[JoeProBono]

Peru Nazca lines

The Astronaut on a hillside

The Monkey

TheSpider

[Hegemony Cricket]

Pingeroo

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Did a vehicle
Fly along the mountain
And find a place to park itself
Park itself
PARK IT!
PARK IT!
Or did someone build a place
To leave a space
For such a thing to land?

[WoofDog123]

Have been to nazca, and find these lines very intriguing.

Religious constructions are virtually always made so that people on the ground can appreciate them.

To motivate a society to draw lines they will *never* even be able to see tells me they were have been damn well sure someone WAS going to see them, e.g. they had seen something in the air enough times to make a profound impression on their society, such that they were willing to dedicate however many years to the nazca lines.

Others dispute this, and some ridicule ideas like mine, but I look at it from a point of view of ‘what motivates people to do something like this?,’

[yarddog]

I have seen them a couple of times on TV. They have to be one of the strangest things I have ever seen.

[silverleaf]

Obviously it’s just like crop circles

some Mayans got together in a pub and decided to get some boards and chains and go make some giant drawings that could be seen only from the air

then go have a chuckle about the idiots who would infer a connection to UFO’s

[WoofDog123]

I will add that the Nazca lines are one of the mysteries of the ancient world that continues to fascinate me, as one of the most obvious answers is only unacceptable because the related topic (UFO’s/things coming down from the sky) is involved. If there is a future world in which it is recognized by the State that UFO’s happen, then perhaps these will be looked at with somewhat different options.

The single most odd item I can recall at the moment is the Ark of the Covenant. So much of what is described in the old testament about it reads like bronze age people trying to describe very advanced technology. (ref - Hal Clement, who actually wrote sci-fi stories along these themes.)

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Try finding that on Google maps if you can’t sleep.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Why does the author think the Nazca lines are associated with Incan civilization?

The Incas lived in the mountains (Andes) to the north around AD 1400, and are thought to be culturally descended from nearby cultures/civilizations.