Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.737

   So I think that leaves open the possibility that somehow or other 2.8 billion years ago, there was some type of intelligent being that uh produced these things. And so you got one of them here. Can can we take a look? Well, this is not one of the best samples, but there are. So, this is like one of the objects. And you see these parallel grooves, two of them there that go around into the uh underneath these. I mean, this would have to be carefully cleaned with uh dental equipment or something to take to remove these deposits that cover it. But on on this part of the sphere, you see the two gro…

   yt/tKb8RJmg_20-michael-cremo-the-origins-of-mankind-forbidden-archeology/transcript.txt

2. 02 · gutenberg0.724

   In the Late Stone Age he had learned how to make vessels of fire-baked clay. His axes were ground to a sharp edge, and he bored holes in the ax head to receive the ax handle. The Swiss lake dwellers built houses of wood and fitted them with all sorts of wooden furniture carved with stone tools. Among the remains of these interesting settlements may be found balls of clay which, from the fact that one of them was discovered with a spool of flax still attached to it, were evidently used as spinning “whorls” used for spinning flax into thread. Clothing of skins was giving way to or being suppleme…

   gutenberg/PG-49445-mechanics-the-science-of-machinery/PG-49445.txt

3. 03 · gutenberg0.718

   We marvel at the resourcefulness and skill of the primitive savage in working so difficult a material as stone. It would baffle a modern mechanic to be required to shape a piece of flint into an arrowhead with no other tool than a piece of bone. He is so accustomed to using tools which are harder than the material they are intended to shape that he cannot conceive of making any impression upon a piece of flint with a piece of bone, to say nothing of a stick of hard wood, and yet such tools were used away back in the Stone Age. At first stones were roughly shaped by hammering them together. The…

   gutenberg/PG-49445-mechanics-the-science-of-machinery/PG-49445.txt

4. 04 · gutenberg0.716

   Not only did primitive artisans shape the stone implements with hammer blows, but they learned how to shape stone by pressure as well, using a tool that was relatively soft. It is not a very difficult matter to shape even so hard a substance as glass merely by pressure. If a piece of glass is laid on a table with its edge slightly overhanging that of the table, it is possible to chip off the overhanging edge by pressing a nail or even a hard stick of wood against this edge. A small flake of glass is thus removed, and, by continuing the process, arrowheads of any shape may be formed. The tool i…

   gutenberg/PG-49445-mechanics-the-science-of-machinery/PG-49445.txt

5. 05 · yt0.713

   There exists one very concise description of how these massive stones were transported from the quarry to the building site. The master builders had the capability of putting some type of a white substance, paper-like substance onto the stones and they rode on it [music] and then they basically gave the stone block a push and it moved by six feet as if by magic. Now, did that thing really move by magic? No. some technology was used. [music] That is part of the solution. In order to really move massive amounts of stone like that, they would have had to have been levitated somehow made weightles…

   yt/7yV1cWkfooQ-the-search-for-the-truth-marathon-ancient-aliens/transcript.txt

6. 06 · blog0.712

   Anticipating the modern rise of scientific specialization, he yields the field to those who devote themselves solely to this one science ( LongMeta XII.48 {1679}). The spheres move eternally in majestic circles simply because it befits their lofty existence to do so ( EpiMeta 4.152 {140}, LongMeta XII.36 {1595}, Incoherence I.15 {484}), but these motions have a subordinate effect of signal importance to us: they sustain the very existence of our sublunary world. Most basically, the motion of the celestial spheres—although they are not themselves hot ( SubstOrb 2.95)—gives rise to heat in the f…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/ibn-rushd-averroes.md

7. 07 · yt0.712

   Achieving this level of exactness, especially millennia ago, raises the question, did the ancient Egyptians possess technology beyond what we've ever imagined? The interior of these boxes is equally or inspiring, while the smooth exteriors are impressive enough, the flawless precision on the inside seems even more impossible. How did they hollow out these massive granite blocks with such accuracy given the tools thought to be available at the time? Copper tools, often credited to the Egyptians, would have been insufficient for the task, and the uniform thickness of the walls suggests the use o…

   yt/dKrFjTvQ6l4-the-worlds-greatest-ancient-mysteries-archaeologists-still-c/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.710

   [Music] uh the oldest tools that have been identified as being made by humans for the purpose of making sound are a number of flute fragments excavated in germany from sites such as geissen clusterly and hall of falls the most recent carbon datings placed the most ancient specimens at around 43 000 years old the flutes are constructed from hollow bird bones usually the wing bones of large flying birds such as vultures in which finger holes have been scraped out not bored or pierced through as you might imagine this may seem like a small thing but it is significant because scraping the holes in…

   yt/kY7PsHk5jOI-6-prehistoric-music-a-history-of-music/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.709

   The hammer was scientifically analyzed in the 1980s by two independent labs. The Creation Science Foundation based in Australia and the Battel Memorial Laboratory in Columbus, Ohio. Incredibly, both labs concluded that the hammer could indeed be over 100 million years old. Part of the handle actually is starting to go through a process called cification. It's where you have inorganic material and organic material changing into coal. This is something that just simply can't happen in the span of say a hundred years. Like most people saying, "Oh, this is nothing more than a hammer that was left …

   yt/gPOT_wpCO80-mysterious-devices-of-the-gods-marathon-ancient-aliens/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.708

    The reason why I am convinced that sophisticated technology was utilized in these ancient rocks is because if we go to a stone quarry today and look at the scope of machinery required to accomplish similar things, those machines are huge. [music] Subscribers to ancient alien theory do not believe extraterrestrials built these amazing monuments, but instead provided some type of technological knowhow or tools [music] to our ancestors. Engineering expert Chris Dunn has spent several decades researching the construction tools used [music] by the ancient Egyptians. We're normally taught by Egyptol…

    yt/7yV1cWkfooQ-the-search-for-the-truth-marathon-ancient-aliens/transcript.txt