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Review of Ancient Aliens S12E12 "The Animal Agenda"

7/28/2017

64 Comments

 
​It’s been a good ten seasons since Ancient Aliens had an original idea, so it goes without saying that we’ve heard much of the material in tonight’s episode before. In this episode, the show is looking to go beyond its typical claim that humans were genetically engineered by aliens to extend the aliens’ plans to animals. We’ve seen elements of this in the past, from the time when Giorgio Tsoukalos alleged that space aliens made a peace treaty with coelacanths to protect them from a dinosaur-killing asteroid to the time that the show claimed that Bigfoot arrived on Earth in a flying saucer. But the real purpose of this episode is to cast doubt on evolutionary theory, a disturbingly common theme that the show has been pushing since its decision to adopt creationist claims and rhetoric.
Segment 1
The show opens with a discussion of eight alleged alien abductions in the 1990s that shared enough similarities that Darrell Simms claims them to be part of a single event. The abductees allegedly visited an alien laboratory or museum where contains held representatives of various species from Earth and beyond. Without bothering to provide any evidence of this, the show uses it as a springboard to suggest that many different alien species have connections to different families of Earth animals, such as reptiles, insects, etc. The narrator then summarizes Darwin’s Origin of Species, and narrator Robert Clothworthy announces that there is “evidence” that evolution cannot explain speciation or variation within a species. We hear that dogs come in too many “crazy” shapes to have evolved naturally (even though they were produced, in historic times, often with documentation, by human-led artificial selection), and we hear that giraffes have no “intermediate” fossils between short and long-necked giraffes and therefore sprang fully formed into being. The narrator concludes that “most” species on Earth “cannot be explained” by natural selection.
 
Unwilling to have the courage of its creationist sympathies and explain its point in true detail, the show pivots to what it says are the 70 million Egyptian animal mummies in existence, a number it says is equal to the 70 million Egyptian human mummies they say scientists have excavated. I wondered where these numbers came from, and I found it in some popular “mystery” books, but not as the number excavated but the number estimated for the total number of people mummified in all of Egyptian history, of which only a small fraction remain. But no matter: We are quickly on to the question of why ancient cultures around the world held animals in great respect. I’ll give you one guess, considering how closely humans and animals lived together out of necessity before the industrial era.
 
Segment 2
The second segment starts off with a discussion of the Apis bull and its role in Egyptian creation myths, in one version of which he is supposed to be the creator of humanity, though I am not familiar with this myth. They also claim the Apis bull cult to be Egypt’s oldest, dating back to 3000 BCE, a claim I found in old Biblical encyclopedias but which I have been unable to confirm. I guess that it is related to the fact that a bull was one of the oldest symbols of the pharaohs, on a palette dating back to 3500 to 3100 BCE. This leads to a broader discussion of how many ancient peoples trace their lineages back to an animal ancestor. This they rhyme with myths of flying monkeys and animal-headed gods, and the narrator suggests that either (a) aliens are related to animal species or (b) aliens disguise themselves as animals like giant insects (like the Egyptian scarab-headed god Khepri) in order to appear “friendlier” to human beings. Those would be the same humans they allegedly created and had always been present to, so consistency is again a problem with Ancient Aliens. I guess the aliens must have left for a few thousand years or so, until humanity had forgotten what aliens looked like. Frankly, though, I think I’d be more afraid of a humanlike alien with a giant bug for a face than I would a Grey.
 
Segment 3
The third segment is ostensibly about the bombardier beetle, an insect that uses a chemical reaction to produce a toxic defensive stream heated to nearly the boiling point of water, but in reality it is an extended argument for intelligent design theory, offering a series of complaints about why evolution by natural selection “doesn’t work.” The show also tells us that the bug’s hydrogen peroxide is “rocket fuel,” which is news to me since I apparently am using “rocket fuel” to clean stains off of my car’s upholstery. (Some rocket fuel includes liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.) Giorgio Tsoukalos says that the beetle must have come to Earth “fully formed” because he is not able to conceive of an evolutionary path by which a bug could develop a toxic secretion without, as another speaker says, “blow[ing] itself up.” Once again, a failure of imagination demands a near-supernatural response, and in the continuing merger of the two extreme ends of fringe history, creationism has seeped into the ancient astronaut theory in weird and unnecessary ways.
 
