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We are made of stardust
Aug. 6th, 2023 12:53 pmI put some TV in the background as I continued exploring AO3, and found some Ancient Aliens which is always very entertaining. And it occurs to me that considering my love for Stargate, it shouldn't be too surprising that I'd enjoy this kind of thing
For anyone who doesn't know, Ancient Aliens is a 'documentary'-style TV show based around the ancient astronaut theory. This theory posits that intelligent extra-terrestrial beings visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistoric times. Proponents of the theory suggest that this contact influenced the development of modern cultures, technologies, religions, and human biology. A common position is that deities from most, if not all, religions are extra-terrestrial in origin, and that advanced technologies brought to Earth by ancient astronauts were interpreted as evidence of divine status by early humans.
Unsurprisingly, this theory is not taken seriously by archaeologists who view it as pseudoscientific, pseudohistorical, pseudoarchaeological and all around just plain unscientific.
This does not stop me from being incredibly entertained by the show. The host Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is... quite enthusiastic and also very entertaining. The show's episodes also cover Atlantis and other lost ancient civilizations, extraterrestrial contact and ufology, and popular conspiracy theories
I'm sure by now - if you're familiar with Stargate, especially the movie - how I'm connecting the dots here. After all, when we first meet Dr Daniel Jackson, he's being laughed out of academia for his radical theories involving cross-pollination of ancient cultures and the Egyptian pyramids being landing sites for alien spaceships and were far older than previously thought
Daniel Jackson - ancient astronaut theorist!
For anyone who doesn't know, Ancient Aliens is a 'documentary'-style TV show based around the ancient astronaut theory. This theory posits that intelligent extra-terrestrial beings visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistoric times. Proponents of the theory suggest that this contact influenced the development of modern cultures, technologies, religions, and human biology. A common position is that deities from most, if not all, religions are extra-terrestrial in origin, and that advanced technologies brought to Earth by ancient astronauts were interpreted as evidence of divine status by early humans.
Unsurprisingly, this theory is not taken seriously by archaeologists who view it as pseudoscientific, pseudohistorical, pseudoarchaeological and all around just plain unscientific.
This does not stop me from being incredibly entertained by the show. The host Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is... quite enthusiastic and also very entertaining. The show's episodes also cover Atlantis and other lost ancient civilizations, extraterrestrial contact and ufology, and popular conspiracy theories
I'm sure by now - if you're familiar with Stargate, especially the movie - how I'm connecting the dots here. After all, when we first meet Dr Daniel Jackson, he's being laughed out of academia for his radical theories involving cross-pollination of ancient cultures and the Egyptian pyramids being landing sites for alien spaceships and were far older than previously thought
Daniel Jackson - ancient astronaut theorist!
