# Underwater crop circles. (Nature is awesome. And bizarre.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395 "2012-09-21T14:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/1 "2012-09-21T14:23:32Z")
[Mysterious Underwater ‘Crop Circles’ Discovered Off the Coast of Japan](http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/mysterious-underwater-crop-circle-art-discovered-off-the-coast-of-japan/) 6 feet across and 80 feet underwater. Also not a hoax perpetrated by farmers or college students. I won’t spoil it by revealing the origin here though. Go look at the pics and read the story. All I can say is that I’d like to become aquatic for a decade just to see what I could discover that’s never been seen before. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/2 "2012-09-21T14:28:17Z")
Holy smokes, that’s amazing. Never seen the like before. I figured for sure it was a hydrologic process, something to do with aquifer recharge. The truth is even stranger. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/3 "2012-09-21T14:30:59Z")
That is seriously cool. Thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/4 "2012-09-21T14:38:26Z")
So… these fish are flattening the corn into circles in Iowa? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/5 "2012-09-21T14:47:59Z")
Thanks for posting, that’s fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/6 "2012-09-21T15:16:26Z")
It’s the doorbell to R’lyeh. Push it and run the occupant will be grumpy really cool pics. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/7 "2012-09-21T15:49:56Z")
I’m just going to leave [this](http://i522.photobucket.com/albums/w346/vineyarddawg/Not-saying-its-aliens-But-its-aliens.jpg) here. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/8 "2012-09-21T16:42:42Z")
Oh, that is just wicked awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/9 "2012-09-21T16:58:03Z")
All roads lead to [DEL]Rome[/DEL] the bedroom? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/10 "2012-09-21T17:00:29Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I figured for sure it was a hydrologic process, something to do with aquifer recharge. The truth is even stranger. It’s exactly what I guessed when I looked at the first picture, but it’s still very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/11 "2012-09-21T17:06:27Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Holy smokes, that’s amazing. Never seen the like before. I figured for sure it was a hydrologic process, something to do with aquifer recharge. The truth is even stranger. That was my first thought. Some sort of artifact of an eddy current. I just couldn’t come up with any combinations of currents that would get anywere close to that pattern. Then I read the story. Only one thing to do at that point. Start a thread! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/12 "2012-09-21T18:41:22Z")
Do puffer fish also get drunk with their buddies on the weekend and go manatee tipping? That is seriously cool. Nature never fails to astound. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/13 "2012-09-22T05:23:03Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > So… these fish are flattening the corn into circles in Iowa? That’d be flying fish, of course. It could happen. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-crop-circles-nature-is-awesome-and-bizarre/635395/14 "2012-09-22T05:57:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > So… these fish are flattening the corn into circles in Iowa? Only when the Mississippi overflows.