The narrator tells us that the aliens invented weird animal powers so humans could “observe” the animals and learn how to develop technologies based on their abilities. This contradicts, of course, earlier episodes from this and past seasons that alleged that humanity gained its inventions and insights from the Akashic Record and projected psychic transmissions from aliens. Why do we need animals that shoot acid out their asses when we have direct reception of blueprints from the alien factories?
 
Segment 4
The fourth segment discusses the many other hominin species that existed before and alongside anatomically modern humans, with help from paleontologist Peter Ward, a professor at the University of Washington who has chosen to lend his evolutionary theory bona fides to this anti-science travesty. The narrator tells us that aliens might have experimented with many different types of creature before settling on one final type, and from this the show speculates that “hybrid” creatures are alien experiments—a claim that we’ve heard many times before. More interesting to me, though, is the fact that this year, when showing medieval Persian art depicting Muhammad, the show blurs out the Islamic Prophet’s face for the first time I can recall, even though Persian tradition does not refrain from depicting him. The show clearly missed a step here, for they could have related these hominins to the myths of wild men, especially the story of Enkidu from the Epic of Gilgamesh, a wild man who mated with a human woman, just like the other hominin species did with our ancestors. Instead, we go straight to the Watchers and the Nephilim (again) with the Enochian allegation that the sexual sin of creating angel-human hybrids led to the Great Flood. We also hear what strikes me as a fake claim that other world mythologies allege that instead of building an Ark to sail the waters, some Flood heroes built ships to take animals “to the stars.” This strikes me as a distortion of some Native American or Chinese stories that involve events in the sky alongside the Flood, but I can’t place one offhand.
 
Segment 5
The fifth segment again attacks evolutionary theory by suggesting that the so-called “immortal jellyfish,” which has the ability to return to a polyp state and rejuvenate itself indefinitely, cannot be explained by science. Then the show notes that Anaxagoras invented the panspermia theory of life, but this isn’t entirely true, for he merely suggested that everything in the cosmos contained the “seeds” of all the other things in the cosmos, creating spontaneous generation. This isn’t the same thing, even if he used the term “panspermia” to mean “seeds everywhere.” Then the show freaks out about Chinese genetic engineering, which doesn’t have anything to do with aliens but is of a piece with creationism in that appeals to faith and fear are the bread and butter of cable channels with older-skewing audiences. The contrast between the New Age associations of the classic ancient astronaut theory and the quasi-creationist and increasingly conservative version offered in latter-day Ancient Aliens is fascinating. I wonder if they had it to do all over again if they would even have aliens at all.
 
Segment 6
The sixth segment describes how human beings might use directed panspermia to terraform a distant planet by seeding it with programmed DNA that would develop into plants and animals. The show tells us that aliens probably did that to us. Tsoukalos tells us that this must be true because “Darwinian evolution” fails on account of the lack of “transitional fossils,” this despite his complete unwillingness to investigate the fossil record to see fossil remains in sequence. William Henry and the narrator imply that our DNA might be programming us to develop into some kind of future form with animal traits. In the end, the whole hour was less about aliens than it was an attack on evolution, a self-defeating argument unless one is prepared to explain where the aliens came from. But if your goal is spiritual rather than scientific, then the inconsistency vanishes because the supernatural worldview needs no justification. 
64 Comments
TheSmartestGuyInTheWorld
7/28/2017 10:13:04 pm

I dated an extraterrestrial animal once. Let me tell you! HOT STUFF! I won’t go into any more than that, because you’re ancient astronaut theorists, so I’m not going to tell you what we did. Should I tell you? You’re AA theorists, but you know life. You know life!

So when is the FAKE NEWS going to start reporting on extraterrestrial acid spraying beetles! They’re out there terrorizing good Americans! When is it going to end? VERY SAD

I saw some shady looking squirrels on the golf course the other day. I could tell they were extraterrestrials. I can tell that kind of stuff. I know that kind of stuff. I’m smart like that. They were looking at me really, really funny; just like my ex-wives look at me. One of the little fur balls said something about me to his little sciuridae buddies. It was almost the same thing Krugman said about me in FAILING NYTIMES a couple of weeks ago. In fact he kind of looked like Krugman, only with a better haircut. “Is that you, Krugman?” I shouted. He didn’t answer me. “You talking about me, Krugman!” I shouted again. Again no answer. All I had with me was a 9 iron. I’m not going to tell you what I did. Should I tell you? You’re ancient astronaut theorists, but you know life. You know life!

