The Nazca Lines 

I'm glad too see he still has some channels were he gets lost in Tangents XD

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.

“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?

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

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.

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 😘🥰

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?

Have a look at Graham Hancock's work.

And there's usually a huge mass of smoking wreckage at one end...😁

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oh come on you know its ghosts..... defo ghosts

The piano was invented in the year 1436 by Mr Harold Piano but it was more than 300 years before anyone learned to play it.

Could make for a good Megaprojects or Sideprojects - the first piano is generally credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori. They have one of his originals on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It's very cool to see, and is not much different from the modern instrument

@@ZOB4 um AcTuAlLy, as the comment above clearly states, it was invented by the Italian Harold Piano after he returned from the war of 1435. He unfortunately died when it's lid fell closed while he was working inside it, and he was found starved to death many years later.

@@bigratkiller1 would be an interesting story to.tell

Kelly Green is my father's favorite color... I wonder if there is a connection? Oh daaaad.....?lol

Get on it, Kevin!

Grab a pitchfork and blunderbuss!

Also the one story about the family attacked by Bigfoot in… was it Arkansas?

Also the Hopkinsville goblins?

I love reading the comments before watching the video, and wondering how tf Simon got off onto a tangent about alarm clocks or whatever 🤣

Or ppl put the hotel tv timer on so it turns on in the middle of the night for the next occupant. That's happened to me! Definitely was a ghost

Oh man... I'm 35 and I used to do that as a kid!! Sorry to all those workers now 😇

I used to do that in the store I worked in

Likely there was a lot of earthquake activity at the time.

😂

Funny enough, you're not too far off with the etch a sketch conment. Draw a grid on a paper. Draw image on grid. Draw giant grid on ground. Transfer image to ground grid. Mystery solved.

@@DrSpoculusinteresting take, but why the lines off at angles

@@DrSpoculusalso why do the lines go way further than the area of glyphs, maybe those were eroded but even then why do it

Aha! But… BUT, how would they have known about that spider that you need a microscope to see that teeny tiny body part sticking out that they depicted?? (I think it was some kind of appendage? I don’t remember)

As a math tutor, Yes! It hurts my head when people say that! ✌️😎🌻

Artists and architects have been using that method for milennia. Hard to understand why people don't get that.

Ok, we can guess how they were made, I just wonder why they were made.

@@budhalbr Aliens. 100% sure it was aliens. 🤣

Wow is that true ,

@@danielrodgers8870 true And he must have read Charroux before he wrote his books.

I remember that book. It was awesome. Talk about taking the ivory throne to extremes.

That’s hilarious! I wish I knew what that book was called!

Motel of Mysteries

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Thank you!

That book was after my time, but I did have an art education professor who used to introduce the idea of post-modernism (in a nutshell, all things are relative to time and place).

Sounds like epic fun! Miss the snow....Now living in Central Valley CA, and spend way too much time hoping this will be the year we get snow! 🤦🍀😸

I love everything about this

I totally did this too! Giant bird prints ftw!

Imagine not having TV or the internet, or video games. Imagine how your artwork would have progressed. 😂😂

omg!! YOU are an ancient alien. do your parents know?

For most of ancient history humans didn’t achieve anything until European civilizations appeared. 99% of scientific discoveries happened in a very short span of time relatively recently. It’s like most humans were primitive and were content eating raw meat or something 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

What is easier to explain and understand: "the graph method" or "aliens"?

@@tubensalat1453 If you just explain things by saying "Aliens made it" or "God made it" then it is easier but that is ignoring a few things. Like how the aliens got there, why they visited one of the most desolated places on earth instead of somewhere more populated and why they thought painting in dirt was worth the effort... There is a planet in Proxima Century that has the potential for life 6 lightyears away, now assuming that the planet have evolved intelligent life with basic spacefaring they could have visited earth a couple of times but that does not explain why they built their spaceport by drawing in the dirt. That explanation is way more complicated then a third method: a stick with a string tied to it, which you can use to create these things as well. I think it is more which sounds more amazing, not easy. "Who" is always easy to guess but you also need to explain "why" and "how". Who: The people of Nazka, Why: to impress the Gods, how: with strings and sticks. That is easy.

Reminds me of the time an idiot friend was talking about crystal skulls and how did they make them so round and smooth?! Must be aliens! Or just.... you polish for ages. I could do it now, it's not hard, just takes a while. Which has spawned a new phrase in my house "rub make smooth!"

@@TheDolphace yeah...very bored people back in the day/slaves...they could do all that

Don’t be so harsh. Anglo-Saxon trainee huscarls on a gap year visiting Peru is far more likely than aliens making the Nasca lines

Don't you think it is plausible that Simon was casually backpacking in Peru a thousand years ago? He probably went over with the Vikings.

Wuuuut? Mountains aren't real? That idea is fantastic! I'm definitely bringing that up at the next dinner party.

fuckin awesome . defo true

*WERE.

I know I have dislexia

The Nazcar lines were made by fast cars only turning left

Check out how the Roman empire built their roads

Most ancient alien things are based in racism

There’s always got to be ONE like you, eh?

@@maxdanielj -Two......

