Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 8, Episode 9 - Aliens and Superheroes - full transcript
From the beginning of recorded history, humans have told stories about beings with super-human strength, super-sonic speed, and supernatural abilities. The ancients had heroic tales about Zeus, Thor, and Hanuman while today we hav...
Super strength.
He's a normal guy, he becomes
incredibly powerful.
Super speed.
He had very
advanced capabilities.
And supernatural abilities.
Suddenly he's a god with godlike powers.
Throughout history, humans have told
tales of beings with incredible powers.
But could these ancient stories
that continue to be retold today
have extraterrestrial origins?
There's an intuitive knowing that these
stories are true, that beings
did come from other planets to
save humankind.
Millions of people around
the world believe we have
been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
And if so, could there be a
connection between aliens
and today's superheroes?
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Ancient Aliens S07E05
ALIENS AND SUPERHEROES
X-ray vision.
Incredible strength.
The power of flight.
These are just a few of the
superhuman abilities of modern
day comic book heroes.
But stories of beings with
extraordinary powers have been
told throughout history, dating all
the way back to ancient times.
The most famous are those
involving the Greek gods
known as the Olympians.
These powerful beings could
create earthquakes, become
invisible, and even
harness lightning.
But there is an important
difference between the Olympians
and the fictional
superheroes of today.
The ancient Greeks
believed that
the Olympians were real.
A huge difference
between the ancient world and
the modern world is we have
developed this-this very strict
sense of real and not real,
which really didn't matter so
much back then.
The ancients believed that these
heroes had been there, that they
were real people.
We're always looking at mythology
as a basis for our storytelling.
A character like Wonder Woman is
immediately established
in Greek mythology.
She's built on the story of the
Amazons; there's Hercules,
there's Zeus: the Olympian gods
play every aspect of who she is.
Could it be that today's
superheroes trace their
origins back to the
ancient gods?
And if the people who worshipped
these gods believed them to be
real, is it possible they
actually were?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by more closely examining the
stories of gods and heroes in
the ancient world.
The Dikteon Cave on the
Greek island of Crete is
believed by some scholars to fit
the location and description
given by the eighth century BC
poet Hesiod for the childhood
home of Zeus, the leader of the
Olympians.
Archaeologists have found
remains of religious offerings
here that date back 4,000
years to the exact period when
the stories of the Olympians
took place.
But could the ancient Greeks
have left these offerings to a
powerful being they actually
witnessed with their own eyes?
We have
these stories of these gods that
had these supernatural, magical
powers.
Let's be honest magical,
supernatural powers
don't really exist.
So what was it that
was described?
In my opinion, it was people who
had access to
advanced technology.
There's an old saying
one man's magic is
another man's engineering.
Magic is just some knowledge we
don't understand.
It is, therefore, super or above
our understanding.
It is transcendent, that's what
"super" implies.
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the notion
that our ancestors actually
witnessed advanced technology is
supported by the fact that
similar stories of godlike
beings can be found
on every continent.
Historian and author Joseph
Campbell found that even
cultures that had never had
contact with the outside world
developed similar hero stories.
So the fact that we have
all these similar hero
stories from all around the
world, from different types of
ancient cultures, to me suggests
that they were visited by the
same teachers.
The myths came from
ancient oral culture.
We don't know when, but you can
see almost identical gods
showing up in ancient India,
ancient Greece, and ancient
Norway, so it was a long time
ago before these people
started to spread out.
The power of flight,
magical objects,
which allow the superhero
to always be victorious.
Talismans that allow the
superhero to change from an
ordinary human being to somebody who
can access those magical powers.
Those are part of a number of
different stories of superheroes
that really span
time and culture.
But what ancient astronaut
theorists find most
intriguing is how remarkably
similar the tales of ancient
heroes are to the superhero
stories of today.
It's fascinating to me
when you look at the
Superman stories and how
Superman has come from this
other planet, one that exploded.
He comes here with superpowers.
He can fly through the air, and
it's very much like the ancient
Sumerian stories and
Hindu stories of these
extraterrestrial gods coming
from other planets to Earth in
order to help us and move our
planet forward.
Even the iconic "S" on
Superman's chest seems to
have been adapted from legends
told thousands of years ago.
Heroes and gods from ancient
Greek, Buddhist, and Christian
religions are portrayed with
symbols near their heart.
In Christian art, you will
see Jesus wearing a glowing
robe with a glowing heart.
So, we see this correspondence
here of this imagery of an
archetypal figure or
a savior figure.
Today, almost every superhero
has an icon on his chest.
Could this be inspired by
some piece of technology our
ancestors witnessed on an alien
being like the arc reactor on
Iron Man's chest that
powers his suit?
And might these similarities
mean the stories of Superman,
Batman, and Spider-Man are based
on our ancestors' experiences
with extraterrestrials?
These are things
that are common and
symbolic throughout these
stories, and they, to me, imply
that we're talking about similar
figures or figures that are here
for the same reason.
And that is to
advance us forward.
What we may be seeing is the
reason why Superman may resonate
so much with us is not just
because we've heard the story
before in other forms.
But because our ancient
ancestors actually experienced
this story in a very,
very real way.
In a very, very ancient time.
Is it possible that the
reason we continue to be
fascinated by superheroes today
is that we're trying to
reconnect with similar beings
that lived among us
thousands of years ago?
It is possible some deep
part of us, perhaps in our
DNA or genetic memory, is
remembering that there was a
time in which the gods, the
extraterrestrials, did interact with us.
And that may be because, in the
past, there were beings who were
more advanced than we here on
Earth were, who were protecting
us from others who were very
dangerous and harmful.
There's an intuitive knowing
that these stories are
true, that these events actually
happened, that beings did come
from other planets, other worlds
to save humankind.
Could our modern stories
of superheroes really be
inspired by encounters that
early humans had with
extraterrestrial beings?
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining mankind's
earliest stories, in which super
beings waged war... not against
humans, but against
supervillains.
May 4, 2012.
The Avengers opens in
theaters across America.
This blockbuster film chronicles
six superheroes who band
together to battle
extraterrestrial forces of evil.
Powerful superheroes have been
popular in comic books and
movies for over
half a century...
and nearly all have one very
dark and forbidding feature
in common: supervillains.
The arch-nemesis really
defines the hero.
You can see how whatever is most
interesting or powerful about
the hero, the best villains are
the opposite.
The archvillain is
psychologically very powerful,
because there's an echo of that
archetype that's not just "me
versus danger and chaos," but
sort of "us versus them."
