Beyondo
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The Nazca Lines have been debated for decades. Scientist always argue that the need to have flight isn't neccessary to make the lines. I personally don't have an issue with that argument but scientist fail to explain what keeps motivating a society to make drawings that they can't see. Monument building isn't really to impress the gods, monuments are built to impress people. If you claim to believe in a god whose all powerful and point the doubtors to a some small statue or a library of scrolls or clay tablets you'll probably get ransacked and invaded or worse a revolt will rise removing you from control! On the other hand if you make a really big monument that causes peoples heads to look way up there's a certain impression that people get. The bigger the better and the more impress your population and enemies will be.
So the Nazca lines actually fulfill the one attribute almost all religous monuments fulfill, they are enormous! But you can not see them from the ground. So what is the likely hood that any enemy is going to think twice about challenging the Nazca empire because of the power of their gods? How likely is the Nazcan general population going to be impressed with what they can not see?
Now the next jump that people take is that aliens with flying saucers gave them a lift so they could see their handy work and/or they where actually helping the aliens navigate to airports by putting signs on the ground. Of course thinking that a ancient society could have masterd some form of flight is impossible, right? Almost anyone from either of the camps regarding the Nazcan lines agree with acient man could not have figured out how to fly, why?
What is the most primitive means of flight? One answer is kites, another is a hot air balloon. Both techniques do not require advance knowledge of thermodynamics, metallury or aerodynamics. So where is the proof of flying machines? Both kites and hot air ballons would be made of material that would be biodegradable, unless of course it happened to get petrified or was intentionally perserved like a mummy. Since the motivation to preserve a machine is not likely then it makes sense that we don't see any evidence of a physical flying kite or balloon. But what we do see are a complex matrix of detailed lines forming images of animals and gods. Of course there are lines that just point in certian directions, many believe that the straight lines are paths that direct travelers to water or other resources. Well that sounds pretty good to me cause if you're in a hot air balloon controling your direction is pretty much left to the wind and if you end up landing somewhere in the middle of a desert it would be nice to have an idea of where you landed and where there might be water...:beach:
So the Nazca lines actually fulfill the one attribute almost all religous monuments fulfill, they are enormous! But you can not see them from the ground. So what is the likely hood that any enemy is going to think twice about challenging the Nazca empire because of the power of their gods? How likely is the Nazcan general population going to be impressed with what they can not see?
Now the next jump that people take is that aliens with flying saucers gave them a lift so they could see their handy work and/or they where actually helping the aliens navigate to airports by putting signs on the ground. Of course thinking that a ancient society could have masterd some form of flight is impossible, right? Almost anyone from either of the camps regarding the Nazcan lines agree with acient man could not have figured out how to fly, why?
What is the most primitive means of flight? One answer is kites, another is a hot air balloon. Both techniques do not require advance knowledge of thermodynamics, metallury or aerodynamics. So where is the proof of flying machines? Both kites and hot air ballons would be made of material that would be biodegradable, unless of course it happened to get petrified or was intentionally perserved like a mummy. Since the motivation to preserve a machine is not likely then it makes sense that we don't see any evidence of a physical flying kite or balloon. But what we do see are a complex matrix of detailed lines forming images of animals and gods. Of course there are lines that just point in certian directions, many believe that the straight lines are paths that direct travelers to water or other resources. Well that sounds pretty good to me cause if you're in a hot air balloon controling your direction is pretty much left to the wind and if you end up landing somewhere in the middle of a desert it would be nice to have an idea of where you landed and where there might be water...:beach:
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