TED "flagging" this talk speaks volumes about the state of our academic, archeological, and scientific community. Thank you Mr. Gilbertson 👏

Even if he doesn't discover what he is looking for, he'll still discover far more than the man that doesn't look.

I love that the speaker raised more questions than he gave answers, and the call to action was inspiring.

Excellent talk. The example you gave about continental drift perfectly demonstrates how easily mainstream science dismisses ideas that cannot be explained by our current understanding of reality. In order for science to progress we need to be open-minded, not dogmatic.

TED: We've flagged this talk Me: Thanks! I'm glad you make it so easy to find the TED talks actually worth listening to

Excellent speaker. I followed everything he said. He did not go off on a side trip, stayed to the direct path and kept everyone right on the subject. EXCELLENT!!

Great talk. We know that ocean levels were 400 feet lower between 13,000 and 20,000 years ago, so searching the continental shelfs may indeed uncover stone buildings and other artifacts of lost and highly advanced civilizations.

This is courageous. I applaud this man. It seems we need to dig deeper and rewrite history.

Graham Hancock has been telling this story for 30 yrs! He's met with combative resistance by mainstream ! Glad to see the world is finally catching up!

Ive watched hundreds of ted talks and this one blows all the rest out of the water. By far my favorite ted talk ever. And ted won’t even recognize it. Shame on ted. Shame. Shame. Shame. This guy is awesome and I’m going to buy whatever books he writes and watch whatever videos I can find by him

For those of us who belong to the "curious scientific club", if you're not feeling like a 4 year old, at least most of the time, you're missing the whole point of the exercise, of being human. Good talk.

'The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity' -Dorothy Parker

Dear TED, with all due respect, the guy’s done his homework, and it’s solid. Maybe be it’s time for TED to examine itself, and determine if TED isn’t holding onto old fallacies a wee bit too tightly ....

of course you flag it... standard establishment response, discredit it without addressing the argument. Great talk Roger.

I can listen to talks/speculations about advanced civilizations all day.

This talk is fascinating and untarnished by dogma, unlike the TED moderators whose ‘content guidelines’ phrase masks prejudice. It is TED moderators who should account for their decisions publicly on a case by case basis. In this case, I believe they have gone right overboard.

When I was a kid in the 1970's, the notion that Vikings visited North America was considered fringe . Today, it is accepted fact.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident" Arthur Schopenhauer.

The culmination of Randall Carlson, Brian Forester, Robert Schoch, Greg Hancock. UNBELIEVABLE TED TALK! It puts everything together in a new and great way with regards to a connection of modern technology, and it’s potential purposes for ancient sites and/or technology.

This looks like a great map of where archeologists should continue to dig for additional possible sites… “made by humans,” made by earthlings yes, humans - maybe, but truly a witness that previously a civilization more capable than our own-collapsed.

TED: You have deteriorated over the years, these are the type of talks I listen to! Innovative, fresh, inspiring and outside the box! I thought you was supposed to be making change possible! Without new ideas we become stagnant! A lot of people agree and you WILL lose the respect you gained from intelligent people! Look at the safire project, innovative and will change our understanding of the universe but was fringe a matter of a year ago. History will judge those who held humanity back and you are now prime suspect! Humanity is moving forward while you move backwards!

What was in this talk that is outside the guidelines? He started with a fringe idea that after decades of work is now an accepted mainstream theory (plate tectonics). Then explained how a more recent fringe idea led him to dig a little deeper and how that digging led to a new discovery (the two day orbit). And concluded with the idea that fringe science isn't such a bad starting point to look at things from a different perspective, ask questions that mainstream science hasn't thought to ask, and to investigate things even if they have a 'good enough' explanation already. Isn't that the whole point of science? To get past the 'good enough' theories to the actual truth?

I am just commenting so it could reach more people. Greetings from Poland

Great talk! Not only in content but in delivery. Sometimes one thumbs up doesn't seem enough.

Weird that Graham Hancock got banned from TED for saying these things.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that we're living not only on a privileged speck of dust in an incomprehensibly 'yuge' and violent universe, in an unusual solar system, and under a unique star, but also that humans are fortunate to even be in existence during such an incredibly special and tiny sliver of geological time.

Above all else, let's not be afraid to rewrite history and call out previous misconceptions as partially or completely incorrect. Because without them, we wouldn't have a path to begin the journey towards truthful understanding.

