The Nazca Lines
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- The sands of Peru's deserts bear the marks of Naza lines. What is the reasoning behind this? Aliens of course! (Allegedly)
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Simon on a tangent- "Good God Simon, this is *not* what people are here for"
Me - this is exactly what I am here for.
I'm glad too see he still has some channels were he gets lost in Tangents XD
I went down a rabbit hole of pre-Columbian engineering once, and discovered Peruvians were crazy amazing about building on cliffs, and terrace farming. To do all this accurately they used quite a bit of primitive transits, and sextants. Especially they built a lot of irrigation canals and tunnels because of the place that they lived. So with those tools they could just as easily created the Nazca Lines. Sorry alienophiles!
It’s crazy how many people choose to believe in secret alien visits. Rather than, the indigenous people of the Americas were just as smart as everyone else, but just didn’t have the common access to the technologies that spread amongst the people from China to Algeria.
Most of these kinda things boil down to the same thing "those ancient people were dumb, we are way smarter! No way they could do it, we only just worked out this long complicated method and there's definitely no other way!"
Cool stuff!
Literally every time humans invent something, we find a way to use it for art, assign it a religious significance, or often both at once. A culture whose cutting-edge technology is the ability to plan out and execute canal systems would totally do the Nasca Lines.
The only mystery is if it was to make art for the gods, with the time and effort maybe being seen as a sacrifice, or if it was, like, a hobby group of retired canal diggers who also really liked birds.
@@generatoralignmentdevalue Oh, I so want it to be retired canal builders who wanted to make art. It was a retired mechanical engineer who started the art car movement, wasn't it?
We didn’t go by Peru during Pre-Columbian times. We went by Tribe names like the Quechua people (that’s me), the Aymara’s, Inka etc. We are all over what is now Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Colombia cuz that was all under Inca Rule so you’d also be calling those people Peruvian too and they aren’t.
Simon: we have the company CAT. It's actually short for caterpillar. I remember, growing up, my grandpa always called his bulldozer the "Caterpillar". Since he had several different farm implements, he referred to each of his tractors and his dozer by their maker. He had the "Little Case", the "Big Case", the "John Deere" and the "Caterpillar". Love all your channels! Big fan from Oklahoma!
That’s not what he meant, he’s just referring to the idiomatic nature of calling it a “Cat” (which we do in Canada as well, but UK and Canadian English are the same thing). Where Americans almost entirely refer to it like you said by the company name.
Wisconsin must be tweeking or something... 80% of the time even if it's a boom arm lift made by CAT someone around here would call it a Bobcat because those two make the best skidsters around... funny enough I'm half a hour away from dealerships for both
If they were truly Nascar lines, they would only be turning left. 😉
“NASCAR and aliens are often drawn in the same breathe”
🇺🇸🎭🏁
Riverside, Watkins Glen, I think they did Laguna Seca, Japan, Chicago this year, there was one in Florida in the 60’s that was a road course, benefit is stadium seating with an oval, crowd can watch it
Pretty sure there are. They're black and are on concrete loops at places called speedways or tracks
Lost my shit, thanks lol
@@TheTotallyRealXiJinpingBy any chance, is this really Xi Jinping?
An episode on the Bosnian Pyramids of the Sun and Moon would be a fun one. Pyramids, aliens, alternate origins of humanity, mystical healing springs, only for it to turn out to be a hill. Like, not even a pyramid or a burial mound, literally just a hill. Simon's reaction to that reveal would be hysterical.
Also, the whole "mountains aren't real, they're actually trees cut down by a race of prehistoric giants" conspiracy is nothing short of comedy gold.
Wuuuut? Mountains aren't real? That idea is fantastic! I'm definitely bringing that up at the next dinner party.
Some years back, a teacher and her students demonstrated how the lines could have been made just using a scale drawing and the students walking the image into the ground. Very impressive. Awesome video, as always!
So aliens developed the technology to fly thousands of light years across the galaxy, and draw a cat that looks like a 5 year olds drawing on a fridge.
Considering we invented international travel and still graffiti random world monuments on vacation, it's really not as implausible as you make it out to be.
Loving the new upload schedule from someone in the United States west coast. I end my Friday work day with BB, Casual Criminalist, and Decoding. Legendary
Same!
At least half of my enjoyment of these videos comes from Simon trying to pronounce names.
Names? I'd just like him to learn how to pronounce "drawing" correctly? Drawering? Aluminium?
