Ancient Aliens- Origins - Season 2 Episode 09- Alien Reinventions
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00:00:00in high-tech arsenals and mythical technologies rediscovered through cutting-edge science
00:00:06for nearly two decades ancient aliens has traveled the globe exploring towering megalithic
00:00:15structures mysterious artifacts and stories of otherworldly beings in a quest for evidence
00:00:23that might reveal the truth of our extraterrestrial origins we're reinventing technology today that
00:00:31existed in the ancient world now we take a look back through the ancient aliens archives
00:00:37to the show's very origins to examine the evidence that we are not alone we have never been alone
00:00:53as an ancient astronaut theorist i find it fascinating how many ancient stories of devices
00:01:00sound eerily similar to modern-day technology yeah you can find detailed descriptions of flying
00:01:08machines energy beam weapons and even acoustic levitation technology yeah so you have to ask
00:01:13are the technologies that we're developing today reinventions of what existed on our planet thousands
00:01:19of years ago we talked about this in a season two episode of ancient aliens called alien tech
00:01:24in the early morning hours of november 5th 2005 the luxury cruise ship the seaborne spirit
00:01:35found itself under attack by pirates in the waters off the coast of somalia
00:01:41but the somali bandits were successfully repelled by relatively new and formidable
00:01:48defensive weapon a long-range acoustic device or l-rad manufactured by the l-rad 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
00:02:05the u.s. army use sonic weapons in iraq
00:02:12the u.s. army use sonic weapons in iraq they're used in crowd control there's certain types of low rumbles and signals that will affect a person that make you feel sick the l-rad is currently used by law enforcement the military and private security
00:02:20and is considered the ultimate in sonic weaponry
00:02:27and is considered the ultimate in sonic weaponry
00:02:35but is the l-rad really a 21st century invention
00:02:42or is there evidence that similar audio weapons existed in ancient times
00:02:50approximately 17 miles northeast of jerusalem
00:02:56lies the ancient ruins of the city of jericho
00:03:03here archaeologists have uncovered evidence of settlements dating back to 9000 b.c.
00:03:10according to the hebrew bible
00:03:12jericho 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 and 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
00:03:45but this time they blew the ram's horns
00:03:50the walls of jericho fell
00:03:52and the city was sacked
00:04:02in the old testament you see very clear descriptions in joshua 6 about the shofar
00:04:08which is described as a trumpet that was used in the battle of jericho to actually bring the walls down
00:04:14to religious scholars the collapse of jericho's walls was a miracle
00:04:21to most modern day scientists and historians the destruction was most probably caused by an earthquake
00:04:29but could it have been something else
00:04:33could the israelites have possessed advanced sound wave technology
00:04:38sound wave technology
00:04:40if so
00:04:41where did it come from
00:04:43in the scriptures we have a fascinating story about the fall of the walls of jericho
00:04:48armies were told to circle the wall repeatedly and then finally blow their horns and down came the walls
00:04:54and we know there was a powerful presence the ark of the covenant
00:04:58this mysterious sacred item was with them at all times which of course was part of the event and part of the fall of the walls of jericho
00:05:05the idea that some kind of sonic weapon was used to destroy these huge thick ancient walls to allow the israelites to basically take over that city is a fascinating one
00:05:20so what kind of technology were they're using it sounds utterly fantastic to us that they could have had some kind of advanced alien technology
00:05:35it's clearly what they're describing
00:05:39there is little doubt that the ark of the covenant was a weapon it was described as a weapon famously when the israelites crossed over into canaan
00:05:52they had to pass by jericho
00:05:56and it could be that there was some technology
00:06:00we do not know what that technology was but there was clearly an association between the ark and the falling down of the walls
00:06:08and that's the reason that the ark was sent around the periphery of the city
00:06:19according 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
00:06:35and would have provided the kind of power necessary to amplify joshua's horns and make them into a powerful sonic weapon
00:06:42what's interesting about the battle of jericho is that this particular use of the shofar
00:06:49clearly seems to be the same thing that we're seeing with particle beam technology
00:06:54death ray technology thunderbolt technology
00:06:58it very clearly seems that once again we have an extraterrestrial technology that the ancient people had at the ready
00:07:05that they could use when needed for military campaigns
00:07:09but even if the israelites possessed some sort of advanced extraterrestrial technology
00:07:17could the amplified sound of ram's horns really bring down stone walls
00:07:25according to scientist and former astronaut professor taylor wang
00:07:30recent research into the field of physical acoustics
00:07:34suggests it is a distinct possibility
00:07:37jericho wall breaking apart
00:07:40if you said it has happened
00:07:42caused by acoustic
00:07:44caused by sound
00:07:45well what possibility has to be somehow a resonance is built in that wall
00:07:52may not be the whole wall
00:07:54may be some of the structural material
00:07:56when the resonance happens
00:07:58amplitude gets large enough
00:07:59yes it could destroy almost anything
00:08:02because what the resonance does is store enormous amount of energy
00:08:06so you keep on feeding it
00:08:08eventually it shatters everything
00:08:14when you want to know how powerful sound is
00:08:16you have to realize that the basic thing that sound is
00:08:18is a pressure wave
00:08:19and it will come down to the amount of energy you put into your sound wave
00:08:22and whether or not that particular pressure wave you generate
00:08:27will couple or impact the thing you're trying to destroy
00:08:30you can make it quite powerful because you can make a very high amplitude
00:08:37very large pressures in the sound
00:08:39it might be at a frequency or amplitude where we no longer hear it as sound
00:08:42but from a physics point of view it is still sound because it's a pressure wave in the air
00:08:46so it can get quite destructive if you put enough energy into it
00:08:53you could also think of it as a particle weapon because you're moving air around
00:08:56and you would just need something to focus the sound which we know how to do
00:09:00and so that would give you a directed energy beam with sound
00:09:03but if as ancient astronaut theorists suggest
00:09:07early civilizations had been able to harness the power of sound for destructive purposes
00:09:13could there be evidence that such technology might also have been used for a more constructive purpose?
00:09:21might it help to explain the existence of mammoth stone structures
00:09:28whose construction has baffled modern scientists for centuries?