Great video, I believe humans have been around a lot longer than what main stream people elude to. Giving credit to a simple culture that the work was way more advanced than they could do or duplicate.

This intelligent man literally worked with rocket scientists to help encourage his own curioisties that later made mathematical sense. He did research, followed his own theories, expanded the present knowledge into unimaginable lengths that can help venture out into a greater discovery and he is being flagged for that? It’s disappointing and wrong for that to have happened. Great work man, hopefully you get the credit and recognition you deserve when the world jumps onto this road of discovery you have paved the way for.

An easy chap to follow, albeit i'm not scientifically minded but i do enjoy clarity and reasoning. I'm 71 female and 'into' deep deep ancient history and how it is manifesting 'now'. Thank You.

These are the sort of presentations I really love. Not too fringe but close enough to the edge to make you think about the possibilities. It's easy to fall into the trap that because we learned something that was accepted as factual we don't need to question it and anyone who does is a conspiracy theorist. The best attitude to learning is not to boast about how much we know but to embrace what we don't know and search there for scientific answers.

To my mind this TEDx Talk demonstrates the importance of following any leads (no matter how crazy at first they may seem) to wherever good quality questions may take us. The lengths one must go to satisfactorily answer & refine it, or to disprove it, often times show where gaps in our understanding exist. This is important because it is in these gaps where novel ideas have always existed, as they silently await our recognition of them. On the other hand, outright dismissal of good questions based solely on conflicting results which speak against our preconceptions highlights the foolishness of holding inflexible world views. Such a limiting bias takes one only so far. As more evidence accumulates in support of incredible claims we must be willing to entertain the possibility that our old preconceived conceptual frameworks should be put to rest, in favor of new ones. Anything is possible, for those bold enough to seek a deeper understanding of things. So stay curious folks. We don't know what we don't know. To say nothing at all about that which has been forgotten through the passage of time.

I am more fascinated by this subject than anything else and I too crave knowledge of what, who, and why all this was built throughout the planet. We have lost a massive chunk of our ancient history and it needs to be recovered.

Roger gives an excellent talk. I have wondered for most of my life, about the megaliths, that would challenge our abilities today. We have ancient maps, showing all parts of this Earth, not just the oceans, but correctly showing continental interiors. History is not what we are taught in school. We know that these mysteries were kept from our questioning minds. Roger may not fit TED Talks guidelines the way the guidelines are written. With respect, perhaps the Guidelines need to be revisited.

looking forward to reading every comment on this, meantime, this is a subject that has lead me on an endless journey, that began over 12 yrs ago; Your take on this is brilliant, thank you for this great share.......

Roger, I highly recommend checking out a video presentation by retired US Army Officer Dr. Walt Brown (former director of a large DOD R&D lab). The video (found on YT) is entitled "The Hydroplate Theory - The Flood (Newer Version)." Thank you for your service, sir!

This guy is on my wavelength, what an excellent TED talk. The most interesting talks are always the ones that give you new perspective and ask questions about what we think we know, and this guy is asking all the right questions.

I noticed that most of the important ancient sites lined up on the maps even when I was kid .. and now this guy makes more sense of it , I always wondered ...

I am sure this hit my feed because I watched "Ancient Apocalypse" on Netflix. Interesting ideas to think about and indicative of our need to push back on so-called "settled science"!

Another Excellent TED talk! I, too, as a child saw the puzzle-piece layout of the continents and proposed they once all fit together. Adults and later teachers scoffed. Then, the scientists said, "Um ... hey ..." Also as a child when people said, "Why did the dinosaurs die out?" I said they didn't; they EVOVLED. More scoffing ... and now we know where birds came from. Sometimes the mainstream science community needs to look at fresh ideas from people not fully indoctrinated into their academia. They NEED an injection of innocent wonder, of the daring questions Why? and How?

I think he came close to saying that 2DO would have provided the ideal vantage point from which a satellite with a solar-generated, basalt-cutting capability could orbit. I can interact with mainstream media to gain mundane information; however, I watch TedX to push my boundaries. Thank you TedX for airing this, even if you gave it a qualifier.

TED’s guidelines could be expanded, but I’m glad they allowed this video. Fascinating topic... our human history. If you are interested in more info on this topic, look up ‘Suspicious Observers’, and Also Thunderbolt of the Gods by Talbott.