Stories of
superheroes fighting
supervillains with the fate of
the world at stake are common
across many different cultures
and time periods.
In the modern Avengers pantheon,
Thor does battle with his evil
adoptive brother, Loki, to
prevent Loki from taking
over the universe.
The story is inspired by ancient
Norse mythology, where Thor
engages in a similar battle with
Loki and his children
at Ragnarok.
The Greeks had their own epic
battle of the gods, which they
believed created the world as we
know it.
The Titanomachy was a conflict
between the Titans, who ruled
the world, and an upstart group
of gods called the Olympians.
Psychologists say these tales of
good facing off against evil
have always been popular because
they allow people to project
their hopes and fears onto
fictional characters in
make-believe worlds.
But could there be another
reason that these stories are
told again and again
around the world?
Joseph Campbell concluded
that somehow these
hero myths had pervaded
all cultures.
And you have to wonder if this
isn't because extraterrestrials
came here to our planet and were
heroes all over the world, and
so the same story was repeated
over and over again.
Is it possible that
some of our ancient hero myths
recount specific events
involving extraterrestrial
visitors in the distant past?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
and, as evidence, cite a
Sanskrit epic that describes an
enormous war between gods that
came from the stars.
In old India, we have a clear
description in the Mahabharata
which is the fifth book, the
so called Mausala Parva a clear
description of a war in Heaven.
I mean, it reads like modern
day science fiction,
this incredible battle
between the gods.
Gigantic cities were said
to have orbited the earth.
And when they came together at
the firmament, they were
battling each other.
The city Dvaraka was right at
the edge of the Arabian Sea.
Some of the explosion split the
city and then half of the
city fell in the sea.
And it is described
how two of these
cities were destroyed,
cities on Heaven.
And for the people on Earth, it
looked as if ten thousands of
little stars would fall down.
They are describing what are
extraterrestrial gods with
superpowers, with airships, with
weapons, and it would seem that
these ancient epic stories are
the same as these superhero
stories that we're
hearing today.
Could it be that modern
stories, in which
superheroes battle archvillains
for dominance over the earth,
are actually based on ancient
wars between
extraterrestrial forces?
Perhaps further clues can be
found in the Babylonian and
Sumerian origin myths.
According to modern
interpretations of the cuneiform
writing, the Enuma Elish
describes a celestial battle
some 5,000 years ago between two
groups of gods that may have
actually resulted in the
destruction of a planet
in our solar system.
Sumerian texts make
mysterious references
to these other planets
called Marduk and Tiamat.
And within our solar system,
there was some destruction here,
where one of them blew up, and
this would be the theoretical
planet that was between
Mars and Jupiter.
Astronomers have often said that
there should be a planet there,
but instead, we have
the asteroid belt.
Could the asteroid belt
that circles the sun
between Mars and Jupiter really
be the remnants of a planet that
existed in the distant past
a planet that was destroyed
in an alien war?
And if so, are these ancient
events echoed today in the plots
of modern superhero stories?
In many ways, these
stories, which are so
familiar to us in TV and movies
and comic books, are really
coming to us from these ancient
Sumerian and Hindu texts that
are thousands of years old.
Good versus evil is a
longstanding theme that we see
in many ancient cultures,
in which supernatural or
extraterrestrial beings are
coming to our aid and helping us
against the greatest evil
the world has ever known.
Modern stories of
superheroes fighting
supervillains, based on real
extraterrestrial battles that
took place above the earth
thousands of years ago.
Could it be true?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may be found
not with the stories of the gods
themselves, but with their technology.
Lemnos, Greece.
3000 BC.
This island in the Aegean Sea is
said to be the home of
Hephaestus, the Greek
god of technology.
The son of Zeus and Hera, king
and queen of the gods,
Hephaestus grew up on Mount
Olympus, but he was a small and
physically deformed child.
Unhappy with her son's physical
problems, one Greek legend says
Hera threw him off the mountain.
He fell for nine days and nine
nights and landed in the ocean.
There he was rescued by sea
nymphs who took him to the
island of Lemnos.
Hephaestus became the
blacksmith of the gods and he
set up his forge on the island
of Lemnos, and volcanoes were
said to be entrances
to his forge.
Working underneath an active
volcano, Hephaestus is
said to have forged
magical objects.
He eventually created the armor,
weapons and other technology
used by the Greek
gods and heroes.
Hephaestus is the god of the great
forge and he is the builder.
He creates the armor that is
impenetrable for Achilles.
He creates chariots.
Magical spears,
magical breastplates
and so forth, which gave the gods
all sorts of miraculous powers.
He's even said to have made the
chariot that the god Helios, the
god of the sun, rode across
the skies.
Some myths describe
Hephaestus creating even more
fantastic devices, including a
bronze bull that breathed fire
and is said to have had voices
coming out of its nostrils and a
powerful robot named Talus that
defended the island of Crete.
He made all these
wondrous creations.
And when we look back at those
stories, we have to ask, "Is it
possible that Hephaestus was an
extraterrestrial being who
brought some advanced
extraterrestrial technology to
Earth?"
Our ancestors had
no experience with advanced
technology, so they would have
described alien visitors as
having superhuman powers because
of their frame of reference.
If they saw an extraterrestrial
with access to incredible
"powers," which are due to
advanced science, they
interpreted that as
witnessing God.
And that was never the case.
Magical weapons
have been a key feature of
heroic myths for thousands of
years, but they play an even
larger role in the stories of
modern superheroes.
1939.
With new Superman comic books
flying off the shelves,
publishers rush to develop more heroes
to satisfy the public's demand.
The one that makes the biggest
impression is a hero of modern
technology...
Batman.
Created by Bob Kane and Bill
Finger, the Caped Crusader leaps
onto the comic book page and
immediately into the pantheon of
pop culture gods.
The idea of Batman is that
he is a normal person.
Nothing has given him
super strength.
But he's a normal person who
depends on his technology.
He has a utility belt with
all kinds of modern gadgets.
And he has a Batmobile,
and he has a Batcopter.
So he is a technological
superhero in that sense.
Batman, for us, is
probably one of the most
identifiable characters we have
with all of our fans, with all
of our audience.
Because he's a human.
He doesn't do something that
pushes the imagination beyond
something that we don't believe
people can actually do.
In 1963, the comics
gave birth to another iconic
character that is completely
dependent on science for his
superpowers... Iron Man.
