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I truely believe this deserves it's own thread..several museums have what apepar to be skulls..made out of pure crystal..on the history channel it goes into details of how the skulls together might conjoin some unique power source within the skulls creating cataclysmic events..i haven't read up on it enough to debunk it myself but it would be nice if you guys could create a new topic on it
on the history channel it goes into details of how the skulls together might conjoin some unique power source within the skulls creating cataclysmic events..
Clearly the Hysteria Channel is mistaking reality for a fantasy fiction cliche.
Does an absolutely absurd claim like that actually require "debunking?"
I thought the whole premise was that uniting the 13 skulls would prevent a foretold catastrophe. I haven't watched it so I do not know for sure but from what I have read about it that seems to be the case.
Another novel and historically unfounded speculation ties in the legend of the crystal skulls with the completion of the current Maya calendar b'ak'tun-cycle on December 21, 2012, claiming the re-uniting of the thirteen mystical skulls will forestall a catastrophe allegedly predicted or implied by the ending of this calendar. An airing of this claim appeared (among an assortment of others made) in The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls, [52] a 2008 program produced for the Sci Fi Channel in May and shown on Discovery Channel Canada in June. Interviewees included Richard Hoagland, who attempted to link the skulls and the Maya to life on Mars, and David Hatcher Childress, proponent of lost Atlantean civilizations and anti-gravity claims.
That is taken from wikipedia
Hmm this is starting to scare me :(
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Hmm this is starting to scare me :(
Are you also scared of an orc invasion ordered by the dark lord Sauron? Because that makes about as much sense.
Why? Everything that is speculated about them is most likely wrong. I suggest reading material available on them and you won't be scared. I think they are beautiful and amazing and there is no reason to fear them.
Ancient Aliens is about as hard to take as it gets. I can not take it in anything other than jest, if that. The way that it is supposed to be serious though is wild! I can't watch it because I've summed it up for myself as follows:
It will start off by showing some cool scenes and features. That's the end of the show. After that the narrater will then say in a dead serious voice "But, what if…Ancient Aliens" blah blah this and that. Then the music will become dramatic or ominous or whatever. Then some weirdos will appear and start to give their stories that sound like kids sitting around a camp fire to go as evidence to support "But, what if". The letters after their names serve as CYAs to back up this nonsense. By the end of the whole thing, they've got the viewer supposing to believe the objective or at least question their own sanity. The images and music and narration all together to really solidify nothing as opposed to one researching all the facts.
I believe it was previously said somewhere that something so absurd doesn't need debunking.
Don't get upset over this smut. It's nothing but nonsense and the skulls aren't going to do anything but sit there.
i mean i admit sometimes the stuff on the history channel all seems to real…it even sometimes freaks me out…i showed my friend your site and he told me about the crystal skulls and how you don't debunk it because "you know that it is true" his paranoia really is getting on my nerves…that's really why i would like a short debunk on here about it
Skeptoid is a very good source:
This is the transcription of the podcast.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4098
They have many great episodes.
Well that just sounds wrong… Well afcourse its from the Hysteria Channel …
No man knows the day nor the hour when the world will end.
Become a debunker and help out those that are being fed up with lies spread by False scientists going after you'r money.
Practice what you want to and dont give up on you'r dreams my dream is to become a basketball player 'NBA'
I think I saw a movie like this once…I recall Harrison Ford…
haha yes ohnozombies it hinked of indiana jones to
Haha yeh , Pedro you should make a Wikidot account and join us , you'r pretty active here , and now better realize that 2012 is a hoax :)
No man knows the day nor the hour when the world will end.
Become a debunker and help out those that are being fed up with lies spread by False scientists going after you'r money.
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ahhh the crystal skulls i just found out are nothing but a false lead on what people believe to be a "end date" i mean nothing that i can think of would pull a force together of any mystic kind to forestall cataclysmic events…the whole idea is so completely old and dry…..come to think of it i was at fred meyers today to…so many other 2012 movies that also central around the end date 2012 just never made it to theatres i believe one of their central themes was around the crystal skulls as well
Oh my God! "Ancient Aliens Crystal Skulls"? Be careful, because The History Channel is getting pretty insane lately. Yes, it really doesn't need any debunking at all.
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - Ernest Rutherford
These crystal skulls are not "ancient alien" or even "Mesoamerican". They were probably made in Germany in the 19th century:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull
(emphasis mine)
Many crystal skulls are claimed to be pre-Columbian, usually attributed to the Aztec or Maya civilizations. Mesoamerican art has numerous representations of skulls, but none of the skulls in museum collections come from documented excavations.[7] Research carried out on several crystal skulls at the British Museum in 1967, 1996 and again in 2004 has shown that the indented lines marking the teeth (for these skulls had no separate jawbone, unlike the Mitchell-Hedges skull) were carved using jeweler's equipment (rotary tools) developed in the 19th century, making a supposed pre-Columbian origin problematic.[8] The type of crystal was determined by examination of chlorite inclusions, and is only to be found in Madagascar and Brazil, and thus unobtainable or unknown within pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The study concluded that the skulls were crafted in the 19th century in Germany, quite likely at workshops in the town of Idar-Oberstein renowned for crafting objects made from imported Brazilian quartz at this period in the late 19th century.
feel like wrapping that up and putting it on a page?
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I like Cracked's take on the crystal skulls:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19418_7-famous-unsolved-mysteries-science-solved-years-ago_p2.html
"The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it". —Dr. Phil Plait
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I like when they say…
Why did Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter never mention the skull until 30 years after the expedition? […] Oh wait, turns out he just bought it at a Sotheby's auction in 1943.
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - Ernest Rutherford