I've watched so many Ted Talks over the years that I "almost" stopped watching them. THIS talk though is one of the most riveting and interesting and well vocalised that I've ever seen. It is also inspiring and I thank you Roger Gilbertson from the bottom of my heart.

Just finished watching this very interesting talk, and then reading many of the comments. Now on to the next recommended video... ...Oh look! It's a list of TEDx talk videos -- ALL THE WAY DOWN!

18:00 He mentions underwater drones "looking for ancient sites, roadways, seabed relics...". Part of my job in the past 40 years was analyzing hi-res bathymetry and hi-res seismic data for offshore site surveys on the US continental shelf (up to +/-600' water depth) prior to drilling/pipeline/cable operations. Part of the written report (public information) was a check for seafloor or shallowly buried potential 'habitation sites'. There were a few seen over to 50 or so 3miX3mi sites I worked on, usually buried under a few meters of sediment (several thousand years worth by paleontology, indicating that sea level has risen and/or the land has subsided) and located near to a now-buried stream channel. The US Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs were always interested in those sections of the report, and we always had to avoid doing any operations directly over or near those areas.

Douglas Vogt, Chan Thomas, Michael Cremo, Ben Davidson, Wallace Thornhill, Randall Carlson and, of course, Graham Hancock. The way forward.

Excellent coverage of the truth! Thank you!!!

Thank you Roger. This is one of the most exciting talks that I have enjoyed in the TED(x) smorgasbord of scientific thought discussion. There is no doubt about the existence of a very dramatic, wonderful, inspiring presence of a pre-historic existence of a humanity that excelled at producing mind boggling structures in ways and means that completely escape our "modern" understanding. I have always been convinced of the existence of a single "human culture" that produced colossal works of Art characteristically similar everywhere on Earth as well as the towering heights of their astronomical and mathematical knowledge. To even dream that someday we will know more about our "Elders" is as exciting as the hope and (f)act of actually finding out.

This lecture has singlehandedly restored my faith in TED Talks. Bravo!

Intriguing talk presented flawlessly by someone impassioned. I love it!!

This talk was fantastic. We need more.

Gosh, all these questions. Maybe talk to archaeologists, geologists, and historians who already study this. Posing a question as an unknown to you doesn't mean the answer is unknown. And props to Jim Poland for STK, he's great.

Humanity need to take Robert Gilbertson seriously and use all available resources & talent along with hard work to seek answers to those important questions. His works is ground breaking. He is a genius. We need to listen to him.

For anyone passing by this comment. There are two specific things you should research. 1) Super flat surfaces. We're talking 8m long flat granite carved from the bedrock with a flatness of 1.1-3 micron deviations near Cusco. 2) Also look at the box at the Serapeum of Saqqara. Inside edge precision and squareness, in particular the inside edges. These two things show the same level of capability on opposite sides of the world. The box in particular shows that things like even diamond tipped circular saws could not manucature then due to the cutting radius precludes the inside edges and corners Technology to *measure* the micron level flatness has only existed since a few decades ago and many aerospace experts struggle to imagine how you would create them with their knowledge and capabilities. It is inconceivable that 'copper tools' could accomplish this feat when we could not operate at this level of capability until after accomplishing manned space flight. which suggests.... manned space flight was possible back when these surfaces were produced.

Keep up the very good work and don't slow down, we need answers.

Astounding! I recreated Mr. Gilbertson's 2-day circular orbit in Google Maps based on the mentioned landmarks and added a couple interesting ruins and found this to be compelling.

An excellent brief of Graham Hancock decades of research on the field. Very refreshing to hear such interesting ideas be put to scrutiny.

This is one of the most fascinating and progressive talks I ever watched on TED ever. For TED to flag this as "Outside" of its guidelines is ridiculous at best. We need more thinking outside of the box and less traditional science. We have stalled in progress as a people/race due to the standard or norm of thinking. There is so much unexplained on this planet and it concerns all that TED is not pushing for discovery or promoting thinking outside of the box. The TED way is why man still has not made it to Mars or beyond. Limited thought, limited conversation, limited insight, and limited vision.

You flagged it? This man is fantastic!! FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

" The largest stonework humans have ever done." I may be wrong, but we really don't know who accomplished the megalithic stone work, but I'm guessing it may not have been the work of "humans" at all, the size is one reason and the perfection of the execution in antiquity is another.

