Nasca lines

[Rainbowstar]

I was reading "the night of the scorpion"(couldn't wait for evil star to come out, lol) and when i finished I decided to look up the Nasca Lines.  don't know if they will appear in Evil Star as well, but hey...they're actually quite amazing.  I found a website about it that's very details, including all the theories there have been about them.  So I thought I'd share

to read more about them: http://www.crystalinks.com/nasca.html

some of those drawings are quite impressive.  And there's a detailed map on there with all the drawings on there.  Just for those who are interested, and have read the old books I suppose...I guess people who haven't read those wouldn't really know what this is about, lol

[Inuyasha77]

What are nasca lines? Now I feel bad because im the second one to question u about something from the old versiokn of the books, lol

[Rainbowstar]

hehe it;s ok

Nasca lines are huge drawings in a desert in Peru.  In the old series, they....well i don't wanna give too much of the stody away in case that part stays the same, so I'll jsut say they played an important part, and martin(now matt) and the second kid visit them.

[masterwolfie]

Whoa those are so awesome! I can't believe  I've never heard of the NASCA lines before this...THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH, Rainbwostar!

[Pixie]

They have been mnsioned on a TV program I wacthed in conection with aliens.. It was a BBC one.. Jeapordy (sp?). About aliens and such... Was quite interessting. The therys are quite something though...

[DilanMelis]

ohh kind of like crop circles? [whole alien thing ]

[Rainbowstar]

actually no, not like crop circles.  these are perminent in teh hard rock desert floor and no on has been able to figure out exactly how old they are so far.  there's some theories, some say it ahs to do with a landingstrip for a ufo, others think it's just like a map of the stars(similar to how all the big statues and buildings in egypt combined form a map of the stars), and yet other people think they were drawn to make the land more fertile

if they're like anything, i'd say they're like stonehenge, not crop circles

[Pixie]

Its quite fasinating though, we still are not sure who built that Stonehenge though it is widely believed to be the Celtics. Some scients have dated them further back than that...
Its really fasinating, I love acient history and would love to do an insight into stuff like this. A map of the stars makes the most sense, thought you would have to watch the stars each night and take recordings of what they look like... Remembering that the solar system has moved and stars will have died and been born since. So actully we will never know...

[AlexFan11]

bad 15 year old Pixie bad u do bad stufff......

[ARALEXRIDER14]

Are they real? or fake!

[Rainbowstar]

they're real, but onfortunately erosion and tourism and stuff are eating away at them, so it could very well be that soon there's nothing of them left.  well soon...in a couple of hundred years

[mrs crane]

phew     that was a lot of reading  but i kinda knew a bit about them anyway from an assembly years ago at school i just didnt know that i knew, confusing eh? also if i remember rightly there was something in the assembly about Maria Reiche sweeping the lines everyday, miles of them (the talk was about perseverance probably) to preserve them?. the pictures really freaked me out its just so wierd!
so anyway, thankyou RS and Mr Louth   lol

[Inuyasha77]

WOW! AH musta been pretty clever to placethe gate in/around the nasca lines! I gotta still read the book and cant wait!!

[Rainbowstar]

night of the scorpion was the first time i ever heard of the nasca lines.  at first i didn't really think much of it but then i saw them on national geographic, and last week i looked them up

[Anonymous]

What are nasca lines? Now I feel bad because im the second one to question u about something from the old versiokn of the books, lol

i dont know a thing bout them either so i feel the same as u