I have a thing about the b3ta.com site. It keeps me tickled in those quiet moments. The fact they men­tioned my bot­fly incid­ent in their news­let­ter meant this site’s traffic and rank­ing improved a fair bit for a while, and occas­sion­ally I post answers to the ques­tion of the week spot. A couple have made it to the ‘best of’, which is nice.

And today I thought, let’s do an image for their ancient monu­ment new uses image competition.

And below is a link to a desktop ver­sion of the image, if you want it.

And on the side of one hill, near the lines, is this little fella — image mod­ded a bit to improve con­trast. Sadly can’t eas­ily see that he’s actu­ally wav­ing. Maybe he knew some­thing about the lines?

Oh, and in case you’re not a com­bin­a­tion Star Wars/travel/geography/conspiracy geek — here’s the explan­a­tion, though it’s less inter­est­ing than work­ing out for your­self the reas­ons behind the picture:

1: It’s the Nazca lines — an amaz­ing place in the Atacama desert, in south­ern Peru. You can get a nut­ter in a light plane to make dare­devil passes at ridicu­lous turn rates over the lines in order to get you the best views. It costs just $50 a per­son.
2: It’s the Mil­lenium Fal­con — Hans Solo’s space ship in Star Wars.
3: A sur­pris­ing num­ber of people think that the lines were put there as land­ing strips for ali­ens — and they do indeed look like desert run­ways. More likely is that the local pop­u­la­tion were into water wor­ship and the lines relate to where water comes from. They obvi­ously also had a fair amount of time on their hands whilst being pretty good at plan­ning and geo­metry. Some of the lines would be dif­fi­cult to set out with mod­ern equipment.

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