TED: this guy is right on all his points. This was an amazing talk. The standard story doesn't fit the evidence. I can say that as a classically trained scientist in both anthropology/archeology and engineering.

Get this man on JRE !

This was cool, I enjoy that he didn’t try to force a narrative.

Wow. This is incredible. Magnificent work!

Hi, I was the curator for this talk - I just want to clarify TED's flag. They felt uncomfortable with Roger's claims about the ways humans settled North America, and civilizations beyond the continental shelf, as well as comments about DNA, not the overall theme of the talk. Unfortunately, their default flag paragraph doesn't really capture which parts of the talk they had issues with, so for anyone watching the talk (which is about using science, not conspiracy theories to explain difficult questions), it's a bit confusing - it was confusing for me, too, so I called them. I could have done better making sure every one of Roger's claims was appropriately cited and helping to guide him to stay away from scientifically phrased claims that were outside his expertise. We're all learning a lot in western culture in the last few years about the importance of intentionally fact-checked, appropriately couched science communication, and I'm glad TED has guidelines to help TEDx curators do this thoughtfully. It's not easy, but it is important. Hopefully, that clears up the strange flag confusion in the comments! Keep bravely asking big questions and endeavoring to examine the evidence thoughtfully. Thanks for watching :)

Roger I applaud your intelligent and courageous approach here! You ave the guts to push boundaries that most are too terrified to touch. Please keep up the good work.

Two year's later and He's still right. we need to look much deeper.

I like the way this man thinks. I want to hear more from this man.

One of the best talks on ted since.... To bad i cant remember.

Nice orbit calculations. The problem with associating all those sites is that they are non-contemporaneous, but thousands of years. Still some underwater archeology of the continental shelves couldn't hurt. The first place to look would be Doggerland, between European mainland and the UK/Ireland. It was once inhabited.

insightfully compiled. While Ted explained about the different orbital positions and their ground paths and the ancient structures they crossed, it hit me. What if the continents were in their original positions all the way back to the one continent called Pangaea what would they cross, better yet what would they reveal? This just makes my mind go crazy thinking of the possibilities. Good job Ted; I always thought our history was a lot more complicated than what we were taught; this may not prove it, but it opens the door to many possibilities yet to be explored. It just may reveal the first civilization on earth and where its ruins are today.

I admire every person who investigates our very ancient history with an open mind. Thank you Mr Gilbertson. Mankind is much older than most people think. Civilizations come and go in a cycle because the Earth is suffering from a recurring natural disaster. That is what ancient books as the Indian Mahabharata and the Mayan Popol Vuh, tell us. There is one long era in which mankind can develop to even a higher level than we know today, succeeded by four shorter era in which people reach only a low level. The high level civilization knew that, and when, they would disappear because of the next recurring disaster. They must have decided to build the Great Pyramid and many other enormous structures to tell us that they existed. And surviving places high in the mountains as Machu Picchu. The cause of this cycle is Planet 9, which is orbiting our sun in an eccentric orbit. That planet is only shortly in the vicinity of the sun and the planets. It crosses the ecliptic planes of the planets at a very high speed and disappears into space where it slows down and makes a loop to come back thousands of years later. If you don't know this cycle, history is incomprehensible. To learn much more about the recreation of civilizations, the cycle of recurring floods, and ancient high technology, read the eBook: "Planet 9 = Nibiru". You can read it nicely on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Search for: invisible nibiru 9

this guy should be a guest on Joe Rogan

watched the vid, good support for the YDIH evidence around us. i like his statement referencing carl sagan; 'extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence'. He adds that 'extraordinary evidence deserves extraordinary investigation.' I'm surprised this video hasn't been removed.

Realized how important expressing your ideas are than the idea itself !!

I believe that history should have been and still should be pursued from these discoveries as a focal point. I can visualize the multitude of benefits.

A interesting TED talk for once.

This is one ☝️ of the best Ted Talks ever!!! Why would +TEDx Talks flag this?

Absolutely LOVED this talk! Yes, we need to acknowledge and start investigating the evidence for ancient civilizations that apparently had very advanced technologies. History needs rewritten. What are they so scared of?

