Your theory on CROP CIRCLES?

[Hoeboy]

Watching a special on it now. The show is called "Encounters with the Unexplained" on PAX. The host is really annoying and the "experts" look like they're reading off a cue card, but the things they talk about are really interesting.

So what do you guys think? UFO? Man made? Some of the designs are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO complicated that it's hard not to think some higher intelligence made it; or possible some secret technology.

 

[Pretender]

there was a show on (I think it was) TLC that showed how this group of guys makes crop circles in the night. Only takes about 4 hours and it's easy to leave no human tracks.

 

[konichiwa]

Yeah I saw that thing on TLC.

 

[Hoeboy]

you mean those 2 british guys? you really think those 2 guys can make such intricate designs? plus there were several nights where crop circles sprung up in england, australia, etc in one night. not only that, the crops were interwoven, not simply pushed over. those two guys just wanted publicity.

 

[Mo0o]

yep, all you need is a long peice of wood, some rope and a plan. besides, if aliens really existed, why would they only land among crops and never in any region other than us and europe?

 

[heat23]

yup i saw that on TLC too..a few years ago

 

[ElPool]

<< there was a show on (I think it was) TLC that showed how this group of guys makes crop circles in the night. Only takes about 4 hours and it's easy to leave no human tracks. >>



yea, it was hilaroius when the leading expert on UFO crop circles came in the next day and explained how it was impossible for a person to make them.

 

[gygheyzeus]

I honestly don't know what to believe. When I was about 11 years old, we lived in a new subdivision, right on the edge of the city (6 years ago now, the city has gone past there a bit).
There was a farm right on the edge of the city by where I lived. One day some friends of mine and I were all biking, and we went thru this farmers field, only to find a big crop circle. At the time I had no idea what it was, but I remember it now, kinda freaks me out.

Wonder who (or what) made it?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Hahaha i saw the same show they are fake. They even showed the guy making them and how he did it.

 

[GagBag]

was that the one where they put a time lapse camera above the field and show the 4 guys make the circles, pretty impressive actually.

 

[Rastus]

Mike and Joe did them in Utah.

 

[nitrousninja]

I think if aliens are here mashing shapes into cornfields and anally probing drunken hill billies they need to go home and never look back.

 

[gopunk]

&quot;dude, you have a 90 foot probe coming out of your ass!&quot;

 

[ElPool]

for some people, it doesnt matter that the whole crop circle thing has been debunked, they will continue to believe because they WANT to believe.

does anyone know the statistics on the number of people that claim to be abducted by aliens every year? someone told me once, and the number was really high, like someone getting abducted every few minutes. you'd think the alens would have figured us out by now

speaking of great hoaxes, ive been trying to think of a good hoax to pull off for years. something original like the circles. any ideas???

 

[ElFenix]

i wanted to steal a certain collie... that woulda been a nice hoax... or somehow paint a certain rectangle of grass a completely different color at the most hilarious moment by remote control... that woulda been nice too.

other than that...

 

[Layzie310]

I understand why so many people are close minded concerning crop circles. Anybody could go out there with a piece of wood and some measuring equipment and create some intricate creations. But the evidence some researchers in this field give certainly points to there being something more to some of these creations. They claim man made creations break the actual pieces of hay while the ones of supposed alien construction don't and that the pieces are interwoven and the chlorophyll is sucked out. Plus, there are magnetic fields and radiation. Plus, we can't just write these off as something too stupid for aliens to actually be doing. We have no idea what is in the minds of those that create these things. How can you decipher an alien culture? And I definitely despise most shows that try to deal with the paranormal. I've never seen one that didn't have at least one moron playing the part of &quot;alien expert&quot; in there just to discredit the whole subject of the show. There are many people that know their stuff that they could contact but they refuse to go all the way when it comes to these shows. Just something as little as the music they play in these shows displays how little they care.

 

[syzygy]

this was a hoax. before the hoaxers revelaed themselves, some gullible 'scientists' had
their volunteer friends test the crazy possibility a person or persons could have made
these circles using rudimentary techniques. the circles these folk created were crude
and sloppy compared to the neatly pressed geometric designs of the so-called originals.
the hoaxers, when they revealed themselves, employed an infinitely more patient technique
to create these circles. they drew designs and took some pain to make their creations
artistically appealing and neat, hence the refined look their's bore while the earlier
human attempts were obvious human forgeries

 

[SuperSix]

A hoax for gullible people to believe.

 

[StageLeft]

Hoax. I've seen at least one thing on TV about these and a few people can make a terribly massive and complex one in a few hours.

 

[hypergeek]

some people just make them to scare people

 

[Raspewtin]

yeah its humans, why would aliens waste their valuable time doing it?

 

[viper007]

People just believe what the media tells them..

 

[Spoooon]

They have crop circle contests somewhere. I think they talked about that on the special. And yes, some of those man made crop circles are pretty complex.

 

[Schlocemus]

manmade

 

[MrBond]

<< speaking of great hoaxes, ive been trying to think of a good hoax to pull off for years. something original like the circles. any ideas??? >>

For a while, I lurked in a group that was formed in a newsgroup that was dedicated to creating internet hoaxes. Some of the ideas that never made it (so feel free to use any of them) were Dihydrogen Monoxide being in local water supplys and causing death in people that overdose on it. Dihydrogen monoxide *is* water, and an &quot;overdose&quot; would be drowning. Another one they talked about, but never did, was to circulate an email that President Clinton had passed two executive orders, the first, allowing a president to take office more then two terms (voiding the constitutional amendment), and the second, making the first one secret. They figured the average internet &quot;forwarder&quot; isn't all that bright, and wouldn't remember US History that well. At the time, Clinton wasn't so well liked, but would have gotten reelected easily. They attempted to get a story going about how NASA was recruiting average citizens to sit on their ass in space and be lazy, so MASA could study the effects of laziness.