One thing not often mentioned is these sites have been looted for a long time.  The guesses at how old they are from carbon dating and applying today's  weather to be continuous for the past as "THE Dating Method" aren't enough.  They are a good starting point, but need to be refined.  Every group from tribe to countries over a few thousand years of population would take/use from others, just as Roman's did, re-building in the form of some of what was found, and most certainly any materials.  The ones buried deep and are 'very old" could have looted while still exposed by other tribes, which were then looted by Romans… etc.

I will cross of Heron's Fountain (second video) as it converts gravity into pressure, and can't run forever, especially if energy is removed from the system.   Very tall and large versions perfectly designed will run for a while, but not forever.   It's a 'gravity power' system that uses weight of water falling to pull a vacuum, renewing the process, but with only enough efficiency to keep itself moving for a while.  There have been many 'perpetual motion' attempts, and some can run a long time, weeks or more, by using gravity to "store" in one way or another.  Most of it is wasted as work to push the water higher than the vacuum it pulled when it fell, the more started with/larger reservoirs, the longer it will run.  There have also been many fraud perpetual motion machines.   Some get close, but never meet or exceed 100% efficiency, so any power taken from the system by using it for an "engine" would stop the motion.

Heat and gravity have been used throughout history for energy, the weather on Earth is due to the heat from the sun.  Elevators need only moderate sized power as a huge weight falls at the same rate the car lis lifted, a bit of gravity assist to fight gravity.  Garage doors are easier to open when the force of gravity pulling the door down during closing is stored as potential energy in springs to make the door seem lighter, which is how a small motor, under a horsepower, can lift a 250 lb+ door in seconds.    Everywhere there are clever ideas, which seem obvious once looked at, but magic at first glance, sort of like magician shows themselves.

These few processes, and many more could have been employed throughout history, even with a relatively weak steam engine, if scaled up enough and on single point bearings could provide extra "free" energy by only sunlight and keeping a fire lit.  It could assist people in accomplishing a task, the same way springs assist people in opening a garage door with one hand.

We do know that ingenious ideas were employed by the layout of some sites existing to start with, actual square corners, flat surfaces, rectangular layouts, etc.  To say that some devices were "discovered" by Romans "advanced technology" is a bit naive.  Humans couldn't have existed in a state of nothing up to Rome appearing and then they were magically brilliant.   It has more to do with written records surviving to be passed to the future.   Experiment logs and demonstration devices are said to have been "Invented" by Xxxxx.   I think it is more accurate to say "Documented well by Xxxxx".   The idea of Scholars, well educated Centurions, and many other 'enlightened' aspects of Rome which made it powerful were products of similar attempts by earlier groups.   Look at the United States, we didn't invent republics or democracy, only employed it a bit differently, and correctly, for long enough, to prove the advantages we've seen in our explosive technology advancement in the first 150 years, as well as the downsides we are currently seeing by attempting to remove the republic part and change to Mob Rule. over the past century, one slowed while the other increase.    Sort of like.. Rome.

Carbon dating has proved fallible in many ways, only being correct in some specific cases.  If other methods are available, such as tree ring history, then that is used to 'calibrate' the carbon decay that is measured.  It's a similar way to assume the geology/weather/conditions have been the same throughout the history of Earth, to make a linear fit and come up with an Exact number for age.

There are a ton of articles about it, 'mistakes' and the downfalls.  How to improve and change are discussed many times, and it would seem some of those improvements have been changing the model to show a random artifact is as old as they want it to tell them they think it is, rather than seeing what it says, and checking agreement.

All metals/valuables would have been stolen by other people/tribes throughout history while they were still above ground.  Disease likely wiped many groups off the map, infection rates increase rapidly with population density, and the concept of hygiene and illness were really  only recent.  a tribe could come across a civilization who had a few creative people that built something, which sparked more ideas, which then were expounded on, like the technology explosion  in the US after electricity was in a usable form in the past century.   A whole lot got built without electricity, including the rifles, pistols, and cannons for the US civil war, firearms across the world for hundreds of years, exquisitely crafted items, all before advanced steels were alloyed.   Most anything done prior to 1800, laying all the groundwork for the period since, could have also been done by many other "primitive" civilizations without magic.

animal power was likely used forever, as animal drawn plows are mentioned n most written history, there's no reason they couldn't have been used in other areas for power with simple gadgets consisting of levers and wheels/pulleys, also known for thousands of years.  Likely not as efficient, compact, or portable as we see today, but the wheel is as old as history itself, from the first person that saw some shapes of rocks rolled down hills, while other shapes wouldn't.