Thanks to our speaker Roger Gilbertson. Yes, I do completely follow your line of reasoning, and likewise, but at 11-years of age in 1958, a few years before it was confirmed, I realised the African continent fitted well into its neighbouring continent, south America but thought little more about it. To move forwards, I put it to you that a very real disadvantage the West has manufactured for itself has been with multiple choice questions and the dilution of subjects taught in our schools. To develop creative minds and to stretch thinking requires; art, craft, theology, but where it covers all religions equally (Histories, society impacts and so on), and could also include the foundation course for say, Fine Art, which would provide a good depth of understanding of graphics 3D modelling for design and architecture and much more besides to open minds up to possibilities. My point is that we have to stop restricting the minds of our children with a load of TOSH (Teaching Only Short Hand… responses), largely taught in infant and primary schools, potentially implementing a form of Mind Control (readers...please do not shout out a no, but go and research with an open mind and learn to be shocked at the reality of how teaching has failed in our over structured teaching methods). What needs to be removed is all multi-choice questions, instead let their minds reason the answers and learn that life is about putting in the effort to get out of life a positive result. This is the problem in the whole of the West. a few centuries ago gaining a degree meant standing for a long, long time in front of the universities management, including the dean an' all. The purpose was that you had to show you had 'really acquired in depth knowledge' of your subject by speaking all of your examination question out loud to the college management team. When I went to school only 2% in the UK had a degree and now forty percent of the UK school children attend university to serve in fuel stations and fast food centres and too often not much more for too many degree holders. Me? I left school and home at 15-years and provided automation that helped put the London Stock Exchange online to hundreds of brokers and the world's first online bank in 1984, but my west London secondary school (Featherstone's) provided and excellent foundation for me to continue reading, questioning and absorbing. The ability for pupils and secondary students to reason with a developed rationale has been dampened down! Has this been purposeful so that they challenge their governments less and less...maybe. Academia does not like challenges to their written essays, papers, and curriculum, and therefore changes this would bring. This seems extraordinary and contrary as science is meant to be an ongoing challenge, otherwise we do not develop our technologies and move forwards solving our society’s problems. Perhaps that was what also happened to our forefathers you are seeking to discover more about; one wonders if the human mind is capable of reaching near to discovering the what, where, and how of our heaven(s) but like an over-revving engine loses power dramatically as the tachometer moves into the red area on the dial and the vehicle soon comes to a crashing halt.

Good talk on an old idea. The new orbit is fascinating. Maybe some of the sites that don't intersect your specific orbit line up under an orbit with a different inclination. Thanks for adding to the weight of evidence that we need to investigate these things.

For starters, I have always felt that this knowledge is suppressed and not just hidden.

IMO- this talk was very intriguing, and informative and inspiring. It’s good when the audience is left with more question that feed curiosity. By doing so creates more minds to discover the things that may fall within the guidelines of your program.

THE BEST EVER TED TALK. Highly compelling

As a non-native speaker I didn't completely understand the first part and his urge to find orbits (?), but when it came to that one orbit crossing these ancient sites I was totally hooked! Really, really fascinating stuff.

The most interest TED talk I have ever seen!

I too noticed the way land masses (such as Ireland and UK mainland) looked like they could fit together, when I was a kid in primary school in the 60s. I told no one, as I assumed it would be impossible.

Fantastic ideas, he’s %1000 correct !

1.) This is freaking brilliant. 2.) Not 1 single person in the entire TED organization has a pair of balls.

I, for one, welcome our 3DOverlords :) Stellar work, man! Hope this lays the basis for some groundbreaking research in the future.

Awesome timing when the healthy food commercial kicked in right when he said "it looked like this..."

What an interesting Ted Talk! It did not hit me as being too far out. We all know about these recent archeological discoveries that we really can't explain and we usually ignore. There really is a mystery in our deep past that needs to be explored. How exciting!

Ted, Thank you for protecting me from exposure to dangerous ideas.

If true, an orbit such as the one described here (a 2DO) which flies over all of these megalithic sites could also be re-positioned to fly over any number of other sites.

Very nicely done sir, bravo.

Really neat stuff. The end of the pleistocene and the disappearance of the megafauna certainly seems to match everything of which he speaks. So many lost civilizations with no explanation. Keep up the good work.

I was writing and talking about this twenty years ago...science is now just catching up. The Greenland ice core project was what spurred on my research, and yes, I saw those far out websites as well. But make no mistake, a veil has been placed over our recent past and it can reveal wonders of our past..if we only look..

Great talk shame TED got scared by it Im very impressed by this presentation

Definitely massages the Grey matter... Love the message.

he asked too many powerful questions. bravo