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00:00:00In high-tech arsenals and mythical technologies, rediscovered through cutting-edge science.

00:00:08For nearly two decades, ancient aliens has traveled the globe exploring towering megalithic structures,

00:00:16mysterious artifacts, and stories of otherworldly beings in a quest for evidence that might reveal the truth of our extraterrestrial origins.

00:00:27We're reinventing technology today that existed in the ancient world.

00:00:33Now, we take a look back through the ancient aliens' archives to the show's very origins to examine the evidence that we are not alone.

00:00:44We have never been alone.

00:00:46As an ancient astronaut theorist, I find it fascinating how many ancient stories of devices sound eerily similar to modern-day technology.

00:01:05Yeah, you can find detailed descriptions of flying machines, energy beam weapons, and even acoustic levitation technology.

00:01:12Yeah, so you have to ask, are the technologies that we're developing today reinventions of what existed on our planet thousands of years ago?

00:01:20We talked about this in a Season 2 episode of Ancient Aliens called Alien Tech.

00:01:24In the early morning hours of November 5, 2005, the luxury cruise ship, the Seaborne Spirit, found itself under attack by pirates in the waters off the coast of Somalia.

00:01:41But the Somali bandits were successfully repelled by a relatively new and formidable defensive weapon, a long-range acoustic device, or LRAD.

00:01:54Manufactured by the LRAD Corporation, this sonic device can, when focused on a target, produce a piercing sound that can exceed 150 decibels, enough to cause temporary blindness, nausea, and permanent hearing loss.

00:02:15The U.S. Army used sonic weapons in Iraq.

00:02:18They're used in crowd control.

00:02:20There are certain types of low rumbles and signals that will affect a person.

00:02:26They make you feel sick.

00:02:29The LRAD is currently used by law enforcement, the military, and private security, and is considered the ultimate in sonic weaponry.

00:02:41But is the LRAD really a 21st century invention?

00:02:45Or is there evidence that similar audio weapons existed in ancient times?

00:02:54Approximately 17 miles northeast of Jerusalem lies the ancient ruins of the city of Jericho.

00:03:02Here, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of settlements dating back to 9,000 B.C.

00:03:09According to the Hebrew Bible, Jericho is believed to be where God spoke to Joshua, the successor to Moses,

00:03:18and instructed him to march around the walled city once every six days with seven priests carrying ram's horns,

00:03:27and followed by the Ark of the Covenant, the golden chest containing the Ten Commandments.

00:03:33Then, on the seventh day, under orders by God, Joshua and the Israelites marched around the perimeter of the city one last time.

00:03:46But this time, they blew the ram's horns.

00:03:51The walls of Jericho fell.

00:03:55And the city was sacked.

00:03:57In the Old Testament, you see very clear descriptions in Joshua 6 about the shofar,

00:04:09which is described as a trumpet that was used in the Battle of Jericho to actually bring the walls down.

00:04:18To religious scholars, the collapse of Jericho's walls was a miracle.

00:04:23To most modern-day scientists and historians, the destruction was most probably caused by an earthquake.

00:04:31But could it have been something else?

00:04:35Could the Israelites have possessed advanced sound wave technology?

00:04:41If so, where did it come from?

00:04:44In the scriptures, we have a fascinating story about the fall of the walls of Jericho.

00:04:48The armies were told to circle the wall repeatedly, and then finally blow their horns, and down came the walls.

00:04:55And we know there was a powerful presence, the Ark of the Covenant.

00:05:00This mysterious, sacred item was with them at all times,

00:05:03which, of course, was part of the event and part of the fall of the walls of Jericho.

00:05:08The idea that some kind of sonic weapon was used to destroy these huge, thick, ancient walls

00:05:20to allow the Israelites to basically take over that city is a fascinating one.

00:05:25So what kind of technology were they using?

00:05:27It sounds utterly fantastic to us that they could have had some kind of advanced alien technology.

00:05:36It's clearly what they're describing.

00:05:39There is little doubt that the Ark of the Covenant was a weapon.

00:05:45It was described as a weapon, famously, when the Israelites crossed over into Canaan.

00:05:52They had to pass by Jericho, and it could be that there was some technology.

00:06:00We do not know what that technology was, but there was clearly an association

00:06:05between the Ark and the falling down of the walls,

00:06:09and that's the reason that the Ark was sent around the periphery of the city.

00:06:14According to many ancient astronaut theorists,

00:06:23Moses and the Israelites acquired a supernatural source of energy at Mount Sinai.

00:06:29This powerful energy source was later contained in the Ark of the Covenant

00:06:34and would have provided the kind of power necessary to amplify Joshua's horns

00:06:40and make them into a powerful sonic weapon.

00:06:44What's interesting about the Battle of Jericho is that this particular use of the shofar

00:06:50clearly seems to be the same thing that we're seeing with particle beam technology,

00:06:56death ray technology, thunderbolt technology.

00:06:59It very clearly seems that once again we have an extraterrestrial technology

00:07:03that the ancient people had at the ready

00:07:06that they could use when needed for military campaigns.

00:07:10But even if the Israelites possessed some sort of advanced extraterrestrial technology,

00:07:19could the amplified sound of ram's horns really bring down stone walls?

00:07:26According to scientist and former astronaut Professor Taylor Wang,

00:07:31recent research into the field of physical acoustics suggests it is a distinct possibility.

00:07:38Jericho wall breaking apart, if you said it has happened, caused by acoustics, caused by sound.

00:07:48Well, the possibility has to be somehow a resonance is built in that wall.

00:07:53It may not be the whole wall, maybe some of the structural material.

00:07:57When the resonance happens, amplitude gets large enough, yes, it could destroy almost anything

00:08:03because what the resonance does is store enormous amount of energy.

00:08:07So you keep on feeding it, eventually it shatters everything.

00:08:11When you want to know how powerful sound is, you have to realize that the basic thing that sound is, is a pressure wave.

00:08:20And it will come down to the amount of energy you put into your sound wave

00:08:23and whether or not that particular pressure wave you generate

00:08:28will couple or impact the thing you're trying to destroy.

00:08:31You can make it quite powerful because you can make a very high amplitude, very large pressures in the sound.

00:08:40It might be at a frequency or amplitude where we no longer hear it as sound,

00:08:43but from a physics point of view, it is still sound because it's a pressure wave in the air.

00:08:47So it can get quite destructive if you put enough energy into it.

00:08:50You could also think of it as a particle weapon because you're moving air around

00:08:57and you would just need something to focus the sound, which we know how to do.

00:09:01And so that would give you a directed energy beam with sound.

00:09:05But if, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

00:09:09early civilizations had been able to harness the power of sound for destructive purposes,

00:09:14could there be evidence that such technology might also have been used for a more constructive purpose?

00:09:24Might it help to explain the existence of mammoth stone structures

00:09:29whose construction has baffled modern scientists for centuries?

00:09:40Mycenae.

00:09:40In the second millennium B.C., this ancient fortress city dominated much of southern Greece.

00:09:51Here, fortifications were built in a style known as Cyclopean masonry,

00:09:56where huge limestone boulders were fitted tightly together without the use of mortar.

00:10:02The term Cyclopean refers to the fact that, according to ancient myths,

00:10:11these Mycenaean fortifications were thought to be the work of a strong, one-eyed race of giants,

00:10:18known as the Cyclops.

00:10:21When you look at Mycenae in Greece, you're confronted with an anomalous civilization, really.

00:10:27It is a city which people who looked at it said only the Cyclops could have built it.

00:10:33The Cyclops is, perhaps not by coincidence, a mythical creature.

00:10:38So, we really are confronted with the fact that people are saying mankind could not have built this,

00:10:45it has to have been something above or other than man who has constructed these walls.

00:10:50And when you look at the fact that tons and tons and tons and tons of stones have been used

00:10:54in a way that really defies almost gravity,

00:10:59and I think that's why we have to say that Mycenae is definitely beyond the human capability

00:11:04of that specific time and that specific period in Greek history.

00:11:08In Mycenae, Greece, there is what's called the treasury of Atreyu.

00:11:18And right in there, there is one stone that has been hoisted over the entrance of that treasury,

00:11:25and it weighs an estimated 250 tons.

00:11:31It is perfect, just unbelievable.

00:11:34Now, we would have difficulties today moving that stuff around.

00:11:40Now, I'm not saying that we today cannot do it.

00:11:44I'm not saying that.

00:11:45But if we're struggling with our modern technology,

00:11:51is it really logical to suggest that our ancestors did this with pivots

00:11:57and with little ropes and with wooden rollers?

00:12:00You look at all these ancient structures all over the world,

00:12:06Mayan structures, pyramids, Greek temples,

00:12:10you see all of these blocks that are not only enormous,

00:12:14it would be impossible to move them around with anything but even our best technology today.

00:12:20One of the great enigmas of the megalithic buildings around the world

00:12:23is that in many cases, they're built with such large and heavy granite or basalt stones.

00:12:30Even giant cranes would barely be useful to lift some of these really large stones,

00:12:38such as the stones at Baalbek in Lebanon,

00:12:42where you have just mind-bogglingly huge stones

00:12:46that weigh, in some cases, over 1,000 tons.

00:12:50But just how could ancient man have built such colossal structures?

00:12:58Were the stones really moved by beings with superhuman strength?

00:13:04Or might the builders have had access to an advanced, perhaps, alien technology?

00:13:10For ancient astronaut theorists, the key might be found

00:13:17not by studying the laws of physics,

00:13:19but by exploring the interdisciplinary science of acoustics

00:13:23and the principle of acoustic levitation.

00:13:28Acoustic levitation is another way that alien civilizations

00:13:32may have influenced our history.

00:13:34And there is some evidence for that,

00:13:37especially when you look at some of the research that's been done

00:13:41in acoustic levitation here in laboratories.

00:13:52This system is an acoustic positioning device.

00:13:56And what happens inside, we create an acoustic force field.

00:14:00The force field is pushing everything toward the center.

00:14:05And the force field can rotate.

00:14:07The force field can oscillate.

00:14:09This ball is fairly light material.

00:14:11It's about 10 grams, no more.

00:14:14It's meant to be light.

00:14:15But if you want to move the very heavy object, a large object,

00:14:19which you really have to develop in conjunction

00:14:21with the acoustic positioning device,

00:14:24it's anti-gravity device.

00:14:25Because acoustic position device really meant

00:14:29a fine-tuning of the force field.

00:14:32But the system must be force-free,

00:14:35otherwise it won't be budged.

00:14:38But is it possible that early builders

00:14:42had access to the kind of acoustic technology

00:14:45that would allow for the transportation

00:14:48and careful placement of megaton boulders and stone blocks?

00:14:52Ancient astronaut theorists believe

00:14:56clues can be found in the myths and tales of magic

00:15:00handed down throughout time.

00:15:03There are many ancient legends which suggest

00:15:05that some of the monuments were built

00:15:08with the help of acoustic levitation.

00:15:11What the local legend of Stonehenge talks about

00:15:16is that those big stones were transported

00:15:21by way of levitation by none other than Merlin the wizard.

00:15:27And he had a magical rod

00:15:29with which he pointed at the stones

00:15:32and they would levitate and position into place.

00:15:36It's a very fascinating story

00:15:38because we know that some of these stones

00:15:41have been transported there

00:15:42from as far away as 200 miles.

00:15:46And ancient legends are a bridge

00:15:50to finding what truly happened in our past.

00:15:58There are lots of stories of stones being levitated

00:16:01all using the power of sound.

