They mention transoceanic travel, not aliens. Their mistake is assuming the popular presentation of Columbus being the first transatlantic traveller is accepted as fact by historians.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, parallel development of the swastika as a symbol is very possible. It is also possible that individuals or small groups travelled much greater distances than we typically imagine and shared information such as symbols with others around the world.
“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”
I think smoking rooms in hotels are still a thing, but they’re certainly less common than they were. My mother and I got stuck in a smoking room despite booking a non-smoking room well in advance and it was awful. Stayed just one night and our clothes smelled like cigarette smoke for the rest of the trip.
I don’t really care if people smoke, but gosh, ya’ll need ventilation.
Cause it’s an extraordinarily simple symbol that can even be found in the cross section of certain trees. Behind the Bastards did a two parter on the history of this shape and all the names it has had.
Simple symbol? What craziness are you talking about? The next thing you’ll tell me is that “humans” are able to come up with a shape of a 3d triangle on their own, in different places, without extraterrestrial help.
I’ve only seen that kind of innovation with children playing with blocks.
We only ban the idiots from our paradise in your hollow moon and they usually come to Earth for this reason. That’s probably why y’all have so much trouble with our kind.
The oldest instances can be found with Ancent North Eurasian descendants and both Indo-Europeans and Native Americans are like 50% descended from ANE. We know that many myths have been proven to go back to them, so why not symbols too.
Memes stick around for way longer than most people think, at least when you look at it through a phylomemetic lens.
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