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Old 20th April 2005, 01:56 PM   #37
Seren
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It's all about Moisture in the Air. This is about the Milky Way and how it's brings that moisture to the desert from the Seas.

According to the Inca cosmology, 2 great rivers of the inca universe were joined at the edge of the known universe in the waters of a great cosmic sea which encircled the earth. The Milky Way was thought to have its source in the cosmic sea from which it took water into the sky. As the Milky Way passed through the sky at night, it deposited moisture in the sky which fell to the earth in the form of rain

This is a section form this month's UK New scientist :

The New Scientist, April 16th 2005, Pyramids of Dew. P.52

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The ponds on the downs of South-East England…..were artfully constructed to condense moisture from the air. Beneath their clay bottoms, a layer of straw insulated the water, keeping it colder than the soil at night, and above the clay, a layer of stones ensured that the pond shed heat quickly, lowering the temperature further.
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Moisture in the air is the great untapped water resource. The atmosphere contains around 13,000 cubic kilometers of water vapour at any one time, six times as much as in all the worlds rivers.
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Make rain by ionizing the air.
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On the ridge in the rainless Atacama desert in Northern Chile, you can still see the tattered remains of large sheets of plastic mesh that once harvested water from the fogs that roll in from the Pacific Ocean. This is recent history…
In the 1990’s each 12 by 3 metre net was catching an average of 150 litres a day
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The Ultimate goal is still to find a sure-fire way to harvest that moisture by cooling the air to make dew.
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Each night the stones lost heat and cooled the sea breezes blowing through the loosely packed stones sufficiently to cause moisture to condense. In the past, this flow of water trickling from the stones had filled networks of pottery pipes and several dozen reservoirs that provide water for the town.

Each of the glyphs on the Nazca Plain represents an image which has an association with moisture.

The images are all one continous line. I think that in ancient times the Incas divided themselves into tribes each representing a different constellation. These tribes each had an area of the Nazca Plain where they would collect the water which was taken from the cool sea breeze by the rising heat from the Stones which are scattered across the plain. This water would then be fed along pipes to bore holes to be collected.
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