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Crop circles 2004

Yes, some people evidently have too much time on their hands ;).

Hans
 
They have to. If they did not use this airy expression form "this formation appeared" and kept the mysticism live they would be reduced to simple vandals.

Hans
 
I think it's aliens.

After all if we develop interstellar spaceflight I sincerely hope the very first thing we do on encountering an alien planet is to secretly land in the middle of the night and make pretty patterns in their foodstuff.
 
Ashles said:
I think it's aliens.

After all if we develop interstellar spaceflight I sincerely hope the very first thing we do on encountering an alien planet is to secretly land in the middle of the night and make pretty patterns in their foodstuff.
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Not until we're done with 50 or so years of probing.
 
Ashles said:
I think it's aliens.

After all if we develop interstellar spaceflight I sincerely hope the very first thing we do on encountering an alien planet is to secretly land in the middle of the night and make pretty patterns in their foodstuff.
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Caring aliens. They make sure never to make their circles in areas of food shortage. We need to take the same care.
 
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Dr Adequate said:
These people are simultaneously damaging crops ....
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Yes, they are cereal killers.

I wouldn't expect that the fellows who put their time, money and effort into growing the plants are enthused about this activity.
 
Wrong - they encourage it, especially in the English countryside. You make a lot more charging woo's to see it than you ever would selling a few acres of grain.

Why do you think no farmer has ever caught someone making crop circles? They don't want to - or if they do, they probably brought them coffee or something.
 
Khonshu's got it. I think the total crops damaged by crop circles in 2003 was less than 20 acres. And if you harvest within a couple of weeks, you can get the good stuff from the knocked-over crop anyway. If someone wants to make a particularly large circle, they can always pay the farmer a few bucks.

Lots more profit to be made selling tickets, photos, bits of crop, and other goodies. Heck, schedule the crop circle in advance and work out a deal with the local merchants: Take a little off the top for steering tourists to the local pub or hotel.

It's a wonderful art form, I think. And remember, crop circles aren't hoaxes. They would only be hoaxes if there were some "real" ones.

~~ Paul
 
Khonshu said:
Wrong - they encourage it, especially in the English countryside. You make a lot more charging woo's to see it than you ever would selling a few acres of grain.

Why do you think no farmer has ever caught someone making crop circles? They don't want to - or if they do, they probably brought them coffee or something.
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Good points. And I suppose, to be fair, the woos would believe in aliens anyway. Okay, it's a legit art form.
 
In many/most cases, the bend point is above the level harvester blades would lop off the stalks and there isn't as much damage as assumed (per Jim Schnabel's hilarious book 'Round In Circles' which I highly recommend less for the debunking than for the insider look at the absolute circus-like atmosphere permeating 'cereology').
 
These are superb. Especially that first one. I really have to take my hat off to these guys.

I remember back in 1994 I was lending a hand with the SNP European election campaign in Peterhead. There were a lot of bright yellow rape fields about, and being as the SNP's colour is bright yellow, a lot of people kept muttering about what a great crop "circle" we could make (in the shape of the party logo, natch). But we didn't want the bad publicity of "nationalist vandals wreck crop".

Fortunately Alex Salmond's brother-in-law had a suitable field, and though he didn't want us to trample it, he gave us some long strips of black plastic we could lay out over the plants. Well, what with the tramlines not being perpendicular to the edge of the field, and the wind trying to whip the plastic off towards Sweden, and the rape being well above head height, the resulting effort when photographed by our tame light aircraft pilot was lop-sided to say the least. It got into the Sun which was "fighting for Independence" at the time, but mostly the whole experience instilled in me a healthy respect for people who can make beautiful, meticulously designed formations in the dark, and have them come out right.

Do the perps themselves organise the aerial photos? I wish I'd gone to see the one at Steyning, that's just down the road.

Rolfe.
 
Since the Woo Woo Kings have coopted crop circles as evidence of ___________________ (fill in the blank with woo woo of choice), it is almost overlooked that they represent (IMO) a wonderful example of folk art, graffiti of a sort, with one foot in agragarian history, the other in firmly in 21st century modernism.

Then again, without all the woo woo about crop circle 'energies', plasma vortices, etc., crop circles probably wouldn't carry the pub nor the cachet currently seen.

I participated (as a lookout) in a hoaxed (duh) crop circle perpetrated in 1989 or so (87?) near Raleigh NC USA by a team of subversive engineering students from NC State University's school of engineering. Just a simple circle, though huge, and the local reaction was hilarious -space aliens, religious connotations, conspiraqcy theories, etc. One old farmer said, "hell, my boys could-a done that" never realizing that one of his boys HAD done that, lol.
 
I've just had a lot of fun looking through the photograph gallery. Some of these things are awesome!

They had a programme on local TV here where they challenged two groups of army cadets (a team of boys and a team of girls) to make a circle each, as a race. The boys did OK, with a plank and a rope. The girls whizzed ahead just linking arms and carefully walking in a circle, folding the stalks as they went. The aerial photos were great, the girls' circle going twice as fast as the boys'.

At the end the boys were whacked out, and the girls said, that was fun can we make another? And these were people who'd never tried it before (as far as we knew :D ).

If that didn't convince the entire audience how they were done, I don't know what will.

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe, take a field trip next summer and give us a report on a local circle. I'd love to hear a description from someone not vested in the woo-woo aspects of the artform.

~~ Paul
 
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