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Large 2k-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines

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Re: Large 2k-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines

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Post by WalterBright »

29athrowaway wrote: post #7
bigbubba wrote: post #4

It sure does look like a cat, but maybe it's actually a runway for alien spacecraft.

The shapes formed by Nazca lines can only be seen from the sky, that's the weird thing.

The ratio of the dimensions of the base of the Egyptian pyramids to their height includes pi as a factor. I once saw a TV show that concluded that since there's no evidence the Egyptians knew what pi was, space aliens must have been involved in their construction.

Later, some wag pointed out that if one uses a measuring wheel one cubit in diameter to lay out the base as a number of revolutions, then made the height as an integral number of cubits, you unwittingly wind up with pi in the ratio.

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Post by WalterBright »

zachruss92 wrote: post #8

I'm not saying I believe any of the crazy conspiracies related to the Nazca lines, but I really do wonder what they actually are. The mysteries behind a lot of these ancient megalithic structures make me wonder about how sophisticated these presumed primitive civilizations actually we're.

It's hard to have a sophisticated civilization without writing.

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Post by tleite »

zachruss92 wrote: post #8

I'm not saying I believe any of the crazy conspiracies related to the Nazca lines, but I really do wonder what they actually are. The mysteries behind a lot of these ancient megalithic structures make me wonder about how sophisticated these presumed primitive civilizations actually we're.

It's amazing what you can achieve with psychedelics laying around, and no Internet or TV available.

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Post by olivermarks »

zachruss92 wrote: post #8

I'm not saying I believe any of the crazy conspiracies related to the Nazca lines, but I really do wonder what they actually are. The mysteries behind a lot of these ancient megalithic structures make me wonder about how sophisticated these presumed primitive civilizations actually we're.

Theories about people conspiring to control money, societies etc are usually very recent historical investigation and speculation.

I think you mean conjecture and ideas to propose theories about how past civilizations were able to create megalithic structures, and who they were?

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Post by nefitty »

tleite wrote: post #13
zachruss92 wrote: post #8

I'm not saying I believe any of the crazy conspiracies related to the Nazca lines, but I really do wonder what they actually are. The mysteries behind a lot of these ancient megalithic structures make me wonder about how sophisticated these presumed primitive civilizations actually we're.

It's amazing what you can achieve with psychedelics laying around, and no Internet or TV available.

I know this response is a little tongue in cheek, but you make a good point regarding entertainment. It seems like passive entertainment is a sort of sponge of energy and attention in a society. At a certain size, that probably helps keep things organized, but if that option is not available, the group has to come up with elaborate ways to expend that excess energy.

Once all the survival tasks are done, you really don’t want a bunch of military-age males standing around listless without direction. I think this was part of the pressure that gave way to elaborate rituals, construction projects, exploration, etc.

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