Racism? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Is there some sort of layered "schematic" code within the straight lines all around the artistic ones?

Von Daniken makes a big assumption:
he assumes that because these lines can only be seen from the air that they must be ET related.

it might be ET related or not.
but jumping right away to the ET hypothesis seems premature to me.

I didn't jump right away, if archaeologists had a solid answer, I'd accept it, but I checked into it several times over the years and they don't seem to.

I do not expect modern white Americans, who falsely believe that they are free of all vestiges of racism, to understand how racist so many of their assumptions are. This denial and stubborn refusal to look at the racism, subtle and overt, within their own consciousness is what causes the problems of race to persist in this land. Put yourself in the shoes of a native American who people have been diminished by genocide, whose people were called savages and more akin to animals than humans --- how would you feel if all the creations of your peoples were dismissed as too advanced, were dismissed as having been made by space aliens.

Your making the assumption that I am white is also a vestige of subtle racism. And white folks deciding that they are the arbiters of what is and is not racism is also a form of racism ("whitey knows best").

I do not hear people here saying that space aliens built the Salisbury Cathedral, white folks assume that early British Islanders living on the Salisbury Plain built that marvel. As to Stonehenge, folks typically assume that Caucasian Druids built Stonehenge.

Look, basically one guy, this Erik von Danniken (sp) fellow, found that he could sell books among science-illiterates attributing the work of pre-modern Peruvians to extraterrestrials. And people predisposed to believe in the inferiority of nonwhite peoples are willing to dismiss the labors and intelligence of the Peruvians and give nonexistent extraterrestrials credit for the work of native Americans.

You know that humans have had radio telescopes trained on the cosmos waiting for any signal from an extraterrestrial lifeform and decade after decade we have heard nothing but silence, complete silence.

one could argue that an advanced civilization would be using something more sophisticated that radio signals for communication.

we're pretty much done here on Earth with that mean of communication as it is.
everything is moving to cable, fiber optics, satellites, microwaves and whatnot.

havlicek:
Look Moon, couching remarks in pseudoscience to make them appear learned doesn't make your position any stronger.
Radio waves can be either a direct form of communication...OR...they can be the byproduct of all kinds of technology.
Here's a clue...stuff emits "radio waves" either intentionally or unintentionally.
The universe itself does that, but detecting patterns aside from the noise could mean something...or not.
I'm fairly confident that the folks involved in SETI and other efforts to find life out there at least are aware of the potentials.

"For good measure, in America we have switched from analogue to digital broadcasting and you are going to do the same in Britain very soon," Drake added. "When you do that, your transmissions will become four times fainter because digital uses less power."

"Very soon we will become undetectable," he said. In short, in space no one will hear us at all.

What is true for humans would probably also be true for aliens, who may already have moved to much more efficient methods of TV and radio broadcasting. Trying to find ET from their favourite shows was going to be harder than we thought, Drake said.

i'm well aware lots of stuff can emit radio waves.
amateur astronomy is one of my hobby.
like i said, the leakage we produce can only be detected from a short distance, no more than a few light-years.

i think the researchers at the SETI Institute got a lot of things wrong.