The only pronunciation he ever gets right is his own name 😘🥰
Something I never considered until I saw Simon's video is that maybe the ancient people had their own UFO enthusiasts?
I mean, there's always been weird people right?
Personally, I think that the lines were made because someone needed some more Faith, food, and production in a desert.
8:40 - Chapter 1 - Welcome to Nazca Interstellar Airpot
21:20 - Chapter 2 - A threat from Orion
24:25 - Chapter 3 - Designers on hot air balloons
26:40 - Chapter 4 - Enter the experts
32:50 - Conclusion
36:10 - Bonus facts
NASCAR LMFAOOOOOO
@@Humanh8red Yes, i was pretty tired that time...
We need one these just for his tangents.
Thanks!
when they said the nazca were "primitive" i thought "but... but... they are a complex society" and i remembered that in fact, i am an archaeologist and the author of chariot of the gods whose name i can't spell, is most definitely not
I’ve got the book about the Condor 1 - it’s a remarkable read and the fact that it has proven that the Nazca people could have had access to ‘flight’ is very thought provoking. A lot of the ancient alien stuff isn’t about aliens as such - it’s more about forbidden archaeology aka the stuff that the experts don’t want to think about or consider or admit because it’ll prove their theories wrong.
Ancient cultures were a lot more advanced than we give them credit for. We (as a whole, not everyone) don’t like to think that we aren’t the smartest of the bunch. We equate older with less intelligent which is deeply ignorant.
I’ve flown over the Nazca Lines and they are amazing. What I didn’t realise before I saw them is the ground isn’t flat - there are ancient river beds under some of them. They’re simply amazing and I would highly recommend people to go see them if they can.
I love how at least half of the episode is Simon being flabberghasted at how complicated these theories get.
Human stupidity never ceases to amaze.
The other half is him struggling to pronounce, “efforlutlessly.”
Not to mention his totally sarcastic readings!
Dude! You gotta smoke DMT once at least.... you most likely will never want to do it again........but yo have GOT to do it once!
@@elkraken6555 can you give me your source for the Easter Island claim?
Or are there just so many lines in different directions that one had to point that way?
Love how Simon was instantly like, can't you just scale it up?
Simon thank you for addressing upfront the implicit racism of this mystery.
There are sculptures/drawings that are very similar in Simons native home country (The Cerne Abbas Giant), but since they are produced by white people, we view and honor them as the historically significant human creations that they are.
As Simon said, the ONLY difference is that people don't think these, non-white, cultures could do it.
I don't think it's actually racism at it's core. If you actually dive down this rabbit hole online you will see that people think EVERY megastructure in history is built by or with the help of aliens. They think the same dumb stuff about Stonehenge, the Parthenon, the Coliseum and countless ancient temples. Hell there's literally people who think Notre Dame and other impressive medieval constructions were secretly built by aliens or with alien technology, or that da Vinci's inventions were also actually learned from aliens, look it up. I this it's more down to people just being small minded/ignorant and having no understanding of human ingenuity and technology. They just can't wrap their heads around the fact that our ancestors managed to accomplish great feats of art and engineering with what they had on hand and by thinking outside the box.
Or there's nothing really mysterious about one horse on a hill or a naked dude with a club, while something like Stonehenge generates just as many crazy conspiracy theories.
@@Insanati Yeah good point, Stonehenge has alien theories to it too.
Bro that’s total bullshit….no one with an above room temp IQ thinks it was aliens….it was obviously humans…and nothing about this is racist….stop it already.
What’s weird to me is how it’s Oh the Maya built this or the Aztecs built that but everywhere else it’s aliens 🤷🏻♀️🤣
You know, the idea of interstellar grafiti artists and other such scoundrels is something I want more of in sci-fi
How do I make a straight line on the dirt for a long time? How did the romans do it? Surely even without a foot measure (like the Egyptians used) or the plumbobs of the Romans (or whatever it was), a stake and some twine or rope that is knotted real tight and won't move to make a giant protractor/ruler? Like when you lay foundations..... ? Or am I stupid
Check out how the Roman empire built their roads
The Nazca people created some prolific artwork, and they should be credited for that. Aliens didn't do it, and thinking it was directly because of aliens is obviously a silly line of reasoning, but still the beliefs of ancient civilizations about gods could have motivated it. Believing they're showing their work to spirits or gods in the sky would track with the practices of belief throughout history, showcasing your devotion and respect for those you believe to control your fate.
