Crop Circles

[Axiom_Blade]

I was looking up some information on crop circles today.
In Google, one of the first sites to come up was for a group called Circlemakers, who create these designs all the time. They have photos of many of them, including ones they made for a Nike commercial, and a "Hello Kitty" circle for Sanrio.

And, of course, every site after that was for the "crop circle fans", who devoutly believe that they were made by some paranormal force. One, that touts itself as "The No. 1 Site for Serious, Scientific, and Rational CROP CIRCLE RESEARCH" asks:

Crop circles are one of the most profound and mysterious phenomena of the modern age. Are they a communication from extra-terrestrials? Evidence of other dimensions or a catalyst to advancing our way of thinking?

Hey, guys! I think I have the answer!

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it seems a lot more amazing that some humans did these incredibly symmetrical designs with sticks and rope, instead of some spaceship flying down and using a ray or something.

It just ticks me off that these dopes consider themselves "enlightened" when they refuse to give their fellow humans credit for a seriously cool art form. Yeah! It musta been aliens! Humans could never do anything like that!

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Wait until they see a crop circle around a pyramid.

~~ Paul

 

[Hawk one]

I think that someone once discovered a crop circle -under- a pyramid. OK, so it seemed a bit more like a square than a circle, but check this out:

All the grass beneath the pyramid had been pressed completely flat!

It must have been aliens, because humans could never pressed all the grass under those rocks!

 

[steve s]

What amazes me is that they think the really elaborate designs were done by lightning, or wind, or some sort of energy vortex.

I remember seeing a show debunking them in which they pointed that the very first circles to appear in the 1970's were just simple circles. Then they got a little more complex with a few more circles around them. Then in the '80s as PCs became common, elaborate fractal designs started to appear. In the '90s we started to see more geometric designs like triangles and such.

Yet the Bleevers can't explain why lightning or wind (or aliens for that matter) would result in this gradual and continual evolution in the designs.

Steve S.

 

[Nicholas Turnbull]

The propensity for the human mind to give assent to the improbable, and accept the logically unacceptable, is more awe-inspiring than any kind of notion that extra-terrestrial beings exist and, indeed, make crop-circles. We have, in a microcosm of ideology, a perfect example of how the sheer power of incautious acceptance of the mentally delightful delusion becomes something that spreads further than one ought to tolerate. In my view, we have sufficient mystery to keep us satisfied in examining the nature of belief, and indeed the belief in the prohibitively improbable, without embroiling ourselves in arguments over the possibility of extra-terrestrials. Alien perceptions of reality - the development of an acceptance towards that not observed to exist, through laissez-faire thinking - are as truly bizarre as any notions of little men from elsewhere than Earth choosing to embark upon a voyage to our God-forsaken cesspit of unreason.

Nicholas Turnbull