00:16:03It's interesting as you read these stories of magic

00:16:06that you see that they have to use the chanting.

00:16:09They have to chant certain spells,

00:16:11certain words,

00:16:12certain vibrational frequencies

00:16:14seem to create certain effects

00:16:16in the physical realm.

00:16:19To me, it makes complete sense

00:16:20that the use of a technology,

00:16:22say a magic wand of some kind,

00:16:24would be some sort of amplifier.

00:16:25I mean, there's no way

00:16:30that human beings,

00:16:32even 100,000 of them,

00:16:34could pull these things.

00:16:36They've done experiments

00:16:37by putting hands around blocks.

00:16:41You can't get enough hands in there.

00:16:43You can't get 200,000 hands to lift a block.

00:16:47And once you roll it with all these people,

00:16:50how do you move it?

00:16:50I think the technology had to do

00:16:54with some kind of sound

00:16:56and they were able to just come up

00:16:58with some anti-gravity

00:17:00and just move them into place.

00:17:03But did ancient aliens

00:17:05using anti-gravity

00:17:06and sonic levitation technology

00:17:08help early humans build

00:17:10the ancient wonders of the world?

00:17:13Well, everything is possible.

00:17:15We have no way to rule in or rule out aliens

00:17:18because human technology

00:17:20is very primitive at this stage.

00:17:23And you look at Earth,

00:17:24has only survived 4 billion years.

00:17:27But there are planets

00:17:29billions and billions of years ahead of us.

00:17:31Their technology and their knowledge

00:17:33can be so far ahead of us

00:17:35that we can't even imagine.

00:17:39If early civilizations

00:17:41did possess the ability

00:17:43to levitate large, solid objects,

00:17:45might they also have had access

00:17:48to other incredible technologies?

00:17:52Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

00:17:54and suggest the evidence can be found

00:17:57by examining a towering megalithic structure

00:18:00built with extraordinary precision,

00:18:04the Great Pyramid of Giza.

00:18:06The megalithic structures

00:18:12of the ancient world

00:18:13are astounding feats of engineering.

00:18:15And many, like the Pyramids of Giza,

00:18:17are not just enormous,

00:18:18but they're built with incredible precision.

00:18:20Oh, absolutely.

00:18:21And when you're talking about

00:18:23moving five-ton stone blocks

00:18:25and stacking them hundreds of feet in the air,

00:18:28that doesn't just require engineering,

00:18:30but also technology.

00:18:33Yeah, and some researchers have suggested

00:18:34that the Pyramids themselves

00:18:36are technological devices.

00:18:38We talked about this

00:18:39in the very first episode

00:18:40of Ancient Aliens.

00:18:44Of all the ancient structures

00:18:46located around the world,

00:18:48perhaps none is more mysterious

00:18:49or as enduring

00:18:50as the Great Pyramid at Giza.

00:18:56At a height of 471 feet,

00:18:59the Great Pyramid stood

00:19:00as the tallest structure in the world

00:19:02until the completion of the Eiffel Tower

00:19:04in 1889.

00:19:07But while other pyramids and temples

00:19:09contain walls filled with hieroglyphics

00:19:11describing their purpose,

00:19:13the Great Pyramid lacks

00:19:14even a single marking.

00:19:16What was its function?

00:19:18Why was it built?

00:19:20And what secrets remain hidden inside?

00:19:23Nobody has been able to explain

00:19:25the interior design of this pyramid.

00:19:26It simply doesn't make sense

00:19:28according to our logic.

00:19:30You have narrow tunnels

00:19:31that you have to crouch.

00:19:32You emerge in grand galleries

00:19:34that are nine meters high.

00:19:38You have chambers

00:19:39that are made of granite

00:19:40where granite doesn't come from.

00:19:42In the air,

00:19:43you have to ship the granite

00:19:44by barges 600 miles away.

00:19:47It's an anonymous site,

00:19:50not a single inscription,

00:19:52not a single hieroglyph,

00:19:54not a single anything.

00:19:57It's just there.

00:20:02Some people speculated

00:20:03that it was a temple

00:20:05and an initiation chamber

00:20:07where people would go

00:20:08to the king's chamber

00:20:09and become enlightened.

00:20:11There are anecdotal reports

00:20:13about people

00:20:14who have been inside the pyramid

00:20:15and have come out absolutely shaken

00:20:17because it was haunted.

00:20:24Egyptologists believe

00:20:26that the pyramids were built

00:20:28to bury the dead pharaoh.

00:20:30The problem with the accepted view

00:20:32is the fact that

00:20:33not a single dead pharaoh's body

00:20:35has been found inside a pyramid,

00:20:37even when the pyramid

00:20:38was completely sealed,

00:20:40i.e. not a single grave robber

00:20:41could have entered it.

00:20:44The Egyptologists say

00:20:45it's to conceal the body.

00:20:47Well, why advertise it?

00:20:50I mean, there's nothing more visible

00:20:51than a pyramid for miles.

00:20:56And to this day,

00:20:57you would have thought,

00:20:58in this modern age,

00:20:59with all the knowledge we have,

00:21:01we should be able

00:21:01to explain this pyramid.

00:21:03We cannot explain this pyramid.

00:21:07Engineering expert Christopher Dunn

00:21:09has been on a personal quest

00:21:11to unlock the secrets

00:21:12of the Great Pyramid

00:21:13since the late 1970s.

00:21:16According to him,

00:21:17there are specific clues

00:21:19in the design and construction

00:21:20of this mega-monument

00:21:21that can help answer

00:21:23exactly why it was built.

00:21:26When you look at the Great Pyramid

00:21:28and look at the culture

00:21:30that built it,

00:21:31there are brilliant,

00:21:31brilliant engineers.

00:21:33In fact, a lot of engineers

00:21:34say we come build

00:21:34the Great Pyramid today.

00:21:36And it was built

00:21:36supposedly 4,500 years ago.

00:21:39And it was built

00:21:40to the precision of a machine.

00:21:44When I started to do the research

00:21:46and I examined the Great Pyramid

00:21:49with the eye of a functionality,

00:21:51it was built like a machine,

00:21:55perhaps it functioned like a machine.

00:21:58The interior design

00:22:00of the Great Pyramid

00:22:01features 4 inclined air shafts

00:22:04emanating from the King's Chamber

00:22:05and the Lower Queen's Chamber.

00:22:07Like the Great Pyramid itself,

00:22:10their presence and purpose

00:22:11cannot be easily explained.

00:22:13The difficulty of building

00:22:16those shafts is incredible.

00:22:17It's a bit like building a chimney

00:22:19at an incline across a house.

00:22:21I mean, as a construction reactor,

00:22:22it's a nightmare.

00:22:24In 2002,

00:22:26a team of engineers

00:22:27and Egyptologists

00:22:28sent a small robot

00:22:30into one of the air shafts

00:22:31connected to the Queen's Chamber.

00:22:34After 65 meters,

00:22:36a stone door blocked its path.

00:22:38A hole was then drilled through it.

00:22:40On the other side

00:22:42was a small room

00:22:43with yet another door

00:22:45leading further up the shaft.

00:22:48Since the discovery of the door,

00:22:50we've had every university,

00:22:53archaeologists,

00:22:54anthropologists,

00:22:55every engineer you can think of,

00:22:56nobody has been able to explain

00:22:57the purpose of these shafts.

00:23:00But were these shafts ever open?

00:23:03And if they were,

00:23:04what might they have been used for?

00:23:06The early explorers

00:23:08that went into the Queen's Chamber

00:23:10found that the walls

00:23:12were coated with a layer of salt.

00:23:14That kind of gelled

00:23:17with a theory that I had developed.

00:23:21You had a dilute hydrochloric acid solution

00:23:24coming down one shaft

00:23:25and hydrated zinc

00:23:28coming down the other shaft.

00:23:30And when they combined

00:23:31in the Queen's Chamber,

00:23:33they created hydrogen.

00:23:34Hydrogen.

00:23:36It is one of the most powerful

00:23:38energy sources in the universe.

00:23:40In the mid-19th century,

00:23:43it was hydrogen gas

00:23:44that helped lift

00:23:45some of mankind's first airships,

00:23:47called Zeppelins,

00:23:48into the sky.

00:23:50Today,

00:23:51it is used as a fuel

00:23:53to launch rockets into space.

00:23:55And if,

00:23:57thousands of years ago,

00:23:58the Great Pyramid

00:23:59was actually producing hydrogen,

00:24:01that would make it

00:24:03one of the earliest power plants

00:24:04known to man.

00:24:07The Giza power plant theory

00:24:09is essentially

00:24:10the drawing of energy

00:24:13from the Earth

00:24:14through the Great Pyramid

00:24:15and converting that energy

00:24:18into microwave energy.

00:24:21So,

00:24:22the chemicals

00:24:22actually come in

00:24:24through the shafts

00:24:25into the Queen's Chamber,

00:24:26and then they combine

00:24:27and mix,

00:24:28and the hydrogen boils off.

00:24:30The hydrogen is then

00:24:31lighter than air,

00:24:32and it will flow

00:24:33into all the upper chambers.

00:24:35The energy

00:24:37from the Earth

00:24:38is then vibrating

00:24:40the whole pyramid.

00:24:42The vibrations are picked up

00:24:43in the Grand Gallery.

00:24:46So,

00:24:46I proposed

00:24:47the Grand Gallery

00:24:48was a resonator hall,

00:24:50and there are 27 pair of slots

00:24:52that actually go up

00:24:54the length of the gallery,

00:24:55and then the resonators

00:24:57were mounted

00:24:58in there vertically.

00:25:00Christopher Dunn

00:25:01is theorizing

00:25:02that with resonating galleries,

00:25:06the pyramid shot

00:25:06a microwave

00:25:07out of one of the shafts,

00:25:09and once you started up

00:25:11this power plant,

00:25:13it would have gone on

00:25:14for years,

00:25:16decades,

00:25:16even hundreds of years

00:25:17without stopping

00:25:18and creating the microwave,

00:25:20and that was a usable energy

00:25:22that could be captured.

00:25:23Now,

00:25:25we can speculate

00:25:25where it goes from there.

00:25:27It could be collected

00:25:28in the immediate vicinity,

00:25:30or it could keep traveling

00:25:32off into space.

00:25:33We don't know.

00:25:34That's the mystery.

00:25:37But if the Great Pyramid

00:25:39was actually a power plant

00:25:41producing energy,

00:25:43was it doing it alone,

00:25:45or was it part

00:25:46of a larger network?

00:25:48And are there any clues

00:25:50that could tell us

00:25:51what all of that energy

00:25:53was being used for?

00:26:04Perhaps the 20th century's

00:26:05most influential inventor

00:26:07was a Serbian-American

00:26:09named Nikola Tesla.

00:26:10His patents on alternating

00:26:15electrical currents

00:26:16and distribution

00:26:17helped establish

00:26:18the commercial electricity industry.

00:26:21He also made contributions

00:26:23to robotics,

00:26:26radar,

00:26:27and computer science.

00:26:28But while Tesla

00:26:33can be credited

00:26:33for many scientific advances,

00:26:36one idea that fell short

00:26:37was his attempt

00:26:38to create

00:26:39a wireless electrical grid.

00:26:41Tesla's project

00:26:42was to have these towers

00:26:45around the United States

00:26:47and around the world.

00:26:50And they would broadcast electricity

00:26:52like a television station.

00:26:54Instead of having

00:26:59to string power lines

00:27:01all over the place,

00:27:02you just transmit the energy

00:27:04through the air

00:27:05or through the ground.