Speaking of funny looking little fur balls, when is Giorgio going to get a better job? That man has the hair of a winner! What’s he doing on there with those other losers? The only thing holding him back is no tie. Do you think he’d be interested in attorney general? Then he could really do something about those acid spraying beetles.

#AAS12E12 #FAILINGNYTIMES #SQUIRREL! #KRUGMANISANALIEN #NOACIDBEETLES

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Geo
7/31/2017 10:39:46 am

(golf clap)

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Only Me
7/28/2017 10:28:03 pm

The AA pundits may have a point. I, too, cannot conceive of an evolutionary path by which a human could develop into one of these simpletons.

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Shane Sullivan
7/29/2017 11:38:11 am

Reminds me of that scene from Inherit the Wind where the guy on the street explains how chimpanzees devolved from humans.

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Americanegro
7/29/2017 11:57:11 am

They call me "Bright Eyes".

Heike Kubasch
7/30/2017 07:28:54 am

That being the case, the aliens don't seem to take much pride in their work.

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Drew Love
8/13/2018 11:38:33 am

If you tried to make a better monkey and ended up with human beings you'd probably be kind of disappointed too.

TheBigMike
7/28/2017 11:35:47 pm

This episode infuriated me. Like every other topic these assholes corrupt, they have fundamentally misunderstood what evolution is. It is NOT a linear progression. I... I just cannot.... I am so angry right now.

On another note, hydrogen peroxide is, in fact, used in making fuel for some small jet engines. I know that most people who are experimenting with personal Jet Packs are using hydrogen peroxide as the base for their fuel.

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Americanegro
7/29/2017 01:04:16 am

Yeahhh, Jason didn't science this as well as he might have if he'd had a harsher more explosive-rich upbringing. Who doesn't know about hydrogen peroxide being used as a propellant in torpedos?

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Jason Colavito link
7/29/2017 06:20:02 am

It's an ingredient in some jet fuels, but it is not itself jet fuel. Jet fuel requires fuel of some kind, and so far as I know the beetle doesn't emit petroleum.

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Americanegro
7/29/2017 11:46:05 am

Dammit Jason, I am trying to hep you here, but you are not sciencing.

"Jet fuel requires fuel of some kind". That's like saying cows require moo of some kind. I see where you went wrong, you think it's the oxidizer. Let's fix that.

"High-concentration hydrogen peroxide is referred to as "high-test peroxide" (HTP). It can be used either as a monopropellant (not mixed with fuel) or as the oxidizer component of a bipropellant rocket. Use as a monopropellant takes advantage of the decomposition of 70–98% concentration hydrogen peroxide into steam and oxygen. The propellant is pumped into a reaction chamber, where a catalyst, usually a silver or platinum screen, triggers decomposition, producing steam at over 600 °C (1,112 °F), which is expelled through a nozzle, generating thrust. H
2O2 monopropellant produces a maximal specific impulse (Isp) of 161 s (1.6 kN·s/kg). Peroxide was the first major monopropellant adopted for use in rocket applications."

Jason Colavito link
7/29/2017 11:55:51 am

Thank you, I see now. But it's still misleading to call hydrogen peroxide "rocket fuel" since it won't run a rocket on its own, without a catalyst, and it's sold in bottles at every drugstore in America.

Americanegro
7/29/2017 12:15:47 pm

In that sense it's wrong to call any rocket fuel rocket fuel. Did you never make an explosive out of iodine and ammonia? No oxygen involved. If I remember correctly, it's been a long time.

So what if it's sold in extremely diluted form (for safety) in drugstores? Know what you can buy in grocery stores? Apples! Try eating a cupful of appleseeds sometime and see what the CYANIDE in them does to you. Or feed them to your pig, if you don't require your pig anymore. That's my recipe for dead pig, stuff you can buy at any store.

Toxicologist's mantra: The dose makes the poison. Pepto Bismol. Bismol, bismuth. What do we get from bismuth? Uranium. What do we make atomic bombs out of? Yet we can buy Pepto Bismol in a drugstore.

Jason Colavito link
7/29/2017 02:52:47 pm

Right--but you wouldn't expect Ancient Aliens to say aliens brought apples to Earth because they are LITERAL CYANIDE PILLS. That's misleading.

