circles

Circular Sightings Tough to Explain Sure, they're tough to explain if you don't bother letting pesky skeptics get in your way. Well, he's a noo-cu-lar fizzicist! He must know! Who we gonna believe, him or someone who actually makes crop circles? Nah, he don't have no degree! They must be...

I watched a show on Discovery Science where it was claimed that crop circles has been around for hundreds of years (300 years was mentioned) and that some aspects of crop circles cannot easily be explained by hoaxters. Two features that would signify a real crop circle was (1) Damage to the crop...

No, really! http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/03/cropcircles.shtml It's True! :) (tm)

what about crop circles? please dont tell me they were made overnight by humans. thats impossible. look at them from the top. IMPOSSIBLE:cool:

As one might guess, I'm a pool player. One question that I've been curious about for a while is, in a rack of billiard balls, why is it that six balls fit around one? Like so: . :) :) :) :) :) . :) :) When you assume that all balls are the same size, six seems a mathematically...

As I write, I am watching the National Geographic Network's program on crop circles. What a breath of fresh air! Not only is it a skeptical presentation, but it is showing circle-makers--many different groups of them, with different motivations, styles, etc.--who have created circles which...

I heard Freddy Silva interviewed by Coast to Coast AM host George Noory in the wee hours of the morning. This radio program covers a wide variety of interesting topics that have been discussed in the Skepticism forums. Art Bell is another familiar host at Coast to Coast. Do many people here...

No, not a homeopathy thread. Here's a maths puzzle that defeats my common sense, but I'm not sure how I'd go about analysing it mathematically. Picture a sphere. Spin the sphere about a random axis. The path followed by a point on the surface is a circle. Now choose an extra axis orthgonal to...

I've been looking for follow-up research on the claims that plants found in crop circles have been subjected to high-energy radiation of some sort, as evidenced by node elongation and the holes made by apparent steam evacuation. The woo sites are loaded with references, but the scientific sites...

A selection of the best crop circles of 2004: http://www.circlemakers.org/totc2004.html ~~ Paul

Yes, there is money to be made in crop circles these days. Not a UFO in sight, but now that these curios are etched into the public consciousness, advertisers are using them. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/26/1090693898851.html

I was watching 'Amelie' the other night, and was suddenly struck by the similarities between gnome-napping and crop circles. Both try to imply the existence of something otherworldly. Both are well-established (first documented cases are 1980 and 1678, respectively), and occur all over the...

Hi all I was on the radio here in Australia, a coast to coast show on at 4am Saturday. YAWN. The things I do for skepticism. Not easy to sound bright at that time of the morning. The topic was Crop Circles and UFOs. Anyway, you can hear it for yourself: (windows media Audio)...

Something scary is happening. For hundreds of years, mysterious crop circles have appeared across the world. But now it seems that whatever intelligence is creating them has begun creating interdimensional representations of the same messages. These crop cylinders are appearing across...

Ivars Peterson discusses Gerald Hawkins and his fanciful crop circle theories in his latest online column at http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_06_30_03.html Hawkins died in May, which no doubt prompted the article. I think Hawkins was another example of an expert working too far out of his...