>>Ah yes! It must have been the ?Astronaut Gods?! Shades of Eric von Daniken and others perhaps. Surely man is incapable of accomplishing such feats.
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>Oh, the "our ancestors were morons" Däniken...
Well, the ideas of Däniken are quite interesting... the ancient ones did some interesting feats. But he quite forgot to even consider alternative explanations. Like an ancient culture
here on earth which may have had advanced knowledge that later got lost (which I consider the most likely explanation). Or divine intervention. Or "mental control". Probably there are other possible explanations, too.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
