Ancient Aliens (TV Special) [DVD]

I love Erich von Daniken's work, and this is no exception. The show has brought along great minds like Michael Cremo, Giorgio Tsoukalos, George Noorey, and many other great minds to talk about the things on this Earth that "...scientists can't answer very well". This nonsense about the pyramids is so silly that I can not believe that respectable people really think that Egyptians built a 2 mile ramp to get to the top of the pyramid. This is why we have alternative thinks like von Daniken today, to help show us what is up!Using mathematics, von Daniken shows us that the pyramids could not have been built in only 20 odd years because using math we find that the great pyramid alone would have to have a brick layed in every 9 seconds for the project to have been completed. This being the case, I wonder how those nuts at the "archeological society" would answer about how they moved their giant camp back so fast to compensate for the 9 seconds of laying time. Keep in mind that these stones are roughly 2-70 tons, I believe the largest at Giza was something along the lines of 200 tons. 200 tons! that is 400,000 pounds! and yet archeologists want us to believe that these were hauled along the sands by about 10 slaves each pulling on ropes. What nonsense! Then they want us to believe that a spiral ramp was created going around the pyramid to the top, getting a shorter distance to the middle each time the spiral went up a rock. What BS! There is no evidence of that at all because the pyramid is layered on the outside, not spiraled!I am going off on a rant here, but anyhow, I think any open minded person who watches this will believe in ancient astronauts. Any closed minded person (the self appointed experts) who watch this will think they know better than people like von Daniken who has written 30+ books. Funny how the ego works, ey?With compelling evidence, watch this if you are an open minded person.5/5John McAdam: Author of "Were Ancient Gods From Other Planets?"

I remember watching this for the first time on tv and being absolutely blown away. ANCIENT ALIENS, a documentary produced by the History Channel, details a string of theories pertaining to some of humankind's greatest achievements, and how they might not be OUR achievements after all.With a documentary like this, you really have to press "play" with an open mind. The folks at the History Channel have not made it their business in the past to convert people to a certain way of thinking, and they're not starting now. They are objectively displaying a premise that many, including myself, had never heard before.Most of the film mostly centers around the theories postulated by Erich von Daniken in his book Chariots of the Gods. Most of these theories assert the possibility that extra terrestrials actually intervened in Earth's history, and sort of nudged us down the right path toward creating monuments such as the Great Pyramid of Giza and Teotihuacan, and toward creating things unique for the time, such as the Antikythera Mechanism.The documentary goes to some very unique places and interviews believers and skeptics alike. The History Channel was very, very thorough in assuring that all the bases were covered. It was a very fun experience, and is now one of my most favorite documentaries.I realize that in the plothole-ridden history of humanity, there are events that will never be fully understood, and mysteries that will never be solved. Dawkins calls them "gaps," and within such gaps we can see marvelous possibilities of what COULD and MIGHT HAVE happened. In the case of this "intervention theory," it really is no harm, no foul.The concept is absolutely brilliant (look for a few of the films directly inspired by Daniken's theory: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Two-Disc Special Edition), Battlestar Galactica - Season One, Knowing, Stargate (Ultimate Edition). This documentary won't convert you and, again, it doesn't try to. But to someone like me, it really got me to think: What if? And it was a very fun question to ponder.

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For years i have struggled with religion and history. I have found that a lot of the things being taught in my schools didn't seem to fit together, like a missing link. The more and more i asked myself about these things, the more and more i got confused. When i took stories of the bible, about the history, about our ways of life, they only made me doubt and even in cases hate the very things that have made up our societies ways of thinking about religion and our past. This documentary has changed my over all views of religion and our history! I love how this documentary goes through each step, it makes a lot of sense and i highly recommend this DVD to anyone who is looking for a new way of looking at religion and mankind's history! This small DVD is a huge, revolutionary step. It makes perfect sense and if your like me, stuck in the ways of society but desperatly look for ways to make sense of the world around you then this DVD is for you too. It gives you the insight to what people have come forward with and have had the resources to go out and conduct such extensive research! Like going on a world wide man hunt for human kind in the comfort of your own home and or office ;),..... Love the DVD love the service and love the great minds behind the documentary! Stay strong everyone! - Agnostik Seven of Skavinjer

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Released in 2009, this 94min DVD is virtually a sequel to Von Daniken's classic 'Chariots of the Gods'; being produced in collaboration with, and including appearances by Erich Von Daniken himself. The programme develops his ideas in the light of recent discoveries; while also including contributions from David Childress, Sara Seager, Michael Cremo and other writer/reseachers on this still controversial but, to my mind, highly logical theory. I found the ariel photographic views which form the backdrop to the Nasca plateau chapter very impressive. Von Daniken suggests the layer of crystalline glass which covers this plateau indicates that the original mountain peaks were 'ground' or 'lasered' away to produce the unnaturally flat plateau, which then functioned as an inter-stellar transport base. The vast 'runways' marked out on the plateau can still be very clearly seen; the longest measures 23kilometres! while the 4000 metre altitude of the site, which puts it way above the clouds and free from wind movement; would make it a perfect landing site for inter-stellar craft.The section on the pyramids is also persuasive. We have all seen the biblical epics in which sweating slaves drag huge stone blocks up a ramp into position. I doubt that most of us are aware however,that to complete the Great Pyramid during the reign of the Pharaoh whose tomb it is reputed to be; those slaves would have had to quarry, dress, transport and position, one six ton limestone block every nine seconds, night and day for twenty two years!Also included in this programme are innumerable passages and quotations from the most ancient of humanities written historical records, such as the Biblical tale of Ezekiel's vision; which does seem to be describing a jet powered, metal flying machine with a glass/perspex cockpit. Some of the amazing archeological finds shown are, model aeroplanes, rockets, spacesuited 'Gods' etc..., plus:-1.Batteries the ancients used for electro-plating.2.A type of mechanical computer which aided navigation by charting the movement of the stars.3.Pictures of what appear to be electric light bulbs on the walls of an Egyptian tomb.4.A Mayan tombstone engraving of what appears to be a pilot flying some sort of jet aircraft.Regarding the fragmentary record which has reached us from those incredibly ancient times, in what we now regard as myth and legend; I shall quote another contributor to this programme, Mr Giorgio A Tsoukalos "Why can't modern society come to grips, that those stories might be true after all?".

The DVD was a good review of what I had already learned in Chariots of the Gods. It gives us a lot to think about and some challenges to Darwin's theories!