And again science proves to be far from absolute.

Now here’s the real insult to injury. While 19th century science screwed up finding the Equator, someone else got it right. You know, it’s always boggled my mind how we put guys on the moon before inventing the pocket calculator. But now, it truly blows my mind that we put guys on the moon before we even found the centre of our own planet. Amazing.

But 1,200 years ago a pre-Incan culture laid a monument to the centre of the world. On top of a round hill, one that doesn’t fit into the local topography, they made a circle of stones. If you put your GPS in the centre of it, it will read S/N 00,00,00.0. I didn’t make it up there, but a local showed me his recorded mark on his GPS. These ancient people also drew two lines 50km a part to mark the path of the sun on the equinox. These lines mark the path of the direct rays.

This culture, 1,200 years ago knew that the world was round, while Europeans were still burning those who thought so. They were also able to measure the dead centre of between north and south, and they put their monument on something that might as well be the earth’s navel…look, it’s an outey!

This little circle was only discovered 8 years ago, thanks to GPS and a few archaeologists. Like that shot of the GPS on the compass at Machu Pichu, another tribute to ancient forms of knowledge that knew more about our earth, land and life, than we do today.