Non-Human Skulls in Peru By Brien Foerster - ideacity

Posted by $ nickursis 9 years, 5 months ago to Science
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An intresting web site that encourages all takes on things, this particular one I remember when the scientist was roundly ridiculed for his findings, and yet he just is the messenger. Quite different from mainstream, but very well reasoned.
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  • Posted by Bdomineau 9 years, 5 months ago
    Most of the pyramids, of course, were built in sunlight. So lighting in the interior would only have been a problem after the roof went on. They would have used lamps, with salt in the oil so the flame burns very pure.” - See more at: http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/referen...
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 5 months ago
      I was in error below, it was called "the Baghdad Battery" and it was proven as a concept (note the word concept):
      The Discovery Channel program MythBusters built replicas of the jars to see if it was indeed possible for them to have been used for electroplating or electrostimulation. On MythBusters' 29th episode (March 23, 2005), ten hand-made terracotta jars were fitted to act as batteries. Lemon juice was chosen as the electrolyte to activate the electrochemical reaction between the copper and iron. Connected in series, the batteries produced 4 volts of electricity. When linked in series the cells had sufficient power to electroplate a small token.[5]
      Of course this does NOT prove that was what it was, nor that it was used, it only proved that the concept could work. The problem with all exploration and archeology is that they never get it all, there is always something missed or destroyed. I would say there are enough strange things found to always be able to say "we just don't know". There has been a large numbers of sites found under water in the last few years, at the mouth of the Nile, off Okinawa, and one I just saw in 6 feet of water that was a Greek center of commerce, complete with kilns and pottery facilities. The Ice age had dropped ocean levels up to a hundred feet, so there are sites we have yet to find or explore.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 9 years, 5 months ago
    Not scientific, not at all. This is a promotion of some pseudoscience. Foerster runs a travel agency called Hidden Inca Tours.

    Here is a website that suggests what we see is NOT "well reasoned" but instead Bad Archeology.
    https://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/201...

    Fanciful amateur archeology, geography and prehistory has been popular for quite some time. Swift, von Danekin, and Donnelly have all done well writing such fiction. It's not science.
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 5 months ago
      It may be, but such arguments have been used against others such as Von Daniken, and yet have been proven to work. Have you even seen the Egyptian Battery? There are indications in some Pyramid illustrations they used electric light to do their work, and they built one exactly as described and it worked. Also, there are no soot deposits inside the Pyramids, as well as certain ways the hallways and chambers are made that do not fit the "20,000 slaves" model. This guy makes a decent, reasoned argument. The physiological differences alone (2 plates versus 3) alone merits serious study, but as long as mainstream science sticks to it's "our way or the highway" philosophy, true investigations will always be relegated to the "junk science" or "pseudo science" label. I am reading a book called "We have never been alone" that makes a very good argument for advanced beings in the past that were here and are the root of all major religions. A lot of the great epic stories have a common theme, and were written thousands of years ago, and I have seen how American Indian "legends" of the Northwest were the impetus for a scientifically proven theory that the Pacific Northwest has been subjected to huge earthquakes from the Cascadia subduction zone. They even were able to get the exact dates from the Japanese "Orphan Tsunami" records, January 1700. Don't be so quick to dismiss that which does not fit current knowledge to be fantasy, the mainstream geologists found that out with Plate Tectonic theory in the 50's and the 60's (which was also called "junk").
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      • Posted by conscious1978 9 years, 5 months ago
        Nickursis, your criteria for "facts" and "science" in these articles is far from well 'reasoned'. I've also noticed several of your previous 'junk science' topics. Like Snezzy and others have mentioned: this is not science.

        Bad methodology and poor logic are combined to build irrational hypotheses that others claim as fact...and on it goes. And, the response to this criticism is almost always a version of the eternal 'begging of the question' (using remotely, or unrelated, rare instances when "mainstream science" was focused in another direction, then later changed course.) When this happens, further useful discussion isn't possible.

        It is a new one to me to see these sensationalist posers posited as victims because they were "roundly ridiculed" for the inept manner they reached their conclusions.

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        • Posted by $ 9 years, 5 months ago
          I would counter that science does not always have the last say. Example: For many years man tried to fly, strapping wings on, rotoblades, and many other "scientific methods". The Wright Brothers managed to take science and build a flying machine despite "scientific proof" it was impossible. The science of this moment is not the final word on any subject. "Junk Science" is only junk at this moment. Albert Einstein was considered "junk science" in his day:
          "In the "Bad Nauheim Debate" (1920) between Einstein and (among others) Philipp Lenard, the latter stated the following objections: He criticized the lack of "illustrativeness" of Einstein's version of relativity, a condition that he suggested could only be met by an aether theory. Einstein responded that for physicists the content of "illustrativeness" or "common sense" had changed in time, so it could no longer be used as a criterion for the validity of a physical theory." Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_o....
          Note: I did not say I believed in this item, I presented it as an alternative view of something. Since there is no conclusive evidence either way to explain all of this, one explanation is as valid as another. Your criticism is not a good way to have debate or discussion, in that you are claiming to be the judge and jury on "science". There are a lot of areas where there is not scientific evidence to make a conclusion, so we are left with hypotheses, and until such evidence is obtained, we should be open minded enough to consider the alternatives. I assume you also dismiss UFOs as "swamp gas"?
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