00:27:09There were a number

00:27:10of demonstrations

00:27:11of this device

00:27:13for wireless power transmission

00:27:15during Tesla's lifetime.

00:27:17So we know

00:27:18the device worked.

00:27:22It appears that he was

00:27:24using the conductivity

00:27:26of the ground

00:27:27or the air

00:27:28to carry the electric current.

00:27:31Basically,

00:27:32in the air,

00:27:33if you put enough voltage on it,

00:27:35you'll get an arc across it.

00:27:37And you see that all the time

00:27:39in a fluorescent light bulb.

00:27:41In the ground,

00:27:42you have water,

00:27:43minerals, salts

00:27:44that can also carry

00:27:45the ions along

00:27:46and therefore carry

00:27:47the electric current.

00:27:51But while Tesla's

00:27:52power towers

00:27:53proved popular in theory,

00:27:54the project ended

00:27:56in financial failure.

00:27:59But could Tesla's idea

00:28:01of wireless electricity

00:28:02have been a rediscovery

00:28:04of an ancient technology?

00:28:13I believe that what Tesla

00:28:15was doing

00:28:15was trying to recreate

00:28:17what was an ancient power system

00:28:21that was used

00:28:22around the world.

00:28:24And the way they did this

00:28:26was the use of obelisks.

00:28:35Obelisks as monolithic

00:28:38granite towers,

00:28:40which are one solid piece

00:28:41of crystal.

00:28:43And the obelisks themselves

00:28:44were cut to special sizes

00:28:47and tuned

00:28:48like a tuning fork.

00:28:51Could these ancient

00:28:52broadcast towers

00:28:53really have sent electricity

00:28:55up into the atmosphere?

00:28:58And if so,

00:28:59how was the electricity generated?

00:29:02Each of these obelisks

00:29:04would have required

00:29:05some kind of generating

00:29:07power station

00:29:08similar to what we have today.

00:29:11Electricity is created

00:29:12by rotating magnetic fields.

00:29:15So rotating magnetic fields

00:29:17generate AC power.

00:29:19The very first power station

00:29:20was built by Nikola Tesla

00:29:22at Niagara Falls.

00:29:25You've got to have

00:29:26some sort of power

00:29:28that's spinning

00:29:29the rotating fields.

00:29:31And in this case

00:29:31would be water.

00:29:34So every obelisk

00:29:35would have had to have

00:29:36had a power station

00:29:37similar to like the one

00:29:39at Niagara Falls.

00:29:40It's generating power,

00:29:41but the obelisk itself

00:29:43is putting the power

00:29:44into the atmosphere,

00:29:46making it usable.

00:29:47And this is similar

00:29:48to Christopher Dunn's theory

00:29:51of the Giza power plant

00:29:52because he believes

00:29:54that the Great Pyramid

00:29:56was actually sending

00:29:57a microwave beam

00:29:58to a satellite

00:30:00that was in orbit

00:30:01around the planet.

00:30:03That satellite then

00:30:05could have been taking

00:30:07microwave power

00:30:08and then it could

00:30:10transmit it again

00:30:11in theory

00:30:12to some other location

00:30:14on the Earth,

00:30:15such as, say,

00:30:16a remote island

00:30:16like Easter Island

00:30:18or something like that.

00:30:19From some of the descriptions

00:30:21of ancient flying machines,

00:30:24it's possible

00:30:25that some form

00:30:26of power beaming

00:30:27might have been used.

00:30:29and, in fact,

00:30:31for a lot of the schemes

00:30:33that you see,

00:30:35it actually would make

00:30:36a lot of sense

00:30:37because you could put

00:30:38the power beaming station

00:30:40on a mother ship

00:30:41in orbit.

00:30:43You're just beaming energy

00:30:45to the vehicle

00:30:46where it's absorbed

00:30:47and turned into

00:30:48propulsion thrust.

00:30:50It actually makes

00:30:51a lot of sense

00:30:52because you're taking

00:30:53the energy system,

00:30:55the power system,

00:30:56off of the vehicle

00:30:58and locating it remotely.

00:31:03Were our ancestors

00:31:05capable of these

00:31:06incredible achievements?

00:31:08Or might they have come

00:31:09from another source,

00:31:11one much more

00:31:12out of this world?

00:31:16Civilizations went

00:31:17much more advanced

00:31:18than we give them credit

00:31:19and literally

00:31:21as advanced

00:31:22as we are today.

00:31:23In my view,

00:31:28we need to take

00:31:29this seriously

00:31:29simply because

00:31:31of the scale

00:31:31of the work.

00:31:32We're looking at monuments

00:31:33that took perhaps

00:31:34a century to build.

00:31:36Even today,

00:31:37we have difficulty

00:31:38in considering

00:31:38such a project.

00:31:40It just boggles the mind.

00:31:42And really,

00:31:43to look at those artifacts

00:31:45and to go back in time

00:31:46and say,

00:31:47how did they do it?

00:31:48We are kind of

00:31:49cracking the lid open

00:31:50a little bit

00:31:51and looking inside

00:31:52to try and see

00:31:53just what happened

00:31:54in our history.

00:31:56It's a question

00:31:57which is a scientific question

00:31:59and you constantly

00:32:00have to ask it.

00:32:01And the possible answer

00:32:02of have aliens visited

00:32:04in the past

00:32:05could be a potential yes.

00:32:10We can look

00:32:11at these ancient monuments

00:32:13and finally recognize

00:32:14that all of this stuff

00:32:16was built

00:32:17as a message

00:32:18for us to see

00:32:20that our past

00:32:21is way different

00:32:23than what we're being taught

00:32:25in school.

00:32:29Could it really be

00:32:30that our remote past

00:32:32was powered

00:32:33not by primitive tools

00:32:35but by electricity?

00:32:37And if so,

00:32:38are pyramids and obelisks

00:32:40what remain

00:32:41of this forgotten technology?

00:32:43as far as ancient

00:32:45astronaut theorists

00:32:47are concerned

00:32:47the answer

00:32:48is a resounding

00:32:49yes

00:32:50and they suggest

00:32:52there is evidence

00:32:53that our ancestors

00:32:54had access

00:32:55not only

00:32:56to wireless power

00:32:57but even

00:32:59nuclear energy.

00:33:00people were able

00:33:06to generate

00:33:06massive amounts

00:33:07of energy

00:33:08and it's not just

00:33:09in Egypt

00:33:10where we find

00:33:10evidence of this.

00:33:11Right.

00:33:12In ancient India

00:33:13for example

00:33:14you have these

00:33:14mysterious stone sculptures

00:33:16known as Shiva lingams

00:33:17and some Hindu scholars

00:33:18have proposed

00:33:19that based on

00:33:21ancient Vedic traditions

00:33:22that these might

00:33:23represent some type

00:33:25of nuclear power.

00:33:26Right.

00:33:26And there are

00:33:27thousands of these

00:33:28Shiva lingam sculptures

00:33:29throughout not just

00:33:30India but Asia

00:33:31as well.

00:33:32We talked about this

00:33:33in a 2016 episode

00:33:34called Shiva

00:33:35the Destroyer.

00:33:39Circe, India

00:33:4010 miles

00:33:42outside of this city

00:33:44in the southwestern

00:33:45state of Karnataka

00:33:46within the river

00:33:48Chamala

00:33:49is one of the country's

00:33:50most popular

00:33:51pilgrimage sites

00:33:52Sahasralingha.

00:33:56Hidden under

00:33:57these waters

00:33:58for most of the year

00:33:59lie stone sculptures

00:34:01known as Shiva lingams.

00:34:04These sacred idols

00:34:05are representations

00:34:07of the god Shiva

00:34:08and are visible

00:34:10to thousands

00:34:11of pilgrims

00:34:12once a year

00:34:12at the festival

00:34:14of Mahasivaratri.

00:34:17Mahasivaratri

00:34:18is a festival

00:34:18where Shiva

00:34:20is worshipped

00:34:21for his great nature.

00:34:24Mahasivaratri

00:34:25is usually held

00:34:26in the end of February

00:34:28or beginning of March.

00:34:29During that month

00:34:31the water level

00:34:32of the Salmala river

00:34:34drops down

00:34:35so that

00:34:36all the Shiva lingas

00:34:38are exposed.

00:34:40Shiva's depicted

00:34:41as the Shiva linga

00:34:42as kind of a

00:34:44spherical column,

00:34:46the flaming pillar

00:34:47that is the cosmic axis

00:34:49of the universe.

00:34:50Every Shiva linga

00:34:54that's in worship

00:34:54is set

00:34:55into a yoni.

00:34:56This is a special base

00:34:58and it actually serves

00:35:00kind of a utility

00:35:01of function.

00:35:03It's a spout

00:35:04so that when you pour

00:35:05offerings

00:35:05over the surface

00:35:06of the linga

00:35:07they wash

00:35:07over the sacred body.

00:35:10Images of the Shiva linga

00:35:11are found

00:35:12throughout Southeast Asia

00:35:14even in parts

00:35:15of East Asia

00:35:16sometimes

00:35:17images of Shiva

00:35:19as the lingam

00:35:19also made its way

00:35:20into China

00:35:21and into Japan.

00:35:27The Shiva lingam

00:35:29first appeared

00:35:30over 2,000 years ago

00:35:32and there is still debate

00:35:34over what this shape

00:35:36was originally

00:35:36meant to symbolize.

00:35:39But ancient astronaut

00:35:41theorists suggest

00:35:42that the icon

00:35:43may represent

00:35:44an incredibly powerful

00:35:46technological device.

00:35:51Paris, France

00:35:521900

00:35:54At the Paris Congress

00:35:57of History of Religions

00:35:58Swami Vivekananda

00:36:00a scientist

00:36:01and monk

00:36:01credited with

00:36:03popularizing Hinduism

00:36:04in the West

00:36:05gives a lecture

00:36:06addressing the meaning

00:36:08of the Shiva lingam.

00:36:10For centuries

00:36:12Western scholars

00:36:13have assumed

00:36:13that the Shiva linga

00:36:14has purely

00:36:15a sexual connotation.

00:36:17The cylinder

00:36:17is the male phallic symbol

00:36:19and the yoni

00:36:19is the complementary

00:36:20female symbol.

00:36:22Then in 1900

00:36:23the Hindu scholar

00:36:24Swami Vivekananda

00:36:25came to Paris

00:36:26to deliver a major lecture

00:36:27about Hinduism

00:36:28and symbolism.

00:36:30During this lecture

00:36:31he said that

00:36:31the Shiva linga

00:36:32actually symbolizes

00:36:34the coming in

00:36:35or going out

00:36:36of the divine

00:36:37manifesting energy

00:36:38of Shiva.

00:36:41It stands for energy

00:36:42and it has often

00:36:44been misrepresented

00:36:45in the West

00:36:46that it is simply

00:36:47a phallic symbol

00:36:48of Shiva

00:36:49which is not the case.

00:36:50It is obviously

00:36:51a pillar

00:36:52because linga

00:36:53means a pillar.

00:36:55Modern Hindu scholars

00:36:57have theorized

00:36:58that the Shiva linga stone

00:37:00actually represents

00:37:01atomic energy.

00:37:02When we think

00:37:05about this idea

00:37:05of what atomic energy

00:37:07can do

00:37:07how it can be used

00:37:09for good

00:37:09but it can be

00:37:10extraordinarily destructive

00:37:11this certainly pertains

00:37:12to the mythology

00:37:13of Shiva

00:37:14who is chaotic energy

00:37:16who is a force

00:37:17for incredible good

00:37:18but also a force

00:37:19for incredible destruction.

