sure how they were done. Can't do them today. 

[thelufias]

Giorgio Tsoukalos is Lornas most FAVORITE guy on the show.  She's a member of the Ancient Aliens Fan page on FB and Tweet and Instagram and who knows where else...

I liked Philip Coppens ....Sad that he died in 2012 of angiosarcoma cancer....and had just gotten married the year before.

Others I like are Nick Redfern and Mike Bara and of course Clotworthy....

Never did like Erich von Daniken...though "Chariots of the Gods" was pretty awesome.

But yes...some of the stuff you take with a grain of salt...as with much of anything else in life.....

[sidherose]

Giorgio Tsoukalos is Lornas most FAVORITE guy on the show.  She's a member of the Ancient Aliens Fan page on FB and Tweet and Instagram and who knows where else...

I liked Philip Coppens ....Sad that he died in 2012 of angiosarcoma cancer....and had just gotten married the year before.

Others I like are Nick Redfern and Mike Bara and of course Clotworthy....

Never did like Erich von Daniken...though "Chariots of the Gods" was pretty awesome.

But yes...some of the stuff you take with a grain of salt...as with much of anything else in life.....

for Lorna's choice.

Von Daniken took a lot of his stuff from Velikovsky's previous book "Worlds in Collision" which posited that Venus came into this solar system as a comet, was trapped here by the Sun, and brought flies to Earth in the wake of it's tail. Basically a lot of 'science-fiction'. 

Yes, it's sad that Phillip died so young. I think his wife's name was Kathleen but I don't remember her last name (nom de plume). My friends in England had dinner with them after they'd gotten married, as they'd been going to some of Kathleen's events and had gotten to know her. They liked Phillip quite a bit.

[thelufias]

Soooo....you got my curiosity up and I looked up his wifes info.....and wow....Never knew some of what is there.....but yes...her name was Kathleen McGowan....

And yup on Chariots of the Gods book....but it written WAY WAY better than "Worlds in Collision"....and to tell the truth...I read Chariots of the Gods as a Science Fiction book....nothing more...

[sidherose]

Yes, that's her - Kathleen McGowan.

I'd been reading several of those sorts of books at the time I read CotG and like the book about Atlantis (Ignatius Donnelly) and some other things, I read them because I was curious. A curiosity. I never quite knew what I thought of it all. It was just something to keep in mind for future reference, I guess.

I probably come closer to admitting aliens could have been here than I've ever been in my life...but I'm still waiting to meet one.

[thelufias]

As am I ..... since I was 8 or 9.....

Wow....I AM in a poetic mood today LOLOL....