{"id":34854,"date":"2011-05-01T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/just-wondering\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:43:07","slug":"just-wondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/just-wondering.php","title":{"rendered":"Just Wondering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&rsquo;t ask this, but do you believe the Earth has been visited by intelligent  extraterrestrials?&nbsp; Do you think we are STILL being visited, or  &ldquo;watched&rdquo;, by aliens?&nbsp; Do you believe an alien culture was instrumental  in the development of our culture on Earth?<\/p><p>We&rsquo;ve all heard the theory that aliens visited the Earth in antiquity,  and that they were regarded as gods.&nbsp; In May of 2008, the Vatican even  agreed that there was a possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial  life, and that it (the Church) was okay with that belief.&nbsp; Wow.&nbsp; That  would&rsquo;ve got you burned at the stake a few centuries ago.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/329e4_Chariots_Of_The_Gods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8524\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/329e4_Chariots_Of_The_Gods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"350\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>A very interesting read in 1968.<\/p><\/div><p>In 1968 Erich von Danikan published <span>Chariots of the Gods<\/span>, an  international best-seller which hypothesized that ancient technologies  and ancient religions where based on alien visitation.&nbsp; Many of the  artifacts von Danikan presented in his book have since been proven by  science as having terrestrial origins, but many more are still puzzling  and intriguing.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/329e4_mayan-tomb-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8525\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/329e4_mayan-tomb-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"219\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Mayan tomb image.  Has been interpreted to show a humanoid figure within a spacecraft. <\/p><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9d31a_JomonStatue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8526\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9d31a_JomonStatue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"600\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Jomon statue - has been interpreted as a figure of an ancient astronaut.<\/p><\/div><p>The issue heats up when you start looking at archaeological remains.&nbsp;  They&rsquo;re digging up evidence of civilizations much older than we had  thought existed.&nbsp; The underwater remains are especially intriguing.&nbsp;  Proponents of the theory say that there is evidence of ancient alien  visitation in the archaeological record.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t know about that, but I  do know that some of the artifacts unearthed are thrilling in their  mystery.&nbsp; Take, for example, the Antikythera Mechanism.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9d31a_antikythera-mechanism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8527 \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9d31a_antikythera-mechanism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"359\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Main fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism - they salvaged three fragments.<\/p><\/div><p>That&rsquo;s mind blowing, in itself.&nbsp; In fragments, this was discovered in an  ancient shipwreck in 1901.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s been studied for years, and is now  known to be the remains of a complex and sophisticated scientific  calculator used to predict the positions of celestial bodies.&nbsp; This  machine has been dated at about 150-65 BCE.&nbsp; You can go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MqhuAnySPZ0&amp;feature=related\">here<\/a> and watch a computer reconstruction of the device, or go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antikythera-mechanism.gr\/project\/overview\">here<\/a> to the website devoted to research on the device.<\/p><p>Does this mean we have been visited by an alien culture?&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t know,  myself, but I&rsquo;d sure like to visit some of those archaeological sites.&nbsp;  What do <em>you<\/em> think about the issue?&nbsp; Do you think there is  anything in the archaeological record that points to an alien culture?&nbsp;  Do you think we&rsquo;ve been visited by aliens?&nbsp; Do you think we&rsquo;re being  watched, or monitored, by an alien intelligence?&nbsp; Why?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&rsquo;t ask this, but do you believe the Earth has been visited by intelligent extraterrestrials?&nbsp; Do you think we are STILL being visited, or &ldquo;watched&rdquo;, by aliens?&nbsp; Do you believe an alien culture was instrumental in the development &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/just-wondering.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}