00:37:24Is it possible

00:37:25that this symbol

00:37:26of Shiva's power

00:37:27actually represents

00:37:29atomic energy?

00:37:30ancient astronaut

00:37:33theorists say yes

00:37:34and suggest

00:37:36the proof can be found

00:37:37by examining

00:37:38this mysterious shape.

00:37:41The cylindrical structure

00:37:42of the Shiva linga

00:37:43is similar

00:37:45or almost identical

00:37:46to a modern day

00:37:48nuclear reactor

00:37:49and the groove

00:37:52that surrounds the base

00:37:53represents the structures

00:37:55built to dispose off

00:37:57the polluted water.

00:38:00In ancient times

00:38:01and even today

00:38:03Hindus pour water

00:38:04or milk

00:38:05on top of Shiva linga

00:38:06as a ritual.

00:38:09Today we pour

00:38:10water over the top

00:38:12of nuclear reactor

00:38:13to cool it.

00:38:17And interestingly

00:38:18most Shiva temples

00:38:20are always found

00:38:22near water bodies

00:38:24like rivers

00:38:25or lakes

00:38:25just like nuclear power plants.

00:38:28so is it possible

00:38:31that Shiva linga

00:38:32actually represents

00:38:34an ancient

00:38:35nuclear power plant?

00:38:41In the story of Shiva

00:38:42and the Shiva linga

00:38:44we're obviously

00:38:44dealing with some kind

00:38:46of a universal

00:38:47or cosmic power

00:38:48that we didn't fully understand

00:38:49until the 20th century

00:38:51with the discovery

00:38:52of nuclear power

00:38:54and nuclear fission.

00:38:55These discoveries

00:38:57that predate modern man

00:38:59are completely changing

00:39:01our conception

00:39:02of the ancient past

00:39:03and connecting us

00:39:04to the true history

00:39:06of humanity.

00:39:08Does the Shiva lingam

00:39:10symbolize

00:39:11an extraterrestrial technology

00:39:13that once existed

00:39:14on Earth?

00:39:16If so

00:39:17might modern science

00:39:19be less about invention

00:39:21and more about remembrance?

00:39:22Perhaps further evidence

00:39:26can be found

00:39:27by exploring

00:39:28the technological ambitions

00:39:29that have propelled us

00:39:31into space.

00:39:37If you want evidence

00:39:39that our modern technology

00:39:41is reinventing

00:39:42what existed

00:39:42on this planet

00:39:43thousands of years ago

00:39:44just look at all

00:39:45the ancient accounts

00:39:46of flight.

00:39:47So many cultures

00:39:48describe flying machines

00:39:49that you have to believe

00:39:50our ancestors

00:39:51actually witness

00:39:52these things.

00:39:53Yeah.

00:39:54You have chariots of fire

00:39:56described in the Bible

00:39:57the manas

00:39:58in ancient Hindu texts

00:39:59and we have countless stories

00:40:01of fire-breathing dragons.

00:40:04Right.

00:40:04And when I hear stories

00:40:05of fire-breathing dragons

00:40:07then my ears perk up

00:40:08because

00:40:09if you witness

00:40:10a rocket launch

00:40:11or you see

00:40:12a jet streak

00:40:13across the sky

00:40:14what do you see

00:40:16coming out of its back?

00:40:17Fire.

00:40:18Merritt Island, Florida

00:40:21the Kennedy Space Center

00:40:23six Earth astronauts

00:40:27sit atop NASA's

00:40:28Endeavour Space Shuttle

00:40:29headed for orbit.

00:40:32After countdown

00:40:33three main engines

00:40:35together with

00:40:36two solid rocket boosters

00:40:37provide the thrust

00:40:39to lift the orbiter

00:40:40off the ground

00:40:41for its ascent.

00:40:43And lift off

00:40:45of Shuttle Endeavour.

00:40:45I urge everyone

00:40:52to be part one day

00:40:53of a rocket launch

00:40:54because it is

00:40:56a life-altering moment.

00:40:58When you stand there

00:40:59a few miles away

00:41:00you can still feel

00:41:02the power

00:41:03as that rocket

00:41:05takes off

00:41:05into space.

00:41:07The grumbling

00:41:09in your stomach

00:41:10the vibrations

00:41:10and you can hear

00:41:11the noise

00:41:12and it's a truly

00:41:13magnificent sight

00:41:15and awe-inspiring.

00:41:18But are manned space flights

00:41:20really a recent phenomenon?

00:41:23Or could our ancient ancestors

00:41:25have witnessed

00:41:27similar events?

00:41:30There is no doubt

00:41:31that if we thoroughly

00:41:33investigate this planet

00:41:34they will find

00:41:36that this planet

00:41:37may have already

00:41:38been to the moon

00:41:39way before

00:41:40we went to the moon

00:41:42with a man

00:41:42in 1969.

00:41:45The interesting thing

00:41:47is that we have

00:41:48the exact same

00:41:49descriptions

00:41:50in ancient texts

00:41:52and also in oral traditions

00:41:54where whenever

00:41:56those quote-unquote

00:41:57gods appeared

00:41:58there was a lot of smoke

00:42:01a lot of fire

00:42:02a lot of noise

00:42:04and the trembling

00:42:05off the ground.

00:42:08When rockets

00:42:09are taking off

00:42:10it's best to stand back

00:42:12and get out of the way

00:42:13and that's a lot

00:42:15of what the ancient

00:42:16legends are about too.

00:42:17When the gods

00:42:18came and went

00:42:19it may well have been

00:42:20just these rockets

00:42:21or other aerospace vehicles

00:42:24landing and taking off

00:42:25and making a lot

00:42:26of smoke and noise.

00:42:29But could early man

00:42:31really have had knowledge

00:42:32of rocket technology.

00:42:36To make their case

00:42:37ancient astronaut theorists

00:42:39point to numerous

00:42:41and consistent descriptions

00:42:42of rockets

00:42:43found throughout

00:42:44many cultures

00:42:45of the ancient world.

00:42:46When you're dealing

00:42:47with this subject

00:42:48and you look

00:42:48at the ancient literature

00:42:49you have to look

00:42:51at it through the lens

00:42:52of how was it being

00:42:54experienced

00:42:55by a civilization

00:42:56with no foundation

00:42:58for understanding

00:42:58the science

00:42:59the technology

00:43:00and so I think

00:43:01in ancient times

00:43:02there were people

00:43:03who had encounters

00:43:03however I think

00:43:05the way they might

00:43:06have been reported

00:43:06would have been

00:43:08in metaphors

00:43:09in ways that would

00:43:10have made sense

00:43:10to them.

00:43:13In China

00:43:15you have these stories

00:43:16of dragons

00:43:17flying through the air

00:43:19they make a lot

00:43:21and noise

00:43:22and smoke comes out

00:43:24of them

00:43:24and fire

00:43:25just like a rocket.

00:43:30The first emperor

00:43:30of China

00:43:31descended

00:43:32in a fiery dragon

00:43:34with smoke

00:43:36and fire

00:43:37and whenever

00:43:37that dragon

00:43:38appeared

00:43:39the earth

00:43:40was quaking

00:43:41and everyone

00:43:42and everyone

00:43:42was afraid

00:43:43and threw themselves

00:43:45to the ground.

00:43:47Now of course

00:43:47it wasn't a dragon

00:43:49in a biological nature

00:43:51a living being

00:43:51but it was

00:43:53a misinterpreted machine.

00:43:59If you look

00:44:00at the Greek gods

00:44:01they were all

00:44:02described as

00:44:03flying in on

00:44:03chariots of fire

00:44:04well

00:44:05chariot of fire

00:44:06to me

00:44:07seems very clearly

00:44:08like it's

00:44:09some sort of rocket

00:44:09probably burning

00:44:11its retros

00:44:11as it lands

00:44:12somewhere

00:44:13in ancient Greece.

00:44:16In the Old Testament

00:44:18we can read

00:44:19about a glowing furnace

00:44:21that descended

00:44:23from the sky

00:44:24and sometimes

00:44:25this glowing furnace

00:44:26is described

00:44:27as a chariot of fire

00:44:29or as the glory

00:44:31of the Lord.

00:44:33So there are

00:44:34all these

00:44:34different descriptions

00:44:36which in the

00:44:37ancient astronaut

00:44:37opinion

00:44:38describe

00:44:40ancient rocketry.

00:44:43From 5000

00:44:45to 2000 BC

00:44:46southern Mesopotamia

00:44:49was home

00:44:50to the Sumerians

00:44:51a highly advanced

00:44:53civilization

00:44:53considered to be

00:44:55among the first

00:44:55astronomers

00:44:56regarded

00:44:58as one of the

00:44:59oldest written stories

00:45:00in history

00:45:01the epic

00:45:02of Gilgamesh

00:45:03told of a man's

00:45:04journey to the heavens

00:45:05to meet the god

00:45:07Anu.

00:45:09The Gilgamesh epic

00:45:10which goes back

00:45:11to the Sumerian

00:45:12that's a piece

00:45:13where the hero

00:45:14Gilgamesh

00:45:15flies over the earth

00:45:17and he describes

00:45:20and he describes

00:45:20how the earth

00:45:21looks from above

00:45:21fascinating

00:45:22an old story

00:45:23of the first

00:45:23flight

00:45:24The most ancient

00:45:26civilization that we

00:45:27have on record

00:45:27the Sumerian culture

00:45:29has left us evidence

00:45:30of what's called

00:45:31a Shem

00:45:32and this object

00:45:34looks very similar

00:45:35to a modern day

00:45:36space capsule

00:45:36that we place

00:45:38on top of a rocket

00:45:39and this Shem

00:45:42is where priests

00:45:43would go into the Shem

00:45:44to interact

00:45:45with the gods

00:45:46or any time

00:45:47man was ascending

00:45:48or descending

00:45:48into heaven

00:45:49so it's a very

00:45:50interesting term

00:45:51used from a culture

00:45:52dating back

00:45:53to 3800 B.C.

00:45:55and very clearly

00:45:56matches the descriptions

00:45:57of a modern day rocket

00:45:59Could early man

00:46:02have actually possessed

00:46:03a surprisingly

00:46:04sophisticated understanding

00:46:06of what we now call

00:46:08rocket propulsion?

00:46:09In the first century A.D.

