Is it true that throughout England, France, and Germany today there are ancient stone forts built with large rocks which were melted from enough heat to become fused and glassy? According to the book I'm reading, the heat required to produce this effect rules out the possibility that the stones were melted with conventional fire.

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You all are going to think I've fallen off the deep end, but I'm currently reading a book that I thought was about Freemasonry, but is actually about aliens having begun human civilization. Now, I half think this is hilarious, but I can't help wondering about some of the more unbelievable "facts" presented at the end of the book. So I'm going to post several questions based on "facts" presented in the book. Please feel free to give evidence or alternate explanations against these facts, because I really don't want to become a nut who thinks aliens kept humans as slaves, genetically modified us, and mined our planet millions of years ago.

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Meteorites can have a glassy or molten surface from the extreme heat generated as they pass through the atmosphere. Many ancient peoples were fascinated by meteroites: "The gods are throwing rocks at us!" The sacred stone of Islam at Mecca is said to be a meteorite. So maybe people collected meteorites for these structures, perhpas to add a divine element to the fort's protective feature.

I find that easier to believe than than aliens built the fort. If aliens wanted protection, they could just use a force field or a death ray or mystical illusions or some such, after all, aren't aliens supposed to be telepathic and wonderfully advanced technologically? I mean , a fort with stone walls, how crude. They could just 'gesture hypnotically' and suddenly the air would be full of flying gryphons and so forth, and terrify the enemy.

(Sorry. I'm an incurable sceptic.)

Oh no, not a SKEPTIC!

That makes perfect sense, Babs. I can't believe it didn't occur to me as an alternate possibility. Thanks for straightening me out.

Anytime. And thanks for catching that spelling error. It's one of those words I always seem to misspell.

I wasn't correcting your spelling. I think that "skeptic" can be spelled either way - like "blond" and "blonde." Personally, I would prefer for people to think of me as a "blawnd squeptik," but apparently the squares out there only accept two alternative spellings. Heh, go figure.

In Scotland, from whence my father's side of the family came, out side of Edinburgh, there are castles/forts which once the rocks were stacked were subjected to an extreme heat which caused fill stones to melt and fuse.

Many experiments with mixtures of peat, wood, oil and some other native plant and animal material and keeping the fire enclosed in a near air tight shaft which is designed like a chimney, opening at the bottom, opening at the top - have reproduced similar walls.

I believe they insulated the fire with a peat and soil mixture, the peat in that mixture also charred.

Early Iron Age man was able to melt iron in furnaces where conditions were controlled. The similar idea was applied to a small wall and it seemed to work.

http://users.gmpexpress.net/~triplett/Fusion%20of%20Stone.html Has other theories and similar stuff.

Cheers

David

That's really interesting, Dvd, thanx.

I think the 'alien explanation' site is like Eric von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods. The more outre explanation is always offered, the common-sense or scientific explanation is seldom even considered. What are those strange pointy things coming out of people's foreheads in the stick-man figures on the cave wall? Could the dancers have put headdresses on with antlers or other animal horns? Certainly not! Those are the antennae with which the aliens communicate with the Mother Ship.