00:09:34mycene
00:09:41in the second millennium bc
00:09:43this ancient fortress city dominated much of southern greece
00:09:47here
00:09:51fortifications were built in a style known as cyclopean masonry
00:09:55where huge limestone boulders were fitted tightly together without the use of mortar
00:10:05the term cyclopean refers to the fact that according to ancient myths
00:10:10these mycenean fortifications were thought to be the work of a strong one-eyed race of giants
00:10:16known as the cyclops
00:10:18when you look at mycenean greece you're confronted with an anomalous civilization really
00:10:26it is a city which people who looked at it said only the cyclops could have built it
00:10:31the cyclops is perhaps not by coincidence a mythical creature
00:10:36so we really are confronted with the fact that people are saying
00:10:41mankind could not have built this it has to have been something above or other than man who has constructed these walls
00:10:48and when you look at the fact that tons and tons and tons of stones have been used
00:10:53in a way that really defies almost gravity
00:10:56and i think that's why we have to say that mycene is definitely beyond the human capability of that specific time and that specific period in greek history
00:11:07in mycene greece
00:11:11in mycene greece there is what's called the treasury of atreyu
00:11:17and right in there there is one stone that has been hoisted over the entrance of that treasury
00:11:24and it weighs an estimated 250 tons
00:11:30it is perfect just unbelievable
00:11:35now we would have difficulties today
00:11:38moving that stuff around
00:11:40now i'm not saying that we today cannot do it
00:11:43i'm not saying that
00:11:45but if we're struggling
00:11:47with our modern technology
00:11:50is it really logical to suggest
00:11:53that our ancestors did this
00:11:55with pivots
00:11:57and with little ropes
00:11:59and with wooden rollers
00:12:02you look at all these ancient structures all over the world
00:12:05mayan structures
00:12:07pyramids
00:12:08greek temples
00:12:09you see all of these blocks that are not only enormous
00:12:13it would be impossible to move them around with anything but even our best technology today
00:12:17one of the great enigmas of the megalithic buildings around the world is 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 such as the stones at balbec in lebanon where you have just mind bogglingly huge stones that weigh in some cases over a thousand tons
00:12:49but just how could ancient man have built such colossal structures were 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
00:13:12for ancient astronaut theorists
00:13:14the key might be found
00:13:16not by studying the laws of physics
00:13:18but by exploring the interdisciplinary science of acoustics
00:13:23and the principle of acoustic levitation
00:13:27acoustic levitation is another way that alien civilizations may have influenced our history
00:13:33and there is some evidence for that
00:13:36especially when you look at some of the research that's been done in acoustic levitation here in laboratories
00:13:52this system is acoustic positioning device
00:13:55and what happens inside we create the acoustic force field
00:14:00the force field is pushing everything toward the center
00:14:03and the force field can rotate
00:14:06the force field can oscillate
00:14:07this ball is fairly light material
00:14:10it's about 10 grams no more
00:14:12it meant to be light
00:14:14but if you want to move the very heavy object
00:14:17a large object
00:14:18which you really have to develop in conjunction with the acoustic positioning device
00:14:23it's anti-gravity device
00:14:25because acoustic positioning device really meant to a fine-tuning of the force field
00:14:31but the system must be force free
00:14:34otherwise it won't be budged
00:14:38but is it possible that early builders had access to the kind of acoustic technology
00:14:44that would allow for the transportation and 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
00:14:59handed down throughout time
00:15:01there are many ancient legends which suggest that some of the monuments were built with the help of acoustic levitation
00:15:09what the local legend of Stonehenge talks about
00:15:15is that those big stones were transported by way of levitation by none other than Merlin the wizard
00:15:26and he had a magical rod with which he pointed at the stones and they would levitate and position into place
00:15:35it's a very fascinating story because we know that some of these stones have been transported there from as far away as 200 miles
00:15:46and ancient legends are a bridge to finding what truly happened in our past
00:15:56there are lots of stories of stones being levitated all using the power of sound
00:16:02it's interesting as you read these stories of magic that you see that they have to use the chanting
00:16:08they have to chant certain spells certain words
00:16:11certain vibrational frequencies seem to create certain effects in the physical realm
00:16:17to me it makes complete sense that the use of a technology say a magic wand of some kind would be some sort of amplifier
00:16:25I mean there's no way that human beings even 100,000 of them could pull these things
00:16:35they've done experiments by putting hands around blocks
00:16:40you can't get enough hands in there
00:16:42you can't get 200,000 hands to lift a block
00:16:46and once you roll it with all these people how do you move it?
00:16:50I think the technology had to do with some kind of sound and they were able to just come up with some anti-gravity and just move them into place
00:17:02but did ancient aliens using anti-gravity and sonic levitation technology help early humans build the ancient wonders of the world?
00:17:12well everything is possible
00:17:14we have no way to rule in or rule out aliens
00:17:18because human technology is very primitive at this stage
00:17:22and you look at earth has only survived 4 billion years
00:17:26but there are planets billions and billions of years ahead of us
00:17:30their technology and their knowledge can be so far ahead of us that we can't even imagine
00:17:35if early civilizations did possess the ability to levitate large solid objects
00:17:45might they also have had access to other incredible technologies?
00:17:50ancient astronaut theorists say yes
00:17:53and suggest the evidence can be found by examining a towering megalithic structure built with extraordinary precision
00:18:03the great pyramid of Giza
00:18:10the megalithic structures of the ancient world are astounding feats of engineering
00:18:14and many like the pyramids of Giza are not just enormous but they're built with incredible precision
00:18:20oh absolutely and when you're talking about moving 5 ton stone blocks and stacking them hundreds of feet in the air
00:18:27that doesn't just require engineering but also technology
00:18:32yeah and some researchers have suggested that the pyramids themselves are technological devices
00:18:37we talked about this in the very first episode of ancient aliens
00:18:43of all the ancient structures located around the world
00:18:47perhaps none is more mysterious or as enduring
00:18:50as the great pyramid at Giza
00:18:55at a height of 471 feet
00:18:58the great pyramid stood as the tallest structure in the world
00:19:01until the completion of the Eiffel Tower in 1889
00:19:06but while other pyramids and temples
00:19:08contain walls filled with hieroglyphics describing their purpose
00:19:11the great pyramid lacks even a single marking
00:19:15what was its function
00:19:18why was it built
00:19:19and what secrets remain hidden inside
00:19:23nobody has been able to explain the interior design of this pyramid
00:19:26it simply doesn't make sense according to our logic
00:19:29you have narrow tunnels that you have to crouch
00:19:32you emerge in grand galleries that are 9 meters high
00:19:35you have chambers that made of granite where granite doesn't come from in the air
00:19:41you have to ship the granite by barges 600 miles away
00:19:46it's an anonymous site
00:19:49not a single inscription
00:19:51not a single hieroglyph
00:19:53not a single anything
00:19:55it's just there
00:19:57some people speculated that it was a temple
00:20:03and the initiation chamber where people would go to the king's chamber and become enlightened
00:20:09there are anecdotal reports about people who have been inside the pyramid and have come out absolutely shaken
00:20:14because it was haunted
00:20:16Egyptologists believe that pyramids were built to bury the dead pharaoh
00:20:29the problem with the accepted view is the fact that not a single dead pharaoh's body has been found inside a pyramid
00:20:35even when the pyramid was completely sealed i.e. not a single grave robber could have ended it
00:20:43the Egyptology said to conceal the body
00:20:46well, why advertise it?
00:20:49I mean, there's nothing more visible than a pyramid for miles
00:20:55and to this day you would have thought in this modern age
00:20:58with all the knowledge we have
00:21:00we should be able to explain this pyramid
00:21:02we cannot explain this pyramid
00:21:04engineering expert Christopher Dunn
00:21:08has been on a personal quest
00:21:10to unlock the secrets of the Great Pyramid
00:21:12since the late 1970s
00:21:15according to him
00:21:16there are specific clues in the design and construction
00:21:19of this mega monument
00:21:21that can help answer exactly why it was built
00:21:26when you look at the Great Pyramid
00:21:28and look at the culture that built it
00:21:30there are brilliant, brilliant engineers
00:21:32in fact a lot of engineers say we couldn't build the Great Pyramid today
00:21:35and it was built supposedly 4500 years ago
00:21:38and it was built to the precision of a machine
00:21:42when I started to do the research and I examined the Great Pyramid
00:21:48with the eye of a functionality
00:21:50it was built like a machine
00:21:54perhaps it functioned like a machine
00:21:58the interior design of the Great Pyramid
00:22:00features four inclined air shafts
00:22:02emanating from the king's chamber
00:22:04and the lower queen's chamber
00:22:06like the Great Pyramid itself
00:22:08their presence and purpose
00:22:10cannot be easily explained
00:22:12The difficulty of building those shafts is incredible
00:22:16it's a bit like building a chimney
00:22:18at an incline across the house
00:22:20I mean as a construction reactor
00:22:21it's a nightmare
00:22:22In 2002
00:22:24a team of engineers
00:22:26and Egyptologists
00:22:27sent a small robot
00:22:29into one of the air shafts
00:22:30connected to the queen's chamber
00:22:32after 65 meters
00:22:34a stone door blocked its path
00:22:36a hole was then drilled through it
00:22:40on the other side was a small room
00:22:42with yet another door
00:22:44leading further up the shaft
00:22:48Since the discovery of the door
00:22:50we've had every university
00:22:52archaeologists, anthropologists
00:22:54every engineer you can think of
00:22:56nobody has been able to explain
00:22:58the purpose of these shafts
00:23:00But were these shafts ever open?