00:46:16nearly 2,000 years

00:46:18before the Industrial Revolution

00:46:19a Greek mathematician

00:46:21and engineer

00:46:23named Hiro

00:46:23created a steam-powered engine

00:46:26he called

00:46:27an eolipile

00:46:28One of the great inventors

00:46:30of the ancient world

00:46:31was the famous

00:46:33Hiro of Alexandria

00:46:34He invented all kinds of stuff

00:46:36He actually invented

00:46:38what we would describe

00:46:39as a rocket-type motor

00:46:41and really

00:46:44something like this

00:46:45is the beginnings

00:46:46of rocket technology

00:46:48and we don't know

00:46:50where Hiro got

00:46:51many of his ideas

00:46:52but it may well

00:46:53have come from aliens

00:46:54John Robert Tindall

00:47:01founder of

00:47:01Tindall Vision Laboratories

00:47:03demonstrates

00:47:04a small-scale replica

00:47:05of Hiro's eolipile

00:47:07Now conventional steam engine

00:47:09that we think of

00:47:09has pistons

00:47:11that get its power

00:47:12but

00:47:12eolipile

00:47:14uses these

00:47:14opposing jets

00:47:17so it's creating thrust

00:47:19and rather than

00:47:20thrust

00:47:21like a rocket

00:47:22would use it

00:47:22in a linear fashion

00:47:23this is causing

00:47:23a rotational effect

00:47:24and there's your

00:47:26steam turbine

00:47:27really

00:47:27working off a thrust

00:47:29now this is operating

00:47:30much as it did

00:47:31in the first century AD

00:47:32this is generally

00:47:34considered to be

00:47:36the first

00:47:36working steam engine

00:47:37it works

00:47:38more like a turbine

00:47:39than a classic steam engine

00:47:40with pistons

00:47:41but it's very significant

00:47:42because it really is

00:47:44taking

00:47:44whoa

00:47:46a compressed gas

00:47:47and turning it

00:47:49into energy

00:47:50wow

00:47:51that has a lot

00:47:52of energy

00:47:52steam

00:47:53the name for Hiro's

00:47:58steam rocket engine

00:47:59eolipile

00:48:01translates to

00:48:02the ball of eolus

00:48:03in greek mythology

00:48:05eolus was the god

00:48:07of the winds

00:48:08is it possible

00:48:10that Hiro drew

00:48:12inspiration for his

00:48:13invention

00:48:13from the stories

00:48:14of the gods

00:48:15such as those

00:48:16found in homer's

00:48:17the odyssey

00:48:18or might he

00:48:21have had help

00:48:22from the gods

00:48:24themselves

00:48:25some have suggested

00:48:26that it was

00:48:27alien intervention

00:48:28that aliens

00:48:29taught him

00:48:30how to build

00:48:30this machine

00:48:31however

00:48:33I'm leaning

00:48:33more

00:48:34towards the idea

00:48:36that he looked

00:48:37at older texts

00:48:39from previous

00:48:40generations

00:48:40and that

00:48:42the source

00:48:43of the idea

00:48:45of how to build

00:48:46this

00:48:46did come

00:48:47from extraterrestrials

00:48:49but from way

00:48:50before

00:48:51he was alive

00:48:52and he just

00:48:53came across

00:48:54those texts

00:48:55but do the

00:48:57descriptions

00:48:58of rockets

00:48:58and otherworldly

00:49:00devices

00:49:00found in ancient

00:49:01texts

00:49:02and legends

00:49:03provide evidence

00:49:05of extraterrestrial

00:49:06encounters

00:49:07in the distant

00:49:08past

00:49:08perhaps

00:49:10the answer

00:49:11will be discovered

00:49:11in an unlikely

00:49:13place

00:49:13in the hands

00:49:15of the U.S.

00:49:16military

00:49:17some of the

00:49:22most compelling

00:49:22pieces of evidence

00:49:24we can find

00:49:24of advanced

00:49:25ancient tech

00:49:26comes in the

00:49:27form of

00:49:28descriptions

00:49:28of weaponry

00:49:30because some

00:49:31of the weapons

00:49:32that the so-called

00:49:32gods had

00:49:34in their possession

00:49:34sound eerily similar

00:49:37to the weapons

00:49:38that we are

00:49:38developing today

00:49:39yeah just look

00:49:40at the Sanskrit

00:49:41texts of ancient

00:49:42India

00:49:43they're talking

00:49:44about things

00:49:44like missiles

00:49:45that detect

00:49:46heat or motion

00:49:47weapons of

00:49:48mass destruction

00:49:49even energy

00:49:50beams

00:49:50right

00:49:51and in ancient

00:49:52Greece we have

00:49:53accounts of a

00:49:54giant mirror

00:49:55that acted like

00:49:55some sort of

00:49:56death ray

00:49:57which sounds a lot

00:49:58like the technology

00:49:59that the U.S.

00:50:00military is developing

00:50:01today

00:50:02may 2010

00:50:07off the coast

00:50:08of California

00:50:09a powerful

00:50:11new weapon

00:50:12shoots down

00:50:13unmanned

00:50:14aerial drones

00:50:15during secret

00:50:16testing carried out

00:50:17by the U.S.

00:50:18Navy

00:50:18firing from a

00:50:20warship

00:50:21at a distance

00:50:22of nearly

00:50:23two miles

00:50:23a ray of

00:50:25intense

00:50:25laser energy

00:50:26burns through

00:50:27targets traveling

00:50:28at speeds

00:50:29of more than

00:50:30300 miles per hour

00:50:31but is it possible

00:50:34that such

00:50:35so-called

00:50:36death rays

00:50:37could have been

00:50:38used before

00:50:39perhaps

00:50:40in ancient times

00:50:42I'm quite convinced

00:50:44that there have been

00:50:45in the past

00:50:46advanced civilizations

00:50:47on earth

00:50:48that did have

00:50:49such things

00:50:49as the so-called

00:50:50death ray

00:50:51whether it was

00:50:53used as a weapon

00:50:54or whether it was

00:50:55just observed

00:50:56being used

00:50:56is a very

00:50:57very open

00:50:58question

00:50:59in 214 B.C.

