Crop Circles

[AV1611VET]

What's your take on crop circles?

 

[Springbok]

It shows that physicists don't have a clue what's going on. They can't explain them. So, what can they explain?

 

[April_Rose]

What's your take on crop circles?

I don't think that they exist.

 

[Lazarus Short]

I don't know - but I do know that the "two men with boards and ropes" explanation is not adequate.

 

[Occams Barber]

What's your take on crop circles?

From the Smithsonian Magazine

Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax
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From the BBC (video - 2min 20 sec)

Crop circle 'inventor's' son talks about father's legacy​

Crop circles exist and they were made by ordinary people with a good sense of geometry, a talent for surveying and a wicked sense of humour.
OB

 

[AV1611VET]

Crop circles exist and they were made by ordinary people with a good sense of geometry and a talent for surveying.

I'll admit that most of them were hoaxes.

Most of them.

But what about some that have electromagnetic anomalies accompanying them?

 

[Occams Barber]

I'll admit that most of them were hoaxes.

Most of them.

But what about some that have electromagnetic anomalies accompanying them?

There is a dated view from a single scientist that a small minority of simple circles are the result of 'electrocution' caused by shifts in the Earth's magnetic field. As far as I know this has never been verified and is not accepted by mainstream science.

Were it to be verified all it would show is that there may be a natural explanation for a small proportion of circles - no aliens involved.

Crop circles are also an ultimate proof of the truth of the saying attributed to PT Barnum:

"There's a sucker born every minute" ​

OB

 

[Aussie Pete]

What's your take on crop circles?

It's a con, same as Loch Ness monster and other "mysteries". The crop circle perps owned up and showed how it was done. Good for a laugh, unless you are the farmer whose crops were vandalised.

 

[plain jayne]

What's your take on crop circles?

I think they are beautiful works of art even though it's a waste of good crops.

I don't believe little green men came and made them. As to how humans made them.....I have no idea.

 

[Occams Barber]

I think they are beautiful works of art even though it's a waste of good crops.

I don't believe little green men came and made them. As to how humans made them.....I have no idea.

How To Make a Crop Circle (amaze your friends !!)

1. Choose a location.
2. Create a diagram of the design (although some circlemakers decide to come up with an idea spontaneously when they arrive at their intended site).
3. Once they arrive at the field, they use ropes and poles to measure out the circle.
4. One circlemaker stands in the middle of the proposed circle and turns on one foot while pushing the crop down with the other foot to make a center.
5. The team makes the radius of the circle using a long piece of rope tied at both ends to an approximately 4-foot-long (1.2-meter) board called a stalk stomper (a garden roller can also be used). One member of the team stands at the center of the circle while the other walks around the edge of the circle, putting one foot in the middle of the board to stomp down the circle's outline.

In August 2004, National Geographic contacted a team including circlemakers John Lundberg, Rod Dickinson and Wil Russell and requested a daylight demonstration in Wiltshire in support of a crop-circle documentary. This is the result:

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OB

 

[Deade]

What's your take on crop circles?

The only aliens we will encounter are the angels, fallen or not. God the Father might be considered alien, certainly not human. Christ partook of our human traits, so he isn't now an alien. I am sure if you are expecting little green men or any alien, the local demons will play along with you. I would rather be on the side where two-thirds have not fallen.

2 Kings 6:16 "And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them."

 

[AV1611VET]

Crop circles are also an ultimate proof of the truth of the saying attributed to PT Barnum:

"There's a sucker born every minute" ​

I don't think his maxim applies here.

After all, if something occurs, people tend to try and replicate it.

So embedded in all those replications could be the real deals.

 

[AV1611VET]

The crop circle perps owned up and showed how it was done.

In your opinion, does every single crop circle have a perp that owned up to it?

 

[AV1611VET]

I think they are beautiful works of art even though it's a waste of good crops.

No argument there!

 

[AV1611VET]

The only aliens we will encounter are the angels, fallen or not. God the Father might be considered alien, certainly not human. Christ partook of our human traits, so he isn't now an alien. I am sure if you are expecting little green men or any alien, the local demons will play along with you. I would rather be on the side where two-thirds have not fallen.

2 Kings 6:16 "And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them."

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No argument there, Deade!

My take on them is that some are done by fallen angels, some are prompted to do them by fallen angels, and the rest are hoaxes perpetrated by fleshly minds.

 

[Occams Barber]

I don't think his maxim applies here.

After all, if something occurs, people tend to try and replicate it.

So embedded in all those replications could be the real deals.

The reference is to the gullible souls who are so desperately willing to find supernatural or alien intervention in an easily explained bit of mischief.

Now, those bright boys, who put the con in concentric, have branched out into the business of constructing crop circles.
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OB

 

[Occams Barber]

No argument there, Deade!

My take on them is that some are done by fallen angels, some are prompted to do them by fallen angels, and the rest are hoaxes perpetrated by fleshly minds.

I think you're being very unfair.

Fallen angels seem to get blamed for everything.
OB

 

[AV1611VET]

The reference is to the gullible souls who are so desperately willing to find supernatural or alien intervention in an easily explained bit of mischief.

No argument there.

Now, those bright boys, who put the con in concentric, have branched out into the business of constructing crop circles.

No argument there.

$64,000 dollar question: Do you think those 'bright boys who put the con in concentric' represent 100% of those who manufacture crop circles?

 

[AV1611VET]

I think you're being very unfair.

Fallen angels seem to get blamed for everything.
OB

Credit where credit is due.

 

[Hans Blaster]

But what about some that have electromagnetic anomalies accompanying them?

Did they use E-meters to detect them?