We flew over the lines of Nazca in 2007. They were amazing. The actual construction probably involved a line of workers sweeping the ground with their foot, exposing the unoxidized desert beneath and pushing up a small berm that stands out in sunlight. Then take a small step forward and repeat. But who was the genius who conceived of the whole project? The Nazca Indians who live there now say the lines were already there when their ancestors came. Photos from the 1960s show tire tracks looping through the area but the area has been cleaned up since. Thank you to whoever did it. The Pan American Highway actually cuts through an edge of the area.
They reminded me of the meditation mazes/labyrinth we used to walk on retreat. At the time you are just walking and thinking. Following the path, but it is a designed picture from above. You don't see it, the big picture while in it. There were little cards made up so you could see the image if you wanted to.
I think we assume that seeing it from over head was the purpose instead of thinking that as an act of faith or devotion, not seeing it just doing it was important.
1:47 my mind scenario would be more like the Nazcas made a tourist trap for aliens and had stalls with trinkets and souvenirs
17:36 I would say that what's far-fetched is that if you made an airport that looked like the Nazca Lines, airplane crashes would be a lot more common.
Now, really, the most likely explanation would be some kind of prayer or message to their gods or ancestors.
PS. Has anyone noticed how many "misteries" they tie with Orion due to the Orion Belt? That's just 3 dots in almost straight line and at close to even distances, so with any 3 points close enough you either see that, a triangle or a face.
Stuff like “Aliens built pyramids” give reasonable people who happen to believe there’s life outside the planet a bad name
I want Simon’s sister to do a decoding the unknown episode
Do you mean dtu?
@@bryanlogan621 haha! I had not made it to that part of the episode when I posted my comment but when he said, “DtU,” I was like, “well, of course that’s how he says it”
@@MrDicehead Kevin goes by DTUKevin on here
I really appreciate Simon Whistler. I enjoy his channels. And he is very funny. Keep up the good work.
I was in Switzerland in about 1970 practicing the piano when a man wandered into the room, sat down and listened to my piano-playing for a good half hour, which I thought was odd because I wasn't very good. He turned out to be Erich von Daniken. We had a nice chat, not about aliens.
How do you want to leave your mark in the world?
Simon Whistler: "LONG ASS TANGENTS!!!!"
It's amazing what humans can achieve with a stick in the ground and a rope.
"ancient Peruvians couldn't do this!"
*ancient Peruvians, doing neurosurgery when Europe was dying of plague*
I agree that scaling up plot points from a reference illustration is pretty easy. I used the technique myself to paint a mural of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger on my sons bedroom wall using a picture not much bigger than a postage stamp. Arguing that such shapes can only be made from the air just overly complicates the process. Can you imagine trying to shout to the artists below that they need to rub out a line and redraw it at a different angle? Or are they presuming they used ridiculously long pencils from balloons?
Thanks, Simon and crew!
The Universidad Pontifica is a Catholic university...because Peru's state religion is Catholicism. So the academics conducted there are just as viable as in other universities. I was there for a conference, and the place was pretty big, well kept, with some ancient ruins even running through it (though that's also just a part of being located in Lima).
I've been to the Nazca Lines (I did the plane ride and nearly barfed all over them...), and the lines aren't that interesting. More interesting are the mummies you can see in the areas, the expanses of sand dunes, and the way that the Nazca managed their water: making covered tunnels of water with vanishingly small gradients. Nazca today often gets as little as 10 mm of rain in a year, so the fact that such a thriving civilization existed to begin with is a marvel of water engineering.
Always love the casual swearing of Simon
In Adams County near Peebles, Ohio is the Serpent Mound historical site. It's an effigy mound resembling a snake. Many speculate that it was created after an appearance of Halley's comet.
But one brilliant mind decided it was actually created by an earthquake.
Have a look at Graham Hancock's work.
I now know more about the Nazca Etch-A-Sketch™️! Ty Simon & co.!
What if the Nazca biomorphs really were drawn by Ancient Aliens?
(Hang on: I'm goin' somewhere with this!)
What if they were the extraterrestrial equivalents of Neil Buchanan, and the Nazca plain was an alien Big Art Attack? 😉😁
My favorite conspiracy theory mashup. "JFK comes back in a UFO, with a great new diet."
the NASCAR lines 😂🤣😂🤣 love it Simon
btw, the Joe Rogan thing around the 13:20 mark. it's Ayahuasca/DMT he bangs on about 😜
"NASCAR" shows up in the auto-generated captions, too...😁
when flying crafts leave long lines in the ground its called 'crashing'
And there's usually a huge mass of smoking wreckage at one end...😁
I know this is an older video but as an osteoarchaeologist, I am so surprised how we want to diminish the past peoples of this earth by saying there was no way they could have done it without help. Humans have been smart and innovative the whole of existence. They are amazing to study and respecting that they were brilliant throughout times past is what my job is all about.
