The aliens need our gold! The proof? 3.

Wait so a super technologically advanced life form that is able to travel through the universe easily doesn't have the knowledge to create technology that can mine for gold on a different planet? That instead they need slaves?

I mean if you are going to go down this crazy route at least make it more plausible!

They didn't even have to come to a populated planet if they wanted to get gold out of the solar system. And unlike us humans in the article, they presumably don't have to worry about devaluation.
https://www.space.com/psyche-metal-asteroid-composition
- Yes. What gets me is how people devalue humans. That if our linage doesn't come from aliens then somehow we are not special?
  I'd say everything that had to happen for humans to exist is more impressive than "aliens"
- Also with differentiated asteroids like Vesta, Ceres (and maybe Psyche) they're entirely cold. So rather than scrabbling around for the flecks of gold on the surface like on Earth, you can just tunnel down into the core and mine all the heavy metals that sunk during the planetoid's molten era.
Sadly that is the most plausible part, for two reasons.
For one thing, machines need constant maintenance from qualified professionals, or they break down. And, once they’re broken, you have to pay for even more expensive repairs or buy a new one. Slaves, on the other hand, you can abuse almost to the point of death and they will keep functioning; they’re also somewhat self-replicating.
The second reason is why so many people want to bring slavery back: the cruelty is the point. There’s a certain mindset that really loves lording it over people; and even better if those people are so in their power that they physically/legally cannot escape. See also: people who verbally abuse wait staff.
Of course, it’s up to debate whether a truly alien lifeform would be thinking in such a human way, but it’s certainly possible.
(That being said, these people are lunatics. Douglas Adams once said, ‘Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?’ and I think that sums their insane rantings up perfectly.)
- I can't argue against the cruelty part, but I would think that it would be very likely that aliens with the power to travel across interstellar distances and subjugate entire planets would have developed self-repairing technology.
Also if this was even remotely true we would never see surface level minerals since they would have all been collected first. Easiest way to debunk the ancient aliens here for our resources stories.
Nah, this way it filters out all the people who will not be easily fooled.
Humans still use horses, cows, sled dogs, etc., even though we have cars, tractors, and many other machines which can do the same tasks.

Hey, can you prove definitively that the Anunnaki WEREN'T actually little green men from outer space who could tell the future??? Well that proves it then! It MUST be true! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for an appointment to be fitted for a pyramid shaped hat to block the governments mind control rays...

Wait, I thought they were the lizard people who were the ancestors the top Democrats, business owners, and the Republicans that they don't like. Am I mixing conspiracy theories?
- WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!! The ancient Annuaki gods, the Lizard People, satanic pizza parlors, M&Ms not being sexy anymore, it's all part of one BIG conspiracy that goes ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP! Everyone who I disagree with is part of it!

Acadian myths?? Acadians were Catholic lol

I'm pretty sure they meant the Akkadians.
Not any less stupid, but these sorts have a real hard-on for ancient Middle Eastern cultures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_Empire
- Was actually reading about this earlier. "Atra-Hasis" is the literary precursor to Noah. He saves people in the oldest flood myth (that we know of). So imagine this person is saying that Noah hung out with aliens.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atra-Hasis
  Also, the myth doesn't mention aliens at all.

Okay... why was gold so "vital to [the Anunnaki's] survival"? Did they eat it? Tooth fillings? Cell phones? Gold plated audio jacks?

Those Anunnakis were audiophiles and couldn't survive without gold plated audio jacks
- It's all about the gold plated TOSLINK
It was to restore the atmosphere on their home planet Nibiru supposedly.
- Well... that makes about as much sense as the rest of it.

I mean, I've always considered this a really cool idea for a sci-fi/fantasy story. Problem is the people who tell these stories believe they're real.

Replace Annunaki with Goa'uld
- Or the Engineers from Prometheus
- Well, yeah. But Stargate got all their ideas from these conspiracies.

Yes, and I'm the queen of France

Your majesty looks good after losing all that ugly fat above her neck.

Obviously. Haven't you seen Battlefield Earth?

I wonder, if someone were to write some good novels about the Anunnaki, could they get this nutjob crowd at the same time as pulling in a good sci-fi audience? Seems like a reasonable way to try starting the next thing like Scientology.

This comes from Erich Von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods? - which had the “?” added much later - as well as Zechariah Sitchen’s works. They do purport to be nonfiction, but work as sci fi novels. Sitchin did not know Sumerian/cuneiform, and basically made up definitions and words that he claimed described alien space ships.
Graham Hancock and “Aliens meme guy” whose name I can’t be assed to spell haven’t really been using it as a religion, more just taking advantage of the History Channel.
Without looking, I would not be at all surprised if there are multiple such novels. Good I don't know.