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Posted on 01/06/2014 2:22:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
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We now know the source of the mysterious crop circle that turned up in the small town of Chualar, about two hours south of San Francisco. And it turns out a lot of the speculation about what the viral photo might be was correct.
NBC Bay Area was originally tipped off by an anonymous source, who said Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia was behind the crop circle that was first spotted toward the end of 2013 by a photographer named Julie Belanger. We now have confirmation from the inside. The company plowed through the farm to (eventually) get publicity for their new mobile chip. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang detailed how the company came to create the circle that got so much attention press conference Sunday night at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, saying he had told his marketing department to find a way to generate buzz about the chip on a shoe-string budget.
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Isn’t it a crop circuit, not a crop circle?
Interesting because when I first saw a picture of this I thought looks like an IC to me
Braggarts, based on having no Winter snow.
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Initially I thought it was an EEPROM window...
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> Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang detailed how the company came to create the circle that got so much attention press conference Sunday night at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, saying he had told his marketing department to find a way to generate buzz about the chip on a shoe-string budget.
Nice to see this particular hoax is at least part of someone’s earning a living (they need to compensate the owner of the crop, if any), as opposed to the many such hoaxes which were done for no good reason. Thanks nickcarraway.
When I saw the picture my first thought is that it looked like a commercial logo.
lol
I’d like to see them hit for trespassing, destruction of property, etc.
I don’t mean Nvidia only. I mean all the peeps who play this game.
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