Americanegro
7/29/2017 03:18:28 pm

But, hydrogen peroxide is LITERALLY rocket fuel. Instead of using Giorgio's ignorance as a justification, why not go back and correct the article, treating the whole thing as a typo? And I brought up apple seeds because yes, in the real world, pigs have died from eating them. Science. Good lord, normal human metabolism produces alcohols, even in teetotalers. Don't fetishize the substance.

Let me hip you to this: distilled water is bad for metal machinery. It will eat away at metal parts because its ion load is un-fulfilled. Science.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
7/29/2017 11:52:27 pm

In this case I have to agree with Americanegro. The hydrogen peroxide you get at the drugstore is really a bottle of water with hydrogen peroxide in it (most commonly just a three percent solution). Pure hydrogen peroxide is a different animal. A vivid remark by Robert Zubrin comes to my mind here: "…introducing a tiny speck of the wrong kind of dirt can cause an entire 100-tonne tank of hydrogen peroxide to explode."

Jim
7/30/2017 03:37:31 am

Yikes !,,,,,,,that would be a blonde moment !

Ken
7/30/2017 10:25:20 am

We don't 'get' uranium from bismuth. Both are basic elements. The most prevalent uranium ore is carnotite, from which uranium oxide is extracted. Other impurities and trace elements such as bismuth and thorium must be removed mostly by acid leach. Uranium oxide, also known as 'yellow cake' . The most common other ore found with carnotite is vanadium ore, from which we extract vanadium oxide or 'red cake'.

I lived in a town called Uravan, CO (named after U and V) for 6 years (1951-1957) while my father was superintendent of the Union Carbide processing plant there. The town no longer exists after being bulldozed over by EPA in the 1990s because it was highly radioactive. I had toured the plant many times and am very familiar with the processes. 3 or 4 trucks left Uravan daily, full of yellow cake, for Oak Ridge TN where the U235 was separated by gaseous diffusion from U238 and used in making bombs.

But U definitely does not come from Bi as AN maintains.

Joe Scales link
7/30/2017 10:31:41 am

Yellow Cake? Don't DROP THAT -- -- -- -- !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5PZ290rCfo

Americanegro
7/30/2017 01:27:15 pm

@KEN,

Dammit you are right, I was completely wrong. Stupid science (Homer Simpson voice)! I plead pitchblende and an article I read about Marie Curie when I was a kid and really wanted to bone her, plus bauxite and aluminum.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/themes/physics/curie/

That said, bismuth is really interesting, and one of those elements no one pays attention to. Thank you for the correction. Dammit.

Ken
7/30/2017 06:16:14 pm

Bismuth is the heaviest element which is stable (i.e. not radioactive). It is a favorite among UFO believers as an alloying ingredient for flying saucer skins because it allegedly helps anti-gravity drives. Bob Lazar claims the next higher period (period 7, series 15 of the periodic table) is the anti-gravity fuel for the retrieved 'sport model' flying saucer kept in area 51.

No, I don't believe any of it for a second, but I love reading about this shit.

Ken
7/30/2017 06:21:23 pm

That would be element 115, Moscovium, first synthesized in 2003.

Americanegro
7/30/2017 10:10:32 pm

Bismuth is not stable, it is in fact radioactive.

Osiris
8/7/2017 06:52:29 pm

Anyone know if it is age that is starting to catch up with Jason? In the past he would have never lost such an obvious argument, because he would have had the forethought to not mention something so asinine as hydrogen peroxide not being rocket fuel.

I can't help but think that Jason is beginning to lose some of his mental acuity at a relatively young age; either that or he is not studying and refining his critical thinking skills as much as he used to. There is no excuse for these types of blunders Jason, get back to your old form before people start to suspect you have lost it.

TONY S.
7/28/2017 11:52:31 pm

Ironic that a group of un-evolved primates are attempting to discuss evolution.

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Heike Kubasch
7/29/2017 05:08:37 am

While I don't remember the Prophet's face blurred, some Islamic miniatures show the face of the Prophet and others veiled, for religious reasons. I think this stems from a prohibition of the Prophet that Allah would ask the artist to "give live to the image" if the artists were drawing a picture of a person.
I saw these images at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Jason Colavito link
7/29/2017 06:22:45 am

The piece of art shown on the show had a white circle over Muhammad's face which appeared superimposed because it didn't move in sync with the rest of the picture as they zoomed in on it, but rather jiggled around like the computer was trying to keep it centered on the face. But that was just my impression late at night. For all I know it was just an artifact of the computer program used for zooming and panning, which might have distorted the edges of the picture.

