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[–] [email protected] 89 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm out of the loop, who is the guy?

[–] [email protected] 154 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Reverse nepotism baby that wants to play archaeologist on Netflix. He's also extremely paranoid that "big archaeology" (lmao) is out to get him because he cannot handle criticism from people that know what they're talking about. Tldr weirdo on Netflix that thinks he's a martyr.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ha, now I wanna watch it. Might be fun if you treat it like it's Cunk on Earth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

"...and on this grand battlefield, the aliens had their first successful battle against protonapoleon, they had learned to...

...would suffer worsening results for centuries while the aliens established themselves slowly across the south pole and up towards Australia. Eventually developing into an opening for a slaughter across much of Southeast Asia. The tall, narrow mountains are actually mass graves for the...

... the grand fortification of the majority of what is now called Tibet endured assaults and sieging unequalled in scale, but stood strong for decades. Vast swaths of territory was being lost in Africa and America, but the line at the Himalayan range practically never faltered, with the exception of smaller breaches. By this time, their very strange and interesting form of nuclear weapons technology had finally had time to enter the theater, and preparations were being made for a massive surprise attack...

...there were apparently only a few hundred outposts left, but advance forces and the rolling production and use of nuclear weapons were steadily taking them down, dozens every month. The majority of the alien empire was reduced to ash and rubble, a nuclear stockpile – vastly larger than even the modern superpowers at the height of the Cold War – was emptied in its entirety.

While the cleansing of Earth was almost done, the results required them to heavily adapt their civilization, there was heavy bunkerization of everything that was not abandoned, and expansion of subterranean production of...

...likely meant that finally, they had won, there were none left to be found. The final proper outpost was destroyed very long ago, but there were many sightings for a while after; With Alaska's search now finally being completed with no findings, there was nowheren left to look that they hadn't. They would leave nearly a hundred thousand scouts stationed to keep an eye out, like they had done all over the world, but any aliens they couldn't find must have crawled deep into the Earth only to be entombed to a cave-in. So thorough and global are the signs of the massive search they committed decades to...

...an asteroid, almost certainly too massive to deflect despite being spotted so early. The centuries of peace had been appreciated despite the hardships, but this turn of events brought a wave of madness over much of the world. Production of space equipment was still in nearly full force and teams were already being sent out do as much as they could, but likely they'd only be able to chip off a fraction of it. Frantic research into alternatives was ongoing, but there were few who hadn't accepted the futility of it all, the majority were on a hedonistic spree for the next few months...

...impact, the global devastation...

...and that's how the most interesting period of Earth's history came to an end."

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (1 children)

reverse nepobaby? How does that work? His kid gave birth to him and then hired him?

[–] [email protected] 125 points 7 months ago (3 children)

His son works for Netflix and got him a show.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't that be "nepo daddy"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

One of his kids is a Netflix exec apparently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

When you have a famous kid, I'd guess, but I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

the show is fun to watch if you realize it's just him tearing through the strawmen he set up for himself

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

I want to call him Don Quixote, but that almost feels like a compliment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't have a boat in this race, but banning him from otherwise open historical sites because they don't like his ideas is not scientific, but more like the mediaeval Catholic church.

Science is full of bigoted thinking as any other discipline. If you don't already know this, you have never met a scientist.

Having said all that, it is a silly idea, but I enjoy the incidental geology that he employs to illustrate his argument. Not that I buy into the argument itself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Quacks get banned/shunned because they're usually obnoxious and abusive, not because they hold fringe ideas. If it was only the latter they'd fit right in in most fields.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

My recent favorite is anthropology ignoring all evidence of women hunting because it didn't fit social morals of the researchers. Even finding women buried with shields and weapons and people still making excuses.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

That's a good example. Another is from my country, Australia. The idea that the Aborigines were just nomad hunter gatherers was seriously upset by the discovered fish farming settlements in the north of the country as well as the remains of basic stone buildings. Settler farmers have been destroying the evidence of these artifacts for 150 years because they upset the politics of "peaceful European settlement".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn minions of orthodoxy, I'll keep my cells from getting bored and then what?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

He's like that Aliens history channel meme. He believes in completely made up prehistory theories, like there was an advanced civilization that existed alongside the cavemen. He took too much acid one time in his life and never returned to earth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

There's a few videos on YT about him, particularly about his newest show and reintroduction to an unaware younger audience who isn't familiar with his tricks. I'd suggest potholer54's critique of the episodes, not only for breaking it down on why Hancock is woo crazy, but also reading the comments where lots of times you get defenders trying their own attempts of logic spin. It's funny and sad at the same time.

I hope Keanu isn't a sucker about this stuff. I believes some of Hancock's ideas too once, but to be fair I was like 11. I can only hope he was playing along and every time Hancock mentions a new fact Keanu goes "whoa..."