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Google Earth Discovery?

Well, that's the forth opinion I have had on these 'marks'.

And indeed, that's what the othe 3 opinions stated

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So much for dating the lines...
 
Does anyone here know someone IN Peru???

I'd love to know about the topography within these lines...

On the Nazca Flat, the lines were made simply by moving the darker colored surface stones, to reveal the lighter color desert floor.

If these ARE drip irrigation ditches/gardens, then they would need walls, not a ditch surrounding the garden, no?

Admittedly, unexplained stuff interests me greatly.
 
The least you could do is post your coordinates in a format that people can copy/paste into GE. The default setting in GE needs dd mm ss.ss x, dd mm ss.ss x (in parenthesis is the optional decimal setting - you can change to it in Tools -> Options).

Your first location: 17 53 11.66 S, 70 37 43.27 W (-17.886572, -70.628685)

Your second location: Bah, do it yourself; it's your post.
 
No...copper mines are quite different.

Have any of you 'looked' along the area I am describing?

There is a long thin, 'flat' desert area long the western coast of South America.

The "Nasca Lines" are just we well known, northern pictographs. The 'lines' or 'grids' I am talking about are further south.

There are other 'lines' even further south.

How does Google Earth go about imaging the ocean floor?

I was looking at the ocean floor to the south west of Bermuda, and found some interestingly intersecting lines.
 
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King of the Americas said:
No...copper mines are quite different.

Have any of you 'looked' along the area I am describing?
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The first step in copper mining is not to dig a giant hole in the ground. The first step is to map the geology from the surface (thumper trucks, gravity and magnetic mapping). The second step is to set up a grid of core samples and make a 3D map of the possible deposit.

Seriously, your "grid" looks like it corresponds very closely to this mining claim. You might be looking at a grid of boreholes mapping out an ore deposit.
 
No...

...these 'lines' run the 'entire' length of the continent, that 'grid' is but a small portion of one kind of these lines.

Take a look for yourself...

Start at Nasca, and work your way south.
 
Looks like a colony of Elbonians whose original country of mud was packaged and sold, and they've just continued the hallowed tradition in Peru.. according to Dilbert.
 

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Sorry, I'm seeing:

a) a striking grid, not quite irrigation-looking, in a well-contained grid, and
b) a bunch of old unpaved roads.
c) one nice paved road with power lines (electrical power, not "Qi") running alongside.

The longer lines I saw are very obviously old jeep trails or whatever. One of them, for example, leads to -17.837 S -70.7919 W which is clearly a road intersection. One of them heads straight for a dry wash and becomes an obvious mountain road, including roadcuts like -17.9979° -70.8616° (follow that road northeast). One of the longer ones simply follows some power lines---you can see a tower at -17.9946° -70.3214° (follow that line north and you're in your grid area.)

If there's supposed to be some interesting "signal" among these lines, there's also an awful lot of noise.
 
Personally I have always thought the Nazca region was simply pictographs and that lines around it were just pictographs that never were completed or were reference lines.

A region that intrigues me a little more in Peru is the Pisco highway. Google Earth 13 degrees 46' 57.56" S, 76 degrees 02' 49.92' W
This road goes for many miles through the desert and has 1-2 m holes spaced evenly along it. I am sure the holes are man-made, but for what purpose? At the terminal end of the road is a grid of holes (see 13 46 16.00 S, 76 09 04.15 W). Maybe some failed public works project?

Also concerning another interesting region:
I live in Tucson, AZ with my wife, but we are originally are from Texas, so we fly back to visit parents a few times a year. Every time we fly the flight pattern takes us over El Paso and west Texas, and I am always amazed at this region: 31 40 56.22 W, 106 05 32.64 W
There is a small town nearby (Aqua Dulce), but these empty subdivision layouts stretch for miles. You don't really get a good appreciation for it from Google Earth due to the fact that some of these regions go into low resolution areas, but in the airplane you can see the immensity of it. Roads formed for Cul-de-Sacs, and crisscrossing for miles, but no buildings of any kind. I wondered why anyone would go through the trouble to map these out, since they are miles from anything.

Finally, some food for thought:
If you go to 48 49 30.80 N, 2 11 54.96 E, you will arrive at a location in France. You will see a military style jet parked in a parking lot. On some Google Earth websites, this is described as being a school building. Perhaps an inspiration for the X-Men movies?
 
The first looks like a road to me and the second farms
third looks like hedge rows, pature and some terraced fields

more fields and dunes for sure


try for comparison

18 51 16.76 N, 99 02 18.13 W

You will see the difference between wet and dry as well as the large barren area with a road and what might be transmission lines maybe a cement yard, Popocatepetal is close too
 
It's a Mirage fighter. Probably a training aid at a technical high school?
Out west....
39 08.25' 04N, 121 25.50' 93 W... Dragon Ladies... :)
An earlier version of G. Earth caught one taking off.
G. Earth has a lot of these which change with the updating of the imagery.
 

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There are several Google Earth forums. I suggest asking about this on one of them. There is a huge list of stuff like this.
 
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