In the Iron Man story, there's
this incredible suit
that can make him virtually into
a superman even though
he's, he's a mortal.
This is a great melding of the
human-machine interface.
This is how we use technology
to do extraordinary things.
Are Batman and Iron
Man modern representations of
what ancient astronaut theorists
believe the ancient gods really
were mortal beings with
advanced technology?
We see a similarity
with modern-day
superheroes in some of the
ancient texts of a god who wears
a special ring or holds a certain
staff and can magically
become a creature of flight
or can fly a magic carpet.
Many of the superheroes that we have
today are just normal human beings.
But when they strap on their
technology, like Batman in his
super suit or Iron Man in his
flying capabilities, well, these
are just normal mortals that are
using advanced technology and
become superhuman or godlike.
Could modern day
superheroes like Batman and Iron
Man be the true realization of
what our ancestors were
describing when they wrote about
powerful gods and heroes?
Was Hercules' great strength the
result of a robotic exoskeleton?
Could Hermes' power of flight
have been inspired by something
like a modern jet pack or
gliding suit?
And could Zeus' lightning bolts
have used electrical coils to
generate extraordinarily large
voltages?
The ancient people simply
used the vernacular of
the time to express what they
were seeing, and as far as they
were concerned, this could only
be the work of a supreme being.
Superhumans using
advanced technology.
Gods at war.
And extraterrestrials
coming from the heavens.
Could these ancient tales really
be evidence of an otherworldly
presence on Earth?
Perhaps further clues can
be found in the stories of
superheroes hiding
in plain sight.
July 3, 2007.
After spending decades as
larger than life toys and
animated television characters,
the Transformers hit the big
screen with the American
premiere of their first feature
film.
The extraterrestrial storyline
is a familiar one.
The Transformers, in a way,
are m-mechanical versions
of Superman.
They come from another planet.
They can adapt to being here.
And then, as in a lot of
Superman stories, the enemy
is from that planet.
There's some evil that follows
them, that chases them down.
So, they're having this ancient
battle from their homeland,
but they're having it here.
Unlike Batman or
Iron Man, the Transformers
aren't humanoids that
use technology.
They actually are technology.
But the most remarkable power
the Transformers use against
their foes is one of the most
important in all
of heroic myth.
The ability to change from
ordinary beings into
superheroes when evil threatens.
superheroes when evil threatens.
It's the archetype of
metamorphosis or transformation.
Shape shifting, if you will.
This comes down to us from
the ancient mythologies.
Shape shifting allows
gods to interact with
humans in a way that they would
not otherwise be recognized.
In fact, often times the god or
goddess cannot appear to the
mortal in their full splendor
because such a thing would
actually kill the mortal.
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest that stories
of gods living anonymously among
us are common because they
describe a time when
extraterrestrials did just that.
As evidence, they cite an
ancient story they believe bears
an uncanny resemblance to the
Transformers'
shape-shifting myth.
A story about the Mayan god
Kukulkan who is portrayed
both as a flying
serpent and a man.
We have descriptions
of a winged serpent
that flew over our
ancestors' heads.
But at the same time, we also
know that Kukulkan was also
someone that gave instructions
to the people in pretty
much humanoid form.
So does that mean that Kukulkan
was, in fact, a shape-shifter?
Ancient astronaut theorists
propose another possibility.
They contend that perhaps the
ancient people, being unfamiliar
with advanced technology,
witnessed an alien being
in a spacecraft.
Imagine for a moment a
craft lands, a hatch
opens and then the pilot walks
out and gives instruction.
There isn't really a
differentiation between the
machine and the person coming
out of it, because they didn't
understand the technological
concept behind it.
The instructor then went back
into the craft and took off.
All of a sudden, Kukulkan becomes
this winged serpent that
flies across the sky.
Is it possible that
this scenario may have actually
played out in the distant past?
And if so, did it inspire the
shape-shifting myths that humans
have told for millennia?
We have the same stories,
the core of the
stories, worldwide in
most of the mythologies.
They are all linked together.
They had different names, were
different heroes, different
personalities, but at the
end, it was all the same
extraterrestrials having contact
with the humans some thousands
and thousands of years ago.
But could there be
an even deeper meaning behind
the tales of otherworldly
heroes like the Transformers
and Kukulkan hiding among us?
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining the stories
of godlike beings disguising
themselves as ordinary humans.
Superman hides his identity by
pretending to be mild-mannered
newspaper reporter Clark Kent.
Wonder Woman disguises herself
as a nurse named Diana Prince.
And Spider Man's alter
ego is Peter Parker.
Virtually every really popular
superhero has a clear
and recognizable ordinary
human identity.
It's an essential part of the
superhero archetype that they be
able to look like us and feel
like us and live like us, but
then be able to explode into
their super-powered self.
We have a deep inner longing
to have that story
retold, perhaps through some
sort of genetic memory
written right into our DNA.
We seem to be remembering, on
some deep level, a part of us
that can come in contact with
extraterrestrial capabilities
and actualize them as we
ourselves reach the next level
of human evolution or what may
have been a level that we had
long ago and was deliberately
turned off in our DNA
for some reason.
Is it really
possible that we tell stories of
superheroes disguised as humans
because it is written in our
genetic memory that we have
special abilities hidden
within ourselves?
And if so, what could be the
source of those abilities?
We may not have
originated on Earth.
We may have been seeded on Earth
by other humans who are far
older than we are and who are
far more genetically
advanced than we are.
Perhaps some part of us
remembers that there is a way in
which we could be exposed to
certain technologies that
activate this dormant DNA within
us, that propel us to the next
level of what it means to be
a live, evolved human being.
Could it be that
stories of superheroes hiding
among us are so popular because
extraterrestrials have
manipulated our DNA, hiding
extraordinary powers
deep inside all of us?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by exploring the stories of
heroes whose powers are the
result of genetic mutation.
New York City, 1962.
Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee
wants to create a new
breed of superhero.
One of the masterminds behind
the Fantastic Four and the
Avengers, Lee invents a character
literally born out of
modern science: Spider Man.
Radiation was very much
in the news at the time.
And I figured, well, let's let
him get his power
through radiation.
And I figured the spider would
bite Peter Parker on the hand.
Since the spider was
radioactive, I assumed that his
little spider sting would insert
some radioactivity into
Peter's bloodstream.
Now, having radioactivity in your
blood, especially if it was
spidery radioactivity, that
should give you some of the
qualities of a spider.
Spider-Man's just a normal
teenager until he's
bitten by a radioactive spider.
