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Google Earth Discovery?

King of the Americas

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Ever heard of the Nazca Lines, of Peru?

They were made years ago by a native people, for some reason or another...

You can't really see all of them using Google Earth, but some of the longer straighter ones, stick out of the desert sands, and are easily seen using the free downloadable version of the software.

What are these lines?

17 degrees 53'11.66 S
70 degrees 37'43.27 W

Irrigation, maybe?


Pull out and away until you can clearly make out the flat desert plains between the Andes Mountains and the South American West coast.

There are strange lines laid out across the entire desert...

Some even in perfect checker board style.

Any thoughts?
 
Advertisements...like billboards for alien spacecraft. Yep. Thats it.
 
I believe I read or saw somewhere that it is believed that hot air balloons were used in the distant past. The lines may have been navigational tools.
 
I can't find these coordinates, Google Earth keeps giving me a "Your search returned no results."
 
Hyparxis:

Google Earth is picky about how you enter lat lon. Separate the deg min sec with a space, in the following format, and Latitude has to be first, followed by a comma.

dd mm ss.ss N, dd mm ss.ss W

Dont' know if this was the problem, but doing the above worked for me.
 
King of the Americas said:
Sarcasm is unappreciated.
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Not by all. :D

Seriously.
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If you insist.

What are or were these?
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We can only guess. Mine is that they are religious. Someone had a vision of some sort and the next thing you knew there was a whole society dedicated to a massive amount of useless exercise. Think Stonehenge. Think the pyramids. Think Easter Island.

As for the visibility from the air, check out "Serpent Mounds" on Google. You could also check the entire topic of the Nazca Lines on Google. There is a lot of information there.


Irrigation ditches?
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Since they were made by just moving and turning over rocks, they are certainly not irrigation ditches.
 
The book "1491" has an excellent discussion of the Nazca lines. Big public works projects.
 
17°53'11.66"S, 70°37'43.27"W, 5 km
Survey lines etched and forgotten.
Looks like someone discovered drip irrigation farming.

17°53'11.66"S, 70°37'43.27"W, 2.00 km
Farm fields, tract housing, and a burning rubbish pile.

17°54'12.04"S, 70°38'4.13"W, 500 meters
A happy face!

17°54'35.69"S, 70°38'17.16"W, 1.00 km
Four leaf clover.
 
The images I am talking about are NOT "Nazca Lines". These images are located further south than Nazca. I found them simply by looking at other geography, similiar to that of the Nazca Flat, on South America.

Between the coast and the mountain range, there is an area along the west coast that has the same kind of desert flat region.

The 'lines' that I am looking at look like grade paper. They are just lines formed into grades, no pictures or animals.

Some of the lines are over 10 miles long, while most are shorter.

It looks to 'me' like an old irrigation system of some kind, where the lines aren't dug 'into the desert', but rather are wals that could hold in water to flood the fields as in rice farming...?

That is just a guess, given that areas nearer cities seem to have 'green' fields shaped and laid out in a similiar fashion.
 
17 degrees 35'11.46 S
70 degrees 51'43.98 W

This looks like one of the irrigation farms still in operation, and what looks like a damed lake further north...?

If these ARE irrigation ditches, they could be some of the largest the world has known. These things go on, literally for miles and miles.

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On the northern part of the 'checkerbaord', it looks like there was a meteor strike

16 degrees 40'21.37" S
71 degrees 55'33.04" W

Notice the light blue , cresent moon shaped pock marks atop the otherwise sandy colored desert.
 
HAVE these formations been noticed before, if so what explaination was given?

E.T.A. The largest pock mark is over 230 feet across.
 
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sinclairmcevoy said:
I believe I read or saw somewhere that it is believed that hot air balloons were used in the distant past. The lines may have been navigational tools.
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Don't confuse an unsupported hypothesis with "believed" even if someone else does believe it. In other words the better way for a skeptic to convey this information would either be to say someone has hypothesized or someone has suggested or (more specifically than "it is believed" which implies widespread acceptance) someone believes.

We don't want to share in the woo rumor mill.
 
NO WOO HERE...

I have not envoked UFO's, Aliens, Big Bird, or God.

Although, I think IF meteors DID hit here, then the entire area would have felt the impact.

Maybe that's why there are no more farms here...
 
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