One of my favourite places in Google Earth is the Pyramids and the Sphynx, but I also love going all through the Nazca Plain with its famous Nazca Lines and Drawings.
Amongst the amazing Nazca Lines are drawings of a Humming Bird, Parrot, Heron, Spider, Dog, Spiral-Pattern, Monkey etc.
I have just spent another 1.5 hours combing the area! It is truly fascinating!!
Here are the co-ords of the Condor to get you started in this great area: THE NAZCA LINES
14*41'51.59"S
75*07'35.24"W
ahh! I remembered seeing this on TV one time (many years ago) and when Google Earth came out it was one of the places I was first wanting to see, but couldn't remember what it was called to even start hunting it down. I will be sure to take a good look at the area tonight at home.
Amazing you know that aliens could navigate across the galaxy to find us, but when they got here they had to rely on pictures drawn on the ground so they wouldn't get lost! They obviously left their compass at home.
I would love to see the lines in person one day, a sort of "Chariots of the Gods" revisited. When I was in Central America a few years ago, I actually saw and touched some of the things that were supposedly aliens in space craft. They looked suprisingly like natives in ceremonial dress. Funny 'bout that.
Who needs aliens to explain it? Ask a 21st century fundamentalist christian where heaven is and they will likely point up to the sky. Many civilisations/societies believe in the afterlife, and many associate the stars/heavenly bodies with afterlife, so it is far more plausible to think of it as some sort of offering/sign sent to the God/s than some pretty pictures for overhead flying UFO's.
Without getting into UFO and Religion debates and arguments AGAIN, I put the link in because they look great and are fascinating. I don't speculate, or bust brain cells about how they came to be, I just enjoy that I can see them in Google Earth.
Can't we just enjoy things for how they look rather than starting the same old re-hashed debates each time.
...The Whitehorse in England is also another one to hunt down.
Here is one:-
51 25 30.58N, 1 55 47.84W
A white horse above the village of Cherhill in England. Sadly it's in shade. Not ancient - see the notes and photos - cut by a "mad doctor" in 1770! However, it was an exciting find for me in 1980 since my grandfather owned a sheep station in Qld named Cherhill which I often visited as a child, and no one particularly knew where the name came from.
A white horse above the village of Cherhill in England. Sadly it's in shade. Not ancient - see the notes and photos - cut by a "mad doctor" in 1770! However, it was an exciting find for me in 1980 since my grandfather owned a sheep station in Qld named Cherhill which I often visited as a child, and no one particularly knew where the name came from.
Eric, your co-ords take me to a bush in someones back yard in England
Bob, that's pretty cool! The water level must be at slightly differing heights between the walls. Wow!
G'day mate, the tide range is 11 metres, All that volume going through a 10 metre wide gap produces quite a force. Some "boffins" have toyed with the idea of harnessing the power for electricity.