Very long rambling post, but my point is many of these theories stating "This could have only been done with a lathe, which would have had electricity and electric motors" is a crazy assumption, treadle powered lathes have existed since before Rome.    That same trait of assuming what we have today is the only way things could have been done, the weather today is how the weather is and always should be (*cough* global warming *cough*), carbon decay is a perfect science, and many other examples are "Bad Science".   It doesn't mean it's 100% wrong, but basing an entire theory on electric lathes existing, when we have proof of treadle powered lathes in museums, is a bit naive.   About as naive as insisting the first version of 'how it was done' is taught as doctrine, causing any new data or ideas to be instantly discarded.

Examine what is found, mute the video and look at what is there, think of what is required, think of what we absolutely know was easily available to them, from fire to water wheels to animal power, as well as wooden technology (marble machines, lathes, many others) which could have been made at any time in some other, less efficient, form.  Then read/see a few different 'explanations' of 'How it was done'.  They rarely say 'this may have been done this way', often it's "This could have only been done by.." then using that statement to generalize the rest.   All archeologists tend to do that, which I find humorous.  Hence, I like this thread, there are thousands of other possibilities before we get to Aliens.    However, MH370 has had all causes eliminated except for the dragon eating it, so that's what happened.  Prove me wrong.  

The first 15 minutes summarizes my outlook very well, in a succinct way.  Don't think learning is something to only do while at a school.   Live and learn is a state of mind many people follow, always learning new info, connecting dots, or storing it for later.   Everybody is capable of that, but they don't apply it, since TV/Movies/etc are more interesting.   I'm continually entertained by my own thoughts, or solving a problem.  There are many I've thought about as plausible, a few are pretty glaring truths when seen, but can't be understooed without walking down a similar path. I'm walking on a parallel or even the the same path as that author is.

I don't agree with some of his conclusions only because I've never looked into that particular aspect details, I'm more technology related about cool things that existed, spoke about in histories, then 'lost' for hundreds of years before re-appearing as 'new'.    Since I haven't really heard of his exact theory in the video, I can't comment on if it's correct, but I don't see any glaring logic flaws or leaps of judgement.

When you never stop learning, people start to label you "paranoid" or a geek for staying busy learning instead of other leisure activities.    It's been made a social crime to not go to parties, watch TV, movies, etc.    Reason I say that is I have NO clue what movie was shown in the middle.   I've gone to 3 movies in a theater since y2k, and not many in the past decade are even good, simple and direct plots, everything is comedy, so I suppose I like Idiocracy, which seems more like a laid out plan for the future instead of a comedy.   I think that's the most recent movie I thought was good, but for different reasons than other people think its a good movie.  There's that whole paranoid freak geek coming through again.

Why would this be the chosen style?  Other movies are similar with the presentations, for a long time.  I think ever since Leonard Nemoy had a TV show called "In Search Of...".  It was the precursor to ancient aliens/UFOs and many other oddities where the ideas are mocked in mainstream media and movies.   As they currently do by calling Trump/conservatives "Extreme Right Extremists".   If there is truth, make it cool to belittle it.   That causes everybody that hears/sees something to knee-jerk mock a statement or idea, as seen above with the Reply...



--ETA:  Exist, yes, there's absolute proof and DNA mixes not currently seen, from more than 1 continent.   Run the world?  I don't know, I've never looked into any of it, as I stated earlier.   People tend to mimic things they see as "better", which would cause the "head binding" to be an attempt to mimic something they saw as 'better', to improve by appearance.   Why would a cheap eBay item have the exact same design/layout/appearance as an item that costs 20x as much, but still function as something worth less, most of the price is put into presentation/enclosure design than the functional bits.   Mimicking appearance is still common today when you look around, from visual appearance to phrasing, the reason they're better is still assumed to be the appearance and layout above all else.

The theory of their exact job/purpose/intelligence may not be correct, that's spitballing.  Everything up to the rulers/etc is good information, especially looking at all of the evidence.