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TONY S.
7/29/2017 09:04:59 am

I saw them there as well, Heike.

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TONY S.
7/29/2017 09:28:41 am

The Apis Bull cult might be the oldest animal cult during the Dynastic period, as it may date back as far as the First Dynasty. But they're wrong when they claim it is the oldest in all Egypt.

Predynastic peoples like the Gerzean and Naqada worshipped animals. For example, there are at least thirteen nome (district) rulers known from the city of Nekhem (Hierakonpolis) who named themselves after animals who may have been associated with divinities. Names like "Crocodile" (possibly the origin of the Sobek cult, which appeared during the Old Kingdom?), "Scorpion", and "Baleful Catfish".

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Americanegro
7/29/2017 02:13:07 pm

It should be noted that there is a difference between "worshipping" and "having as a totem".

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TONY S.
7/29/2017 07:18:06 pm

Very true. But worship begins somewhere.

Americanegro
7/29/2017 08:24:31 pm

Yeah, and having sex with underage girls (and boys) begins somewhere (Islam, Mormonism) but It should be noted that there is a difference between "worshipping" and "having as a totem".

Islam and Mormonism have no totems, for instance. Please read a goshdarn book once in a while.

I'm troubled that you conflate "having as a totem" with "worship". If we were to take a look at your crawlspace, would that be okay?

TONY S.
7/29/2017 08:45:02 pm

You're certainly troubled, I'll give you that. You're constant pathological need to be the smartest guy in the room is an excellent example.

Not to indulge your need for a juvenile pissing contest, but I can already tell from your posts that I've read a LOT more "gosh darn" books than you. ;)

Oh, and I didn't conflate anything. I understand the difference between the two, but it's obvious YOU don't.

Hugs and kisses big boy. *SMACK*

Americanegro
7/29/2017 10:47:20 pm

Wow. That was quite a jump! The proper answer is "I don't have a crawlspace".

Yeah, and having sex with underage girls (and boys) begins somewhere (Islam, Mormonism) but It should be noted that there is a difference between "worshipping" and "having as a totem".

Islam and Mormonism have no totems, for instance. Please read a goshdarn book once in a while.

I'm troubled that you conflate "having as a totem" with "worship". If we were to take a look at your crawlspace, would that be okay?

"TONY S.
7/29/2017 08:45:02 pm
You're certainly troubled, I'll give you that. You're constant pathological need to be the smartest guy in the room is an excellent example."

Needture or nurture?

"Not to indulge your need for a juvenile pissing contest, but I can already tell from your posts that I've read a LOT more "gosh darn" books than you. ;)"

You kinda just got into a contest. Interesting choice of weapon.
...
"Hugs and kisses big boy. *SMACK*"

-- Alright, that doesn't sound super gaycreepy like a clown killer,

I don't know who flicked your clitoris, but whatever, bro. It appears that the idea of underage sex triggered you. Are you a violator of the law, bro? This is a safe space, you can tell us if you committed a crime and feel bad about it.

Americanegro
7/30/2017 02:54:53 am

So, absent a search warrant, your crawlspace is off - limits and suspiciously bleachy smelly? Asking for a friend.

TONY S.
7/30/2017 10:32:46 am

I've skimmed past all the drivel without reading it. Quite frankly, it bores me.

BTW, you can look every one of my crawlspaces. You'll know which ones are mine from all the books. Feel free to borrow, they can only help you. What would we find in yours, aside from cream designed to soothe butthurt?

It's OK, Ammy. No need to constantly seek attention or get the last word. Everyone here likes you. We all think you're smart, OK? Now go take your nap, since someone is obviously getting a little cranky. We have more respect for Jason than to fill his comment section with snark; well, at least I do.

If you want to have real conversations about history, ones with actual substance where you aren't performing a sideshow for the whole blog for attention, I'll give you my email and FB contacts. Assuming you aren't here just to troll. You seem to have accumulated a little knowledge, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Now let's hug it out, bitch. *HUG* See you on the next one!

Americanegro
7/30/2017 03:09:15 pm

When you say you keep books in your crawlspace, is "books" code for "victims"?

