Unexplained Mysteries photography | Forum

StoneLifter Nov 15, 2005 07:15:22

Replying to Hob

Everyone's tired of crop circles - perhaps appreciation of them takes some kind of generous openhandeness that is difficult in a 'grab it and take it' culture. The artificial copies are declining so that the proportion of genuine ones has risen. The shape of the 'circles' is not the same throughout the world, I noticed the US receives square ones sometimes. The most complex are only found in Britain, usually on the Chalk downs, and their complexity of design puts them well beyond the conception of the human mind. Yes, farmers are still charging admittance and, as most here are heavy skeptics, I'll post a link to one that looks a lot like a dung beetle. Everyone's watched a dung beetle roll a piece of shit into a ball and greedily hide it away, right ? No, no, the circle makers aren't trying to tell us anything ! http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2005/eastfield2/eastfield2005b.html

FourWinds Nov 15, 2005 07:23:56

Replying to StoneLifter

>> The artificial copies are declining so that the proportion of genuine ones has risen.

I dispute the latter part of that fact. 0% will always be 0% no matter how many of something you have.

nigelswift Nov 15, 2005 09:16:17

Replying to StoneLifter

I like the dung beetle one SL, though I'd say it was more like a winged god-like alien.

Not sure if you're suggesting that one is a genuine one, but there's a telling set of observations to be made about it. Every line, every circle and every arc centres upon a bit of the crop that's been flattened as part of the pattern or previously flattened by vehicles. The chance of that happening if it was imposed from above is almost infinitely small. So for me, whether man made or otherwise, it WAS made with a stick and a rope.

morfe Nov 15, 2005 10:25:25

Replying to StoneLifter

"and their complexity of design puts them well beyond the conception of the human mind."

You never had a Spirograph as a kid then ;-)

Field Art photography