Suddenly, he's a combination of
normal person, but also a god
with godlike powers.
I thought, "He'll have the
proportionate strength of a spider."
In other words, if a spider were
as large as a human being,
that's how strong the spider
would be which made Peter
Parker very strong.
I also figured he could stick to
walls like a spider
or any insect.
Although exposure to
radiation scrambles
Spider-Man's genetic material,
there's a precedent for it in
ancient mythology: genetic
manipulation through the mixing
of mortal and immortal blood.
Anjaneri, India.
Two miles outside this small
village, in a cave surrounded by
forests and mountains, is where
many believe one of Hindu
mythology's greatest
heroes was born: Hanuman.
Hanuman was part god because
his father was the
god of wind and his mother
is a mortal human being.
So, then, obviously, uh, he has
the qualities, the power of wind
god and he's able to fly and he
is able to multiply in his size.
So because of that, he's
definitely a demigod.
Hanuman is often
depicted as half-man and
half-monkey, which underlines
his mixed bloodline.
Is it possible that this is a
non-scientific way of describing
genetically engineered
super beings, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend?
One of the common themes
in ancient texts is
ancient gods or
extraterrestrials coming here
and then manipulating our DNA
and changing us into more
superior beings.
As evidence of the
genetic experiments they believe
took place in the prehistoric
past, ancient astronaut
theorists cite depictions of
hybrid creatures found in
cultures around the world:
winged horses in Assyrian
and Sumerian myths, the
elephant-headed deity Ganesha
in the Hindu pantheon, and
Khepri, the ancient Egyptian
god of the morning sun.
The Egyptian deity, Khepri,
is shown as either a
beetle, or as a human with
the head of a beetle.
And you have to ask, what are they
trying to tell us here about Khepri?
Could he have been half
human, half insect?
Some ancient
astronaut theorists believe the
hybrids depicted by the ancients
may have actually been the
result of extraterrestrial genetic
experiments in the distant past.
These things aren't very
far off from what we have
in our ancient tales
of creation.
In the Sumerian epic of
creation, we hear about the
Anunnaki literally putting their
genetic marker on us and
creating us in their image
and after their likeness.
Could genetic
experiments long ago have been
part of an ancient alien effort
to create the human race?
Some very strange things happened
in the course of human evolution.
We go from Neanderthals with
no apparent "missing link"
whatsoever, and all of a sudden,
our brain size doubles, our
thumbs becomes more usable,
we can walk erect more easily.
There's a large number of
changes that take place
in a very short time.
Might the entire
human species have been created
by extraterrestrial genetic
experiments in the past?
And could our genetic memory of
this be the reason we create
genetically altered superheroes
today, including mutants like
the X-Men and the Incredible
Hulk and hybrids like Hawkman,
Animal Man, and Spider-Man?
Is it possible that when
we are seeing superhero
movies, that on some level we
are remembering having been
changed before?
That perhaps we were like the
Neanderthals before, and this
already happened, we already had
some sort of genetic upgrade
that brought us to the next
level of human evolution?
Are modern comic book
stories of hybrids and
mutants actually inspired by an
ancient alien intervention
thousands of years ago?
And might we create these
stories because we are
subconsciously aware of
something greater
within ourselves?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and believe that our own
recent technological advances
may be bringing us closer to a
reconnection with our alien
past.
Livingston,
New Jersey.
May 2001.
Scientists at the Institute for
Reproductive Medicine made
headlines when they revealed
they had created the world's
first genetically modified baby.
Using a process called
cytoplasmic transfer, they
implanted mitochondrial DNA from
a second mother into an egg
to make it easier for it to bond
with sperm and form a viable fetus.
When scientists performed genetic
tests on the babies born
out of this process, they detected
genetic material from a third parent.
The reason the
cytoplasmic transfer is
controversial is because it's
human manipulation of the human
germ cell line, in other words
the, um, cell line that is passed
from parent to offspring.
We typically just inherit our
genetic material from both of
our parents, so there's a
direct line of descent.
With the introduction of
cytoplasmic transfer, suddenly
you have, um, humans
manipulating that germ line,
that cell line, or DNA line passed
on from parent to offspring.
If perfected,
genetic manipulation could
could allow scientists to
introduce DNA from an unlimited
number of people into a fetus.
This would allow them to rid
babies of genetic disease.
But it could also,
theoretically, let them tinker
with natural traits to create
superhumans that are much
faster, stronger, and smarter than
those that have come before.
You are altering the genetic
future of the human
race based on your sort of
current, um, preferences, let's
say, for a person's traits.
It's sort of into perpetuity
affecting the genetic line
of descent in humans.
And so, that's something very
different than had ever been
performed before, and that's
certainly controversial.
The concept of altering
genes whether these
genes are in food, animals, or
humans has always created a
firestorm of protest.
In this case, the controversy
forced an American moratorium on
cytoplasmic transfer.
Even so, scientists say the
technology may eventually be
developed that will allow us
to give superpowers including
amazing strength, eyesight, and
intelligence to our children
while they're still in the womb.
Today more than ever, we're
capable of playing god.
We have incredible superpowers
at our fingertips
with genetic technology and
you have to ask, "Are we
trying to duplicate what we saw
the gods possessing in
the ancient world?
Are we hardwired or programmed to
develop these technologies so
that we can equal our makers?"
Do we yearn to
become like the advanced beings
that ancient astronaut theorists
believe created us thousands of
years ago, and might this be
why superhero stories
continue to fascinate us?
I think the reason why
people like these superhero
stories that literally go back
thousands of years is because
they're possibly explaining
our actual human origins.
Every culture around the world
talks about an intervention
event where beings from the
heavens came down and
gave us knowledge.
If we really are
the product of alien genetic
experimentation as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
might our own DNA resemble that
of otherworldly beings?
And if so, are we becoming more
and more like our makers,
through our own technological
breakthroughs and genetic advances?
In many ways, our
society has come full
circle where in ancient times we
had extraterrestrials here
manipulating our DNA, and now
we're the ones who are
manipulating our own DNA to also
create a more advanced
human species.
Who knows what's possible?
It's a brave new world.
Everything changes and we have
abilities that are so different
that it's as if a quantum shift in
human evolution has taken place.
Are ancient stories
of heroes and gods with
mythological powers really based
on encounters with
extraterrestrials?
And might modern-day superheroes
be inspired by our desire to
reconnect with these
powerful beings?
Could characters like Batman...
Spider-Man...
and Superman be the
humans of tomorrow?