@@martyzielinski1442 I might not be the first to point that out in that comment section I grant you that. However, it is still true nonetheless.

@@martyzielinski1442 it's quite terrifying where the world's humans are heading with all this racism that isn't racism bollocks.

That is an amazing idea, thanks for the idea ! 😂🤣

@@girlyMulle A *Best of* video montage ? That'd be perfect. Let's hope Simon doesn't spread himself too thin....

It's nice to see someone enjoying their work. Simon is having plenty of fun !

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

NASCAR LMFAOOOOOO

@@Humanh8red Yes, i was pretty tired that time...

We need one these just for his tangents.

Thanks!

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 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

Caterpillar bought the track technology from the British inventor (I think it was a case of two people having the same idea around the same time).

I am Swedish, I am still well aware of them (heck, they made my phone). I don't think they need an explanation to anyone (who has access to internet at least, that tribe on the island that killed that missionary with bows a couple of years back have certainly not heard of them). He might as well explain that Ford makes cars.

@@loke6664 how do you find your phone? I looked into getting one a while back, but then covid and no more workshop time. Hoping to buy workshop soon and a indestructible phone is always a good idea for solo stuff.

@@TheDolphace Honestly, just ordered it on the internet. I had it for 2 years now with no problem, my work have a tendency to kill off any phone. The battery length have dropped a bit but since it has a huge battery it still outlast any Samsung or Iphone at least I owned before. It isn't as indestructible as one of those old Nokia phones from the pre smartphone era but now it is as close as you can get. I wanted a phone that can take a lot of punishment, have 2 slots for chips (I have 2 different phone subscriptions since I live in the country side and if one doesn't work I always have the other) and I wanted something with a huge battery. It wasn't very expensive and I don't really play games on my phone, just calls, SMS, listen to music & audiobooks and use Google maps. I make mining drills for Epiroc and CAT is kinda our largest competitor. Anyways, metal dust kills of any other phone I owned quickly, I recommend them if you want something that can take a lot of punishment and have a long battery life.

Same!

Yea the power of flight isnt something you discover and say, "neat" then never use again.

You kind of do have to remember that, in these times, civilizations where often separated from each other and therefore never shared technology, and there is actually a large amount of technology that was lost in the past, only to be rediscovered or reinvented again in the future. There are many technologies that are lost forever, such as Greek Fire. I'm not saying it's likely, but it is very possible that, some long lost civilization out there had the means to fly short distances, and we will never know about it. On another note, just imagine what it's going to be like 2,000 years from now when our future archaeologists discover our old rotary telephones and junk lol. Shit to them, the fact that we used physical telephones at all might be astounding. Then again, humanity did start to collect it's history in writing, and while what we have is often 3/4ths complete or less, often fantastical, second hand accounts, the recent addition of the internet and the explosion of information that has been able to be collected and stored because of it.. maybe there won't be many more lost civilizations moving forward.

@@Miss_Claire I think a lot of technology has been lost and rediscovered (or not), and I don't discount the possibility that manned flight is one of them, I just doubt it strongly

@@drewsollars2239 also, think how much of an edge that would be over other civilisations. In terms of trade, war and just information sharing. It would have been noticed and noted.

@@JohnRidley12 it also seems like someone ingenious enough to do it would be bright enough to grasp its significance

Yeah catapiller rebranded over here and just use CAT because it was a common name used by tradesmen

You might like Milo Rossi's "Awful Archaeology" series on his channel Miniminuteman. 😉🙂

Correct.

The second one is definitely epinephrine. Which is just synthetic adrenaline. Really not sure why scientists gage it a different name.

I thought he was referring to ayahuasca? Lots of people seem to be into it now

@@vic5015 epinephrine refers to the substance not in relation to the human body,but as used in scientific literature and communication.Adrenaline refers to the glands in the human body.It is like referring to acetyl-salicylic acid as disprin because people know that name

Your constant stupid comments attacking one religion only is as annoying as your obvious absence of adequate training,insight and respect.

My favorites are always those episodes that seem like they decided to go off the deep end (Bigfoot comes from UFOs, Ghosts are connected to aliens, ancient aliens killed the dinosaurs) only for me to later on discover that those are ACTUAL theories in the UFO-ology area.

It's either Aliens or people from Atlantis who were in regular contact with aliens. The two often get mixed up since the aliens shared their technology with Atlantis, and the aliens encouraged them to share with the rest of the world. Fred told me so.

Däniken needs to justify his racism somehow. So, instead of PoCs being able to invent methods and create complicated things, it had to be aliens who helped all these ancient non-white cultures.

I read Chariots of the Gods and had no idea he was a master of woo, and I enjoyed it until I hit the part about aliens, then I laughed until I cried😂

@@auntbee6993 Never read it, but I've read Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods. He's also been on JRE a couple times. Smart guy with a lot of interesting points. What do you have against aliens though? The government has admitted to the existence of UFOs. They're intelligently controlled and sightings date back too far to be some Chinese or Russian tech... plus look at how well Russia is doing against Ukraine. That rules out naturally occurring phenomenon and top secret craft... not too many logical options left. Aliens or interdimensional beings really isn't a stretch.

The real reason he went bald.