Mysterious Rings Found At Tomb Of Chinese Only Empress

People's Daily - Xinhua ^ | 12-22-2006

[SunkenCiv]

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[Hegemony Cricket]

Olympics logos?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Stargate?

Definitely a herd of Chapa'ai.

[stockpirate]

There is a guy who admits and has demostrated how he and a couple of friends make the crop circles.

[absolootezer0]

[StoneGiant]

When you said "huge ring", I thought you were talking about Rosie O'Donnell's device...



... but then I remembered that she doesn't need one.

[CDHart]

Reminds me of the symbols in south America that can be seen from the air and look like some kind of landing fields.

Carolyn

[GreenLanternCorps]

You were calling me?

[GreenLanternCorps]

In brightest day

in blackest night...

no evil shall escape my sight

for those who worship evils might...

Beware my Power, GREEN LANTERNS LIGHT!!!

[RightWhale]

Crop circles?

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/research/3Dmodels/nasca.html

this site has several 3D images, the one above is my favourite, it looks as if the lines existed before the mountain was 'washed away'

[Fred Nerks]

http://web.archive.org/web/20030529152233/http://www.cat.cc.md.us/~adeil450/contrivers.html

Doug and Dave.

[SunkenCiv]

I wonder if the Nazca lines weren't related to high-altitude agriculture -- analogous to the efforts of the Nabataeans (city of Petra) to capture runoff?

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/research/3Dmodels/images/whaleFlat.jpg

enlarge this 3D view.find the Whale. Look closely...if it rained, where would the water go? There are no cysterns, no dams and no terraces.

[SunkenCiv]

Keeping it from running off, so that it soaks in, perhaps?

[Fred Nerks]

I think this was the already quite sophisticated agricultural system employed throughout the area...

http://www.oas.org/dsd/publications/Unit/oea59e/ch27.htm

[SunkenCiv]

This reminds me of the Ant:

http://www.oas.org/dsd/publications/Unit/oea59e/p179.GIF

[Fred Nerks]

Ant?
As in the nest of ants???

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, I guess it's a spider:

http://www.webtre.it/Principale/QuadriCentraleLaterali/Misteri/AntAstronauti/Nazca.jpg

[Fred Nerks]

Oh, now I see what you mean...this site has some interesting images, particularly the one described as 'the foot of a huge bird...'

http://www.morien-institute.org/nazca4.html

...however it's hard to think of a reason why parallel straight lines would run across the pampas and over the tops of mountains...