Perhaps as our technology
continues to advance,
we are drawing closer
to coming face-to-face
with our alien ancestors.
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He's a normal guy, he becomes
incredibly powerful.
Super speed.
He had very
advanced capabilities.
And supernatural abilities.
Suddenly he's a god with godlike powers.
Throughout history, humans have told
tales of beings with incredible powers.
But could these ancient stories
that continue to be retold today
have extraterrestrial origins?
There's an intuitive knowing that these
stories are true, that beings
did come from other planets to
save humankind.
Millions of people around
the world believe we have
been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
And if so, could there be a
connection between aliens
and today's superheroes?
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Ancient Aliens S07E05
ALIENS AND SUPERHEROES
X-ray vision.
Incredible strength.
The power of flight.
These are just a few of the
superhuman abilities of modern
day comic book heroes.
But stories of beings with
extraordinary powers have been
told throughout history, dating all
the way back to ancient times.
The most famous are those
involving the Greek gods
known as the Olympians.
These powerful beings could
create earthquakes, become
invisible, and even
harness lightning.
But there is an important
difference between the Olympians
and the fictional
superheroes of today.
The ancient Greeks
believed that
the Olympians were real.
A huge difference
between the ancient world and
the modern world is we have
developed this-this very strict
sense of real and not real,
which really didn't matter so
much back then.
The ancients believed that these
heroes had been there, that they
were real people.
We're always looking at mythology
as a basis for our storytelling.
A character like Wonder Woman is
immediately established
in Greek mythology.
She's built on the story of the
Amazons; there's Hercules,
there's Zeus: the Olympian gods
play every aspect of who she is.
Could it be that today's
superheroes trace their
origins back to the
ancient gods?
And if the people who worshipped
these gods believed them to be
real, is it possible they
actually were?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by more closely examining the
stories of gods and heroes in
the ancient world.
The Dikteon Cave on the
Greek island of Crete is
believed by some scholars to fit
the location and description
given by the eighth century BC
poet Hesiod for the childhood
home of Zeus, the leader of the
Olympians.
Archaeologists have found
remains of religious offerings
here that date back 4,000
years to the exact period when
the stories of the Olympians
took place.
But could the ancient Greeks
have left these offerings to a
powerful being they actually
witnessed with their own eyes?
We have
these stories of these gods that
had these supernatural, magical
powers.
Let's be honest magical,
supernatural powers
don't really exist.
So what was it that
was described?
In my opinion, it was people who
had access to
advanced technology.
There's an old saying
one man's magic is
another man's engineering.
Magic is just some knowledge we
don't understand.
It is, therefore, super or above
our understanding.
It is transcendent, that's what
"super" implies.
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the notion
that our ancestors actually
witnessed advanced technology is
supported by the fact that
similar stories of godlike
beings can be found
on every continent.
Historian and author Joseph
Campbell found that even
cultures that had never had
contact with the outside world
developed similar hero stories.
So the fact that we have
all these similar hero
stories from all around the
world, from different types of
ancient cultures, to me suggests
that they were visited by the
same teachers.
The myths came from
ancient oral culture.
We don't know when, but you can
see almost identical gods
showing up in ancient India,
ancient Greece, and ancient
Norway, so it was a long time
ago before these people
started to spread out.
The power of flight,
magical objects,
which allow the superhero
to always be victorious.
Talismans that allow the
superhero to change from an
ordinary human being to somebody who
can access those magical powers.
Those are part of a number of
different stories of superheroes
that really span
time and culture.
But what ancient astronaut
theorists find most
intriguing is how remarkably
similar the tales of ancient
heroes are to the superhero
stories of today.
It's fascinating to me
when you look at the
Superman stories and how
Superman has come from this
other planet, one that exploded.
He comes here with superpowers.
He can fly through the air, and
it's very much like the ancient
Sumerian stories and
Hindu stories of these
extraterrestrial gods coming
from other planets to Earth in
order to help us and move our
planet forward.
Even the iconic "S" on
Superman's chest seems to
have been adapted from legends
told thousands of years ago.
Heroes and gods from ancient
Greek, Buddhist, and Christian
religions are portrayed with
symbols near their heart.
In Christian art, you will
see Jesus wearing a glowing
robe with a glowing heart.
So, we see this correspondence
here of this imagery of an
archetypal figure or
a savior figure.
Today, almost every superhero
has an icon on his chest.
Could this be inspired by
some piece of technology our
ancestors witnessed on an alien
being like the arc reactor on
Iron Man's chest that
powers his suit?
And might these similarities
mean the stories of Superman,
Batman, and Spider-Man are based
on our ancestors' experiences
with extraterrestrials?
These are things
that are common and
symbolic throughout these
stories, and they, to me, imply
that we're talking about similar
figures or figures that are here
for the same reason.
And that is to
advance us forward.
What we may be seeing is the
reason why Superman may resonate
so much with us is not just
because we've heard the story
before in other forms.
But because our ancient
ancestors actually experienced
this story in a very,
very real way.
In a very, very ancient time.
Is it possible that the
reason we continue to be
fascinated by superheroes today
is that we're trying to
reconnect with similar beings
that lived among us
thousands of years ago?
It is possible some deep
part of us, perhaps in our
DNA or genetic memory, is
remembering that there was a
time in which the gods, the
extraterrestrials, did interact with us.
And that may be because, in the
past, there were beings who were
more advanced than we here on
Earth were, who were protecting
us from others who were very
dangerous and harmful.
There's an intuitive knowing
that these stories are
true, that these events actually
happened, that beings did come
from other planets, other worlds
to save humankind.
Could our modern stories
of superheroes really be
inspired by encounters that
early humans had with
extraterrestrial beings?
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining mankind's
earliest stories, in which super
beings waged war... not against
humans, but against
supervillains.
May 4, 2012.
The Avengers opens in
theaters across America.
This blockbuster film chronicles
six superheroes who band
together to battle
extraterrestrial forces of evil.
Powerful superheroes have been
popular in comic books and
movies for over
half a century...
and nearly all have one very
dark and forbidding feature
in common: supervillains.
The arch-nemesis really
defines the hero.
You can see how whatever is most
interesting or powerful about
the hero, the best villains are
the opposite.
The archvillain is
psychologically very powerful,
because there's an echo of that
archetype that's not just "me
versus danger and chaos," but
sort of "us versus them."
Stories of
superheroes fighting
supervillains with the fate of
the world at stake are common
across many different cultures
and time periods.
