[CoLoCo] (Off-Topic) Proof of Alien Life to be shown in Denver Friday.

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I read an interesting book recently, but I must have recycled it, and
> I can remember neither author nor title. The author was a reporter who
> had researched the commonality of the archeological remains in Central
> America and Egypt, the myths (maybe not) of a great flood all over the
> world, and the sudden turn of climate that left flash-frozen Mammoths
> in Siberia. The gist of the book is that the monuments of Central and
> South America and Egypt have a commonality in design and that these
> monuments are indications that a technologically advanced society
> existed much earlier than any 10,000 years.
>

Along those same lines was a Discovery channel documentary (of sorts) on a
geologist who claimed the erosion patterns on the Sphinx were cause by
flooding and that it's been over 10,000 years since that kind of flooding
existed in that part of the world. The claim was that it was evidence of
advanced civilizations existing well before the Egyptians and then all trace
of them being wiped out. What they don't explore is the possibility that the
erosion patters were in fact over 10,000 years old and the Egyptians just
chose to use a large weathered stone to carve. The simplest explanation is
usually the more probable.

Still, I really want to meet aliens. I think it would profoundly alter
humanity and assuming they weren't conquerors it would probably be a
positive thing.

Paul, I think you are right about advanced civilizations destroying
themselves. You only need to look at Earth history to see example of that.

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