This past one week
of holiday, I’ve been sitting in front of the TV watching my favourite
programmes. My parents didn’t seem to complain my couch potato lifestyle.
Hopefully with the lack of workout, abundance of sleep and snacks, I’ll gain
some weight

I’ve been watching
this program called Strangest UFO Stories
(I guess) on Discovery. Apparently this Swiss hotel manager, Erich Von Daniken
wrote a book claiming that extra-terrestrial interaction with early human culture!

It’s like those
monuments like The Pyramids of Giza and The Stonehenge are built by aliens
using high tech technology and early humans can’t possibly do the same. Heard
this somewhere? Sounds like a plot in Stargate SG-1 isn’t it? The Gods that early
human worshiped might be aliens (That’s why it is weird looking, have big
heads, multiple arms or something like that). It is analogous to some native
tribe worshipping aeroplane and white people when they first met them (You guys
that have watched Gods Must be Crazy will
understand)

Anyway, I’m a
sceptic. For those believers out there; come on! Humans can build great
monument without sophisticated technology. Humans are unique! Humans possess
intelligent and most importantly will power to achieve the impossible. Why
alien technology of anti-gravity is much more logical than a group of men
pulling stones on a sled? Sure wheels are not invented yet and we not sure on
the construction technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques)
but elbow grease and sweat of thousands of men are enough to move mountain. Why
we need aliens to come to our planet and construct something for us?

There are several
findings in archaeology that’s perplexing like the Dendera Lights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_light).Von Daniken claims that the Egyptian has mastered the use of electricity and use
the light bulb brought by the aliens. There could be possibility of this but
the problem is there’s no evidence! There are easier way to explain it like a
part of Egyptian mythology of a lotus spawning a snake.

Some of you out
there may argue that they found a source for electricity in the antiquity for
example the so called ‘Baghdad Battery’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery).
Sure it can produce a little amount of electricity, but if the ancients are
more advance than today, surely the have another alternative of producing
electricity rather than a crude piece of vinegar filled jars with copper/iron
electrodes. OK..we may not find it yet but if the battery to produce electricity
for a sustainable use, its going to take a lot and lots of it which is not
economically viable.

The mystery of the
past still haunts us in many unexplainable phenomenons. Conspiracy theories are
fun to ponder at but please stick to reasonable explanation by scientists and
archaeologists. Not to say we must reject these pseudoscientific theories, it
opens our mind for a more creative thinking. But ET building the pyramids is
way too much and can be considered an insult to human ingenuity.