Comments on: Video: Crop Circles of Google Earth

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I got it.

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

hmmph! meant #m414

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If it doesn’t have any direct impact on my life, I just pick the most entertaining explanation. I know that reality-based thinking works for a lot of people, and God bless ‘em, but I’d rather drink drain cleaner.

By: noen

noen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

bernierhoades, this is why you get laughed at.

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

cash prizes to the best art!

By: andykkz

andykkz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A crop “circle” is a geometric pattern appearing in fields, usually wheat fields and usually in England. Crop circles are probably due to pranksters. Some believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. Some maintain that the aliens are trying to communicate with us using ancient Sumerian symbols or symbolic representations of alien DNA.

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Andy,

Your blog link goes on your profile page, please.

By: hughelectronic

hughelectronic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love crop circles because they are beautiful. They’re a weird combination of 1970s earth art with 90s sci-fi pranksterism, with a big dose of ancient geometric art principles thrown in for good measure.

I’m always amazed at how many people believe humans could not possibly create such perfect art. It’s a testament to the genius of the artists — and their willingness to work in the shadows!

By: bernierhoades

bernierhoades — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

get laughed at? is being a internet bully/jackass working out pretty well for you?

By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whoops, Antinous, I just now removed his .sig and was about to send him a note.

It’s all the aliens’ fault.

AndyKKZ, what Antinous said.

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

now now, uphold our community standards

By: noen

noen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

bernierhoades, are you actually trying to convince me that a video game easter egg is proof aliens have made crop circles?

I’m trying really really hard here to believe that you’re just pulling my leg. (That’s Takuan’s job anyway.)

By: Avi Solomon

Avi Solomon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

See:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1434&category=Environment

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I prefer to nip the leg off altogether and enjoy at my leisure – but could I request that everyone adopt a more conciliatory and respectful mutual tone? I am not sure everyone feels their dignity is being adequately respected. Please.

By: bernierhoades

bernierhoades — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

(who wanted to fool gullible individuals such as yourself. Looks like they pulled it off!) hughelectronic

name calling? maybe i was mistaken in expecting more from boingboing readers then elementary school retorts such as that, or “duh, it’s people! just because!” i’m not saying i don’t believe it was people, but i’ve also never seen a plausible explanation for it either. how about positing a reasonable explanation rather then regressing to junior high.

By: dainel

dainel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For those who thinks the crop circles are made by space aliens, I have one question. You can find pictures of hundreds of crop circles and thousands of aircraft in flight, all on Google Earth. But we have yet to find on Google Earth, a single picture of the spacecraft these aliens came on. I have a few hypothesis …

1) very small aliens, possibly ant sized, in spaceships the size of a mouse. Naturally, this is too small to show up on Google Earth.

2) very fast aliens, so fast that in the time it takes for our satellites to snap a single frame, the craft moves by so quickly, it appears as a blur, if at all. The aliens themselves are fast, they walk amongst us right now, but we don’t see them because they move so fast. In the time I take to type this sentence, entire generations have passed by. To them, we look like trees, hardly to be considered mobile at all.

3) telepresence, when they want to visit New York, they just go to their room, and strap on a control suit, which is link to their avatar right here on earth, already in New York, or nearby. These robot/avatars could be small and/or fast, entirely unrelated to the aliens’ real size and speed, which brings us back to (1) and (2) above.

4) All the crop circles were made by human pranksters. There are people who have admitted making crop circles (eg Bower and Chorley, 1992 Ig Nobel Physics Prize winner), and demonstrated how they made them. But it’s impossible to prove that none were made by aliens. Yet. But we’re getting there. When every inch of England is completely covered by CCTVs, we will know for sure … :-)

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the bloody military has all the evidence you need. Night vision, millimeter radar, satellites, aircraft. They spend their evenings snickering in their bunkers over newspapers with crop circle reports while the CRT on their desk plays back the recordings of determined men with string, boards and bits of wire.

By: noen

noen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

bernierhoades, Takuan, whomever. I don’t know why you think I was upset. I wasn’t. It was just a question bernierhoades. I asked because I have run into people who fervently believe in cropcircles, the Illuminati, Reptilians or what have you. I couldn’t tell if you were being serious or not so I asked, sarcasm does not translate well online. All is fine over here.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hmmm… I wonder why aliens almost only choose the UK for their messages. Do they believe that’s the only place on Earth with intelligent life?

#3: Anti-evolutionists are always very good at remembering that randomness is part of evolution and always miserable failures at remembering selection. **Natural Selection!!!** Why must people insist on trying to debunk a science they don’t understand?

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

then everyone is fine. Good.

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the crop circle schtick is long used up. Time to recreate yourselves, croppers.

Ready?: Competitive Crop Circling!

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was told it’s swamp gas.

By: Elysianartist

Elysianartist — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If these are “pranksters”, I am still waiting for an explanation on this one…”"No one could have anticipated that on one of the wildest and wettest nights of the year, an absolutely stunning 6-armed galaxy of 409 circles would appear! Proclaimed by the world’s media as the greatest crop circle event ever, it was discovered occupying the Milk Hill plateau on the 13th August. Covering an area of approximately half a million square feet, people were astounded by its perfectly aligned complexity. The sheer size and scale of the formation was beyond belief. Those who discovered this awe inspiring pattern were simply at a loss to explain why they had found the floors of the circles absolutely bone dry, even though it had been bucketing down all night long!

I personally was amazed to find a harvest mouse nest, very much intact and still attached to its stem, lying amongst the downed crop, in one of the circles. Incredibly, stalks had been swept gently around it, without causing any visible damage! … Such a simple act clearly demonstrates that “The Circlemakers” show a respect for life.”"

http://www.untoldmysteries.com/0-oct-2004-jpg-gif/MilkHill-CropCircles-640×360.jpg

By: hughelectronic

hughelectronic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s an explanation for that amazing crop circle, Elisianartist: It was made by some very talented and very determined pranksters who wanted to fool gullible individuals such as yourself. Looks like they pulled it off!

By: ROSSINDETROIT

ROSSINDETROIT — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Darned aliens. I’ve told them a million times “Use a coaster” but the minute I turn my back on them…

By: p3

p3 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

nassim haramein on youtube.com provides evidence of our direct communication with extraterrestrial intelligence via crop circles.
if you watch his presentation; crossing the event horizon, you will know that our friends are more patient in their efforts to wake us up than i am with human ignorance of the obvious.
these phenomena are the melding of art and science and it is
beautiful and much more.
let us practice the art of living in peace with justice
let us sweep away the coverings and realize the truth
we are not alone and never have been

By: bernierhoades

bernierhoades — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

all good, the internet isn’t all that good for nuance.

By: noen

noen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Peachy keen. You?

By: noen

noen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

bernierhoades — It’s fairly easy to explain cropcircles because we have the testimony of the hoaxers themselves on how they did it. All you need is string and planks of wood. Press down easy so as not to break the stem and piss off the farmer. Size is just a function of time and manpower.

That people still believe in this BS simply shows the human capacity for self delusion is infinite.

By: zuzu

zuzu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was told it’s swamp gas.

Swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket and refracting the light from Venus. Obviously.