00:23:02and 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 were coated
00:23:12with a layer of salt
00:23:14that kind of gelled with a theory
00:23:18that I had developed
00:23:20you had a dilute hydrochloric acid solution
00:23:23coming 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
00:23:32they created hydrogen
00:23:34hydrogen
00:23:36it is one of the most powerful energy sources
00:23:38in the universe
00:23:40in the mid 19th century
00:23:42it was hydrogen gas
00:23:44that helped lift some of mankind's first airships
00:23:46called zeppelins
00:23:48into the sky
00:23:50today, it is used as a fuel
00:23:52to launch rockets into space
00:23:54and if
00:23:56thousands of years ago
00:23:58the Great Pyramid was actually producing hydrogen
00:24:00that would make it
00:24:02one of the earliest power plants known to man
00:24:04The Giza power plant theory
00:24:08is essentially
00:24:10the drawing of energy
00:24:12from the earth
00:24:14through the Great Pyramid
00:24:16and converting that energy
00:24:18into microwave energy
00:24:20so the chemicals
00:24:22actually come in through the shafts
00:24:24into the queen's chamber
00:24:26and then they combine and mix
00:24:28and hydrogen boils up
00:24:30the hydrogen is then lighter than air
00:24:32and it will flow into all the upper chambers
00:24:34the energy from the earth
00:24:38is then vibrating the whole pyramid
00:24:40the vibrations are picked up in the grand gallery
00:24:44so I proposed the grand gallery
00:24:48was a resonator hall
00:24:50and there were 27 pair of slots
00:24:52that actually go up the length of the gallery
00:24:55and then the resonators were mounted in there vertically
00:24:59Christopher Dunn is theorizing
00:25:02that with resonating galleries
00:25:05the pyramid shot a microwave
00:25:07out of one of the shafts
00:25:09and once you started up this power plant
00:25:12it would have gone on for years
00:25:15decades
00:25:16even hundreds of years
00:25:17without stopping
00:25:18and creating the microwave
00:25:19and that was a usable energy
00:25:21that could be captured
00:25:23now we can speculate
00:25:25where it goes from there
00:25:26it could be collected
00:25:28in the immediate vicinity
00:25:29or it could
00:25:30keep traveling off into space
00:25:32we don't know
00:25:33that's the mystery
00:25:35but if the great pyramid
00:25:38was actually a power plant
00:25:40producing energy
00:25:41was it doing it
00:25:43alone
00:25:44or was it part
00:25:45of a larger network
00:25:47and are there any clues
00:25:49that could tell us
00:25:50what all of that energy
00:25:52was being used for
00:26:03perhaps the 20th century's most influential inventor
00:26:06was a Serbian-American named Nikola Tesla
00:26:09his patents on alternating electrical currents and distribution
00:26:16helped establish the commercial electricity industry
00:26:19he also made contributions to robotics
00:26:23radar
00:26:25and computer science
00:26:27but while Tesla can be credited for many scientific advances
00:26:35one idea that fell short
00:26:37was his attempt to create a wireless electrical grid
00:26:40Tesla's project was to have these towers around the United States and around the world
00:26:48they would broadcast electricity like a television station
00:26:55instead of having to string power lines all over the place
00:27:01you just transmit the energy through the air or through the ground
00:27:05there were a number of demonstrations of this device for wireless power transmission during Tesla's lifetime
00:27:16so we know the device worked
00:27:18it appears that he was using the conductivity of the ground or the air to carry the electric current
00:27:30basically in the air if you put enough voltage on it you'll get an arc across it
00:27:35you see that all the time in a fluorescent light bulb
00:27:40in the ground you have water, minerals, salts
00:27:43that can also carry the ions along
00:27:45and therefore carry the electric current
00:27:50but while Tesla's power towers proved popular in theory
00:27:54the project ended in financial failure
00:27:57but could Tesla's idea of wireless electricity have been a rediscovery
00:28:03of an ancient technology
00:28:05I believe that what Tesla was doing was trying to recreate what was an ancient power system
00:28:21that was used around the world
00:28:23and the way they did this was the use of obelisks
00:28:27obelisks
00:28:34obelisks as monolithic granite towers which are one solid piece of crystal
00:28:42and the obelisks themselves were cut to special sizes and tuned like a tuning fork
00:28:49could these ancient broadcast towers really have sent electricity up into the atmosphere
00:28:56and if so how was the electricity generated
00:29:01each of these obelisks would have required some kind of generating power station
00:29:08similar to what we have today
00:29:10electricity is created by rotating magnetic fields
00:29:14so rotating magnetic fields generate AC power
00:29:18the very first power station was built by Nikola Tesla at Niagara Falls
00:29:24you've got to have some sort of power that's spinning the rotating fields
00:29:30and in this case would be water
00:29:33so every obelisk would have had to have had a power station
00:29:36similar to like the one at Niagara Falls
00:29:39it's generating power but the obelisk itself is putting the power into the atmosphere
00:29:45making it usable
00:29:46and this is similar to Christopher Dunn's theory of the Giza power plant
00:29:51because he believes that the great pyramid was actually sending a microwave beam to a satellite
00:29:58that was in orbit around the planet
00:30:01that satellite then could have been taking microwave power
00:30:08and then it could transmit it again in theory
00:30:11to some other location on the earth such as say remote island like Easter Island or something like that
00:30:18from some of the descriptions of ancient flying machines
00:30:22it's possible that some form of power beaming might have been used
00:30:29and in fact for a lot of the schemes that you see
00:30:33it actually would make a lot of sense
00:30:35because you could put the power beaming station on a mother ship in orbit
00:30:41you're just beaming energy to the vehicle
00:30:45where it's absorbed and turned into propulsion thrust
00:30:48it actually makes a lot of sense
00:30:51because you're taking the energy system
00:30:54the power system off of the vehicle
00:30:57and locating it remotely
00:30:59were our ancestors capable of these incredible achievements
00:31:06or might they have come from another source
00:31:09one much more out of this world
00:31:12civilizations went much more advanced than we give them credit
00:31:19and literally as advanced as we are today
00:31:23in my view we need to take this seriously
00:31:29simply because of the scale of the work
00:31:31we're looking at monuments that took perhaps a century to build
00:31:35even today we have difficulty in considering such a project
00:31:39just boggles the mind
00:31:41and really to look at those artifacts
00:31:44and to go back in time and say
00:31:46how did they do it
00:31:48we are kind of cracking the lid open a little bit
00:31:50and looking inside to try and see just what happened in our history
00:31:56it's a question which is a scientific question
00:31:58and you constantly have to ask it
00:32:00and the possible answer of have aliens visited in the past
00:32:04could be a potential yes
00:32:06we can look at these ancient monuments
00:32:12and finally recognize that all of this stuff
00:32:15was built as a message for us to see
00:32:19that our past is way different
00:32:22than what we're being taught in school
00:32:25could it really be that our remote past
00:32:31was powered not by primitive tools
00:32:34but by electricity
00:32:36and if so
