One of my true guilty pleasures on TV is Ancient Aliens on the History Channel (where the only thing “historical” is the reruns).  What my wife refers to as my “science show”.  While I sense some sarcasm when she says it, I ignore it and just assume she just will apologize to me when the aliens come back and I will have already done much more study than she has.

While I think we could all learn from the great teachings of Giorgio Tsoukalos (which is somehow his real name), I sometimes hear people complain that it is offensive to our ancestors to assume they couldn’t have accomplished the pyramids or other great structures because it is way too advanced for them. I totally get that.  It would be like saying that there is no way the Patriots could have won all those Super Bowls, so they must have someone deflating balls or spying on other team meetings.  Okay, maybe not a good argument.

All this being said, perhaps the ones who should be offended are the aliens.  You mean they came all this way warping time and beaming up various lifeforms and the most that they accomplished once they got here was moving a couple rocks around?  Egypt is hot. They couldn’t have added A/C to those pyramids?  Maybe introduced them to a microwave? Invented podcasting?

It’s like having all the power in your hands to make great improvements to society and all you want to do is build an unneeded wall along the southern border.

In the end, the real takeaway I get from my science show is that ancient alien theorists really have low expectations of both humans and aliens and the ancient aliens who did travel millions of miles to visit us helped advance civilization by, at best, a weekend or so.

Just enough to give Giorgio Tsoukalos a career.