Many jump to a theory and try to fine only proof that supports their theory, including "real" archeologists.   View all the info gathered that is public info, from many sources (Public ≠ "easily found") .  Ignore the theory or ideas of why.   Put the facts together from both debunking stories and the "new proof I was right", look at things which are factual and real info, look for fakes, as he did with the Peru underwater off coast of Russia.   That info usually has to be wrapped in a "bigger Theory" way to get people interested to watch it, ignore that part and lots can be learned.   His theory may not be exact, but the raw data such as DNA testing, Russia faking Peru, locations of stonework, looting, etc.  all fit in with the other information we've talked about in this thread.

IOW, Don't pick out one part you don't believe in or don't like to debunk ALL of it.   If I state something incorrectly, it may be I didn't have enough info to make the right guess at the time.   That doesn't make everything I've said in my entire life untrue.   Keep mind open to new ideas, try to disprove ALL aspects before saying it's ALL junk.   The videos tell us far more factual information/photos than we ever hear from "Real Archeologists".  Why would that be?   Why is it if a person doesn't agree with "real archeologists" on something, they're 'blacklisted' from that entire group?   If things are facts, why are they documented, but never mentioned?  Add peices together and see what makes any sense at all.

Finally, why do you state they are "Nomadic"?    Nomadic tribes don't typically build towns and monuments to whichever God they believe in.

Egypt has been "tourism-ized"  Museums all around the Mediterranean,on the other hand, have some cool stuff.   I wish more would get hi res photos of everything they have online.   It's a lot cheaper.   Plus, I don't really care about who was who.   There are cities discovered from 2500+ years ago, yet history and archeologists insist Rome invented it, while Jesus blamed the Jews.

I honestly don't know much, and I could afford to make those trips, I could do a lot neater stuff to help people here with an "all the trivia, rambling babble you'd like to hear, with cool demonstrations" skool.  Somehow encourage everybody to learn, and have a personal reason to decide one more correct or closer to maybe the right thing than some other thing.   Not just because "Teacher/Celebrity said it was".  The latter is happening everywhere, how frequently do we see movie quotes posted on ARF?  How about Names and quotes of TV Show characters, etc.?

If everybody spent 1 hour each day instead of entertainment, try learning something, means way more than words form a teacher, learning how to learn would be a good start for many.  Opening a dictionary, find a word they aren't familiar with, look at etymology of the word and look at the trades/areas/history it came from, we'd all be better off.   Even searching for a YouTube video about calculus, or machining in the home shop, or woodworking, even basic repairs. Those are all things we should have at least a basic background in.

I see this too much:

I absolutely believe there were people as intelligent as we are in those times, they didn't have a huge knowledge base to work from, but a few of those thousands, after the 20th day of grinding rocks, said "Hey, What If.." for an idea to make it go along quicker.  Once people discovered this more quicker way were discovered by people able to apply their idle thoughts once the realization that something better is being done, kit gives them a chance to mention their cool idea.   It's taking it to the extreme opposite, people working in their "off time" to make a small demo model out of hemp and mud to show a 'boss' how they could complete it in 3 lifetimes instead of 8.   Boredom and repetitive labor sparks a whole slew of ideas for many people.  Some not so good, some applicable.

I believe many had lathes, which would be simple to make once concept was known, maybe not high speed, screw thread making, engine lathes, but a rudimentary type run by foot power, look at YouTube on people making "get by lathes" for wood.  Some are dead simple, while others try to re-create most parts of a modern lathe.   It only has to spin a little bit so a rough rock can be correctly rubbed against whatever somebody is spinning, maybe have the "spin thingy to be changed" and the "hold rubbing stone at stable position" were two different basic machines set next to each other.    Wonders could be made  in only a couple weeks of that, vs a lifetime of never getting it perfect manually.   Could have started out as making "round rocks" to use as rollers for moving heavy blocks, and once enough rollers were made, somebody wanted to try making a vase or whatever with it.  This doesn't explain the megalithic structures which would smash even a high quality modern lathe with their weight.  Go around it with tangents which get finer and finer, make an octagon, Offset the ropes and starting point by 33°, and do it twice more for something that looks very much spherical, the ridges could then be small and easily removed by hand.

I also think  "Knowledge is Power" has existed forever, hence the looting of dead cities with many things expected are missing.  Groups still loot for info that will get them ahead to this day.   Each country has probably collected a large amount of "secrets", we do not know the extent.

