# A Trucker Went Off-Roading on the 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080 "2018-02-03T02:05:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080/21 "2018-02-03T21:01:14Z")
So what the hell is the place good for besides scratching very large drawings in the dirt? People apparently drive big trucks there. Perhaps they are just passing through. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080/22 "2018-02-03T21:03:48Z")
Not really dirt. Pea-gravel. The reddish volcanic material overlays lime, which is white. When the lime is exposed, it concretes, in what little moisture there is in the air there, stabilizing the trenches somewhat. There is not enough moisture for growing things to get a foothold on the plain. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080/23 "2018-02-04T04:14:27Z")
I just saw something about how the Incas took prisoners up on this man made volcano shaped mountain and sacrificed them. Maybe time for a replay. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080/24 "2018-02-04T08:24:04Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Let’s see, we’ve got yahoos knocking over hoodoos in Goblin Valley, people instagramming pics of their graffiti in various National Parks, and guys joyriding across The Racetrack and the Nazca Lines. Oh yeah, there was the dude who made fires at the base of Delicate Arch that left burn marks. I’d like to take this opportunity to pit them all. Fuckers. I’m with you too. **FUCKERS**. They need to be castrated and force-fed their own testicles. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080/25 "2018-02-06T04:07:22Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Let’s see, we’ve got yahoos knocking over hoodoos in Goblin Valley, people instagramming pics of their graffiti in various National Parks, and guys joyriding across The Racetrack and the Nazca Lines. Oh yeah, there was the dude who made fires at the base of Delicate Arch that left burn marks. I’d like to take this opportunity to pit them all. Fuckers. Let’s not forget the bozos who did this: [Protestors from the group inflicted irreversible damage to the Nazca Lines in Peru when they laid out banners ironically decrying the destruction of the environment.](http://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenpeace-irrevocably-damages-fragile-nazca-lines-peru-during-publicity-stunt/) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080/26 "2018-02-06T04:16:07Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Let’s not forget the bozos who did this: > > [Protestors from the group inflicted irreversible damage to the Nazca Lines in Peru when they laid out banners ironically decrying the destruction of the environment.](http://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenpeace-irrevocably-damages-fragile-nazca-lines-peru-during-publicity-stunt/) The Nazca Lines are not an environmental issue, they are an intriguing historical artifact. Not much irony there. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080/27 "2018-02-06T04:25:08Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Let’s not forget the bozos who did this: > > [Protestors from the group inflicted irreversible damage to the Nazca Lines in Peru when they laid out banners ironically decrying the destruction of the environment.](http://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenpeace-irrevocably-damages-fragile-nazca-lines-peru-during-publicity-stunt/) Forgive me, but I see no evidence of any destruction of Nazca lines in that picture, nor do I see any description of the alleged damage, and the story in your link is full of inaccuracies and contradictions. Backtracking thru the links, the original story has no mention at all of destruction of any Nazca lines. This is the only relevant quote in the original BBC story: > [@](#): > > The lines, depicting animals, stylised plants and imaginary figures were declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1994. > > “They haven’t touched the hummingbird figure but now we have an additional figure created by the footsteps of these people,” Mr Castillo told local radio. > > Greenpeace spokeswoman Tina Loeffelbein said the activists had been “absolutely careful to protect the Nazca Lines” when they laid out yellow letters in cloth reading “Time for Change; The Future is Renewable” on the desert ground on Monday. Do we have any real evidence or information about any Nazca lines that were “irrevocably damaged” by these Greenpeacers? (Greenpeacniks? Greanpeas? What’s the proper plural here?) Because right now, it looks to me like the IFLS folks were sloppy as hell and/or deliberately trying to demonize Greenpeace. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trucker-went-off-roading-on-the-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines/808080.md?page=1)