00:51:04Greeks living

00:51:05in the Sicilian

00:51:05city of Syracuse

00:51:07prepared for an attack

00:51:08by a fleet

00:51:09of Roman warships

00:51:10though outnumbered

00:51:12by a superior

00:51:13military force

00:51:14ancient texts

00:51:16suggest

00:51:16that Syracuse

00:51:18was well defended

00:51:19by a mysterious

00:51:20and powerful

00:51:21new weapon

00:51:22probably the most

00:51:25famous ancient

00:51:26death ray

00:51:27was the one

00:51:28that was built

00:51:29by the Greek

00:51:30inventor Archimedes

00:51:32he was able

00:51:33to create

00:51:33this giant

00:51:34mirror

00:51:35and parabolic

00:51:37disc

00:51:38and focus

00:51:39the sun's rays

00:51:41on the fleet

00:51:42and set these ships

00:51:43on fire

00:51:44so here we have

00:51:48what would be

00:51:48a primitive

00:51:49kind of

00:51:49death ray

00:51:50that really

00:51:51worked

00:51:51but how could

00:51:56Archimedes

00:51:57have conceived

00:51:58such a formidable

00:51:59weapon

00:52:00one far in advance

00:52:02of any known

00:52:03at the time

00:52:03researchers suggest

00:52:06the inventor

00:52:07may have drawn

00:52:08inspiration

00:52:09from Greek myths

00:52:10written nearly

00:52:11600 years before

00:52:12the battle

00:52:13of Syracuse

00:52:14myths

00:52:15that told

00:52:16the stories

00:52:17of gods

00:52:17that brandished

00:52:18cosmic weapons

00:52:19of incredible

00:52:20destructive force

00:52:22if you look

00:52:25in the Greek

00:52:26tradition

00:52:26they have

00:52:27a very clear

00:52:28description

00:52:28of Zeus's

00:52:29thunderbolt

00:52:30which he was

00:52:32able to point

00:52:32at people

00:52:33or at

00:52:34other things

00:52:35that he wanted

00:52:36to explode

00:52:36hit the button

00:52:38and what they

00:52:39described as

00:52:40lightning would

00:52:40come out

00:52:40and create

00:52:41a fierce

00:52:41and terrible

00:52:42explosion

00:52:42when these

00:52:44ancient gods

00:52:45like Zeus

00:52:46were to come

00:52:47down from

00:52:47the sky

00:52:48in this

00:52:51flurry

00:52:52of thunder

00:52:53and lightning

00:52:54and then get

00:52:54out of their

00:52:55spacecraft

00:52:56they were

00:52:57perceived

00:52:57as gods

00:52:59these ancient

00:53:01aliens

00:53:02had fantastic

00:53:03technology

00:53:04available to

00:53:05them

00:53:05a technology

00:53:07that would

00:53:07have seemed

00:53:07like magic

00:53:08to our

00:53:09primitive

00:53:09ancestors

00:53:10so when

00:53:11these people

00:53:12came down

00:53:13from the sky

00:53:14and they had

00:53:14advanced

00:53:15energy weapons

00:53:17they were

00:53:17like gods

00:53:18to our

00:53:19ancient ancestors

00:53:19it doesn't matter

00:53:21where you go

00:53:22but the gods

00:53:24were always

00:53:25able to

00:53:26create thunder

00:53:28create lightning

00:53:29in a controlled

00:53:31way

00:53:31in ancient

00:53:34India

00:53:34we have

00:53:35the gods

00:53:36holding the

00:53:37doors

00:53:37sometimes

00:53:38like this

00:53:39and it

00:53:40looks as if

00:53:41some type

00:53:41of a directed

00:53:42energy beam

00:53:42comes directly

00:53:43out of the

00:53:44front

00:53:44to vanquish

00:53:46the enemy

00:53:46to destroy

00:53:48him

00:53:48to incinerate

00:53:49him

00:53:49but if

00:53:53death ray

00:53:54type weapons

00:53:54had been

00:53:55used

00:53:56in ancient

00:53:56times

00:53:57might there

00:53:58be some

00:53:58sort of

00:53:59tangible

00:53:59proof

00:54:00perhaps

00:54:01there is

00:54:02here

00:54:04scattered

00:54:05throughout

00:54:05the Scottish

00:54:06countryside

00:54:07can be found

00:54:08numerous

00:54:08ancient

00:54:09ruins

00:54:09many appear

00:54:11to have been

00:54:12forts

00:54:12or other

00:54:13enclosures

00:54:13dating back

00:54:14thousands

00:54:15of years

00:54:16remarkably

00:54:17they also

00:54:18appear

00:54:19to have been

00:54:20subjected

00:54:20to fire

00:54:21and heat

00:54:21so intense

00:54:23it practically

00:54:24turned the

00:54:24stone structures

00:54:25into glass

00:54:26it's a process

00:54:28more scientifically

00:54:29known

00:54:30as vitrification

00:54:31here you have

00:54:34these stone

00:54:34buildings

00:54:35in which

00:54:36an analysis

00:54:37of the outside

00:54:38comes to the

00:54:39conclusion

00:54:40that they were

00:54:41heated to over

00:54:43a thousand degrees

00:54:44Celsius

00:54:44in temperature

00:54:45conventional fire

00:54:47could not have

00:54:47reached this heat

00:54:48you needed a

00:54:49sustained burn

00:54:50at a thousand

00:54:51degrees Celsius

00:54:52for a long

00:54:53period of time

00:54:53why is it

00:54:55that it's only

00:54:56these forts

00:54:57that have

00:54:58this type of

00:54:58charring

00:54:59where they're

00:55:00actually glazed

00:55:01like pottery

00:55:01on the outside

00:55:02why is it that

00:55:04you don't see it

00:55:04on the stones

00:55:05in the surrounding

00:55:06area

00:55:06and even more

00:55:07interestingly

00:55:07why is it

00:55:08that so many

00:55:09of them are

00:55:09concentrated

00:55:09into this

00:55:10one little

00:55:10area

00:55:11in northern

00:55:12Scotland

00:55:12I believe

00:55:13this is

00:55:14very clear

00:55:14evidence

00:55:15of death

00:55:15rays being

00:55:16used

00:55:16according

00:55:20to Celtic

00:55:21legend

00:55:22there once

00:55:23was a god

00:55:23named Lou

00:55:24also known

00:55:26as the

00:55:27shining one

00:55:27the sun

00:55:28god

00:55:29and the

00:55:30god

00:55:30of war

00:55:30like the

00:55:34Greek

00:55:34god

00:55:35Zeus

00:55:35Lou

00:55:36was said

00:55:36to wield

00:55:37a mighty

00:55:37magic

00:55:38spear

00:55:38not unlike

00:55:39the thunderbolts

00:55:40of his

00:55:41Greek

00:55:41counterpart

00:55:41we have

00:55:44many stories

00:55:45of divinities

00:55:45who were

00:55:46powerful figures

00:55:47who had weapons

00:55:48that seemed

00:55:48extraordinary

00:55:49for their time

00:55:50one was the

00:55:51great Celtic

00:55:52divinity

00:55:52Lou

00:55:53who had a

00:55:54spear

00:55:54that could

00:55:55spit fire

00:55:55and lightning

00:55:56and do great

00:55:57damage

00:55:57it was an

00:55:57extraordinary

00:55:58weapon

00:55:58we don't have

00:55:59a great deal

00:56:00detail about it

00:56:00but it clearly

00:56:01could dominate

00:56:02any situation

00:56:02he got into

00:56:03when battle

00:56:04was near

00:56:05Lou

00:56:06would draw

00:56:06out his

00:56:07spear

00:56:07and it roared

00:56:09and then

00:56:10flashes of fire

00:56:12came out

00:56:13of it

00:56:13and it tore

00:56:15through the ranks

00:56:16of the enemy

00:56:17never tired

00:56:19of killing

00:56:20and slaying

00:56:21it was one

00:56:25amazing weapon

00:56:26I mean

00:56:28how else

00:56:29can we

00:56:29explain

00:56:30all those

00:56:30numerous

00:56:31vitrified

00:56:32forts

00:56:32where the

00:56:34surface

00:56:34of the

00:56:35stone

00:56:35is as

00:56:36smooth

00:56:37as glass

00:56:38and these

00:56:39spots

00:56:40can only

00:56:41be found

00:56:41in very

00:56:42concentrated

00:56:43areas

00:56:44through

00:56:45northern

00:56:45Scotland

00:56:46is it

00:56:48possible

00:56:48that what

00:56:49the Celtic

00:56:49legends

00:56:50are describing

00:56:51as Lou

00:56:51is in fact

00:56:53an alien

00:56:54general

00:56:54or other

00:56:55kind of

00:56:56extraterrestrial

00:56:56leader

00:56:57in possession

00:56:58of a

00:56:58devastating

00:56:59weapon

00:56:59all these

00:57:02descriptions

00:57:02of

00:57:03sophisticated

00:57:04weaponry

00:57:05sounds almost

00:57:06like science

00:57:07fiction

00:57:07but is it

00:57:08really

00:57:09because

00:57:10we have

00:57:11those

00:57:11weapons

00:57:11today

00:57:12and I

00:57:15think

00:57:15it is

00:57:16merely

00:57:17a

00:57:17reinvention

00:57:18of

00:57:19history

00:57:20that

00:57:21all the

00:57:21stuff

00:57:22that we

00:57:22have

00:57:22today

00:57:23has been

00:57:23around

00:57:24before

00:57:24and that

00:57:25our

00:57:25past

00:57:25is not

00:57:26science

00:57:27fiction

00:57:27but

00:57:28science

00:57:28fact

00:57:29deadly

00:57:32laser

00:57:33beams

00:57:33acoustic

00:57:36levitation

00:57:37anti-gravity

00:57:40could these

00:57:42be technologies

00:57:43that were

00:57:44witnessed

00:57:44and even

00:57:45used

00:57:45by ancient

00:57:46civilizations

00:57:47if so

00:57:50were they

00:57:51conceived

00:57:51in the minds

00:57:52of early

00:57:53man

00:57:53or did

00:57:55they have

00:57:56other

00:57:56worldly

00:57:57origins

00:57:58perhaps

00:57:59further clues

00:58:00can be found

00:58:01by examining

00:58:02godlike powers

00:58:03that are now

00:58:05becoming

00:58:05our reality

00:58:07one thing

00:58:12that's surprisingly

00:58:13widespread

00:58:13in ancient

00:58:14traditions

00:58:15is the idea

00:58:16of cloaking

00:58:16technology

00:58:17and we have

00:58:18so many stories

00:58:19of gods

00:58:20or heroes

00:58:20having a device

00:58:22that makes them

00:58:23invisible

00:58:23yeah like the

00:58:24ancient greek

00:58:25story of

00:58:25gyges

00:58:26he comes upon

00:58:27this magic ring

00:58:28that makes him

00:58:29invisible

00:58:29then he uses

00:58:30it to become

00:58:31king

00:58:31right

00:58:32and this

00:58:33likely would

00:58:34have seemed

00:58:34like magic

00:58:35to our

00:58:36ancestors

00:58:37but today

00:58:37we know

00:58:38it was likely

00:58:39some type

00:58:40of a tech

00:58:40device

00:58:41because today

00:58:42we are developing

00:58:43the exact same

00:58:44cloaking mechanisms

00:58:45in fact

00:58:46we covered this

00:58:47in a season

00:58:48three episode

00:58:48of ancient

00:58:49aliens

00:58:49called

00:58:50aliens

00:58:51gods

00:58:51and heroes

00:58:52lydia

00:58:56716 bc

00:58:58gyges

00:59:00a shepherd

00:59:01in the service

00:59:02of king

00:59:02candalus

00:59:03becomes the

00:59:04unlikely successor

00:59:05to the throne

00:59:06of this ancient

00:59:07kingdom

00:59:08in modern day

00:59:09turkey

00:59:09but the story

00:59:11of how this

00:59:12modest servant

00:59:13rose from a shepherd

00:59:14to a king

00:59:15is so fantastic

00:59:17that many scholars

00:59:19and historians

00:59:20have dismissed it

00:59:21as mere myth

00:59:22gyges is out

00:59:26in the field

00:59:26and there is

00:59:27a terrible

00:59:27earthquake

00:59:28he sees a cave

00:59:34open

00:59:34goes into that

00:59:36cave and sees

00:59:36a gold ring

00:59:37he just kind of

00:59:40walks into like

00:59:41this chamber

00:59:41which is like

00:59:42a tomb

00:59:42where he sees

00:59:43a dead body

00:59:44that's got some

00:59:45jewelry on it

00:59:46so he grabs

00:59:46this ring off of it

00:59:47because he's a poor man

00:59:48he puts the ring on

00:59:49and discovers

00:59:49that it gives him

00:59:50the power

00:59:51to be invisible

00:59:52here he has

00:59:53the kind of power

00:59:54a god would have

00:59:55and does he use it

00:59:56well

00:59:57well actually

00:59:58it's a little

00:59:59questionable

00:59:59how he uses it

01:00:00he comes up

01:00:01he comes up with a plan

01:00:02the next time he goes

01:00:03to visit the king

01:00:04he brings that ring

01:00:06with him

01:00:06turns himself invisible

01:00:08seduces the queen

01:00:11kills the king

01:00:14takes over the palace

01:00:16what we have here

01:00:18is really a multi-layered

01:00:21legend

01:00:21we have not only

01:00:23the story

01:00:23of the fact

01:00:24that somebody

01:00:25in the past

01:00:25had the cloak

01:00:26of invisibility

01:00:27but actually

01:00:28that he did not

01:00:29invent this

01:00:30but that this was

01:00:30a legacy

01:00:31from a race

01:00:32who had buried

01:00:33dead dead

01:00:34and that alongside

01:00:35these dead

01:00:36were artifacts

01:00:37which were

01:00:38technological

01:00:38what kind of

01:00:40a magical amulet

01:00:42or technology

01:00:43are we talking

01:00:44about here

01:00:46was this

01:00:46the ring

01:00:47of the gods

01:00:48that's described

01:00:49by the ancient

01:00:50Sumerians

01:00:50as the ring

01:00:51of cosmic

01:00:52sovereignty

01:00:52when I read

01:00:54stories like

01:00:55Gyges of Lydia

01:00:57who has found

01:00:58this ring

01:00:59which gave him

01:01:00the capability

01:01:00of becoming

01:01:01invisible

01:01:02then there are

01:01:03two things

01:01:04that I think of

01:01:05one

01:01:06is it just

01:01:07fantasy

01:01:07or

01:01:09do we have

01:01:10another reference

01:01:11here

01:01:11that describes

01:01:12misunderstood

01:01:14technology

01:01:14because today

01:01:16researchers

01:01:17at Duke University

01:01:19are trying

01:01:20to develop

01:01:21an invisibility cloak

01:01:23Duke University

01:01:26engineering professor

01:01:27David R. Smith

01:01:28is the director

01:01:29of the Center

01:01:30for Metamaterial

01:01:31and Integrated

01:01:32Plasmonics

01:01:32for the past decade

01:01:35Smith and his team

01:01:36have been working

01:01:37to create

01:01:37metamaterials

01:01:39or artificial

01:01:40materials

01:01:40that are not

01:01:41found in nature

01:01:42just as a piece

01:01:44of glass

01:01:45can control

01:01:46the way

01:01:46light bends

01:01:47Smith has set

01:01:48out to prove

01:01:49that certain

01:01:50man-made materials