It's almost as if they're giving us free porn and funny TV shows to watch is a way to stifle people from thinking about better ways of doing things, or keeping people from going apeshit crazy and killing somebody, is the solution worse than the issue itself?

Things like this are what is fascinating to me.  I don't bother with the theories packaged to sell it, just the raw info and I'll connect dots myself.   I like the videos that show actual things, from museum or an archaeological dig, or existing structures and estimated times.    The one with pole moving does jive and matches what's been found in mineral deposits, where magnetic fields arent the same between two areas, which isn't really explained.

This one about fast magnetic flux screwing up compasses A sort of conspiracy/odd stuff site.

Pole moving faster than ever before (in known history) - Phys.org Hard Science Physics Journal.

Just like the video about the elongated heads.  Teaching people to not learn what they weren't told to learn helps tell all the bits without telling them in a way where links can easily be drawn.   Physics sites, archeological sites, history of early America and many other nations, each has a bit in it.  The time is worth the bits of education you'll pick up, requiring learning a little bit of what's mentioned if you aren't familiar with it.

To easily learn, I'm going to scare you:  Go to Wikipedia, look up something you like or are interested in.  Click on all wiki pages reference in article, and open all the journals which are online and referenced.  Read the entire article and the cherry picking done by wiki editors is pretty obvious.   That's learning several things at once after some detours and learning a bit more about everything.   The more of "everything" you learn, the faster learning goes, but knowing "Everything" is impossible due to the fractured nature of various "Fields".   When there aren't fractures, the documents are hidden behind $5/page paywalls to see.  New releases are free, but some older ones require payment?   Especially detailed papers from the field of archeology, the only free data is what the NYT says is in it. These practices strike me odd.

Note:
If you've noticed many typos lately, my keyboard is freaking out and putting random punctuation in, missing some letters/spaces, and generally annoying  I try to correct all I can but something always escapes me.  I don't normally look at screen or keyboard when typing, just a gestalt puke all over the post.

I didn't think about wording last night.    Seems the experiences I'm going through with lost keys and random symbols showing up, duplicate letters and such are all attributed o One Thing - LIR/R-LIL xxxx series of batteries,
Bonus info of day:

LIR/CR DDHH[HH]

That's the format of all SI Battery size nomencclature.   Physical dimensions only.   A 14500 cell is 14mm diameter, and 50.0 mm long (AA Cell).  A CR2032 is 20mm in diameter, and 3.2 long (thick is commonly used, it's like a thin, smaller quarter.

LOVE THEM, the energy density and recharge counts of LiIon cells match or exceed NiMH _IF you can find an application that supports using a 14500 in place of 2 Alkaline/NiMH AA.

The LIR-XXXX is relatively new in the game.   Many applications have used them, and their chipsets support charging and monitoring of cell.  When cell no longer charges, it will say "100%" but not actually work, won't light up lights, etc.   Replace with a CR2032?  Firmware recognizes it's not a "R" 2032, so refuses to work.   That's the problem I had.  The chargers for coin cells have only gone mainstream recently, and will explode a non rechargeable cell.    Make sure you're only replacing a Rechargeable cell with a rechargeable cell.   Some phones will recharge the "emergency ping cell" at the same time your main battery is charging.

The keyboard I have is solar.  The battery in that keyboard is LIR 2032.  A CR2032 didn't work at all.  I'm waiting for an RCE2032 to arrive.

In the meantime when I don't carefully edit my posts, odd crap speweth in all directions.   I edit this like 5 times, but due to "lingo" being highlighted as wrong, I give u.

It is working better tan last night, after a day under a 1k lumen lamp, but is messing up again.
 Super-capacitors reduce the need for these, but they're hidden in many devices which are periodically charged.

These can be charged with any Cadex LiPo analyzer with a standard holder/contacts for the 2032 and the micro clip set on the Cadex.   R/C Chargers will support all types of LIR XXXXX batteries, estimate 140 if it asks.  Same thing, just add the leads as in  CAdex.

Others are a bit more tricky, as they not have the charge curve available.  Lower end only support Li-Ion (Lithium and Manganese), or LiFPO4 (Lithium - Iron) which does cover about 80% of commonly used stuff.

I keep a lot of LIR 2025 and 2032s around  Between those I can sammich them together and match almost any battery combo up to larger batteries that should be used.