Anybody watch this series of programs?


I love it... Anybody wanna discuss the theories?

i think this thread might find success in News and Debate

Ugh. The History Channel.

i haven't watched it but i'm intrigued. tell us more kj.

i love it, whats the prob?

really good series

lol...

Just exploring theories of the book of Chariots of the Gods. Very fascinating. I like their theories of the Dogon people who have ancient knowledge of a star in the Sirius cluster that cant be seen with the naked eye. Old Mayan artifacts of spaceships and people in in space costumes. Thoughts on that India may have been nuked 10000 years ago. Just a bunch of things. lol... I have to laugh Ive always said that they left out the alien visitations in the Bible. But I like putting that in conjunction with my thoughts on dimensional travel because that is what space ships are actually doing if they exist. We are actually visiting ourselves from the future. Im adding, ancient monuments and oblesiks that have been torn down as possible free energy, vortices and harmonization of the planet.

History Channel is borderline sensationalistic. Especially when they get to conjecturing about the end of the world, fantasy, or aliens....which they seem to love to do. They just get so way over the top about selling things ("The Dark Ages: 600 Years of Degenerate, Godless, Inhuman Behavior!!"). And I guess the thing that drives me craziest is that any time I watch a special on any period of history I'm particularly interested in (and therefore spend a lot of time reading about), I always find them stating inaccurate information being shown.

Their used to be a webpage up, run by historians who had been on History Channel programs and afterward felt the need to protest the way their clips were edited. They felt that they had been used to present incorrect information. But, either its gone or I'm searching wrong because I can't find it now. I always wondered why they would get professors and scholars on there, and then have the narrator state almost all the facts, but maybe that's why. One of my favorites, one of the only ones I remember anymore, was...

Narrator: But General Grant had impressed Lincoln with his perfectly executed campaigns in the west.
Professor Soandso: Everything that he had wanted to accomplish, he had.
Narrator: So Lincoln went against his advisers, and handed Grant the Potomac army.

There are a handful of issues there (Grant's campaigns weren't particularly well-executed, he was just more willing to suffer huge casualties than his contemporaries, and Lincoln had more reservations than his advisers about Grant), but the way they cut that together makes me wonder why they wanted the prof at all.

I guess what it comes down to is that the History Channel is nothing more than entertainment, and that's fine, but I would never waste my time taking anything they present seriously.

Man McP, you are talking about the golden age of the history channel. At least that was ostensibly about, you know, history, and had actual historians involved in some way. Now they play mostly reality shows, or history shows with random celebrities filling the role that professors once did. A few weeks ago I stopped on a WWII special on History and interspersed with old film clips they had Sheryl Crow pontificating on how awesome veterans are.

They did have a good special recently called Fear of the Dark, where they went into detail on how average people dealt with night and darkness before electricity.

Are you afraid of the dark, bart d.?

My area gets no darker than 7 on the Bortle Dark-Sky scale, zeb.

Giorgio Tsoukalos is my hero. I almost want to make him my avatar.

Yeah, that about covers it.

Obama voter?

But you still check under the bed before you go to sleep, right?

i do, but im afraid of cockroaches

I apologize for not getting back to you sooner, zeb. I overlooked this post. The answer is no. No I do not.