In the modern Avengers pantheon,
Thor does battle with his evil
adoptive brother, Loki, to
prevent Loki from taking
over the universe.
The story is inspired by ancient
Norse mythology, where Thor
engages in a similar battle with
Loki and his children
at Ragnarok.
The Greeks had their own epic
battle of the gods, which they
believed created the world as we
know it.
The Titanomachy was a conflict
between the Titans, who ruled
the world, and an upstart group
of gods called the Olympians.
Psychologists say these tales of
good facing off against evil
have always been popular because
they allow people to project
their hopes and fears onto
fictional characters in
make-believe worlds.
But could there be another
reason that these stories are
told again and again
around the world?
Joseph Campbell concluded
that somehow these
hero myths had pervaded
all cultures.
And you have to wonder if this
isn't because extraterrestrials
came here to our planet and were
heroes all over the world, and
so the same story was repeated
over and over again.
Is it possible that
some of our ancient hero myths
recount specific events
involving extraterrestrial
visitors in the distant past?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
and, as evidence, cite a
Sanskrit epic that describes an
enormous war between gods that
came from the stars.
In old India, we have a clear
description in the Mahabharata
which is the fifth book, the
so called Mausala Parva a clear
description of a war in Heaven.
I mean, it reads like modern
day science fiction,
this incredible battle
between the gods.
Gigantic cities were said
to have orbited the earth.
And when they came together at
the firmament, they were
battling each other.
The city Dvaraka was right at
the edge of the Arabian Sea.
Some of the explosion split the
city and then half of the
city fell in the sea.
And it is described
how two of these
cities were destroyed,
cities on Heaven.
And for the people on Earth, it
looked as if ten thousands of
little stars would fall down.
They are describing what are
extraterrestrial gods with
superpowers, with airships, with
weapons, and it would seem that
these ancient epic stories are
the same as these superhero
stories that we're
hearing today.
Could it be that modern
stories, in which
superheroes battle archvillains
for dominance over the earth,
are actually based on ancient
wars between
extraterrestrial forces?
Perhaps further clues can be
found in the Babylonian and
Sumerian origin myths.
According to modern
interpretations of the cuneiform
writing, the Enuma Elish
describes a celestial battle
some 5,000 years ago between two
groups of gods that may have
actually resulted in the
destruction of a planet
in our solar system.
Sumerian texts make
mysterious references
to these other planets
called Marduk and Tiamat.
And within our solar system,
there was some destruction here,
where one of them blew up, and
this would be the theoretical
planet that was between
Mars and Jupiter.
Astronomers have often said that
there should be a planet there,
but instead, we have
the asteroid belt.
Could the asteroid belt
that circles the sun
between Mars and Jupiter really
be the remnants of a planet that
existed in the distant past
a planet that was destroyed
in an alien war?
And if so, are these ancient
events echoed today in the plots
of modern superhero stories?
In many ways, these
stories, which are so
familiar to us in TV and movies
and comic books, are really
coming to us from these ancient
Sumerian and Hindu texts that
are thousands of years old.
Good versus evil is a
longstanding theme that we see
in many ancient cultures,
in which supernatural or
extraterrestrial beings are
coming to our aid and helping us
against the greatest evil
the world has ever known.
Modern stories of
superheroes fighting
supervillains, based on real
extraterrestrial battles that
took place above the earth
thousands of years ago.
Could it be true?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may be found
not with the stories of the gods
themselves, but with their technology.
Lemnos, Greece.
3000 BC.
This island in the Aegean Sea is
said to be the home of
Hephaestus, the Greek
god of technology.
The son of Zeus and Hera, king
and queen of the gods,
Hephaestus grew up on Mount
Olympus, but he was a small and
physically deformed child.
Unhappy with her son's physical
problems, one Greek legend says
Hera threw him off the mountain.
He fell for nine days and nine
nights and landed in the ocean.
There he was rescued by sea
nymphs who took him to the
island of Lemnos.
Hephaestus became the
blacksmith of the gods and he
set up his forge on the island
of Lemnos, and volcanoes were
said to be entrances
to his forge.
Working underneath an active
volcano, Hephaestus is
said to have forged
magical objects.
He eventually created the armor,
weapons and other technology
used by the Greek
gods and heroes.
Hephaestus is the god of the great
forge and he is the builder.
He creates the armor that is
impenetrable for Achilles.
He creates chariots.
Magical spears,
magical breastplates
and so forth, which gave the gods
all sorts of miraculous powers.
He's even said to have made the
chariot that the god Helios, the
god of the sun, rode across
the skies.
Some myths describe
Hephaestus creating even more
fantastic devices, including a
bronze bull that breathed fire
and is said to have had voices
coming out of its nostrils and a
powerful robot named Talus that
defended the island of Crete.
He made all these
wondrous creations.
And when we look back at those
stories, we have to ask, "Is it
possible that Hephaestus was an
extraterrestrial being who
brought some advanced
extraterrestrial technology to
Earth?"
Our ancestors had
no experience with advanced
technology, so they would have
described alien visitors as
having superhuman powers because
of their frame of reference.
If they saw an extraterrestrial
with access to incredible
"powers," which are due to
advanced science, they
interpreted that as
witnessing God.
And that was never the case.
Magical weapons
have been a key feature of
heroic myths for thousands of
years, but they play an even
larger role in the stories of
modern superheroes.
1939.
With new Superman comic books
flying off the shelves,
publishers rush to develop more heroes
to satisfy the public's demand.
The one that makes the biggest
impression is a hero of modern
technology...
Batman.
Created by Bob Kane and Bill
Finger, the Caped Crusader leaps
onto the comic book page and
immediately into the pantheon of
pop culture gods.
The idea of Batman is that
he is a normal person.
Nothing has given him
super strength.
But he's a normal person who
depends on his technology.
He has a utility belt with
all kinds of modern gadgets.
And he has a Batmobile,
and he has a Batcopter.
So he is a technological
superhero in that sense.
Batman, for us, is
probably one of the most
identifiable characters we have
with all of our fans, with all
of our audience.
Because he's a human.
He doesn't do something that
pushes the imagination beyond
something that we don't believe
people can actually do.
In 1963, the comics
gave birth to another iconic
character that is completely
dependent on science for his
superpowers... Iron Man.
In the Iron Man story, there's
this incredible suit
that can make him virtually into
a superman even though
he's, he's a mortal.
This is a great melding of the
human-machine interface.
This is how we use technology
to do extraordinary things.