01:01:51can actually

01:01:52be constructed

01:01:52to render

01:01:53objects invisible

01:01:54this is actually

01:01:57an example

01:01:57of a metamaterial

01:01:58this is a bunch

01:02:00of pieces

01:02:01of circuit board

01:02:02all cut out

01:02:03and assembled

01:02:04together

01:02:04and on the circuit

01:02:05boards are little

01:02:06pieces of copper

01:02:07that are tiny circuits

01:02:08and each circuit

01:02:09has a certain

01:02:10response to

01:02:10electromagnetic

01:02:11radiation

01:02:11and the combination

01:02:13of these patterns

01:02:14plus the shape

01:02:15gives us something

01:02:16that we can call

01:02:17an invisibility cloak

01:02:19the idea behind the cloak

01:02:20is that it renders

01:02:21something inside

01:02:22of it invisible

01:02:23and itself

01:02:24invisible as well

01:02:25at present

01:02:26the device

01:02:27only makes

01:02:28objects disappear

01:02:29at microwave

01:02:30frequencies

01:02:31but dr. Smith

01:02:33believes

01:02:33that soon

01:02:34this technology

01:02:35will also be able

01:02:36to make objects

01:02:37invisible

01:02:38to even the human eye

01:02:40just in the last

01:02:42year or two

01:02:43there have actually

01:02:43been experiments

01:02:44showing certain

01:02:45of the cloaking

01:02:46ideas transitioning

01:02:47to the visible

01:02:48spectrum

01:02:48red, green, blue

01:02:50those experiments

01:02:51are actually

01:02:51being done now

01:02:52we will have

01:02:53invisibility cloaks

01:02:54at some point

01:02:55that we could wear

01:02:56as humans

01:02:57I definitely think

01:02:58we're going to get

01:02:59there because science

01:03:00and speculative science

01:03:01go hand in hand

01:03:02science creates

01:03:04a base point

01:03:05speculative science

01:03:06pushes it farther

01:03:07into the future

01:03:08and that's how

01:03:08technology advances

01:03:10an actual cloak

01:03:14of invisibility

01:03:15though still in

01:03:16development

01:03:17researchers in Japan

01:03:19have designed

01:03:20an optical camouflage

01:03:21system

01:03:22that makes special

01:03:23reflective material

01:03:24seemingly disappear

01:03:26including the person

01:03:27wearing it

01:03:28thus bringing us

01:03:30closer to achieving

01:03:31a fully functional

01:03:33invisibility cloak

01:03:34like the one

01:03:35described in the story

01:03:37of Gyges

01:03:37could this mean

01:03:41could this mean

01:03:41that other

01:03:42seemingly far-fetched

01:03:44devices of fantasy

01:03:45like flying carpets

01:03:46and magic wands

01:03:49are also based

01:03:52on science

01:03:53and if so

01:03:54might they have been

01:03:56used in the ancient

01:03:57past

01:03:57perhaps in the hands

01:03:59of extraterrestrial

01:04:00visitors

01:04:01just because we are

01:04:04working on these

01:04:06technologies today

01:04:07does not mean

01:04:09that we are

01:04:10the first

01:04:11because we find

01:04:14multiple references

01:04:16in ancient texts

01:04:18that describe

01:04:20devices with which

01:04:22you were able

01:04:23to go invisible

01:04:25so much of our

01:04:28storytelling

01:04:28deals with the fact

01:04:29that what we deem

01:04:31to be magic

01:04:32can really be science

01:04:33at a different time

01:04:34if legendary tales

01:04:37like the story

01:04:38of King Gyges

01:04:39could be proven

01:04:40to be real

01:04:41what does it suggest

01:04:43about other

01:04:43fantastic stories

01:04:45of gods

01:04:45and titans

01:04:46Hisserlich, Turkey

01:04:52within this

01:04:55archaeological site

01:04:56lie the ruins

01:04:57of Troy

01:04:58a place once

01:05:00thought by

01:05:00mainstream scientists

01:05:02to be no more

01:05:03than myth

01:05:04until Heinrich Schliemann

01:05:06unearthed its remains

01:05:07in 1871

01:05:09here

01:05:11in the 12th century BC

01:05:13the ancient Greek city

01:05:16was the center

01:05:16of the Trojan War

01:05:17a Greek battle

01:05:19described in Homer's

01:05:20Iliad

01:05:21according to the

01:05:24epic poem

01:05:24the goddess Athena

01:05:26gives King Diomedes

01:05:28the power of divine

01:05:29vision during the war

01:05:31so that he could see

01:05:32like the gods

01:05:34Athena comes down

01:05:35and she wants to

01:05:36help the Greeks

01:05:37so she finds Diomedes

01:05:38she says

01:05:38I'm going to help

01:05:39you out here

01:05:39so what I'm going to do

01:05:41is strip away

01:05:42this mist

01:05:42that's over your eyes

01:05:43right

01:05:44you as a human being

01:05:45you don't really know

01:05:46what's going on

01:05:46you just see battle

01:05:47but once I strip away

01:05:48this mist

01:05:49you're going to be able

01:05:49to see what's really

01:05:50going on

01:05:51which is that

01:05:51in addition to a battle

01:05:52going on

01:05:52there are gods fighting

01:05:54King Diomedes

01:05:57sees that

01:05:57Ares the god of war

01:05:59is fighting alongside

01:06:00his enemy Hector

01:06:01and he was not to use

01:06:04this sight to attack

01:06:05the gods

01:06:06but that is exactly

01:06:07what he uses it for

01:06:08the side aspect of this

01:06:11is this

01:06:11it's a question

01:06:12did the gods

01:06:13really have this

01:06:14were they superhuman

01:06:16like we want to become

01:06:17or did they have technology

01:06:19which enabled them

01:06:21to do these kind of things

01:06:22Diomedes

01:06:25and the gods' power

01:06:26of super eyesight

01:06:27may seem like

01:06:29pure fantasy

01:06:30but enhanced vision

01:06:31is also becoming

01:06:33a reality

01:06:34thanks to advancements

01:06:35in spectrometer technology

01:06:37spectrometers

01:06:40are devices used

01:06:41to measure properties

01:06:42of light

01:06:43over a wider range

01:06:44of the electromagnetic

01:06:45spectrum

01:06:46than is visible

01:06:47with the human eye

01:06:48and today

01:06:49just as we are

01:06:51developing cloaking devices

01:06:52we are also developing

01:06:54technology

01:06:54to see through

01:06:56those devices

01:06:57technology is driven

01:07:01by society's needs

01:07:02more than anything else

01:07:04but myths

01:07:05have a way

01:07:06of inspiring us

01:07:07and they represent

01:07:09a part of the imagination

01:07:10which we need

01:07:11to even envision

01:07:12the next generation

01:07:13of technologies

01:07:14if I dream

01:07:17I could go

01:07:18to another galaxy

01:07:20I will sooner

01:07:21or later

01:07:22go to another galaxy

01:07:24we are the offsprings

01:07:25of the gods

01:07:26and all these things

01:07:27are in our brains

01:07:29we think

01:07:30we are very powerful

01:07:31in practice

01:07:32we are not

01:07:33but we have technology

01:07:35to develop

01:07:36the power

01:07:37because we are

01:07:38the sons of the gods

01:07:39could it really be

01:07:41that the powers

01:07:42once attributed

01:07:43to the so-called gods

01:07:45were in fact

01:07:46misunderstood

01:07:47alien technology

01:07:48perhaps the answers

01:07:52can be found

01:07:52not in the past

01:07:54but in the present

01:07:55as modern day advances

01:07:58in science

01:07:58and technology

01:07:59give us perhaps

01:08:01our greatest evidence

01:08:02that we

01:08:04have been here

01:08:05before

01:08:06the ability

01:08:13to fly

01:08:14to thrive

01:08:16underwater

01:08:16and to travel

01:08:18through space

01:08:19and explore

01:08:20the universe

01:08:21at one time

01:08:24these were all

01:08:25believed to be

01:08:26impossible notions

01:08:27dismissed

01:08:29as mere

01:08:30science fiction

01:08:31or myth

01:08:33but mankind's

01:08:35continued advances

01:08:36in technology

01:08:37have made the word

01:08:38impossible

01:08:39almost obsolete

01:08:41in our modern world

01:08:44steroids can help

01:08:45generate

01:08:45herculean muscles

01:08:47titanium joints

01:08:50can replace

01:08:51and even improve

01:08:52upon our own

01:08:53natural ones

01:08:54and even prosthetic

01:08:57gills

01:08:57are being developed

01:08:58so human beings

01:09:00can breathe

01:09:00underwater

01:09:01without the use

01:09:02of air tanks

01:09:03today

01:09:08government contractors

01:09:09like Raytheon Sarkos

01:09:11and Lockheed Martin

01:09:12develop exoskeleton

01:09:14machines

01:09:15for the U.S. military

01:09:16when worn

01:09:22they can allow

01:09:23soldiers to walk

01:09:24run

01:09:25and lift

01:09:25hundreds of pounds

01:09:26with virtually

01:09:27no effort

01:09:28what makes

01:09:31exoskeleton

01:09:32so cool

01:09:33is that it's

01:09:33an everyman thing

01:09:34anybody can put

01:09:35one on

01:09:36anybody can be

01:09:37the hero

01:09:37you can take

01:09:39a person with

01:09:39any sort of

01:09:40physical weaknesses

01:09:41and make them

01:09:42greater than the

01:09:42person they're

01:09:43fighting

01:09:43exoskeletons

01:09:46would be a

01:09:47prime example

01:09:48of something

01:09:48coming out

01:09:49of comic books

01:09:50into mainstream

01:09:51reality

01:09:52and in reality

01:09:54exoskeletons

01:09:55are becoming

01:09:55very popular

01:09:56with the military

01:09:58a soldier can wear

01:10:00the Raytheon

01:10:02exoskeleton

01:10:02for example

01:10:03and lift

01:10:04200 pounds

01:10:05while these

01:10:06modern day

01:10:07supermen

01:10:07may be limited

01:10:08in their mobility

01:10:09the development

01:10:11of exoskeletons

01:10:12represents

01:10:13an incredible

01:10:14evolution

01:10:14in the relationship

01:10:16between man

01:10:17and machine

01:10:17but did such

01:10:22incredible technology

01:10:23exist before

01:10:25perhaps

01:10:26in mankind's

01:10:27ancient past

01:10:28now is it

01:10:31possible

01:10:31that some type

01:10:33of exoskeleton

01:10:34technology

01:10:35was used

01:10:36in the remote

01:10:37past

01:10:37for example

01:10:38on the Giza plateau

01:10:39imagine

01:10:41the operator

01:10:42of one of those

01:10:43exoskeleton machines

01:10:45coming out

01:10:46of that machine

01:10:47that person

01:10:49has superpowers

01:10:51even though

01:10:53the person

01:10:54doesn't have

01:10:55any powers

01:10:55at all

01:10:56the person

01:10:57is only

01:10:58operating

01:10:58sophisticated

01:11:00technology

01:11:01one could argue

01:11:03that with all

01:11:04the advancements

01:11:05we are making

01:11:06today

01:11:07in science

01:11:08and all the

01:11:09other academic

01:11:09fields

01:11:10we are becoming

01:11:11more godlike

01:11:13we are not

01:11:15becoming gods

01:11:16we are not

01:11:17turning into

01:11:18real superheroes

01:11:20we are only

01:11:21becoming

01:11:22godlike

01:11:24because

01:11:25of our

01:11:26technology

01:11:27I think we have

01:11:29an innate need

01:11:30to push our bodies

01:11:31and our minds

01:11:32to the utmost

01:11:33limits

01:11:34and strive for

01:11:35super intelligence

01:11:36super strength

01:11:37and other

01:11:39super powers

01:11:40the reason is

01:11:41that people

01:11:42have long

01:11:42been fascinated

01:11:43with what

01:11:44could be stronger

01:11:45than humanity

01:11:46itself

01:11:47and if

01:11:48it's not

01:11:49human

01:11:49then it must

01:11:50come from

01:11:51somewhere else

01:11:52either a god

01:11:53or an extraterrestrial

01:11:54but with all

01:11:58of his scientific

01:11:58achievements

01:11:59is mankind

01:12:00perhaps making

01:12:01himself more

01:12:02and more vulnerable

01:12:03to what could be

01:12:05terrible consequences

01:12:06there are many

01:12:08tales of

01:12:09ordinary mortals

01:12:10ascending

01:12:11to become rulers

01:12:13to become gods

01:12:14various positions

01:12:15of enormous power

01:12:17often these

01:12:20characters

01:12:21then become corrupt

01:12:22and the stories

01:12:23stick around

01:12:24and are retold

01:12:25over a long period

01:12:26of time

01:12:27long after their

01:12:28sources have

01:12:29withered away

01:12:30to teach us

01:12:31that power corrupts

01:12:33to be careful

01:12:34what you wish for

01:12:35and to be very

01:12:37cautious if ever

01:12:38holding great power

01:12:40because of its

01:12:42ability to harm

01:12:43almost 50% of our

01:12:46stories are about

01:12:47technology run amok

01:12:48or the dark side of

01:12:49technology

01:12:49because when you talk

01:12:52about superpowers

01:12:53when you talk about

01:12:54all this transformation

01:12:55everything comes at a

01:12:56price

01:12:56and you always have to

01:12:58weigh whether or not

01:12:59price is worthy

01:12:59or necessary to make

01:13:01for the greater good

01:13:02and sometimes it's not

01:13:03sometimes the price

01:13:05you pay is just too

01:13:06great when you lose

01:13:07your own self

01:13:07are all of mankind's

01:13:11scientific achievements

01:13:12really examples

01:13:14of emerging technology

01:13:15or are humans

01:13:17finally catching up

01:13:19to the abilities

01:13:19of beings

01:13:21who have been here

01:13:22before

01:13:22perhaps only time

01:13:26and further advancements

01:13:28in technology

01:13:29will tell

01:13:30the ancient astronaut

01:13:36theory proposes

01:13:37that long ago

01:13:38ETs modified

01:13:40the DNA

01:13:41of one of our

01:13:43pre-human ancestors

01:13:44to create humans

01:13:45and so the question is

01:13:47all these cases

01:13:49of modern day

01:13:49genetic engineering

01:13:50are they just examples

01:13:52of alien reinvention?

