22nd November 2005, 06:44 PM
The initial quotes aren't that ridiculous...
Archaeologists have a better clue than most on how to speculatively create a complex dynamic system from limited evidence. This skill could hypothetically be applied to alien discoveries.
Anthropologists are the chaps you'd really want for that sort of thing though..
Personally, I'm interested in theories on UFO's building stonehenge (and so on) as on the whole they are interesting and amusing. It's not a bad thing to keep up with popular current interpretations of the past anyway. Some theorists may even argue the validity of these views from a phenomenologigal(?) / post/post processual view (or whatever nonsense theorists are concerned with at the moment).
The best pseudo science theory I've heard is that the moon was built by future humans (with time travelling capability) to make conditions on earth suitable for human life to evolve....
Archaeologists have a better clue than most on how to speculatively create a complex dynamic system from limited evidence. This skill could hypothetically be applied to alien discoveries.
Anthropologists are the chaps you'd really want for that sort of thing though..
Personally, I'm interested in theories on UFO's building stonehenge (and so on) as on the whole they are interesting and amusing. It's not a bad thing to keep up with popular current interpretations of the past anyway. Some theorists may even argue the validity of these views from a phenomenologigal(?) / post/post processual view (or whatever nonsense theorists are concerned with at the moment).
The best pseudo science theory I've heard is that the moon was built by future humans (with time travelling capability) to make conditions on earth suitable for human life to evolve....