Are Batman and Iron
Man modern representations of
what ancient astronaut theorists
believe the ancient gods really
were mortal beings with
advanced technology?
We see a similarity
with modern-day
superheroes in some of the
ancient texts of a god who wears
a special ring or holds a certain
staff and can magically
become a creature of flight
or can fly a magic carpet.
Many of the superheroes that we have
today are just normal human beings.
But when they strap on their
technology, like Batman in his
super suit or Iron Man in his
flying capabilities, well, these
are just normal mortals that are
using advanced technology and
become superhuman or godlike.
Could modern day
superheroes like Batman and Iron
Man be the true realization of
what our ancestors were
describing when they wrote about
powerful gods and heroes?
Was Hercules' great strength the
result of a robotic exoskeleton?
Could Hermes' power of flight
have been inspired by something
like a modern jet pack or
gliding suit?
And could Zeus' lightning bolts
have used electrical coils to
generate extraordinarily large
voltages?
The ancient people simply
used the vernacular of
the time to express what they
were seeing, and as far as they
were concerned, this could only
be the work of a supreme being.
Superhumans using
advanced technology.
Gods at war.
And extraterrestrials
coming from the heavens.
Could these ancient tales really
be evidence of an otherworldly
presence on Earth?
Perhaps further clues can
be found in the stories of
superheroes hiding
in plain sight.
July 3, 2007.
After spending decades as
larger than life toys and
animated television characters,
the Transformers hit the big
screen with the American
premiere of their first feature
film.
The extraterrestrial storyline
is a familiar one.
The Transformers, in a way,
are m-mechanical versions
of Superman.
They come from another planet.
They can adapt to being here.
And then, as in a lot of
Superman stories, the enemy
is from that planet.
There's some evil that follows
them, that chases them down.
So, they're having this ancient
battle from their homeland,
but they're having it here.
Unlike Batman or
Iron Man, the Transformers
aren't humanoids that
use technology.
They actually are technology.
But the most remarkable power
the Transformers use against
their foes is one of the most
important in all
of heroic myth.
The ability to change from
ordinary beings into
superheroes when evil threatens.
superheroes when evil threatens.
It's the archetype of
metamorphosis or transformation.
Shape shifting, if you will.
This comes down to us from
the ancient mythologies.
Shape shifting allows
gods to interact with
humans in a way that they would
not otherwise be recognized.
In fact, often times the god or
goddess cannot appear to the
mortal in their full splendor
because such a thing would
actually kill the mortal.
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest that stories
of gods living anonymously among
us are common because they
describe a time when
extraterrestrials did just that.
As evidence, they cite an
ancient story they believe bears
an uncanny resemblance to the
Transformers'
shape-shifting myth.
A story about the Mayan god
Kukulkan who is portrayed
both as a flying
serpent and a man.
We have descriptions
of a winged serpent
that flew over our
ancestors' heads.
But at the same time, we also
know that Kukulkan was also
someone that gave instructions
to the people in pretty
much humanoid form.
So does that mean that Kukulkan
was, in fact, a shape-shifter?
Ancient astronaut theorists
propose another possibility.
They contend that perhaps the
ancient people, being unfamiliar
with advanced technology,
witnessed an alien being
in a spacecraft.
Imagine for a moment a
craft lands, a hatch
opens and then the pilot walks
out and gives instruction.
There isn't really a
differentiation between the
machine and the person coming
out of it, because they didn't
understand the technological
concept behind it.
The instructor then went back
into the craft and took off.
All of a sudden, Kukulkan becomes
this winged serpent that
flies across the sky.
Is it possible that
this scenario may have actually
played out in the distant past?
And if so, did it inspire the
shape-shifting myths that humans
have told for millennia?
We have the same stories,
the core of the
stories, worldwide in
most of the mythologies.
They are all linked together.
They had different names, were
different heroes, different
personalities, but at the
end, it was all the same
extraterrestrials having contact
with the humans some thousands
and thousands of years ago.
But could there be
an even deeper meaning behind
the tales of otherworldly
heroes like the Transformers
and Kukulkan hiding among us?
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining the stories
of godlike beings disguising
themselves as ordinary humans.
Superman hides his identity by
pretending to be mild-mannered
newspaper reporter Clark Kent.
Wonder Woman disguises herself
as a nurse named Diana Prince.
And Spider Man's alter
ego is Peter Parker.
Virtually every really popular
superhero has a clear
and recognizable ordinary
human identity.
It's an essential part of the
superhero archetype that they be
able to look like us and feel
like us and live like us, but
then be able to explode into
their super-powered self.
We have a deep inner longing
to have that story
retold, perhaps through some
sort of genetic memory
written right into our DNA.
We seem to be remembering, on
some deep level, a part of us
that can come in contact with
extraterrestrial capabilities
and actualize them as we
ourselves reach the next level
of human evolution or what may
have been a level that we had
long ago and was deliberately
turned off in our DNA
for some reason.
Is it really
possible that we tell stories of
superheroes disguised as humans
because it is written in our
genetic memory that we have
special abilities hidden
within ourselves?
And if so, what could be the
source of those abilities?
We may not have
originated on Earth.
We may have been seeded on Earth
by other humans who are far
older than we are and who are
far more genetically
advanced than we are.
Perhaps some part of us
remembers that there is a way in
which we could be exposed to
certain technologies that
activate this dormant DNA within
us, that propel us to the next
level of what it means to be
a live, evolved human being.
Could it be that
stories of superheroes hiding
among us are so popular because
extraterrestrials have
manipulated our DNA, hiding
extraordinary powers
deep inside all of us?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by exploring the stories of
heroes whose powers are the
result of genetic mutation.
New York City, 1962.
Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee
wants to create a new
breed of superhero.
One of the masterminds behind
the Fantastic Four and the
Avengers, Lee invents a character
literally born out of
modern science: Spider Man.
Radiation was very much
in the news at the time.
And I figured, well, let's let
him get his power
through radiation.
And I figured the spider would
bite Peter Parker on the hand.
Since the spider was
radioactive, I assumed that his
little spider sting would insert
some radioactivity into
Peter's bloodstream.
Now, having radioactivity in your
blood, especially if it was
spidery radioactivity, that
should give you some of the
qualities of a spider.
Spider-Man's just a normal
teenager until he's
bitten by a radioactive spider.
Suddenly, he's a combination of
normal person, but also a god
with godlike powers.
I thought, "He'll have the
proportionate strength of a spider."