Pirate preacher is my favorite preacher voice. 🤣🤣
Omg Simon, 10:10 perfect Spot for a square space ad :D
How did they plan and draw the shapes? Knotted rope, maybe. You honestly just need some way to accurately measure a given distance and mark it. I'd also contest the claim that it would take decades to carve them. This is completely unsupported by any study.
Stellarium is a free app, with no adds. I've been using it the last few weeks, just for fun. Now, if I go outside at night and look up, I can recognise some stars, plus Mars and Jupiter easily, without needing the app. And I finally know which star is the North Star. Really worth checking out
Au contraire whistle Boi, your tangents are one of the reasons we love you
von Däniken made such an impact because he tied Biblical stories to extraterrestrials. He capitalized on the growing inquisitiveness and doubt of a previously largely unquestioning Christian society.
His ideas collapse immediately under scrutiny, but it challenged THE historic(ish) narrative and that was all the rage. If you had Tolkien and von Däniken books in your windowless van you were a hippie intellectual.
I find it more realistic that ancient nasca people used their lightweight fabric for primitive balloons that could lift people of the ground slightly for a brief instant, then they got wasted on peyote and did some desert sweeping graffiti
Sacred medicine was only for the healers. Not regular people.
Dear Simon, we have CAT in the US. You've asked a few times over the last year or two. Lots of love. Help us.
Glad to see this again!! I was trying to remember where I saw the super posh guy and Simon has a bazillion videos and it would have been fruitless to try to find it. I've started wanting to say, "Perah, darling." for Peru! 😎
Love this show. You remind me of the sexiest man alive Sir Patrick Stewart. Of course you're rocking that beard too. Great job 5 stars!
Young captain picard ! Yes I'd subscribe to paramount plus for Simon in that show !
Patrick Stewart is the perfect man.
Also the theory to help direct the minimum rain to their wells to collect water
Earth, the aliens' Etch-A-Sketch.
To be fair, going to a random planet with life on it and just adding graffiti to be an interstellar troll, would be exactly what I'd do if I had a spaceship and found such a planet
Simon's going to be the parent who if his children like fantasy he's going to crush their imagination and fun
Banksy's still at it! What a legend.
Yay! I get to finally watch a video within the first 15 minutes of it being posted!
I freaking love our Fact Boy
Great video keep up the good work
Nobody, and i mean NOBODY is saying Egyptian brains were too small. What we are trying to say is that Egyptian builders had higher technology than bronze hand saws. Again, nobody is saying lasers and flying machines, but modern egyptologists won’t even concede the fact that they had rotating saws. I’m not trying to start an argument but you can’t have it both ways. If they were smart enough to build the most labor intensive project known to man, they were smart enough to not have some dude yanking away at a hand saw. But you do you Simon.
Merry Christmas!
So everyone always says you can't see them unless you're above them, but clearly you can if Toribio Mejía Xesspe found them while he was hiking through the foothills. Like who knows, maybe you were supposed to view them from places like that
How many channels do you have?? I keep stumbling across them, always a welcome surprise but man, you must be busy.
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Arnaldo, since you did write for CC, I thought you at least knew criminal rule #1: don't write down your crimes! Especially if it involves thinking of tricking Simon into subscribing to a documentary of dubious facts!
I laughed so many times during this episode. It was brilliant.
I have to wonder if Simon realizes how many times he is unintentionally hilarious?
I believe true information can change the outcome of any negative situation
I love this channel and your other one. I just recommended this channel to Telltale Atheist.
Which other one? He has 14 channels
@@sandybarnes887 omg I didn't know he has 14. I was referring to Casual Criminalist
@@laurentackett9399 most of his channels are listed in the video description 😁
I’m here for the behind the scenes stuff, DTU. Carry on down the tangent road sir.
Cat = Caterpillar, a brand name. They make some awesome dozers too.
I'm' used to clicking on the thumbnail and listening to old episodes. I couldn't believe I was the #25 like for the episode!
It could be a riddle or a mathematical equation of Einstein's theory of everything written in a riddle.
Simon thank you
To be fair...
Moon was the first time man had gone somewhere new and not been able to have a go there.
I think it was kinda like the polar regions or deep water where we just couldn't justify the effort for the output yet.
