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S10E03: Aliens and RobotsIncredible strength... Superior intelligence... And even the ability to reproduce. In the 21st century, robots are being programmed to do everything from performing surgery on humans--to exploring other planets. And humanoid robots are rapidly reaching a level of sophistication that was thought to exist only in science fiction. But what are the implications of creating robots that are increasingly intelligent and independent? Is the obsession with creating counterfeit humans really pointing the way to mankind's future... or to its past? Greek stories dating to 2000 B.C. tell of the god Hephaestus creating robots to build weapons, as well as the bronze giant Talos. In Egypt, the Pyramid Texts say that the god Osiris was dismembered, then reassembled and brought back to life just like a machine. If sophisticated robots really did exist in the ancient world--what function did they serve? Who built them? And what happened to them?
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Aug 07, 2015
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Robert Clotworthy, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Ariel Bar Tzadok, Jonathan Young, David Childress, Erich von Däniken, Linda Moulton Howe, David Wilcock, George Noory, Philip Coppens, Nick Pope, Mike Bara, Bill Birnes, Hugh Newman, Robert M. Schoch, Nick Redfern