00:32:37are pyramids and obelisks
00:32:39what remain of this forgotten technology
00:32:42as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned
00:32:46the answer is a resounding yes
00:32:49and they suggest there is evidence
00:32:52that our ancestors had access not only to wireless power
00:32:56but even nuclear energy
00:33:04people were able to generate massive amounts of energy
00:33:07and it's not just in Egypt where we find evidence of this
00:33:10right in ancient India for example
00:33:13you have these mysterious stone sculptures known as shiva lingams
00:33:16and some Hindu scholars have proposed that based on ancient Vedic traditions
00:33:22that these might represent some type of nuclear power
00:33:25right and there are thousands of these shiva lingam sculptures throughout
00:33:29not just India but Asia as well
00:33:31we talked about this in a 2016 episode called Shiva the Destroyer
00:33:35Circe India
00:33:4010 miles outside of this city in the southwestern state of Karnataka
00:33:46within the river Chalmala
00:33:48is one of the country's most popular pilgrimage sites
00:33:52Sahasralingha
00:33:54hidden under these waters for most of the year
00:33:59lie stone sculptures known as shiva lingams
00:34:03these sacred idols are representations of the god shiva
00:34:08and are visible to thousands of pilgrims once a year
00:34:12at the festival of Mahasivaratri
00:34:15Mahasivaratri is a festival where shiva is worshipped
00:34:20for his great nature
00:34:22Mahasivaratri is usually held
00:34:26in the end of February or beginning of March
00:34:29during that month the water level of the Salmala river drops down
00:34:34so that all the shiva lingas are exposed
00:34:40She was depicted as the shiva linga
00:34:42as kind of a spherical column
00:34:44the flaming pillar that is the cosmic axis of the universe
00:34:48Every shiva linga that's in worship is set into a yoni
00:34:55This is a special base and it actually serves kind of a utility of function
00:35:01It's a spout so that when you pour offerings over the surface of the linga
00:35:05they wash over the sacred body
00:35:07Images of the shiva linga are found throughout Southeast Asia
00:35:11even in parts of East Asia
00:35:13Sometimes images of shiva as the lingam also made its way into China
00:35:18and into Japan
00:35:23The shiva lingam first appeared over 2,000 years ago
00:35:29and there is still debate over what this shape was originally meant to symbolize
00:35:38But ancient astronaut theorists suggest
00:35:41that the icon may represent an incredibly powerful technological device
00:35:51Paris, France 1900
00:35:54At the Paris Congress of History of Religions
00:35:57Swami Vivekananda
00:35:59a scientist and monk
00:36:01credited with popularizing Hinduism in the West
00:36:04gives a lecture addressing the meaning of the shiva lingam
00:36:10For centuries Western scholars have assumed that the shiva linga
00:36:13has purely a sexual connotation
00:36:15The cylinder is the male phallic symbol
00:36:17and the yoni is the complementary female symbol
00:36:20Then in 1900
00:36:22the Hindu scholar Swami Vivekananda
00:36:24came to Paris
00:36:25to deliver a major lecture
00:36:27about Hinduism and symbolism
00:36:29During this lecture
00:36:30he said that the shiva linga
00:36:32actually symbolizes
00:36:33the coming in or going out
00:36:35of the divine manifesting energy of shiva
00:36:40It stands for energy
00:36:42and it has often been misrepresented
00:36:44in the West
00:36:45that it is simply a phallic symbol
00:36:47of shiva
00:36:48which is not the case
00:36:49it is obviously a pillar
00:36:51because linga means a pillar
00:36:55Modern Hindu scholars have theorized
00:36:57that the shiva linga stone
00:36:59actually represents atomic energy
00:37:01When we think about this idea
00:37:04of what atomic energy can do
00:37:06how it can be used for good
00:37:08but it can be extraordinarily destructive
00:37:10this certainly pertains to the mythology of shiva
00:37:12who is chaotic energy
00:37:15who is a force for incredible good
00:37:17but also a force for incredible destruction
00:37:24Is it possible that this symbol of shiva's power
00:37:27actually represents atomic energy?
00:37:30Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
00:37:33and suggest the proof can be found
00:37:36by examining this mysterious shape
00:37:40The cylindrical structure of the shiva linga
00:37:43is similar or almost identical
00:37:46to a modern day nuclear reactor
00:37:51and the groove that surrounds the base
00:37:53represents the structures built
00:37:55to dispose off the polluted water
00:37:58In ancient times and even today
00:38:02Hindus pour water or milk
00:38:04on top of shiva linga
00:38:06as a ritual
00:38:07Today we pour water
00:38:10over the top of nuclear reactor
00:38:13to cool it
00:38:16And interestingly
00:38:18most shiva temples
00:38:20are always found near water bodies
00:38:23like rivers or lakes
00:38:25just like nuclear power plants
00:38:28So is it possible
00:38:30that shiva linga
00:38:32actually represents
00:38:33an ancient nuclear power plant?
00:38:40In the story of shiva
00:38:42and the shiva linga
00:38:43we're obviously dealing with
00:38:45some kind of a universal or cosmic power
00:38:47that we didn't fully understand
00:38:49until the 20th century
00:38:51with the discovery of nuclear power
00:38:53and nuclear fission
00:38:56These discoveries
00:38:57that predate modern man
00:38:58are completely changing
00:39:00our conception of the ancient past
00:39:02and connecting us
00:39:03to the true history of humanity
00:39:08Does the shiva linga
00:39:09symbolize an extraterrestrial technology
00:39:12that once existed on earth?
00:39:16If so
00:39:17might modern science
00:39:18be less about invention
00:39:20and more about remembrance
00:39:24Perhaps further evidence
00:39:25can be found
00:39:26by exploring
00:39:27the technological ambitions
00:39:29that have propelled us
00:39:30into space
00:39:37If you want evidence
00:39:38that our modern technology
00:39:39is reinventing
00:39:40what existed on this planet
00:39:42thousands of years ago
00:39:43just look at all the ancient accounts
00:39:45of flight
00:39:46so many cultures
00:39:47describe flying machines
00:39:49that you have to believe
00:39:50our ancestors
00:39:51actually witnessed
00:39:52these things
00:39:53Yeah, you have
00:39:54chariots of fire
00:39:55described in the Bible
00:39:56the manas
00:39:57in ancient Hindu texts
00:39:59and we have
00:40:00countless stories
00:40:01of fire-breathing dragons
00:40:03Right
00:40:04and when I hear stories
00:40:05of fire-breathing dragons
00:40:06then my ears perk up
00:40:07because
00:40:08if you witness
00:40:09a rocket launch
00:40:11or you see
00:40:12a jet streak across the sky
00:40:14what do you see
00:40:15coming out of its back?
00:40:16Fire!
00:40:19Merritt Island, Florida
00:40:21The Kennedy Space Center
00:40:23Six Earth astronauts
00:40:26sit atop
00:40:27NASA's
00:40:28Endeavour Space Shuttle
00:40:29headed for orbit
00:40:30After countdown
00:40:32three main engines
00:40:34together with
00:40:35two solid rocket boosters
00:40:37provide the thrust
00:40:38to lift the orbiter
00:40:39off the ground
00:40:40for its ascent
00:40:43and lift off
00:40:44of 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
00:40:55a life-altering moment
00:40:57when you stand there
00:40:58a few miles away
00:41:00you can still feel the power
00:41:03as that rocket
00:41:04takes off into space
00:41:07the grumbling in your stomach
00:41:09the vibrations
00:41:10and you can hear the noise
00:41:12and it's a truly magnificent sight
00:41:14and awe-inspiring
00:41:18but are manned space flights
00:41:20really a recent phenomenon
00:41:22or could our ancient ancestors
00:41:25have witnessed similar events?
