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How does something like this just suddenly get discovered?
by anonu 6y ago
How does something like this just suddenly get discovered?
- Santosh83 6y ago> Per the statement, the image of the lounging cat was “barely visible” prior to cleaning and conservation. As the Times notes, researchers only found it after spotting signs of “something intriguing” near the Mirador Natural lookout point. “[It] was about to disappear because it’s situated on quite a steep slope that’s prone to the effects of natural erosion,” the ministry explains.
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- erdos4d 6y agoHaving visited Peru, I'd bet this was long known about by the locals and got "discovered" for the tourism boost.
- diggan 6y agoProbably not. I think this discovery was made partly because of a larger study by a Japanese university where they analyzed all the existing nasca lines and tried to find new ones. I've also visited Peru, not sure how that's relevant though (nor is it relevant that I'm married to a Peruvian)
- jjeaff 6y agoThey are probably referring to how a lot of tour guides in Peru will explain that the locals knew about the locations long before white people showed up. Usually, "discovered" means white people or at least non-aborigenese populations discovered it.
- oh_sigh 6y agoIt means becoming known to the scientific community and nothing more. To put it another way: Scientific knowledge is like wikipedia, and things only count as discovered in this sense once they get an article written for them. That doesn't mean the person who wrote the article was the first person to ever know about something.
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- diggan 6y agoIt wasn't as clear as others. They discovered smaller sections of it, cleaned it up and now it's as visible as the others. Some say there are still more of them to be discovered as well. Time will tell.
- ComputerGuru 6y agoNotice that the article doesn't say when they actually discovered those smaller sections. It could have a few months or a couple of decades ago.