'I make crop circles'

BBC News ^ | Thursday, 15 August, 2002 | Unsigned

[dighton]

We've had attacks on our property, and one of my team had bricks thrown at him. But at least this is not America - people don't carry guns here.

Speaking of property, do these people ask the farmers' permission before cutting down their crops?

[maximus@Nashville]

Actually, John Lundberg was abducted by aliens who gave him instructions to make crop circles so as to give a plausable explanation for them and hence give a cover story for the aliens.

He is also telling people that aluminum foil hats are useless as well so that the aliens can invade our minds as they did his.

[aculeus]

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The caption to this photo (from BBC) reads "Farmers often charge spectators an entrance fee" suggesting to me that some circles are made with farmers' permission.

Of course the "real" circles are made by aliens who don't give a rat's patootie what any earthlings think.

[general_re]

Well, the first step is admitting that you have a problem...

"Hi, my name's John, and I...make crop circles."

(in unison) "Hi, John..."

[js1138]

There are, of course, physicists (usually introduced as a former professor at a prestigeous university) who poo-poo the alien thing and insist these are natural phenomena, caused by something in the ionosphere. It helps if the circles are accompanied by reports of ball lightening.

[js1138]

There are, of course, physicists (usually introduced as a former professor at a prestigeous university) who poo-poo the alien thing and insist these are natural phenomena, caused by something in the ionosphere. It helps if the circles are accompanied by reports of ball lightening.

[balrog666]

Artists at work - check it out.

Seriously Art or Artly Serious?

[Orual]

It was a black cigar shape with very fast strobing lights.

[dighton]

The caption to this photo (from BBC) reads "Farmers often charge spectators an entrance fee" ....

Got it. I wonder, though, if they're at all worth seeing from ground level.

[F.J. Mitchell]

This can't be on the level, it doesn't square with what's going round about crop circles. Had to say that, little green devils from outer space made me do it.

[balrog666]

Got it. I wonder, though, if they're at all worth seeing from ground level.

Don't forget the "viagra effect" claimed in the crop circle show on the History channel last weekend.

[dighton]

Oh noooooooooooo!

[discostu]

Yeah, if that wasn't proof positive that these people are nut jobs. Anybody that gets wood looking at crushed wheat needs a shrink.

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping, but I can't handle another crop-circle thread. You're on your own with this one.

[Wm Bach]

Anybody that gets wood looking at crushed wheat needs a shrink.

Rrrolll, rrrroll, rrrroll...

[discostu]

Now that's a masher.

[FormerLurker]

I've seen balls of cracking light at the edge of the field, which is slightly unnerving. But what I see most often is flashes of light, as if someone's holding a flashbulb in front of my eyes.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if whoever is behind the REAL crop formations gave these hoaxers a little "surprise" one night. And I don't mean just giving them a little light show...

[Elsie]

You go out in ANY field, and you'll find that there are some randomly broken-down stalks of whatever is in the field. We, in millinenia of farming, have NEVER gotten curious about that.

Why now, when stalks close to one another are falling over, and in mostly the same direction, are we getting excited about it? Could it be that now there is a direction to it? A plan? An Evolution of plants, so to speak??

Why, schools of fish make amazing balls and whorls and sprials in their flight of fright from predators: why not plants, too?

[Elsie]

After all, the theory goes that whatever enhances your chances of survival and/or propagation rate, will carry over into the folllowing generations. So, with people walking in the fields, some seed will stick to their clothing and be carried off, to sprout in another location.

Man will even COLLECT large amounts of these seeds: to study and plant and test. The poor ol' seeds in the PLAIN fields, not getting this attention, will merely give up THEIR lives for sustanence of animals and humans, and thereby REDUCE the amounts of them.

Yup, it's finally an example, in the wild, of Evolution at work!