00:41:30There is no doubt
00:41:31that if we thoroughly investigate
00:41:33this planet
00:41:34they will find that this planet
00:41:36may have already been to the moon
00:41:39way before we went to the moon
00:41:41with a man in 1969
00:41:43the interesting thing is
00:41:46that we have the exact same descriptions
00:41:49in ancient texts
00:41:51and also in oral traditions
00:41:53where whenever those
00:41:55quote-unquote gods appeared
00:41:58there was a lot of smoke
00:42:00a lot of fire
00:42:01a lot of noise
00:42:03and the trembling of the ground
00:42:05when rockets are taking off
00:42:06when rockets are taking off
00:42:08it's best to stand back
00:42:10and get out of the way
00:42:12and that's a lot of what the ancient legends
00:42:15are about too
00:42:16when the gods came and went
00:42:18may well have been
00:42:19just these rockets
00:42:20or other aerospace vehicles
00:42:22landing and taking off
00:42:23and making a lot of smoke
00:42:25and noise
00:42:26but could early man
00:42:29really have had knowledge
00:42:30of rocket technology?
00:42:33to make their case
00:42:34ancient astronaut theorists
00:42:36point to numerous and consistent descriptions
00:42:38of rockets
00:42:40found throughout many cultures
00:42:41of the ancient world
00:42:42when you're dealing with this subject
00:42:43and you look at the ancient literature
00:42:44you have to look at it
00:42:45through the lens of
00:42:47how was it being experienced
00:42:49by a civilization
00:42:51with no foundation
00:42:52for understanding the science
00:42:53the technology
00:42:54and so I think in ancient times
00:42:55there were people
00:42:56who had encounters
00:42:57and however I think the way
00:43:00they might have been reported
00:43:01would have been in metaphors
00:43:02in ways that would have made sense to them
00:43:04in China you have these stories
00:43:07of dragons flying through the air
00:43:10they make a lot of noise
00:43:12and smoke comes out of them
00:43:13and fire just like a rocket
00:43:16the first emperor of China
00:43:30descended in a fiery dragon
00:43:34with smoke and fire
00:43:36and whenever that dragon appeared
00:43:38the earth was quaking
00:43:40and everyone was afraid
00:43:42and threw themselves to the ground
00:43:45now of course it wasn't a dragon
00:43:48in a biological nature
00:43:50a living being
00:43:51but it was a misinterpreted machine
00:43:58if you look at the Greek gods
00:44:00they were all described as
00:44:02flying in on chariots of fire
00:44:04well chariot of fire to me
00:44:06seems very clearly like it's some sort of rocket
00:44:09probably burning its retros as it lands
00:44:12somewhere in ancient Greece
00:44:14in the Old Testament
00:44:17we can read about a glowing furnace
00:44:21that descended from the sky
00:44:24and sometimes this glowing furnace
00:44:26is described as a chariot of fire
00:44:29or as the glory of the Lord
00:44:32so there are all these different descriptions
00:44:35which in the ancient astronaut opinion
00:44:38describe ancient rocketry
00:44:41from 5000 to 2000 BC
00:44:46southern Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerians
00:44:51a highly advanced civilization
00:44:53considered to be among the first astronomers
00:44:56regarded as one of the oldest written stories in history
00:45:00the epic of Gilgamesh
00:45:02told of a man's journey to the heavens
00:45:05to meet the god Anu
00:45:08the Gilgamesh epic
00:45:09which goes back to the Sumerian
00:45:11that's a piece where the hero Gilgamesh
00:45:15flies over the earth
00:45:18and he describes how the earth looks from above
00:45:20fascinating
00:45:21an old story of the first flight
00:45:23the most ancient civilization that we have on record
00:45:26the Sumerian culture
00:45:28has left us evidence of what's called a Shem
00:45:32and this object looks very similar to a modern day space capsule
00:45:36that we place on top of a rocket
00:45:38and this Shem is where priests would go into the Shem
00:45:43to interact with the gods
00:45:45or any time man was ascending or descending into heaven
00:45:48so it's a very interesting term
00:45:50used from a culture dating back to 3800 BC
00:45:54and very clearly matches the descriptions of a modern day rocket
00:45:57Could early man have actually possessed a surprisingly sophisticated understanding
00:46:06of what we now call rocket propulsion?
00:46:14In the first century AD
00:46:16nearly 2000 years before the industrial revolution
00:46:20a Greek mathematician and engineer named Hiro
00:46:23created a steam powered engine he called an Eola Pile
00:46:29One of the great inventors of the ancient world
00:46:32was the famous Hiro of Alexandria
00:46:35he invented all kinds of stuff
00:46:36he actually invented what we would describe as a rocket type motor
00:46:42and really something like this is the beginnings of rocket technology
00:46:48and we don't know where Hiro got many of his ideas
00:46:51but it may well have come from aliens
00:46:59John Robert Tyndall, founder of Tyndall Vision Laboratories
00:47:03demonstrates a small scale replica of Hiro's Eola Pile
00:47:07A conventional steam engine that we think of
00:47:10has pistons that get its power
00:47:12but Eola Pile uses these opposing jets
00:47:16so it's creating thrust
00:47:19and rather than thrust like a rocket would use it in a linear fashion
00:47:22this is causing a rotational effect
00:47:24and there's your steam turbine really working off of thrust
00:47:29now this is operating much as it did in the first century AD
00:47:32this is generally considered to be the first working steam engine
00:47:36it works more like a turbine than a classic steam engine with pistons
00:47:41but it's very significant because it really is taking
00:47:44whoa, a compressed gas
00:47:47and turning it into energy
00:47:50wow, that has a lot of energy, steam
00:47:52the name for Hiro's steam rocket engine
00:47:59Eola Pile
00:48:01translates to the ball of Eolus
00:48:03in Greek mythology
00:48:05Eolus was the god of the winds
00:48:08is it possible
00:48:10that Hiro drew inspiration for his invention
00:48:13from the stories of the gods
00:48:14such as those found in Homer's The Odyssey
00:48:17or might he have had help
00:48:21from the gods themselves
00:48:24some have suggested that it was alien intervention
00:48:27that aliens taught him how to build this machine
00:48:31however, I'm leaning more towards the idea
00:48:35that he looked at older texts from previous generations
00:48:39and that the source of the idea of how to build this
00:48:46did come from extraterrestrials
00:48:49but from way before he was alive
00:48:52and he just came across those texts
00:48:55but do the descriptions of rockets and otherworldly devices
00:49:00found in ancient texts and legends
00:49:03provide evidence of extraterrestrial encounters
00:49:07in the distant past
00:49:09perhaps the answer will be discovered
00:49:12in an unlikely place
00:49:14in the hands of the US military
00:49:21some of the most compelling pieces of evidence
00:49:23we can find of advanced ancient tech
00:49:26comes in the form of descriptions of weaponry
00:49:30because some of the weapons that the so-called gods
00:49:33had in their possession
00:49:35sound eerily similar
00:49:36similar to the weapons that we are developing today
00:49:39yeah, just look at the Sanskrit texts of ancient India
00:49:43they're talking about things like missiles that detect heat or motion
00:49:47weapons of mass destruction
00:49:49even energy beams
00:49:50right
00:49:51and in ancient Greece we have accounts of a giant mirror
00:49:54that acted like some sort of death ray
00:49:57which sounds a lot like the technology that the US military is developing today
00:50:02May 2010
00:50:05May 2010
00:50:07off the coast of California
00:50:09a powerful new weapon
00:50:12shoots down unmanned aerial drones
00:50:14during secret testing carried out by the US Navy
00:50:17firing from a warship
00:50:21at a distance of nearly two miles
00:50:23a ray of intense laser energy burns through targets
00:50:28traveling at speeds of more than 300 miles per hour
00:50:31but is it possible that such so-called death rays could have been used before
00:50:38perhaps in ancient times
00:50:41I am quite convinced that there have been in the past
00:50:45advanced civilizations on earth