You want to kiss me and call me "boy" yet you call me bitch. That's mixed signals bro.

I don't know who flicked your clitoris, but whatever, bro. It appears that the idea of underage sex triggered you. Are you a violator of the law, bro? This is a safe space, you can tell us if you committed a crime and feel bad about it.

You know you're going to offend again.

AAA
7/29/2017 10:58:18 am

Universe was obviously created for evolution. There is no great mystery here and science and creationism can coexist in peace. Advanced physics has already proven that there is no such thing as "time" and all of life exists right now. This is why it is called space-time continuum. Similar to the movie on a CD, which we watch in sequence, but the whole movie exists from beginning to end on a CD.

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Americanegro
7/29/2017 11:53:42 am

Why don't you take your never-even-took-calculus understanding of physics and go get a room at the Buggery Motel with Deepak Chopra?

"Universe was" What do you mean "WAS"? It's all right now man!

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AAA
7/29/2017 12:18:38 pm

Take it easy, man. Universe and all of Life from beginning to an end was created at the time of Big Bang. Currently universe is expanding, but there will be a time when it will all again come down to the seed from where it all started. And a new Big Bang will take place and a new "movie" will be created.

Joe Scales
7/29/2017 12:39:28 pm

Well, so long as we're in the bathtub with Hawkeye, are you sure the Universe is expanding? Perhaps it's just breathing...

Americanegro
7/29/2017 12:44:48 pm

Sez Johnny Never-Took-A-Math-Or-Physics-Class.

And AGAIN with the "was"!! I thought it was all happening now man, in your Dennis Hopper Easy Rider worldview. You come across as the stupidest kind of stupid. Go Occupy something.

AAA
7/29/2017 01:26:19 pm

The best word is probably "creating". Because the purpose of Life is to create and because there is nobody else, Life is creating itself. This is why there is really no separation between different "parts" of Life and all of Life is one being appearing to be many. And this is why Akashic Records and nonlocality exist.

Americanegro
7/29/2017 01:53:14 pm

So your argument is "That's why things that don't exist exist"?

Thank you for your service Harry Potter. Now please honorably make seppuku.

AAA
7/29/2017 02:01:53 pm

You mean aliens do not exist? I see no reason for Life to create such a boring movie in which there are zillions of planets but intelligent life exists on only one of these.

Americanegro
7/29/2017 02:10:37 pm

What's it like being really stupid?

Americanegro
7/29/2017 02:05:38 pm

Because it's too good to wait for another Wolter-centric blog post:

"Anonymous July 28, 2017 at 12:16 PM
Scott,

I'm learning a lot here, but now I'm confused. Where did the Algonquin come from?

Regards,

Andre Kovac


Scott WolterJuly 28, 2017 at 1:42 PM
Andre,

There is a lot of new evidence that certain groups of Native Americans have ancient ancestors came to North America across the Atlantic from Europe along continental ice shelves following seal herds as far back as 20-25,000 years ago.

The old theory of natives evolving from people that migrated exclusively across the Bering Straight land bridge is an over-simplified version of what was most likely a much more complicated reality."

They were following the seal herds you see (in a voice like Bill Cosby offering you a Benadryl). Because there were no rabbits, sheep, deer, cows, chickens, or fish in Europe, so THE SEAL HERDS HAD TO BE FOLLOWED!!!

"There is a lot of new evidence"

When Wolter says "a lot of new evidence" he means "gin and I made up some stuff last night". He's the living embodiment of the cornucopia, he does not stop.

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Only Me
7/29/2017 02:50:47 pm

"I'm learning a lot here"

No, Andre, no you're not.

"Where did the Algonquin come from?"

I guess there's no libraries where Andre lives? Why ask a concrete inspector that question? It disheartens me to know there are people even dumber than Wolter that are entrusted to take care of themselves.

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Americanegro
7/29/2017 03:23:05 pm

In a way I'm happy to hear you say that but in the spirit of Penn & Teller Fool Us, I'll say if you don't buy the premise, you don't get the bit.

Only Me
7/29/2017 03:56:05 pm

I understand the premise. I'm also making the point that no one should be turning to Wolter if they really want to learn something.

Americanegro
7/29/2017 05:11:47 pm

No, you realllllllllllllllllllllllllly don't understand. Doctor WHO?

