I mean, I’ve always considered this a really cool idea for a sci-fi/fantasy story. Problem is the people who tell these stories believe they’re real.
Okay… why was gold so “vital to [the Anunnaki’s] survival”? Did they eat it? Tooth fillings? Cell phones? Gold plated audio jacks?
Those Anunnakis were audiophiles and couldn’t survive without gold plated audio jacks
I wonder, if someone were to write some good novels about the Anunnaki, could they get this nutjob crowd at the same time as pulling in a good sci-fi audience? Seems like a reasonable way to try starting the next thing like Scientology.
This comes from Erich Von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods? - which had the “?” added much later - as well as Zechariah Sitchen’s works. They do purport to be nonfiction, but work as sci fi novels. Sitchin did not know Sumerian/cuneiform, and basically made up definitions and words that he claimed described alien space ships.
Graham Hancock and “Aliens meme guy” whose name I can’t be assed to spell haven’t really been using it as a religion, more just taking advantage of the History Channel.
Wait so a super technologically advanced life form that is able to travel through the universe easily doesn’t have the knowledge to create technology that can mine for gold on a different planet? That instead they need slaves?
I mean if you are going to go down this crazy route at least make it more plausible!
Sadly that is the most plausible part, for two reasons.
For one thing, machines need constant maintenance from qualified professionals, or they break down. And, once they’re broken, you have to pay for even more expensive repairs or buy a new one. Slaves, on the other hand, you can abuse almost to the point of death and they will keep functioning; they’re also somewhat self-replicating.
The second reason is why so many people want to bring slavery back: the cruelty is the point. There’s a certain mindset that really loves lording it over people; and even better if those people are so in their power that they physically/legally cannot escape. See also: people who verbally abuse wait staff.
Of course, it’s up to debate whether a truly alien lifeform would be thinking in such a human way, but it’s certainly possible.
(That being said, these people are lunatics. Douglas Adams once said, ‘Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?’ and I think that sums their insane rantings up perfectly.)
I can’t argue against the cruelty part, but I would think that it would be very likely that aliens with the power to travel across interstellar distances and subjugate entire planets would have developed self-repairing technology.
Maybe there is something about gold that we don’t understand yet.
Maybe its seen as preferable and moral to create and later free a new slave species (self sustaining biological robots) then to liter the universe with artificial non-intelligence
I can not recommend actually believing this stuff with no bit of proof but if you keep an open mind its not completely inconceivable.
They didn’t even have to come to a populated planet if they wanted to get gold out of the solar system. And unlike us humans in the article, they presumably don’t have to worry about devaluation.
Also with differentiated asteroids like Vesta, Ceres (and maybe Psyche) they’re entirely cold. So rather than scrabbling around for the flecks of gold on the surface like on Earth, you can just tunnel down into the core and mine all the heavy metals that sunk during the planetoid’s molten era.
Yes. What gets me is how people devalue humans. That if our linage doesn’t come from aliens then somehow we are not special?
I’d say everything that had to happen for humans to exist is more impressive than “aliens”
I agree completely. We’ve achieved amazing things with our limited primate brains which evolved to be hunter-gatherers, but that’s not enough for these people.
Yes, and I’m the queen of France
