Peers? What Peers?
Posted on 10/04/2008 9:41:56 AM PDT by Justice Department
Of course construction foremen and college graduates in science and engineering all too frequently manifest an incredible incompetence to layout a simple rectangular bldg line with permanently placed stakes and stringline with several days of effort, assistance, and open field in broad daylight with the help of surveying instruments.
On the other hand we are to accept a couple of drunk college kids go out at night and tromp up a field leaving no footprints and leaving a remarkable geometric Spyrograph pattern the first time, every time, without errors.
The common sense in me says no, it isn’t a group of guys pulling a lark.
It might be a satellite based weapon system zeroing its targetry systems by employing whatever .jpg file a sophomoric targeting officer might happen to have on his PC, but otherwise, I have difficulty accepting the carousing college prank theory.
Peers? What Peers?
early documented accounts
“Often still regarded by most of the public and media as a “new” phenomenon (since the 1970s), findings by a number of researchers, including with CCCRN, continue to find cases which pre-date this time period, by decades or even possibly centuries, in various countries. In Canada, one such report is of typical small flattened circles in wheat at Leeshore, Alberta in 1925, a firsthand account from a still-surviving great-grandfather who used to farm in that area, as well as many others from the 1940s to 1970s.
One well-documented account of earlier formations, from the highly respected science magazine Nature, describes flattened circles with standing centres of stalks in wheat, a characteristic still often seen today, in Surrey, England in 1880, a good century before crop circles became the publicly-known phenomenon they are today. In the July 29, 1880 issue, a short letter to the editor was published, written by a respected scientist of the time, spectroscopist J. Rand Capron, describing circular flattenings in a wheat field in Surrey, England.
The description given is very similar to many other cases of crop circles of the simpler variety, both current and older, with circular flattened areas, standing centres of stalks and untouched walls of standing crop around the outside perimeters of the circles. This case was first discovered by Peter Van Doorn as a reprint in the January 2000 issue of the Journal of Meteorology. (For anyone who may not have seen this report yet or is interested in a copy, CCCRN has obtained a print copy from the microfilm archives in the Vancouver library. This is the original letter in Nature, not the 2000 reprint. The copy also includes the volume cover page, Volume XXII, May 1880 - October 1880, as there is not a separate copy of the cover available for that specific issue of July 29, 1880. The mentioned sketch was not published with the letter unfortunately).”
http://www.cccrn.ca/cccrn/thehistoricalevidence.html
The earliest known crop circle, known as the "Mowing Devil", is shown on this woodcut from Hertfordshire, England, 1678. The inscription on the woodcut is as follows:
THE MOWING-DEVIL: OR, STRANGE NEWS OUT OF HARTFORD-SHIRE. Being a True Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaining with a Poor Mower, about the Cutting down Three Half Acres of Oats: upon the Mower's asking too much, the Farmer swore That the Devil should Mow it rather than He. And so it fell out, that very Night, the Crop of Oat shew'd as if it had been all of a flame: but next Morning appear'd so neatly mow'd by the Devil or some Infernal Spirit, that no Mortal Man was able to do the like. Also, How the said Oats ly now in the Field, and the Owner has not Power to fetch them away. Licensed, August 22nd, 1678.
(BTW- somehow missed your Homeric ring-toss. Cudos!)
As the influence of traditional religions continues to decline, notice how the developing void is being filled: Crop circles, UFO’s, Global warming/abrupt climate change, wiccan and occult studies. Too bad, ‘ethics’ continues to remain an arcane interest, at best.
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Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents
Christianity: 2.1 billion
Islam: 1.5 billion
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
Hinduism: 900 million
Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
Buddhism: 376 million
primal-indigenous: 300 million
African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
Sikhism: 23 million
Juche: 19 million
Spiritism: 15 million
Judaism: 14 million
Baha'i: 7 million
Jainism: 4.2 million
Shinto: 4 million
Cao Dai: 4 million
Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
Tenrikyo: 2 million
Neo-Paganism: 1 million
Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
Scientology: 500 thousand
The City Council of Toledo, Ohio, has tightened city rules for scrap-metal sales to try to cut down on the theft of manhole covers, guardrails and other metal items, The Blade reports.
The ordinance updates a state law that requires sellers to prove they own items such as manhole covers, grocery carts, grave markers and beer kegs before a sale. It also requires scrap-metal buyers to keep detailed records of transactions to help police track down thieves, the newspaper said.
Manhole covers were installed for a reason - to keep whatever's down there down there.
From the Firefox Galaxy no doubt
re: video clip
STS-38? (shuttle)
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