Do you believe that aliens have visited the Earth and lent technology to advance or civilization?

Question

Do you believe that aliens have visited the Earth and lent technology to advance or civilization?

Answer 1

No...the universe is so very vast, and we are so very small in it, that although I have no problem believing in life on other planets, the distances involved in interstellar travel are so great that I don't believe it's possible without some huge generational-style craft. And such a technologically-advanced civilization would have no particular reason to share its technology with early human civilization. Do we share our electronic know-how with chimpanzees? Have we taught dolphins to use scuba equipment? Robert Heinlein had a lovely quote along those lines that applies to your question: "Never teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig."

Answer 2

An unresolvable question. They may or may not have visited.

According to the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, they buzz in, walk around saying "beep, beep" in front of someone, then leave, just to stir up the primitive humans.

Answer 3

no. I do belive that there was life on mars, but not on earth.

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

I think we would be puzzling ourselves until we actually come in contact with an alien on live broadcast on CNN.

hehehe

I've seen a footage from space station that something comes and leaves the earth at super high speed. I would be objective and question these things but we aren't alone.

If some of us already think that there used to be life on mars, can you image how many planets there really are in other universes and our own that we are not even aware of.

Not quite sure if they lent us any technology.

It's believed that Egyptians were way too advanced among other races for their time.

And people such as Leonardo Da Vinci , i saw his hand book in Italy, oh my god, it's as if he read popular mechanics and attempted to build things with materials of his time. But i think  he was just a human being that used at least 2% more of his brain then we are using.

Answer 6

Ah, "Chariots of the Gods" time. Back in the 1960s Erich von Däniken,  started writing books. "Chariots" was his first and he's now completed some 10. Then there was that theme park, which at last report, has gone bust.

The underlying message of 'aliens came and lent technology" is "We humans are too dumb to have built the pyramids by ourselves."

Von Daniken basically started with his theme ("aliens lent technology..") then went around finding things that supposedly proved this. Lines in the desert, oh, runways for spaceships. An iron pillar in India? Advanced alien metal.

"Where is the proof for von Däniken's claims? Some of it was fraudulent. For example, he produced photographs of pottery that  he claimed had been found in an archaeological dig. The pottery depicts flying saucers and was said to have been dated from Biblical times. However, investigators from Nova (the fine public-television science program) found the potter who had made the allegedly ancient pots. They confronted von Däniken with evidence of his fraud. His reply was that his deception was justified because some people would only believe if they saw proof ("The Case of the Ancient Astronauts," first aired 3/8/78, done in conjunction with BBC's Horizon and Peter Spry-Leverton)! "

http://skepdic.com/vondanik.html

That's not a strong recommendation for the idea being fact..

If you can pick and chose from all the myths, legends, and structures in the world, some are going to fix the idea of aliens. Add in being selective with what you say of the background, and you get a best seller.

Von Daniken also plays the victim. He suggests he's the rebel and orthodox scientists are too stuck to their theories to give him a hearing. That's just the opposite of real science. You have a theory? Now prove it. The "proof" isn't some lines in the desert. A wrecked spaceship would be nice. Worse, in his later books Von Daniken tells of secret tunnels and strange artifacts. somehow these disappear or nobody else can find them.

Arthur C. Clarke explained it this way. If 1 inch equaled a million years, then the Empire State Building provides a good measure of the age of the earth. Put a book upright on the top and that's the length of time man has been even vaguely human. Put a dime on the book, that's the history of civilization. Science and technology? Add a postage stamp. Bottom line, aliens would had to have hit the dime on the Empire State Building to provide the technology to advance civilization. More likely they would have found no intelligent life.

There have been successful experiments that determined the 'how to" of some ancient constructions:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires...

Given time, patience and manpower any ancient structure can be duplicated.

Answer 7

no i dont beleve in aliens

Answer 8

no. If they came that far and did, I'd expect better results

Answer 9

Van Donikin and Clarke are dreamers. Clarke has the best studies for sure. The inventor of the radio satellite he has a better explanation then Van Donikin. He was shown to be a fraud by his cohorts.

      Humans, have been on this planet in a time line, for about 30 seconds while we can only guess through anthropology and the other traits, whom or what was on earth the other twenty three hours and fifty nine minutes, and forty seconds.

Answer 10

nope

Answer 11

Sure...the little green men came down in their UFO's and "lent" us their technology so that we'd be advanced enough to destroy when they come back to annihilate the earth beings...

*shiver*Ok...I'm stopping cuz I've started to scare myself just a bit. I'm talking like a Trekkie! lol

Answer 12

Yes sir, and the people who saw them, feared them and called them gods.