Sunday, January 23, 2011

Vimanas - Ancient Flying Machines

Vimanas are the mythical flying machines chronicled in the ancient Sanskrit epics of India. The story of the Vimana predates Christ by many thousands of years, and the Hindus of today’s India believe the existence and usage of Vimana to be historical fact. There is a plethora of ancient Indian literature which deals with the Vimana and its many aspects. Most of the epics await translation. One epic, titled Manusa, gives clear instructions on how to build the craft and the proponents that make them able to fly. Other texts have names such as ‘The secret of making Planes invisible’, ‘The Secret of hearing conversations and other sounds in Enemy Aircraft’ and ‘The secret of making Planes motionless’. There are many other texts about Vimana which are spoken of in the epics, but have not yet been discovered. Many texts speak of ships and planes with nuclear capabilities and a great nuclear war that took place. In the ancient ruins of Mohenjo-Daro, once part of the Indus Valley Civilization, 3000 year old skeletons where found with radioactivity levels that surpassed that of the bodies at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The ruins themselves also emit high radioactivity levels. It is a documented fact that the city was destroyed suddenly.
The wording of the texts is highly technical, and speaks at a high level of intellectual maturity in areas such as physics and aero dynamics. One text of the Vaimanika Shastra, which translates as ‘Science of Aeronautics’, includes 230 stanzas, concerning aviation matters such as construction, take off, cruising for thousands of miles, normal and forced landing, protections of the airships from storm and lightening and how to switch the power source to solar energy from free energy. The same text describes at great detail the construction of the mercury vortex engine, which is the forerunner of the Ion vortex engine used today by NASA. In 1895, a Sanskrit scholar named Shivkar Talpade designed an aircraft based solely on the Sanskrit document concerning the mercury vortex engine. The unmanned craft reached a height of 1500ft.

21 comments:

  1. It's crazy thinking about all the stuff that we're only just now finding out about the ancient civilizations, next thing we'll come up with clues that they reached the moon.

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  2. That is crazy! Got any more links to it?

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  3. That's crazy, I want one.

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  4. Wow. I wonder if those actually existed O_O

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  5. It's incredible such a design existed

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  6. I saw this on Ancient Aliens... it's a show on Discovery Channel... they spoke about these things and they had some convincing proof! Check it out if you have time... it's on season 2 right now

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  7. Oh I would love that machine man, so epic.

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  8. dude, are you serious? That's pretty incredible. hmm.. maybe we're living in the postapocalyptic world of some really advanced human civilization!

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  9. we've dreamed of flying since the beginning of time.

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  10. That's awesome. very interesting post.

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  11. Mohenjo-Daro was the site of the first call center (3rd millennium BC). The city was nuked by the Atlanteans when they grew tired of being kept on hold for hours on end listening to cheesy muzak (another ancient Hindu invention).

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  12. that picture looks like a third grader designed in. Take a look @ da vinci's drawings.

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  13. Interesting machine, love to read this kinda stuff

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  14. The show ancient aliens talks about these alot, very interesting stuff

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  15. i saw a show on the history channel a while ago that explained this

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  16. very interesting, saw it on DC as well.

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