01:13:54It would seem so

01:13:55and we're now talking

01:13:57about gene splicing

01:13:58technology

01:13:59to modify our bodies

01:14:01and make them better

01:14:02for space travel

01:14:03and we're looking

01:14:04at merging our biology

01:14:06with technology

01:14:07basically to turn ourselves

01:14:08into cyborgs

01:14:09maybe this was our

01:14:11alien ancestors plan

01:14:12all along

01:14:13one day

01:14:14we would evolve

01:14:16to jumpstart

01:14:16civilization

01:14:17on other planets

01:14:18ourselves

01:14:19all right

01:14:21you want to go to Mars

01:14:22sure let's go to Mars

01:14:23at the Johnson Space Center

01:14:24in Houston Texas

01:14:25aerospace engineer

01:14:27Dr. Travis Taylor

01:14:28meets with Paul Valli

01:14:30the project manager

01:14:32for the active response

01:14:33gravity offload system

01:14:35otherwise known

01:14:36as Argos

01:14:37Travis is eager

01:14:39to experience

01:14:40first hand

01:14:41how space colonists

01:14:42will be trained

01:14:43in order to survive

01:14:44in reduced gravity

01:14:46environments

01:14:47and now you are

01:14:48on Mars

01:14:49so this is what

01:14:50Mars is like

01:14:51yep

01:14:51I can jump

01:14:52oh a lot higher

01:14:54so if I were gonna

01:14:56try and walk

01:14:57across Mars

01:14:58the Argos simulator

01:15:00is amazing

01:15:01in giving me

01:15:02some insight

01:15:03in realizing

01:15:03it's not easy

01:15:05to work on a planet

01:15:06that isn't

01:15:07the planet I came from

01:15:08if I was on Mars

01:15:10or the moon

01:15:10or anywhere else

01:15:11I have to completely

01:15:13retrain my mind

01:15:14and body

01:15:14for working there

01:15:15yeah

01:15:15wow

01:15:16well getting up

01:15:18is the hard part

01:15:19so if any

01:15:21civilizations have

01:15:22done that

01:15:23they would have had

01:15:23to do the same

01:15:24type of training

01:15:25or when they got here

01:15:26they would be

01:15:26extremely clumsy

01:15:27yeah

01:15:28that's almost impossible

01:15:31yeah now imagine

01:15:31doing it

01:15:32there we go

01:15:33now imagine doing it

01:15:35with a space suit

01:15:36life support

01:15:37like the Michelin

01:15:38yeah

01:15:38you don't realize

01:15:39how much you use

01:15:40gravity to do

01:15:41everything

01:15:42yeah you don't realize

01:15:43until it's gone

01:15:44right

01:15:44although recent

01:15:48NASA footage

01:15:49of astronauts

01:15:50doing somersaults

01:15:51in midair

01:15:51and eating

01:15:53floating M&Ms

01:15:54paints a whimsical

01:15:55picture of what

01:15:56it's like to live

01:15:57in a low gravity

01:15:57environment

01:15:58the lack of gravity

01:16:00can over time

01:16:02have a devastating

01:16:03and profound impact

01:16:05on the human body

01:16:06what we have to do

01:16:09when we decide

01:16:10to go to Mars

01:16:10is really study

01:16:11all aspects

01:16:12of human physiology

01:16:14how we're going

01:16:16to operate

01:16:17in a gravity

01:16:18that's much less

01:16:19than the Earth

01:16:20our body will change

01:16:22because of that

01:16:22environment

01:16:23we're doing research

01:16:24in many ways

01:16:25right now

01:16:26studying the effects

01:16:27of being weightless

01:16:28and then coming back

01:16:29to the Earth

01:16:30March 2nd

01:16:322016

01:16:34Kazakhstan

01:16:35American astronaut

01:16:38Scott Kelly

01:16:39returns to Earth

01:16:40after a record-setting

01:16:42360-day mission

01:16:44aboard the

01:16:45International Space Station

01:16:46the duration

01:16:48of the mission

01:16:48was intended

01:16:49to help researchers

01:16:50understand

01:16:51how prolonged periods

01:16:53of time

01:16:53in zero gravity

01:16:54can affect

01:16:55the human body

01:16:56Scott's identical

01:16:59twin brother

01:16:59Mark

01:17:00also an astronaut

01:17:01served as a control subject

01:17:03because of his twins DNA

01:17:06which is in theory

01:17:08identical to his

01:17:09they could then

01:17:10determine

01:17:12what kind of

01:17:13DNA changes

01:17:14had happened to him

01:17:15and what they discovered

01:17:16was that

01:17:17about 7%

01:17:18of his DNA

01:17:19had been altered

01:17:21extensive post-mission

01:17:24lab tests

01:17:25confirmed

01:17:26the astonishing changes

01:17:27that had taken place

01:17:29genes related

01:17:31to Scott Kelly's

01:17:32immune system

01:17:33DNA repair

01:17:34bone formation networks

01:17:37his bloodstream

01:17:38and numerous other systems

01:17:40have all been altered

01:17:41the startling results

01:17:46prompt scientists

01:17:47around the world

01:17:48to ask

01:17:48what are the implications

01:17:50for humans

01:17:51who leave Earth

01:17:52permanently

01:17:53so I did a lot

01:17:56of my early

01:17:57medical work

01:17:58and medical research

01:17:58on how the human body

01:18:00adopts to space

01:18:01as you go up

01:18:02into orbit

01:18:02so we are going to

01:18:05begin to speciate

01:18:06and form subspecies

01:18:07of humans

01:18:08as we head off

01:18:09towards the stars

01:18:09perhaps we should

01:18:11genetically modify

01:18:12ourselves

01:18:13to thrive

01:18:14in outer space

01:18:15we're going to have

01:18:17to modify ourselves

01:18:18to adjust

01:18:19to different atmospheres

01:18:20cosmic rays

01:18:22radiation

01:18:23you name it

01:18:24we want to use

01:18:27gene editing technology

01:18:28to evolve ourselves

01:18:29and modify our DNA

01:18:32modify our bodies

01:18:33to meet the needs

01:18:34of space

01:18:35as the human race

01:18:36is moving irreversibly

01:18:37off the planet

01:18:38once you have the technology

01:18:42to completely decode DNA

01:18:45and recode it

01:18:47you also have the technology

01:18:49then to genetically alter

01:18:52any human being

01:18:54or any animal

01:18:55or plant

01:18:55and so therefore

01:18:57you're able to

01:18:59genetically engineer

01:19:00humanoid species

01:19:02that will be better adapted

01:19:04to space travel

01:19:06better adapted to life

01:19:08on a different planet

01:19:09extraterrestrials

01:19:10extraterrestrials

01:19:11coming here

01:19:12in the ancient past

01:19:13could have easily

01:19:14have done

01:19:15exactly the same thing

01:19:17could extraterrestrials

01:19:19in possession

01:19:20of the same

01:19:21DNA altering knowledge

01:19:22have used it

01:19:23to aid their

01:19:24colonization efforts

01:19:25here on earth

01:19:26thousands of years ago

01:19:28an idea

01:19:30which once seemed absurd

01:19:32now seems remarkably

01:19:33and eerily plausible

01:19:35could you go back in time

01:19:38and look at something

01:19:39like the pre-human creatures

01:19:41and genetically modify them

01:19:43and create

01:19:45what has become

01:19:46homo sapiens

01:19:47with our technology today

01:19:49we could pick

01:19:50a near-senient creature

01:19:53and start doing

01:19:54genetic modifications on it

01:19:55and create

01:19:56a new-senient race

01:19:58in addition

01:20:01to genetically

01:20:02modifying the human body

01:20:03in order to make it

01:20:05better suited

01:20:05for space travel

01:20:06and colonization

01:20:07many experts propose

01:20:09that there will also

01:20:10need to be

01:20:11a merging of man

01:20:12and machine

01:20:13genetically modified

01:20:16space colonists

01:20:17they argue

01:20:17will have to be fitted

01:20:19with biomechatronic parts

01:20:21in order to create

01:20:22a human

01:20:23that is smarter

01:20:24faster

01:20:25stronger

01:20:26and more durable

01:20:27I've been talking

01:20:30with some scientists

01:20:31and they say

01:20:32the next thing

01:20:33that's going to be coming

01:20:35is the cyborg evolution

01:20:37of humanity

01:20:39for those that are going

01:20:40to go into space

01:20:41we have this Hollywood image

01:20:45that the aliens

01:20:46are going to land

01:20:46and they're going to come out

01:20:48looking someone like us

01:20:49and they'll say

01:20:50take us to your leader

01:20:51earth man

01:20:52but I think

01:20:53it could be quite different

01:20:55they could be part robotic

01:20:56realize that they could be

01:20:58thousands of years

01:21:00more advanced than us

01:21:01if there is a culture

01:21:03out there

01:21:04that's more advanced than us

01:21:05they've already built

01:21:06these robotic bodies

01:21:07why wait for them

01:21:09to come to us

01:21:10we have to become

01:21:11a huge spacefaring culture

01:21:13a civilization

01:21:14to go out

01:21:15and answer these questions

01:21:16for ourselves

01:21:17instead of just sitting

01:21:18on our hands

01:21:19and waiting for them

01:21:20to give us the answer

01:21:21some day

01:21:22in finding ways

01:21:24to modify the human body

01:21:26is mankind

01:21:27really going

01:21:29where no one

01:21:30has gone before

01:21:31or are we simply

01:21:34fulfilling our destiny

01:21:35one that stretches back

01:21:37to the very beginnings

01:21:38of human life

01:21:39here on earth

01:21:40as far as ancient

01:21:43astronaut theorists

01:21:44are concerned

01:21:45the more humans

01:21:47venture into space

01:21:48the closer they will be

01:21:49to discovering

01:21:50their true origins

01:21:52not on earth

01:21:53but on an alien world

01:21:55far

01:21:56far away

01:21:57I think that one

01:22:01of the most important

01:22:02contributions

01:22:03of ancient astronaut theory

01:22:04is the realization

01:22:05that we're reinventing

01:22:07technology today

01:22:08that existed

01:22:09in the ancient world

01:22:10you know

01:22:11and King Solomon

01:22:12once said

01:22:12there's nothing new

01:22:14under the sun

01:22:14and it's like

01:22:16everything that we

01:22:17are inventing today

01:22:18existed

01:22:19in ancient times

01:22:20right

01:22:21and if the visitors

01:22:22from back then

01:22:23would be able to see

01:22:24what we've accomplished

01:22:25today

01:22:26I think they would be

01:22:27mightily proud

01:22:28because that is

01:22:29exactly what they wanted

01:22:31for us to achieve

01:22:34a high level

01:22:35of technology

01:22:36to one day

01:22:38leave this planet

01:22:39to go out there

01:22:41to explore outer space

01:22:42I tamb

01:22:43want to

01:22:53as believe us

01:22:56I think this is for sure

01:22:57it looks like

01:22:57what earth

01:22:58might be

01:22:58exciting

01:22:58but it's amazing

01:22:59to the universe

01:23:00but it was so funny

01:23:00but it definitely

01:23:00came back to us

01:23:01as an inspiration

01:23:02as an accessible

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