Whatever became of the crop circle controversy? Did it just die out? Did the fad fade??
No. They still appear every year, and people argue about them. The ones that I find interesting are the ones where the stalks of wheat have the blowouts on them, like they are microwaved.
I think the movie Signs happened to crop circles. Most of the media attention directed at crop circles was not because they were considered a mystery, but because they were associated with space aliens. If a moviemaker were to intentionally set out to call attention to how silly this notion is, they couldn’t do any better than include a scene of Mel Gibson wearing a tinfoil hat.
Since they’ve been proven to be hoaxes of human origin, most of the hoaxers have stopped bothering. There is always the occasional one who didn’t receive the memo, of course.
I told the mothership that I’m a grown man and don’t need to be checked up on every six months.
“Yes mothership, I packed my peanut-butter sandwich and the death ray when I went to work today.”
They ¤ c i r c l e m a k e r s ¤ seem to be doing fine.
I think you’re going to fit in just fine here.
Was there something other than the “two guys with a board and a rope” explanation? I don’t have any pet theories, but I always thought shapes like these were a bit too complex for two guys with a board to do overnight. Did they turn out to be Photoshop jobs?
No reason it couldn’t be twenty or more people, using GPS devices, working from a computer-generated map.
Here’s a list of international crop circles: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2007/inter2007.html
Interesting how they all appear in lands populated by white people of European descent. Damned racist aliens! :mad:
The aliens tired of the fun. It happens, much like we humans get bored doing the same thing over and again. They have gone back to the tried and true time waster of inhabiting the bodies of politicians during an election year. That one never grows old.
I think aliens in general are on the way out. Religious apparitions are this decade’s UFOs.
Honestly, I have always wanted to make some crop circles, but I always was worried that tromping on the crop would be just enough to ruin the profit margin of the farmer - that and I just know the farmer has pet rabid dogs and a shotgun loaded with dimes.
Also, risk of being vaporized when the aliens arrive and get pissy because you sent them to a cornfield in Idaho instead of London/New York/Paris/Los Angeles/Rome/Cape Town/Tokyo etc.
From Justice League Unlimited
The alien that was creating them received a totally vicious review by a renowed alien art critic, he got so devastated by it that quit art altogheter.
The impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was actually the alien dumping all the works of art in his flying saucer´s attelier into Jupiter.
Ref my post #6, you can read the words from the guys who did those.
You’re joking, right? A lot of these complex shapes were done in the early 90s. Consumer GPS is barely accurate enough now, even with Selective Availability turned off. You’d need to be accurate to within a few inches, and GPS just doesn’t work like that.
It’s down to good old fashioned surveying, not fancy GPS. Quite impressive in the dark on short British summer evenings!
Perhaps the alien responsible for them received an ASBO.