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StoneGloves S
StoneGloves Jun 17, 2009 11:25:35
Replying to nigelswift

There's so much vitriol in this thread and it has become what I expect. I suppose I must feel the need to be ridiculed and excluded and so on. Nobody can make work on such a large scale as these temporary monuments without leaving dirty great footprints. It's impossible.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jun 17, 2009 11:46:21
Replying to StoneGloves

No vitriol from me, SG. I was just pointing out there was an entrepreneurial element to some of the manmade circles - and we all agree some of them are manmade.

Personally, I've not seen any that couldn't be man made so I take the "likely" route rather than the other one. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of storm damaged crops, often in pretty circular forms. No-one can say for certain if those are purely due to rain and wind. They certainly aren't man made.

M moss
moss Jun 17, 2009 11:56:17
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
There's so much vitriol in this thread and it has become what I expect. I suppose I must feel the need to be ridiculed and excluded and so on. Nobody can make work on such a large scale as these temporary monuments without leaving dirty great footprints. It's impossible.
Yes, you're quite right Mr S.

I would just say that the one and only time I've been into a crop circle was when I went into one of the large ones that appeared on Windmill Hill earlier this century. The sheer size of the thing was impressive by any standards! There was absolutely no way of knowing what it looked like from ground-level - and the precision of its design was only apparent when viewed from the air.

As I say, impressive by any standards, and I'd go as far as to say an art form if nothing else (in fact not unlike the transient creations of Tibetan sand mandalas).

T ToneStone
ToneStone Jun 17, 2009 12:08:31
Replying to StoneGloves

IT WAZ ALIENZ

T tonyh
tonyh Jun 17, 2009 12:17:22
Replying to StoneGloves

Vitriol ???

I think that's saved for the really controversial subjects like..

How the Blue Stones came to Stonehenge.

;0)

Tony

P Pete G
Pete G Jun 17, 2009 15:48:34
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
Nobody can make work on such a large scale as these temporary monuments without leaving dirty great footprints. It's impossible.
So you've made a circle and tried this out yourself then?