✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Nazca Lines: c. 100 BC; Inca Empire: c. 1438–1533; Moon landing: 1969 — about 1,500 years between the first two, about 530 years between the last two.
The Inca Empire is closer in time to the Moon landing than to the Nazca Lines.
Who and what
- Nazca Linesc. 100 BC · Nazca. Giant desert drawings whose purpose is still debated
- Moon landing1969 · Cape Canaveral. Humans set foot on another world for the first time
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