TONY S.
7/29/2017 07:21:06 pm

"Because it's too good to wait for another Wolter-centric blog post"

I can go for one of these every day. The man is an endless source of amusement.

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David Bradbury
7/30/2017 03:13:17 am

Injecting a smidgen of utter randomness- I've now checked the belatedly-published Cavaglia/Salt reports on the excavation of the Great Sphinx, and there's no mention of the circumference of the head. Ditto in what seems to be the only published version of Lespius' "Chronologie" but I suspect that the measurement will be found somewhere in Lepsius' voluminous writings:
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=suchen&ab=&kl=&l=de

TONY S.
7/30/2017 09:46:11 am

Hey, David!

Thanks for getting back to me on that.

I'd love to have an English translation of the full, unabridged CHRONOLOGIE but I doubt that will ever happen. I think you're right, it's probably in his writings somewhere.

I'm currently going through other reports, journals and books written during the relevant time period; if I come across anything that might look promising I'll let you know.

Americanegro
7/30/2017 06:42:42 am

A cupful of appleseeds would do you a world of good.

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Ivar Nielsen link
7/30/2017 03:24:05 pm

Regarding segment 2, The Bull.

In Egypt the Bull and Cow were worshipped around 3.300 BC as the two prime creator deities of the ancient known world.

Goddess Hathor were also connected to the Celestial Cow as well as to the Milky Way realms which is directly connected to the creation in the Milky Way center. Read more here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor#Relationships.2C_associations.2C_images.2C_and_symbols

As the prime celestial creator deities of everything in the ancient world, one can accept the that we humans have been created by these deities in Heaven

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Americanegro
7/30/2017 10:15:14 pm

"As the prime celestial creator deities of everything in the ancient world, one can accept the that we humans have been created by these deities in Heaven"

So how many underage girls have you had sex with?

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Kal
7/31/2017 03:11:01 pm

You think the Ancient Aliens guys would actually do science and make sense of their theories and opinions through actual deduction? Surely not.

It could be aliens, so it is, seems to be their motto.

Nitroglycerine is used in medication and in small enough doses not to blow up. Same for hydrogen peroxide, small enough doses not to be used in rockets. Barium is small amounts is also used, but in small enough doses not to turn your radioactive permanently. Still it does turn your a little radioactive, That can't be good!

But since the show is making it all up, there really is no point in discussing how these things came to be.



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Americanegro
8/1/2017 01:33:37 am

"Nitroglycerine is used in medication and in small enough doses not to blow up. Same for hydrogen peroxide, small enough doses not to be used in rockets. Barium is small amounts is also used, but in small enough doses not to turn your radioactive permanently. Still it does turn your a little radioactive, That can't be good! "

You are an incredible retard. TONS of nitroglycerin will not blow up if put in some matrix. The first one was kiesulghur. Today we call it dynamite. Hydrogen peroxide? Sounds like you've never built a small rocket. For all practical purposes the barium in a barium enema is not radioactive and for all practical purposes you are an incredible retard.

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Kal
7/31/2017 03:12:53 pm

Clarification: The show is making up the disconnected stories and based them on myths and stories, which might have been based on fact, but because they are sensationalizing them, and adding their own opinions, they are making up the content of the story.

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Scott David Hamilton
7/31/2017 06:08:21 pm

The reference to "Chinese" genetic engineering is probably an attempt to appeal to Alex Jones fans. That's one of his favorite rant subjects.

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Americanegro
7/31/2017 06:47:40 pm

So you're attempting to appeal to Alex Jones fans? What's your plan for them?

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Jason Colavito
8/1/2017 04:32:49 am

I am a leftist socialist pig. I hate the Constitution especially free speech.
The US A needs to be run by fascist arrogant asses like me.
Long live fascist communism.

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Gee
8/5/2017 01:07:45 am

Ramy Romany is still hot though... he can talk about bulls all day!

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          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
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          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
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          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
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        • Hermetica >
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          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
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        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
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        • Aelian's Various Histories
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        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
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        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
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        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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        • Atlantis >
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          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
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          • Termier on Atlantis
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          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
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        • OOPARTs
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      • Religious Conspiracies >
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        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
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        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
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          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
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        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
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        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
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        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
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        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
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        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
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      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
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        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
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        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
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      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
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    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
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      • Defining a Zombie
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      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
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      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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