Did we learn our technology from aliens?

The reason people tend to believe this is that they themselves did poorly in school and imagine that if they struggled, there is no way that people 5000 years ago could have figured out what they did. read more

And there are those of us, and I include astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell amongst our august number, who can attest than humans are, in psychological and technological terms, worms. read more

All of the claims of "aliens must have done it" come from pure and simple ignorance of science and technology. As well as ignorance of human history. We as a species have had to reinvent the same technology numerous times because we have the tendency to collapse back into wallowing in ignorance, violence and superstition. read more

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