00:50:48that did have such things as the so-called death ray
00:50:51whether it was used as a weapon
00:50:53or whether it was just observed being used
00:50:56is a very very open question
00:50:58In 214 BC
00:51:03Greeks living in the Sicilian city of Syracuse
00:51:06prepared for an attack by a fleet of Roman warships
00:51:10though outnumbered by a superior military force
00:51:14ancient texts suggest
00:51:16that Syracuse was well defended by a mysterious and powerful new weapon
00:51:22Probably the most famous ancient death ray
00:51:26was the one that was built by the Greek inventor Archimedes
00:51:32he was able to create this giant mirror
00:51:36and parabolic disc
00:51:38and focus the sun's rays on the fleet
00:51:42and set these ships on fire
00:51:46so here we have what would be a primitive kind of death ray
00:51:50that really worked
00:51:51but how could Archimedes have conceived such a formidable weapon
00:52:00one far in advance of any known at the time
00:52:04researchers suggest
00:52:06the inventor may have drawn inspiration
00:52:09from Greek myths written nearly 600 years before the battle of Syracuse
00:52:14myths that told the stories of gods that brandished cosmic weapons
00:52:18of incredible destructive force
00:52:24If you look in the Greek tradition
00:52:26they have a very clear description of Zeus's thunderbolt
00:52:30which he was able to point at people
00:52:33or at other things that he wanted to explode
00:52:36hit the button
00:52:38and what they described as lightning would come out
00:52:40and create a fierce and terrible explosion
00:52:41when these ancient gods like Zeus were to come down from the sky
00:52:47in this flurry of thunder and lightning
00:52:52and then get out of their spacecraft
00:52:55they were perceived as gods
00:52:58these ancient aliens had fantastic technology available to them
00:53:05a technology that would have seemed like magic
00:53:08to our primitive ancestors
00:53:09so when these people came down from the sky
00:53:13and they had advanced energy weapons
00:53:16they were like gods to our ancient ancestors
00:53:19it doesn't matter where you go
00:53:22but the gods were always able to create thunder
00:53:28create lightning in a controlled way
00:53:30in ancient India
00:53:33we have the gods holding the dorges sometimes like this
00:53:38and it looks as if some type of a directed energy beam
00:53:42comes directly out of the front
00:53:44to vanquish the enemy
00:53:46to destroy him, to incinerate him
00:53:48but if death ray type weapons had been used in ancient times
00:53:56might there be some sort of tangible proof
00:54:00perhaps there is
00:54:02here, scattered throughout the Scottish countryside
00:54:07can be found numerous ancient ruins
00:54:08many appear to have been forts or other enclosures
00:54:13dating back thousands of years
00:54:15remarkably, they also appear to have been subjected to fire and heat
00:54:21so intense it practically turned the stone structures into glass
00:54:26it's a process more scientifically known as vitrification
00:54:31here you have these stone buildings
00:54:35in which an analysis of the outside
00:54:38comes to the conclusion
00:54:40that they were heated to over a thousand degrees Celsius in temperature
00:54:45conventional fire could not have reached this heat
00:54:48you needed a sustained burn
00:54:50at a thousand degrees Celsius for a long period of time
00:54:53why is it that it's only these forts
00:54:57that have this type of charring
00:54:59where they're actually glazed like pottery on the outside
00:55:02why is it that you don't see it on the stones in the surrounding area
00:55:06and even more interestingly
00:55:08why is it that so many of them are concentrated in this one little area
00:55:11in Northern Scotland
00:55:13I believe this is very clear evidence of death rays being used
00:55:15according to Celtic legend
00:55:21there once was a god named Lou
00:55:24also known as the shining one
00:55:27the sun god
00:55:29and the god of war
00:55:33like the Greek god Zeus
00:55:35Lou was said to wield a mighty magic spear
00:55:38not unlike the thunderbolts of his Greek counterpart
00:55:41we have many stories of divinities who were powerful figures who had weapons that seem extraordinary for their time
00:55:50one was the great Celtic divinity Lou who had a spear that could spit fire and lightning and do great damage
00:55:57it was an extraordinary weapon
00:55:59we don't have a great deal of detail about it but it clearly could dominate any situation he got into
00:56:02when battle was near
00:56:03when battle was near
00:56:05Lou would draw out his spear and it roared
00:56:09and then flashes of fire came out of it
00:56:13and it tore through the ranks of the enemy
00:56:17never tired of killing and slaying
00:56:19it was one amazing weapon
00:56:23it was one amazing weapon
00:56:26I mean how else can we explain all those numerous vitrified forts
00:56:32where the surface of the stone is as smooth as glass
00:56:38and these spots can only be found in very concentrated areas through Northern Scotland
00:56:46is it possible that what the Celtic legends are describing as Lou
00:56:51is in fact an alien general or other kind of extraterrestrial leader
00:56:56in possession of a devastating weapon
00:56:59all these descriptions of sophisticated weaponry
00:57:04sounds almost like science fiction
00:57:07but is it really?
00:57:09because we have those weapons today
00:57:12and I think it is merely a reinvention of history
00:57:19that all the stuff that we have today has been around before
00:57:24and that our past is not science fiction
00:57:27but science fact
00:57:31deadly laser beams
00:57:33acoustic levitation
00:57:36anti-gravity
00:57:38could these be technologies that were witnessed and even used by ancient civilizations?
00:57:48if so, were they conceived in the minds of early man?
00:57:53or did they have other worldly origins?
00:57:58perhaps further clues can be found
00:58:01by examining God-like powers
00:58:03that are now becoming our reality
00:58:06one thing that's surprisingly widespread in ancient traditions
00:58:10is the idea of cloaking technology
00:58:13and we have so many stories of gods or heroes
00:58:16having a device that makes them invisible
00:58:19yeah, like the ancient Greek story of Gygius
00:58:22he comes upon this magic ring that makes him invisible
00:58:25then he uses it to become king
00:58:26right, and this likely would have seemed like magic to our ancestors
00:58:37but today we know it was likely some type of a tech device
00:58:41because today we are developing the exact same cloaking mechanisms
00:58:45in fact, we covered this in a season 3 episode of Ancient Aliens called
00:58:50Aliens, Gods and Heroes
00:58:51Lydia, 716 B.C.
00:58:58Gyges, a shepherd in the service of King Candalis
00:59:02becomes the unlikely successor to the throne of this ancient kingdom in modern-day Turkey
00:59:08but the story of how this modest servant rose from a shepherd to a king
00:59:15is so fantastic that many scholars and historians have dismissed it as mere myth
00:59:24Gyges is out in the field and there is a terrible earthquake
00:59:27he sees a cave open, goes into that cave and sees a gold ring
00:59:37he just kind of walks into like this chamber which is like a tomb where he sees a dead body
00:59:43that's got some jewelry on it
00:59:45so he grabs this ring off of it because he's a poor man
00:59:48he puts the ring on and discovers that it gives him the power to be invisible
00:59:51here he has the kind of power a god would have
00:59:55and does he use it?
00:59:56well, actually, it's a little questionable how he uses it
01:00:00he comes up with a plan
01:00:02the next time he goes to visit the king
01:00:04he brings that ring with him
01:00:06turns himself invisible
01:00:08seduces the queen
01:00:11kills the king
01:00:13takes over the palace
01:00:16what we have here is really a multi-layered legend
01:00:21we have not only the story of the fact that somebody in the past had the cloak of invisibility
01:00:27but actually that he did not invent this
01:00:30but that this was a legacy from a race who had buried dead dead
01:00:34and that alongside these dead were artifacts which were technological
01:00:39what kind of a magical amulet or technology are we talking about here?
