Ancient Hindu Flying Machines

[MSimon]

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http://chetz4u.blogspot.com/2009/05/vim ... -past.html

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I wonder.....

[djolds1]

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http://chetz4u.blogspot.com/2009/05/vim ... -past.html

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I wonder.....

So is the Chapa'ai still at Giza, in Area 51, or on Sublevel 17 at Cheyenne Mountain?

[Nik]

Looks a bit like eg Chinese 'Dragons' and South American 'Feathered Snakes' where each snarl and feather-line has deep ritual significance...

Heraldry & Iconography, in other words...

IMHO, it's Sanskrit FanFic, their equivalent of StarWars' Technical Manual, complete with HandWavium tiles and Unobtanium extrusions...

Of course, if any-one reverse-engineers polywell fusion, anti-grav or ZPE from that document, I'll be among the first to apologise...

[IntLibber]

oi I'd not put much in this prehistoric scifi. The mere act of translation is about finding terms that seem like the same idea, doesnt mean their speculative fiction actually happened any more than Ali Baba's flying carpet actually existed.

Sanskrit writings, especially, describe some rather fantastical stuff, so does babylonian writings of the same period.

Also keep in mind that science tends to be used by people to create what was previously fantasized. Its a tool for making scifi into self fulfilling prophesy.

[KitemanSA]

There is some speculation that most of the descriptions relate to the close-up view of a comet the ancients had at that time, just before it impacted in Iraq and messed everything up for centuries.