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The shapes formed by Nazca lines can only be seen from the sky, that's the weird thing.
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
The shapes formed by Nazca lines can only be seen from the sky, that's the weird thing.
- bigbubba 6y agoThe cat in question clearly looks like a cat at ground level, where the photographer was standing.
- mjw1007 6y agoAccording to the article, the cat wasn't made by the Nazca who made the famous lines, but an earlier culture a few hundred years previously.
- WalterBright 6y agoThe 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.
- 8bitsrule 6y agoAt least some of those lines might be visible from higher terrain nearby. That might be part of the fun.