In Action!The ancient Norias (water wheels) of Hama in Syria deserve a mention here.
Norias were in use near Hama by 350 AD, with the great wheel - Noria al-Muhammadiya with its 21 metre/69feet diameter being built in 1361 AD. For nearly 500 years, this was the tallest waterwheel in the world. In 1854 it was surpassed by the Laxey Wheel, a mine-pumping waterwheel on the Isle of Man, which was marginally larger at 22.1 metres.
Astonishing (fairly) ancient technology, which has survived the centuries and countless wars in the region. Some of the Norias were damaged in Assad's air assault in 1982, but were subsequently repaired.
The photos of local youths grabbing onto the wheel to be hoisted up (it takes around one minute to rotate) and then leaping into what looks like dangerously shallow water, are terrifying!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norias_of_Hama
Have you read Signs of the Gods? Daniken has certain views about race that form the basis for his conclusions. I'd recommend reading it. Maybe you'll agree, maybe you won't.Do you support Erich Von Daniken’s belief that ancient aliens built impossible structures of huge stones weighing several
tons, and UFOs and aliens here been on earth for thousands of years ?
I believe Von Daniken is correct.
I know the truth, and it will come out.
I know I could be dead by then.
But he has admitted, with some pride, that he is a liar. He said that large sections of The Gold of the Gods were untrue, but were instead something he called dramaturgische Effekte (theatrical effects). Von Daniken claimed to have seen, with his own eyes, 'mounds of gold' in a cave, but this was nothing more than dramaturgische Effekte - i.e. a lie.
Yes. I find people tend to read Chariots and miss out on the rest of his body of work that really do a better job of presenting why he makes the claims he does.Daniken was just a racist bastard talking pseudoscientific bollocks.
In many cases he was deliberately lying.
Here's a post I made back in 2018, concerning his own admission of lying in Gold of the Gods.
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...ds-bbc-nova-program.63575/page-2#post-1743909
I believe Von Daniken is correct.
Well not much of a mystery. They never got moved out of the quarry, meaning they bit off more than they could chew.There are stone structures in the world that even today couldn’t be built with modern equipment.
The largest stone blocks in the world at 1,500 tons each at Baalbek are a real mystery.
There are stone structures in the world that even today couldn’t be built with modern equipment.
The largest stone blocks in the world at 1,500 tons each at Baalbek are a real mystery.
Shoulda gone to Specsavers!Please tell me which ones. It's very probable I've been missing them!
I'll bet that's 'Indiana Burchell' stood on it.Shoulda gone to Specsavers!
Sacsayhuaman in the Peruvian Andes where 360 ton stones were precisionally placed in such a manner that there is no room between the massive stones.
Modern engineering would have trouble doing the same today.
It's this I'm responding to here:Sacsayhuaman in the Peruvian Andes where 360 ton stones were precisionally placed in such a manner that there is no room between the massive stones.
Modern engineering would have trouble doing the same today.
er... no. Had we reason to do it, we could.
@charliebrown I used to work with engineers, both on site and in academic programmes. There was an into lecture in the mid 1980s that took the line that everything that has already been done is still doable, and what the academics wanted to turn out where people who could do more.
If there was anything that engineers thought they couldn't do then they'd have been figuring out several solutions already. If something had been impossible in the 1960s it would have been replicated by the 1980s and so on.
Engineering is three dimensional problem solving. It's what it does.
There are stone structures in the world that even today couldn’t be built with modern equipment.
And we are constantly discovering 'lost' skills and methods. We are often challenged in our assumption that 'so-and-so' people did not use 'such-and-such' tools.
I'm fairly simplistic in my opinion: ancient folks built stuff because it patently exists*. We just don't know how. If we add ancient alien helpers in the mix, we can't prove those aliens existed by the creations of ancient peoples.
* A Descartian approach?
The widely accepted method was the little crochet hook-thingy, catching on to the goop and hoiking it out. I always thought a more thorough and easy method was to shove a lobotomy spike-type instrument up one nostril, give it a stir, do the same for the other nostril then, like an egg, blowing hard through one nostril. Works on eggs, eh?I used to work with Bob Brier, the guy who did so many TV shows about mummies and pyramids. When he was mummifying a human body according to what was then the accepted methods, he found that certain things (most notably removing the brain) could not be done by those methods. Did he give up? Did he pray to the aliens? No, he thought about it and found a solution that easily could have been done in ancient times.
Ha! You're so close!The widely accepted method was the little crochet hook-thingy, catching on to the goop and hoiking it out. I always thought a more thorough and easy method was to shove a lobotomy spike-type instrument up one nostril, give it a stir, do the same for the other nostril then, like an egg, blowing hard through one nostril. Works on eggs, eh?
Shame I couldn't get the funding to experiment. They said I wasn't a forensic scientist, medico, or even possess formal qualifications, which is just an excuse to stop me.
Only a zombie would want to eat it.Probably be good in an omlette.
Me before coffee is close enoughOnly a zombie would want to eat it.