In other words, if a spider were
as large as a human being,
that's how strong the spider
would be which made Peter
Parker very strong.
I also figured he could stick to
walls like a spider
or any insect.
Although exposure to
radiation scrambles
Spider-Man's genetic material,
there's a precedent for it in
ancient mythology: genetic
manipulation through the mixing
of mortal and immortal blood.
Anjaneri, India.
Two miles outside this small
village, in a cave surrounded by
forests and mountains, is where
many believe one of Hindu
mythology's greatest
heroes was born: Hanuman.
Hanuman was part god because
his father was the
god of wind and his mother
is a mortal human being.
So, then, obviously, uh, he has
the qualities, the power of wind
god and he's able to fly and he
is able to multiply in his size.
So because of that, he's
definitely a demigod.
Hanuman is often
depicted as half-man and
half-monkey, which underlines
his mixed bloodline.
Is it possible that this is a
non-scientific way of describing
genetically engineered
super beings, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend?
One of the common themes
in ancient texts is
ancient gods or
extraterrestrials coming here
and then manipulating our DNA
and changing us into more
superior beings.
As evidence of the
genetic experiments they believe
took place in the prehistoric
past, ancient astronaut
theorists cite depictions of
hybrid creatures found in
cultures around the world:
winged horses in Assyrian
and Sumerian myths, the
elephant-headed deity Ganesha
in the Hindu pantheon, and
Khepri, the ancient Egyptian
god of the morning sun.
The Egyptian deity, Khepri,
is shown as either a
beetle, or as a human with
the head of a beetle.
And you have to ask, what are they
trying to tell us here about Khepri?
Could he have been half
human, half insect?
Some ancient
astronaut theorists believe the
hybrids depicted by the ancients
may have actually been the
result of extraterrestrial genetic
experiments in the distant past.
These things aren't very
far off from what we have
in our ancient tales
of creation.
In the Sumerian epic of
creation, we hear about the
Anunnaki literally putting their
genetic marker on us and
creating us in their image
and after their likeness.
Could genetic
experiments long ago have been
part of an ancient alien effort
to create the human race?
Some very strange things happened
in the course of human evolution.
We go from Neanderthals with
no apparent "missing link"
whatsoever, and all of a sudden,
our brain size doubles, our
thumbs becomes more usable,
we can walk erect more easily.
There's a large number of
changes that take place
in a very short time.
Might the entire
human species have been created
by extraterrestrial genetic
experiments in the past?
And could our genetic memory of
this be the reason we create
genetically altered superheroes
today, including mutants like
the X-Men and the Incredible
Hulk and hybrids like Hawkman,
Animal Man, and Spider-Man?
Is it possible that when
we are seeing superhero
movies, that on some level we
are remembering having been
changed before?
That perhaps we were like the
Neanderthals before, and this
already happened, we already had
some sort of genetic upgrade
that brought us to the next
level of human evolution?
Are modern comic book
stories of hybrids and
mutants actually inspired by an
ancient alien intervention
thousands of years ago?
And might we create these
stories because we are
subconsciously aware of
something greater
within ourselves?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and believe that our own
recent technological advances
may be bringing us closer to a
reconnection with our alien
past.
Livingston,
New Jersey.
May 2001.
Scientists at the Institute for
Reproductive Medicine made
headlines when they revealed
they had created the world's
first genetically modified baby.
Using a process called
cytoplasmic transfer, they
implanted mitochondrial DNA from
a second mother into an egg
to make it easier for it to bond
with sperm and form a viable fetus.
When scientists performed genetic
tests on the babies born
out of this process, they detected
genetic material from a third parent.
The reason the
cytoplasmic transfer is
controversial is because it's
human manipulation of the human
germ cell line, in other words
the, um, cell line that is passed
from parent to offspring.
We typically just inherit our
genetic material from both of
our parents, so there's a
direct line of descent.
With the introduction of
cytoplasmic transfer, suddenly
you have, um, humans
manipulating that germ line,
that cell line, or DNA line passed
on from parent to offspring.
If perfected,
genetic manipulation could
could allow scientists to
introduce DNA from an unlimited
number of people into a fetus.
This would allow them to rid
babies of genetic disease.
But it could also,
theoretically, let them tinker
with natural traits to create
superhumans that are much
faster, stronger, and smarter than
those that have come before.
You are altering the genetic
future of the human
race based on your sort of
current, um, preferences, let's
say, for a person's traits.
It's sort of into perpetuity
affecting the genetic line
of descent in humans.
And so, that's something very
different than had ever been
performed before, and that's
certainly controversial.
The concept of altering
genes whether these
genes are in food, animals, or
humans has always created a
firestorm of protest.
In this case, the controversy
forced an American moratorium on
cytoplasmic transfer.
Even so, scientists say the
technology may eventually be
developed that will allow us
to give superpowers including
amazing strength, eyesight, and
intelligence to our children
while they're still in the womb.
Today more than ever, we're
capable of playing god.
We have incredible superpowers
at our fingertips
with genetic technology and
you have to ask, "Are we
trying to duplicate what we saw
the gods possessing in
the ancient world?
Are we hardwired or programmed to
develop these technologies so
that we can equal our makers?"
Do we yearn to
become like the advanced beings
that ancient astronaut theorists
believe created us thousands of
years ago, and might this be
why superhero stories
continue to fascinate us?
I think the reason why
people like these superhero
stories that literally go back
thousands of years is because
they're possibly explaining
our actual human origins.
Every culture around the world
talks about an intervention
event where beings from the
heavens came down and
gave us knowledge.
If we really are
the product of alien genetic
experimentation as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
might our own DNA resemble that
of otherworldly beings?
And if so, are we becoming more
and more like our makers,
through our own technological
breakthroughs and genetic advances?
In many ways, our
society has come full
circle where in ancient times we
had extraterrestrials here
manipulating our DNA, and now
we're the ones who are
manipulating our own DNA to also
create a more advanced
human species.
Who knows what's possible?
It's a brave new world.
Everything changes and we have
abilities that are so different
that it's as if a quantum shift in
human evolution has taken place.
Are ancient stories
of heroes and gods with
mythological powers really based
on encounters with
extraterrestrials?
And might modern-day superheroes
be inspired by our desire to
reconnect with these
powerful beings?
Could characters like Batman...
Spider-Man...
and Superman be the
humans of tomorrow?
Perhaps as our technology
continues to advance,
we are drawing closer
to coming face-to-face
with our alien ancestors.
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