Yes, Abramelin I viewed the links. Very interesting.
It's a shame that an educated man such as Graham Hancock, clearly has never researched this map in any depth. In fact he states in the documentary that he bases his conjecture on the analysis of the map by some second rate conspiracy theorist...I looked him up and his closest approach to science is pixies and fairies. I was so disgusted I didn't bother noting the name. Repeating the name only gives him further popularity with the Google[bot]. He claims the map in question rivals the accuracy of today's maps. In viewing it I can see why so many ships of the day sank before they got out of sight of their home port.
This is exactly why I have come to this forum. I want to get some educated analysis on many of the radical claims made by the so-called "ancient astronaut theorists".
Personally I think these wild claims by the you-know-all-their-names authors are just a cop-out from doing scientific analysis of our ancient past.
I don't buy the theory that because stones are too heavy to be lifted by humans, then they must have been helped by giants or ET's with an anti-gravity beam.
Thank you for your open-minded view of this topic.
Edited by synchronomy, 09 September 2012 - 02:09 AM.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.
This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan