The maya method of calculating the days has been used by many other forms of religions, which in their turn modified it. The
assumption that the mayas predicted the end of the world is something other (sub)religions hold for true.
Also around the time of the maya, death, was seen very differently then the way we look towards it now.
Nowadays we wonder about how ( in our perspective ) humans from certain periods, could have done such advanced things. For example we wonder howcome some old temples have a very accurate aimed tunnels poiting towards the stars.
We still don't know how the ancient man had managed to create perfectly square stones. Yet however if we'd place an stone into water with some sand, we can create a perfect square stone with ease.
Then again other people like to explain such things with non-human interference, ALIENS!.
Some of the alien abductions metioned are from people who wake up in a certain part of their sleep, and start hallcinating since they are still not completly awake.
Right now we're starting to find more and more planet which are possible habitatble. Last one we discovered in May this year and we're even able to predict when we'll find the next one.
There's several online projects going for this, where you can try to find a habital planet yourself.
With the current nature laws we have, we assume it will be impossible for a human body to travel at a fast speed, fast enough to reach another planet, for example the x times the speed of light.
This makes it even more interesting that the particle accelerator have detected a neutrino which traveled faster then the speed of light.
Something which shouldn't be possible occording to our nature laws ( yes I'm calling it nature laws for ease ).
As for hidden messages in thunder storm this might be somewhat of a failure of our own mind. Our human mind tends to see patterns in everything it sees.
I could post a picture with a white background and a pink circle and there's is a 67% chance GhostRider will see it as a pony. ( lame joke )
So if we look back towards something from the past, we might see patterns which aren't really there.
Then on the other hand, threwout history we've been trying to tell and inform the future of things which happened, but what we're not allowed to talk about.
You will see a lot of these inside art, where artist will put hidden statement ( useally an opinion, or provocation ) inside a painting.
It's naive to believe there is no other life outside our planet. We're starting to realize it's even naive to assume other life is water based like ours is, according to recent studies.
We've always dreamed about traveling towards the stars, so we would have dreamed about this thousands of years ago, when religion played a more important part in many people their lives.
Interstellar communication might be one of the first things we'll discover, before being able to transfer ourself towards a distant location. Around this subject there are many speculations and people claiming to know the truth, while such a thing remains something for the near future.
One could say the same about religon, but also about science when looking towards the past.
Communication over distance is something which has facinated myself as well. Ideas about an multiverse rather then an Universe as well.
When looking at the wide variaty of animals around us, the eco system and how we humans fit into to that I suppose the only real explaination could be that we are the aliens, in our world.