01:00:45is this the ring of the gods that's described by the ancient Sumerians as the ring of cosmic sovereignty?
01:00:53when I read stories like Gyges of Lydia
01:00:57who has found this ring which gave him the capability of becoming invisible
01:01:02then there are two things that I think of
01:01:05one, is it just fantasy?
01:01:08or do we have another reference here that describes misunderstood technology?
01:01:14because today researchers at Duke University are trying to develop an invisibility cloak
01:01:23Duke University engineering professor David R. Smith is the director of the Center for Metamaterial and Integrated Plasmonics
01:01:31for the past decade Smith and his team have been working to create metamaterials
01:01:38or artificial materials that are not found in nature
01:01:42just as a piece of glass can control the way light bends
01:01:46Smith has set out to prove that certain man-made materials can actually be constructed to render objects invisible
01:01:53this is actually an example of a metamaterial this is a bunch of pieces of circuit board all cut out and assemble together
01:02:04and on the circuit boards are little pieces of copper that are tiny circuits
01:02:08and each circuit has a certain response to electromagnetic radiation
01:02:11and the combination of these patterns plus the shape gives us something that we can call an invisibility cloak
01:02:19the idea behind the cloak is that it renders something inside of it invisible and itself invisible as well
01:02:25at present the device only makes objects disappear at microwave frequencies
01:02:30but Dr. Smith believes that soon this technology will also be able to make objects invisible to even the human eye
01:02:40just in the last year or two there have actually been experiments showing certain of the cloaking ideas
01:02:46transitioning to the visible spectrum red green blue those experiments are actually being done now
01:02:52we will have invisibility cloaks at some point that we could wear as humans
01:02:57I definitely think we're going to get there because science and speculative science go hand in hand
01:03:02science creates a base point speculative science pushes it farther into the future
01:03:07and that's how technology advances
01:03:12an actual cloak of invisibility
01:03:15though still in development
01:03:16researchers in Japan have designed an optical camouflage system
01:03:21that makes special reflective material seemingly disappear
01:03:25including the person wearing it
01:03:28thus bringing us closer to achieving a fully functional invisibility cloak
01:03:33like the one described in the story of Gyges
01:03:37could this mean that other seemingly far-fetched devices of fantasy
01:03:43like flying carpets
01:03:47and magic wands
01:03:49are also based on science
01:03:52and if so
01:03:54might they have been used in the ancient past
01:03:57perhaps in the hands of extraterrestrial visitors
01:04:01just because we are working on these technologies today
01:04:06does not mean that we are the first
01:04:09because we find multiple references in ancient texts that describe devices with which you were able to go invisible
01:04:24so much of our storytelling deals with the fact that what we deem to be magic can really be science at a different time
01:04:29if legendary tales like the story of King Gyges could be proven to be real
01:04:41what does it suggest about other fantastic stories of gods and titans
01:04:45and titans
01:04:50Hisserlich, Turkey
01:04:52within this archaeological site
01:04:56lie the ruins of Troy
01:04:58a place once thought by mainstream scientists to be no more than myth
01:05:03until Heinrich Schliemann unearthed its remains in 1871
01:05:07here in the 12th century B.C. the ancient Greek city was the center of the Trojan War
01:05:18a Greek battle described in Homer's Iliad
01:05:22according to the epic poem
01:05:25the goddess Athena gives King Diomedes the power of divine vision during the war
01:05:31so that he could see like the gods
01:05:33Athena comes down and she wants to help the Greeks
01:05:36so she finds Diomedes
01:05:38she says I'm going to help you out here
01:05:40so what I'm going to do is strip away this mist that's over your eyes
01:05:43right you as a human being you don't really know what's going on
01:05:46you just see battle
01:05:48but once I strip away this mist you're going to be able to see what's really going on
01:05:50which is that in addition to a battle going on there are gods fighting
01:05:54King Diomedes sees that Ares the god of war is fighting alongside his enemy Hector
01:06:00and he was not to use this site to attack the gods but that is exactly what he uses it for
01:06:08the side aspect of this is this is a question did the gods really have this
01:06:14were they superhuman like we want to become
01:06:17or did they have technology which enabled them to do these kind of things
01:06:21Diomedes and the gods power of super eyesight may seem like pure fantasy
01:06:29but enhanced vision is also becoming a reality thanks to advancements in spectrometer technology
01:06:37Spectrometers are devices used to measure properties of light over a wider range of the electromagnetic spectrum than is visible with the human eye
01:06:43and today just as we are developing cloaking devices we are also developing technology to see through those devices
01:06:58Technology is driven by society's needs more than anything else but myths have a way of inspiring us and they represent a part of the imagination which we need to even envision the next generation of technology
01:07:13If I dream I could go to another galaxy I will sooner or later go to another galaxy we are the offsprings of the gods and all these things are in our brains we think we are very powerful in practice we are not but we have technology to develop the power because we are the sons of the gods
01:07:38Could it really be that the powers once attributed to the so-called gods were in fact misunderstood alien technology
01:07:50Perhaps the answers can be found not in the past but in the present
01:07:56As modern-day advances in science and technology give us perhaps our greatest evidence that we have been here before
01:08:08The ability to fly
01:08:12The ability to fly
01:08:14To thrive underwater
01:08:16And to travel through space and explore the universe
01:08:21At one time these were all believed to be impossible notions
01:08:27Dismissed as mere science fiction
01:08:31Or myth
01:08:32But mankind's continued advances in technology have made the word impossible almost obsolete
01:08:41In our modern world steroids can help generate herculean muscles
01:08:47Titanium joints can replace and even improve upon our own natural ones
01:08:53And even prosthetic gills are being developed so human beings can breathe underwater without the use of air tanks
01:09:03Today government contractors like Raytheon Sarkos and Lockheed Martin develop exoskeleton machines for the US military
01:09:14When worn, they can allow soldiers to walk, run, and lift hundreds of pounds with virtually no effort
01:09:28What makes exoskeleton so cool is that it's an everyman thing
01:09:33Anybody can put one on, anybody can be the hero
01:09:36You can take a person with any sort of physical weaknesses and make them greater than the person they're fighting
01:09:43Exoskeletons would be a prime example of something coming out of comic books into mainstream reality
01:09:51And in reality exoskeletons are becoming very popular with the military
01:09:57A soldier can wear the Raytheon exoskeleton for example and lift 200 pounds
01:10:03While these modern-day supermen may be limited in their mobility
01:10:09The development of exoskeletons represents an incredible evolution in the relationship between man and machine
01:10:17But did such incredible technology exist before?
01:10:24Perhaps in mankind's ancient past
01:10:27Now is it possible that some type of exoskeleton technology was used in the remote past, for example on the Giza Plateau?
01:10:40Imagine the operator of one of those exoskeleton machines coming out of that machine
01:10:47That person has superpowers
01:10:50Even though the person doesn't have any powers at all
01:10:56The person is only operating sophisticated technology
01:11:01One could argue that with all the advancements we are making today in science and all the other academic fields
01:11:10We are becoming more god-like
01:11:12We are not becoming gods
01:11:16We are not turning into real superheroes
01:11:20We are only becoming god-like
01:11:23Because of our technology
01:11:27I think we have an innate need to push our bodies and our minds to the utmost limits
01:11:32And strive for superintelligence, super strength and other superpowers
01:11:39The reason is that people have long been fascinated with what could be stronger than humanity itself
01:11:46And if it's not human then it must come from somewhere else
01:11:51Either a god or an extraterrestrial
01:11:53But with all of his scientific achievements
01:11:59Is mankind perhaps making himself more and more vulnerable to what could be terrible consequences?
