Crop Circles

SexyGreyFox · 25 Aug 2014 at 21:12

adolf hamster said:
its easy these days, everyone has a satnav in their pocket, combine with a plank and a torch=crop circle.

Satnavs aren't very accurate.
Even putting a waypoint in for where your car is parked will only get you within a few yards of it.

dannyjo22 · 25 Aug 2014 at 21:20

Tefal said:
in regards to "too intricate and perfect to be done by a human"

the fact this is hand drawn in pencil is far more impressive than any crop circle

As impressive as they are and the ones in the link, if you draw a picture like that to look like the photograph you might as well save yourself 3 months and just use the photo. Seems an awful waste of effort to copy something to look like a photo.

[FnG]magnolia · 25 Aug 2014 at 22:32

tbyeah · 25 Aug 2014 at 23:28

dannyjo22 said:
As impressive as they are and the ones in the link, if you draw a picture like that to look like the photograph you might as well save yourself 3 months and just use the photo. Seems an awful waste of effort to copy something to look like a photo.

You miss the point; it's a piece of art, the sheer difficulty and skill involved is incredible. Yes, a photocopy would do, but it is (if nothing else) a talking point when you tell people it's hand drawn.

[FnG]magnolia;26802688 said:

Incredible

Glaucus · 25 Aug 2014 at 23:32

Sat nav wouldn't help you at all, they aren't accurate enough. However it's simple to do with a few poles and rope.

{SAS}TB · 25 Aug 2014 at 23:39

Glaucus said:
However it's simple to do with a few poles and rope.

Very stereotypical and borderline racist :O

Skeeter · 25 Aug 2014 at 23:40

News just in, anything to complex for twoblacklines to do himself must have been done by aliens.

Crop circles? Aliens.
The Internet? Aliens.
Avoiding a massive puddle? Aliens.

mrk · 26 Aug 2014 at 00:20

tbyeah said:
You miss the point; it's a piece of art,

Oh yeah?

86JR · 26 Aug 2014 at 00:46

Still don't believe man can do a crop circle that size in under 12 hours darkness with a plank of wood.

How do they do ovals and get them perfectly?

86JR · 26 Aug 2014 at 00:50

This is a report from Lucy Pringle, the top researcher on the crop circle topic.

http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/articles/heartthrobs/

Not exactly a couple of people doing it then.

Brian18741 · 26 Aug 2014 at 00:55

Remember watching a documentary about it years ago where a couple of dudes when into a field armed with rope, a measuring tape and a couple of planks of wood and emerged a few hours later leaving the most intricate designs left behind.

dowie · 26 Aug 2014 at 01:01

86JR said:
Still don't believe man can do a crop circle that size in under 12 hours darkness with a plank of wood.

are you too lazy to read earlier replies?

dowie said:
time lapse of crop circles being created overnight

[FnG]magnolia · 26 Aug 2014 at 01:08

86JR said:
This is a report from Lucy Pringle, the top researcher on the crop circle topic.

http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/articles/heartthrobs/

Not exactly a couple of people doing it then.

This is 20 years old when there were still some people left that believed crop circles were not man made.

dowie · 26 Aug 2014 at 01:24

yup... then a couple of guys fessed up in the 90s to having created most of the crop circles in England at that time:

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/10/w...-demystify-those-crop-circles-in-britain.html

Newspapers in London today published the claims of two local men who said they were the ones who had been skulking around the countryside under cover of darkness, trampling out patterns with wooden boards as a big joke.

To prove their point, the men, aided by a London tabloid, fooled a self-styled expert on the crop circle phenomena, who declared a pattern found over the weekend in a Kent wheat field to be the genuine article, of the sort no human could have made.

Then, while the expert looked in embarrassment, the two men -- described by the newspaper as "jovial con men in their 60's" -- gleefully revealed themselves as the artists.

seemingly the 'expert' was as credulous as the OP

funnily enough crop circles don't appear at random geographically but tend to appear in easily accessible sites close to population areas...

SexyGreyFox · 26 Aug 2014 at 07:31

86JR said:
Still don't believe man can do a crop circle that size in under 12 hours darkness with a plank of wood.

How do they do ovals and get them perfectly?

Don't you read replies with linked videos?

oweneades · 26 Aug 2014 at 07:59

86JR said:
Still don't believe man can do a crop circle that size in under 12 hours darkness with a plank of wood.

How do they do ovals and get them perfectly?

Planning and a decent understanding of Geometry / maths....

[FnG]magnolia · 26 Aug 2014 at 08:18

I thought one of the traits of autism was an attention to detail bordering on the frightening. Perhaps not in all cases, eh?

Yaayuh! · 26 Aug 2014 at 08:42

I nominate this thread for the OcUK 2014 Retardo Award.

MookJong · 26 Aug 2014 at 08:43

Really surprised nobody has mentioned this one, Crabwood 2002, I think it is amazing.

The disc being held in the aliens hand has a binary encoded message in it, huge amount of work whoever did it.

It translates to:

"Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES.Much PAIN but still time.BELIEVE.There is GOOD out there.We oppose DECEPTION.COnduit CLOSING\"

I am sure nearly all crop circles are man made but my Granddad who was a farmer in the 50s and 60s in Cambridge said he remembers seeing circles in the corn 10 to 15 feet wide when he worked the fields. These were just circles no other patterns involved and they were always just put down to the wind at the time.

Jono8 · 26 Aug 2014 at 08:50

86JR said:
Still don't believe man can do a crop circle that size in under 12 hours darkness with a plank of wood.

How do they do ovals and get them perfectly?

....I literally can't even.

As has been said, since when has darkness been an issue? We now have things called torches, or even better, night vision. You seem to find it hard to believe mostly because they do it in darkness? You technically wrote the post above in darkness, but guess what, you used electric light to help you see. : /

The patterns are just done using a rope and a simple understanding of geometry.

Why do you find that so hard to believe?