It caught the attention of the world's press, and a photograph of the crop circle was even used as cover art by Led Zeppelin. It became probably our most profitable quarter of an acre ever. To some, this supports the theory that crop circles are nothing more than a money-making enterprise between the hoaxers, farmers and photographers. The process was explained to me as follows by circle maker Dene Hine: "Circle makers make a formation; drone pilot flies the formation; [they then use] social media platforms to spam all the pages with videos.
Social media is not just a marketplace for the crop circle business. It is a battleground for the toxic, parasitic relationship between the croppies and the hoaxers: conjoined twins who profess to hate one another yet feed on the other for their existence. To the sceptical mind, after all, there would be no crop circles without the hoaxers.
Yet, without the mystique and intrigue generated by the croppies, it's hard to imagine the hoaxers would bother at all. Nevertheless, barbs are exchanged, and not just virtually; more than one croppie told me they had been physically threatened by hoaxers and photographers. It's been hijacked by ego. There is much that remains enigmatic about crop circles, even to farmers like Carson, who has tired of the whole thing and now deters visitors by cutting out any formations as soon as they appear.
He spoke of watches stopping inside circles and recording equipment inexplicably failing during a visit from the BBC's Newsround in He has allowed companies including Nissan to build corporate crop circles in his fields for use in advertising, but claims that just a basic design took professionals 12 hours of daylight to produce, in contrast to the suggestion that hoaxers produce circles quickly in the dead of night.
That would take hours and hours to do by hand. What, then, to make of crop circles? Log in. Forgotten your password? Want an ad-free experience? View offers. Could it be that the pyramids of Egypt were built by alien kids, who, in a playful mood, pushed their play blocks into their blackboard, all the way through, coming up point first on our side? Following this line of reasoning, perhaps Stonehenge and similar structures are the result of an alien children's game in which stone pegs are pushed into a geometric array of holes.
Endnotes 1. If they came looking for intelligent life, they came to the wrong place. See: Catran, Jack. Is there intelligent life on earth? Lidiraven books, His experiments showed that these rays could stimulate the early growth of other nearby plants. It's not unreasonable to suppose that they could also cause structural changes in mature cereal plants by weakening mature stalks.
Euclidean geometry restricted itself to geometric constructions and proofs about figures that could be constructed using only an ungraduated straightedge and a compass.
A string and pins serves as well. Or a rope and stakes. Permission for reproduction and use of this entire document is granted for educational non-profit purposes only. Return to the top of this document. Return to front page. Return to cutting edge science. It was later revealed that the circle had in fact been made in about three hours by three hoaxers very early that morning.
It simply hadn't been noticed until the following afternoon when spotted from an airplane overhead. Unlike other mysterious phenomenon such as psychic powers , ghosts , or Bigfoot , there is no doubt that crop circles are "real. The real question is instead what creates them — and there are ways to investigate that question.
We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?
Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what create the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs.
Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines. Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life. He theorizes that the patterns could be made by human time travelers from the distant future to help them navigate our planet.
Drew, working on the assumption that the designs are intended as messages, believes he has decoded crop circle symbols and that they contain messages such as "Believe," "There is good out there," "Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises," and "We oppose deception" all, presumably, in English.
However, these odd, pseudo-biblical messages undermine the credibility of the crop circles, or at least the meaning read into them. Of all the information that an extraterrestrial intelligence might choose to convey to humanity — ranging from how to contact them to engineering secrets of faster-than-light travel — these aliens chose to impart intentionally cryptic messages about false gifts, broken promises, and hope for mankind along with what seems to be a reference to a popular "The X-Files" slogan.
Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships; others suggest that they do it using invisible energy beams from space, saving them the trip down here.
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