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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I'm not going to get into a New Era quote war, because nobody wants to see that, but damn...ok, so they are a super advanced civilization that now have transporters, but with small social units of a few people. How do you get there? How do you go from primitive to transporters, and not require the massive resource consumption of our current world? Are you mining materials with a couple people, shovel and a bucket? Refining ore? It doesn't make any sense.
Secondly, where in our evolutionary tree does this imaginary species exist? How do you slot them in, without any evidence? It's pure fantasy.
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You are aware that the world population has been tiny for the vast majority of human history, and that humans have done some really amazing things with small populations? They pyramids were built around the globe when the world population was estimated at 45M people. The Egyptian empire that built the Giza pyramids was estimated to be 2.5-3M people. The entire Aztec empire reached a population of 6 million. The Mayan and Inca empires not much larger. Going further back and looking at the Sumerians, the height if their empire was estimated to be less than 2M. Small populations can achieve quite a lot. Thinking you need a population of several billion to do anything of note is just plain stupid.
Where did the technology come from? That's the question isn't it? We are in a thread about UFOs and UFO technology? Could it possibly have been gifted? Or is it possible the advanced civilization that was here colonized parts of the planet? Also, it isn't like people have been stupid through out the history of the species. Even though you would have us believe that we didn't become ultra smart until the Internet was invented (thanks Al Gore!) various cultures were incredibly advanced and it took centuries for man as a collective to catch up (math, astronomy, architecture, etc.). What is really strange is you seem to forget that many technologies and practices get "lost" over time. We still don't understand how some of these ancient civilizations did many of the things they did to construct such massive complexes with "no technology" and small populations. You don't think it is possible that technology was just lost or an advanced civilization and their technology could have died out while we went through a cycle like the dark ages? There are examples of civilizations all over the globe quickly disappearing. You don't think that if our civilization quickly died out that our technological secrets would die with us?
So where were in our evolutionary tree is this advanced civilization hiding? The last 25,000 years presents plenty of time for civilizations to develop and disappear, all around the globe. Especially if there is "outside" influence or assistance. It is possible that a small civilization developed that was technologically superior, but suffered from some catastrophic even that forced their collapse or possible departure? There are stories of such civilizations (Atlantis as an example), so what if these stories are actual oral histories? Too much of a challenge to your worldview?