Ok, so I needed a break from reality and I've been watching Ancient Aliens. I find it quite amusing most of the time but there's one thing getting on my nerves. The guy with the hair, Giorgio whatever his name is, has this tendency to make statements like "at this stage in history, it was impossible for humans to have _____". It's the blanket statements like that which annoy me. I would like to take him out in the woods and tell him to start a fire to save his life. No lighter or matches. And just wait to see what he does. I'm not saying that aliens didn't visit this planet at some point. What I'm saying is that they assume ancient humans were stupid. Just because WE, right now, don't know how something was done doesn't mean that it can't be done and wasn't done by a technique that might have been well known, even common knowledge at the time. After all, 100 years ago almost everyone knew how to start a fire without matches. Do you? I do but I've lived without electricity and running water (once for a year) so I've learned some of the tricks of living at a lower level so to speak. To make a blanket statement that it wasn't possible that _______ was possible isn't a statement from a scientific point of view. It's an opinion, and rather biased at that. Other than that it's a very entertaining show.
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