01:12:06There are many tales of ordinary mortals ascending to become rulers, to become gods, various positions of enormous power
01:12:16Often these characters then become corrupt
01:12:21And the stories stick around and are retold over a long period of time
01:12:26Long after their sources have withered away
01:12:30To teach us that power corrupts
01:12:33To be careful what you wish for
01:12:35And to be very cautious if ever holding great power
01:12:40Because of its ability to harm
01:12:43Almost 50% of our stories are about technology run amok or the dark side of technology
01:12:48Because when you talk about superpowers, when you talk about all this transformation, everything comes at a price
01:12:56And you always have to weigh whether or not price is worthy or necessary to make for the greater good
01:13:02And sometimes it's not
01:13:04Sometimes the price you pay is just too great when you lose your own self
01:13:06Are all of mankind's scientific achievements really examples of emerging technology?
01:13:15Or are humans finally catching up to the abilities of beings who have been here before?
01:13:21Perhaps only time and further advancements in technology will tell
01:13:24Perhaps only time and further advancements in technology will tell
01:13:29The ancient astronaut theory proposes that long ago ETs modified the DNA of one of our pre-human ancestors to create humans
01:13:45And so the question is, all these cases of modern day genetic engineering, are they just examples of alien reinvention?
01:13:53It would seem so
01:13:54It would seem so
01:13:56And we're now talking about gene splicing technology to modify our bodies and make them better for space travel
01:14:03And we're looking at merging our biology with technology, basically to turn ourselves into cyborgs
01:14:09Maybe this was our alien ancestors plan all along
01:14:13One day we would evolve to jumpstart civilization on other planets ourselves
01:14:18All right, you want to go to Mars?
01:14:21Sure, let's go to Mars
01:14:23At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
01:14:26Aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor meets with Paul Vallee
01:14:30The project manager for the Active Response Gravity Offload System
01:14:35Otherwise known as Argos
01:14:37Travis is eager to experience first-hand
01:14:41How space colonists will be trained in order to survive in reduced gravity environments
01:14:46And now you are on Mars
01:14:49So this is what Mars is like
01:14:50Yep
01:14:51I can jump
01:14:53Oh, a lot higher
01:14:55So if I were gonna try and walk across Mars
01:14:58The Argos simulator is amazing in giving me some insight in realizing
01:15:04It's not easy to work on a planet that isn't the planet I came from
01:15:08If I was on Mars or the moon or anywhere else
01:15:10I have to completely retrain my mind and body for working there
01:15:14Yeah
01:15:16Wow
01:15:18Well getting up is the hard part
01:15:20So if any civilizations have done that
01:15:23They would have had to do the same type of training
01:15:25Or when they got here they would be extremely clumsy
01:15:27Yeah
01:15:29That's almost impossible
01:15:31Yeah, now imagine doing it
01:15:32There you go
01:15:34Now imagine doing it with a space suit, life support, all that
01:15:37Yeah, with a, like the Michelin, yeah
01:15:39You don't realize how much you use gravity to do everything
01:15:42Yeah, you don't realize until it's gone
01:15:44Right
01:15:46Although recent NASA footage of astronauts doing somersaults in midair
01:15:50And eating floating M&Ms paints a whimsical picture of what it's like to live in a low-gravity environment
01:15:58The lack of gravity can, over time, have a devastating and profound impact on the human body
01:16:07What we have to do when we decide to go to Mars is really study all aspects of human physiology
01:16:14How we're going to operate in a gravity that's much less than the Earth
01:16:20Our body will change because of that environment
01:16:23We're doing research in many ways right now
01:16:26Studying the effects of being weightless and then coming back to the Earth
01:16:30March 2nd, 2016, Kazakhstan
01:16:35American astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after a record-setting, 360-day mission aboard the International Space Station
01:16:46The duration of the mission was intended to help researchers understand how prolonged periods of time in zero gravity can affect the human body
01:16:56Scott's identical twin brother, Mark, also an astronaut, served as a control subject
01:17:02Because of his twin's DNA, which is, in theory, identical to his, they could then determine what kind of DNA changes had happened to him
01:17:14And what they discovered was that about 7% of his DNA had been altered
01:17:21Extensive post-mission lab tests confirmed the astonishing changes that had taken place
01:17:28Genes related to Scott Kelly's immune system
01:17:33DNA repair, bone formation networks, his bloodstream, and numerous other systems have all been altered
01:17:41The startling results prompt scientists around the world to ask
01:17:48What are the implications for humans who leave Earth permanently?
01:17:52So, I did a lot of my early medical work and medical research on how the human body adopts to space as you go up into orbit
01:18:02So, we are going to begin to speciate and form subspecies of humans as we head off towards the stars
01:18:08Perhaps we should genetically modify ourselves to thrive in outer space
01:18:15We are going to have to modify ourselves to adjust to different atmospheres
01:18:20Cosmic rays, radiation, you name it
01:18:23We want to use gene editing technology to evolve ourselves and modify our DNA, modify our bodies to meet the needs of space
01:18:35As the human race is moving irreversibly off the planet
01:18:37Once you have the technology to completely decode DNA and recode it
01:18:47You also have the technology then to genetically alter any human being or any animal or plant
01:18:54And so therefore, you are able to genetically engineer human species that will be better adapted to space travel
01:19:05Better adapted to life on a different planet
01:19:09Extraterrestrials coming here in the ancient past could have easily have done exactly the same thing
01:19:15Could extraterrestrials in possession of the same DNA altering knowledge have used it to aid their colonization efforts here on earth thousands of years ago?
01:19:28An idea which once seemed absurd now seems remarkably and eerily plausible
01:19:35Could you go back in time and look at something like the pre-human creatures and genetically modify them and create
01:19:45what has become homo sapiens?
01:19:47With our technology today, we could pick a near-senient creature and start doing genetic modifications on it and create a new senient race
01:20:00In addition to genetically modifying the human body in order to make it better suited for space travel and colonization
01:20:07Many experts propose that there will also need to be a merging of man and machine
01:20:13Genetically modified space colonists, they argue, will have to be fitted with biomechatronic parts in order to create a human that is smarter, faster, stronger and more durable
01:20:27I've been talking with some scientists and they say the next thing that's going to be coming is the cyborg evolution of humanity for those that are going to go into space
01:20:40We have this Hollywood image that the aliens are going to land and they're going to come out looking someone like us and they'll say take us to your leader earth man
01:20:52But I think it could be quite different. They could be part robotic. Realize that they could be thousands of years more advanced than us
01:20:58If there is a culture out there that's more advanced than us, they've already built these robotic bodies
01:21:07Why wait for them to come to us?
01:21:09We have to become a huge spacefaring culture, a civilization to go out and answer these questions for ourselves
01:21:17Instead of just sitting on our hands and waiting for them to give us the answer someday
01:21:20In finding ways to modify the human body, is mankind really going where no one has gone before?
01:21:31Or are we simply fulfilling our destiny, one that stretches back to the very beginnings of human life here on earth?
01:21:39As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the more humans venture into space, the closer they will be to discovering their true origins
01:21:51Not on earth, but on an alien world far, far away
01:21:57I think that one of the most important contributions of ancient astronaut theory is the realization that we're reinventing technology today that existed in the ancient world
01:22:10You know, King Solomon once said, there's nothing new under the sun
01:22:15And it's like everything that we are inventing today existed in ancient times
01:22:19Right, and if the visitors from back then would be able to see what we've accomplished today, I think they would be mightily proud
01:22:28Because that is exactly what they wanted
01:22:31For us to achieve a high level of technology to one day leave this planet to go out there to explore outer space
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