Watched this show on History Channel, and I have complaints

Hey DE;

http://squid314.livejournal.com/275614.html?thread=1615006

Shy by three months.

 

To be honest, it's quite good. I only found the older one by searching for the Colossus supercomputer. I didn't find anything real.

 

So just so i understand this, the first post was some kind of lash out to those that complain on the lack of originality and complete implausibility of many shows by mentioning that history looks like an implausible and tired plot of a lame scifi show episode, right? Hmm, and is the history channel to be believed as accurate? History is normally told by the winners ya know.

 

Rodney?

 

I wish this forum had a "rate down" feature.

 

The history channel gets its facts from winners all over the world.

 

I support that feature, + rate for you!

 

That's the error, they should get the facts from the losers too.

 

No one likes a loser.

 

*Grows a top hat and a bowtie*

History is written by the victors!

 

Losers only matter for paleontologists; those fossils have to come from somewhere. Though, perhaps it could be suggested that some fossils were winners? But how does that even matter if it happened so many millions of years ago...it could be argued that time had no meaning before man.
If you can't really imagine something, is it worth having? A perfect historical record doesn't exist partially because the losers aren't really allowed say in what goes into winning documents. A tragedy, I'm sure. Edison used to get people riled up over Westinghouse's Alternating Current (calling it a deadly menace) electricity by misusing it to electrocute cats. People believed him because he was a household name. But the true tragedy was the torturing of cats to make an invalid point. Pieces of history already don't make sense. Indeed, there seems to be no depth to the cruelty of man throughout history. What purpose would the loser's side serve other than to firmly cement that we're inescapably cruel?

 

Yet, it was Tesla's alternating current that beat out Edison's direct current for use in the chicago world fair in the early 1890s I believe.

 

If Hitler hadn't lost the war, we would know the truth: He was saving the Jews from the British by bringing them to space camps where he shot them into the stars in rockets.

And you know what? One day, the Jews will return, and we will all learn the truth.

 

I tuned in to the history channel the other day, and all they were talking about was aliens. So, yes, they may kindly piss off with their tabloid-history.

 

Yet another reason I'm glad I don't have cable. These aliens people experience are nothing more than hallucinations caused by the production of DMT in their pineal glands. Though it is fun to think we're being studied by a creature above mankind. Ok I do believe there's something out there, but pretty much every planet we've seen that could have life on it hasn't had anything there, meaning the civilizations either died out or we're the only thing here.

 

I'd say we have studies too little planets and with too limited methods to say that just yet.

Then again, it would depend on your definition of "here".

 

Well, the thing is, according to statistics, we should at least see something. Unless life is so rare in the universe that only a few planets in far-flung galaxies can support it. My definition of "here" is alive within our universe. Perhaps life exists in dimensions beyond ours, and that is where the aliens reside. Or perhaps the other life in the universe is so far in advance of humanity that they don't want anything to do with us. Can you imagine humans giving ants nuclear energy out of the kindness of their hearts? That may be the same scenario between us and another civilization. Advanced life won't give us technology, much as we won't give ants nukes.

 

What we have been able to check were but a few planets, hardly anything compared to what's out there, plus it must have been exclusively from our galaxy, if I'm not mistaken. Saying that there is no civilisation out there because of that would be like saying there are no cell phones on the planet while being in the middle of the desert because of simply not seeing any.

Not receiving alien radio waves are a different thing. Still, I recall reading an article in which it was said that if each civilisation emitted those for a thousand years (or something like that) before either nuking itself to death or advancing to a stage of development not needing those, finding ourselves in a time gap where there is nothing to be received wouldn't be very unlikely, even if those civilisations were numerous and right next to us.

We send radio waves, though, so they could be aware that we're here, but even if they had the means to contact us, why bother? "Seriously, Zalpfthrax, radio waves? If they're still that primitive, they are obviously of no use to us. Tell me when they invent hyperdrive and we'll talk."