Instead of greener grass, we found more fence.
I think the nazca lines are easy to explain. They would have seen falling stars and assume something someone was up there, they drew giant animals to signal to them that there was life down here
Every now and then Simes does one shitfaced. Love it.
I don't think even the craziest of craziest thought the aliens themselves made them
growing up, I learned about NASCAR before hearing about the Lines, and I initially thought they were car decals lol
Taking a look at the pictures of Nasca (?) lines - some simply remind me on airport runways.
Perfectly ok to discripe the shape - not usage/function....
South America had air balloons 100s of years before we did. I wonder if the lines were to be seen from the balloons.
Simon is a ninja!
DMT Simon that's what Rogan constantly talks about. He also has the chariost of the gods dude on a lot.
Mind boggling how people can't think beyond "now" when explaining their unknowns. Like alien spaceships would need landing strips because they're flying airplanes or something. I remember an old TV interview of a guy in Canada in the fifties that saw an "alien craft" and his description was that it was riveted together. Because aliens, of course, use rivets to hold spaceships together.
The only thing about the Nazca lines that I think is hard to understand is how they flattened the mountain. I mean all the other mountains have peaks.
The... Is called an ellipses, just for the record Simon 🤙
Quick statistical fact: the chance of pulling a queen a second time is still just 1 in 52. The draw the first time does not influence the next draw i.e. there is never more than a 50/50 chance if heads ot tails no matter how many times it has landed before
Thank you, Simon!!! I have enjoyed all of your videos and subscribed a while back!! Keep up the fantastic work!!! Just noticed something about Pink Floyd!! Gotta watch!! Until next time!!!
Total joke theory🤣: the Nazca people hired the aliens to create the lines for a commemorative art expo dedicated to their shared love of potatoes! 💘😀🥔👽💘
Love this topic!
I started laughing very, very hard when the Orion Group shit started.
Tears in my eyes, and my stomach hurts from laughing.
Thanks for the Decode.
I am literally at work sending faxes right now at the end of 2023 😅 I agree it’s insane
Have studied and researched the Nazca lines quite a bit and the only thing I can say is that there had to be an overhead component to their construction. The entire alien thing I do not know. But there had to be an overhead component to their construction. I have heard a theory put forth that they(the Nazcan) made hot air balloons out of leather to direct the construction. However, as we both know, leather is far too heavy to make a hot air balloon out of and it's far too 'leaky'(?) So, how did they do it? Or, did they even actually do it? I have often thought of the pyramids. Did the Egyptians build them? Or, were the pyramids already there? I will say the Nazca lines look strangely like an airport. If you've ever seen photographs of modern airports from overhead...
Guess what it's not? Aliens. Fantastic intro.
Okay so what if they did get vantage from above? The Nazca lines are pretty close to some mountains. They were skilled with fibers. What if they knew how to use a squirrel suit and a parachute? Those are made from tightly woven fibers? They literally used fibers for money.
There’s a great thing about the Ancient Aliens show that I think a lot of people miss.
At the beginning of every episode, they have the line: (paraphrasing) A lot of people believe that ancient aliens have come to Earth over our history… what if that was true?
It starts out saying it’s just fantasy ideation. They could just as easily change the show to say… a lot of people believe unicorns are real, what if that was true? Then find and replace Ancient Aliens with unicorns in the script and it would be the exact same show!
No, Simon, this is definitely what I’m here for 😂
This whole genre of books (and yeah, I read a lot of them and I am not proud of) is about: Why shouldn't this be that way? Oh yes, this is absolutely the way we say in this book!
My neighbor cuts his bushes? Aliens
Churches? Aliens
Mountains? Aliens
Wars? Aliens
Lines in a Desert? Aliens (but I really want to know who and why they created them btw)
Aliens = God(s) in that kind of magical thinking... and god(s) is the same illusion. Because the Christian/Jewish god is not cool enough, so we invented aliens!
I spent a week in Haiti and learned that when people have fewer gadgets, tools and resources, they do some pretty darn ingenious stuff to get the desired outcome. I’m sure the ancient humans were no less ingenious.
I believe these were some kind of religious art surving multiple purposes like venerating gods and also being a pilgrimage trails or markings or sacred place's territory.
Super late to this video but that’s okay. I always enjoy Simons videos :)
The sands of Peru's deserts bear the marks of - Naza - lines. What is the reasoning behind this? Aliens of course! (Allegedly)
Ever considered it might just be Orks being Orks and trolling Mankind pre Imperium?