Crop Circles

[coffee4u]

What's your take on crop circles?

Something man made, I don't really think about them.

 

[AV1611VET]

Something man made, I don't really think about them.

They used to be quite the phenomenon at one time.

 

[Hans Blaster]

They used to be quite the phenomenon at one time.

In June apparently.

 

[Kylie]

They used to be quite the phenomenon at one time.

So were fidget spinners.

 

[Occams Barber]

They used to be quite the phenomenon at one time.

I think ET finally went home.

OB

 

[AV1611VET]

I think ET finally went home.

No intelligent life?

 

[Occams Barber]

No intelligent life?

You shouldn't describe your self that way.

I'm sure if we all put in a lot of effort we'd find some skerrick of intelligence behind that toothy grin.

OB

 

[Aussie Pete]

They used to be quite the phenomenon at one time.

They are a hoax. The perpetrators made a video showing how they did. Quite simple really.

 

[Albion]

They are a hoax. The perpetrators made a video showing how they did. Quite simple really.

If you are referring to the two farmers who bent the stalks down with a board, that particular revelation was big news when their story was made public, but that was early in the history of crop circles.

Since then, the crop circles have become far too complicated for that endeavor to succeed; and the study of crop circles by scientists has completely negated the explanation offered by the two men. There appears once again to be no explanation for the crop circles that cannot be made with a board and a string!

 

[Aussie Pete]

If you are referring to the two farmers who bent the stalks down with a board, that particular revelation was big news when their story was made public, but that was early in the history of crop circles.

Since then, the crop circles have become far too complicated for that endeavor to succeed; and the study of crop circles by scientists has completely negated the explanation offered by the two men. There appears once again to be no explanation for the crop circles that cannot be made with a board and a string!

That's what they said about the first crop circles. People are way smarter and more creative than most people imagine.

 

[AV1611VET]

They are a hoax.

All of them?

The perpetrators made a video showing how they did. Quite simple really.

Do you think aliens can paint pictures?

 

[Albion]

That's what they said about the first crop circles. People are way smarter and more creative than most people imagine.

All right. Give us just a general explanation for how terribly intricate and expansive crop circles of the kind that have been produced more recently can be created 1) in a relatively short period of time 2) without any sign of a path of access or egress in the field for the people making the designs, 2) how films of the field show the circles in the process of appearing but without any workers, etc. and 3) including the explanation for how it is that the crops themselves are not just bent over but their genetic make-up is also changed in the process.

 

[Hans Blaster]

That's what they said about the first crop circles. People are way smarter and more creative than most people imagine.

Quite shockingly, once it was publicly known how to make simple circles by knocking down grain, others started planning more complex designs.

 

[Albion]

Quite shockingly, once it was publicly known how to make simple circles by knocking down grain, others started planning more complex designs.

Try reading post 172 before answering.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Try reading post 172 before answering.

I did. ( 1 and 2 are "so what" and only underestimate the skills of "crop artists", 3 is just false.)

 

[Albion]

I did. ( 1 and 2 are "so what" and only underestimate the skills of "crop artists", 3 is just false.)

It's always "so what" to some posters whenever their claims have been shown to be in error.

 

[Occams Barber]

If you are referring to the two farmers who bent the stalks down with a board, that particular revelation was big news when their story was made public, but that was early in the history of crop circles.

Since then, the crop circles have become far too complicated for that endeavor to succeed; and the study of crop circles by scientists has completely negated the explanation offered by the two men. There appears once again to be no explanation for the crop circles that cannot be made with a board and a string!

Sorry - no. Here's the Smithsonian on the topic of crop circles

Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

OB

 

[Albion]

Sorry - no. Here's the Smithsonian on the topic of crop circles

Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

OB

Sorry - yes, OB.

That's an interesting article, but it doesn't even touch on the subject of the crop circles that have defied explanation.

There was something about the devotees of crop circles who see various cultic explanations in them. And there was something in the article about OTHER superstititions.

What there was NOT was anything that explained away the crop circles which were apparently not made by hoaxers.

 

[Occams Barber]

Sorry - yes, OB.

That's an interesting article, but it doesn't even touch on the subject of the crop circles that have defied explanation.

There was something about the devotees of crop circles who see various cultic explanations in them. And there was something in the article about OTHER superstititions.

What there was NOT was anything that explained away the crop circles which were apparently not made by hoaxers.

So what's your version of how they're made?

Aliens? Demons?

OB

 

[Albion]

So what's your version of how they're made?

Aliens? Demons?

OB

Are you holding out for one or the other of those two?

My position is that I don't know what causes them. No one else does either.