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(Some UFO Nonbeliever)   Crop circles are fake. Inventor of crop circles 'fesses up   (startribune.com) divider line 368
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2002-08-12 07:12:51 PM
HAHAHAHA
 
2002-08-12 07:13:54 PM
Um, he didn't *invent* them.... If he did, then how could they have been seen before he made his first one?
 
2002-08-12 07:14:19 PM
is anyone else annoyed with the continued insistance that crop circles are real signs of alien life despite TONS of evidence to the contrary?
 
2002-08-12 07:15:58 PM
L.A.M.E.

I saw a show once where they video taped only _TWO_ guys with plywood strapped to their feet. These two guys (after a following a carefully laid out diagram they made) made a HUGE crop circle formation over night. They covered about 6 acres in less than 3 hours.

Sorry folks but, dem circles is just a hoax.
 
2002-08-12 07:16:27 PM
*phhhh* Non-believer. Next thing you know, they'll say that Santa Claus is a giant world-wide conspiracy theory too.
 
43%
2002-08-12 07:17:02 PM
Brianna: But sad, pathetic people have all of that extra space in their heads where common sense and intellect would have gone.

Might as well use that space for aliens and flying saucers.
 
2002-08-12 07:17:34 PM
"UFO believers see the spheres as evidence of flying saucers.." Spheres? Two-dimensional spheres? In fields? [brain explodes trying to comprehend this dimensional incompatibility]

HATE. IGNORANT. WRITERS.
 
2002-08-12 07:18:18 PM
oh come on, do you really expect me to believe that these crop circles aren't some sign from a benevolent alien race that another evil alien race is going to come down and make us work in the salt mines of.... oh to hell with it
 
2002-08-12 07:18:18 PM
is anyone else annoyed with the continued insistance that crop circles are real signs of alien life despite TONS of evidence to the contrary?

Is anyone else really annoyed with the continued declaration that ALL crop circles are the same (hoaxes) despite TONS of evidence that points out the difference between "unexplained" crop circles and "man-made" crop circles?
 
FNG [TotalFark]
2002-08-12 07:18:20 PM
next phenom: crap circles! start feedin the cows, kids.
 
2002-08-12 07:18:21 PM
Ditto to Brianna.
Also why do people think that because a few have not been explained then those ones must be aliens or something. Come on, we dont catch all theives either so the missing stereo must be because of aliens!
 
2002-08-12 07:19:21 PM
When I was a kid (age 5-12), I would make cool patterns in the snow in fields by my house. Sometimes patterns, sometimes messages. I thought it would be cool if planes overhead would see things written on the ground. I would even be careful to not leave footprints around, because that would look sloppy. Some crazies probably thought they were made by aliens.
 
2002-08-12 07:19:46 PM
There was a miniseries on crop circles on the history channel (or maybe discovery channel?) recently. They took the possition that they were supernatural, of course. It was really hilarious to see "experts" being amazed at how the stalks were "bent, not broken" and such. I had a good laugh during the program.
 
2002-08-12 07:20:52 PM
explained = man-made where person confesses.
unexplained = man-made where person does not confess.

Too difficult?
 
2002-08-12 07:20:52 PM
He's just a 5D guy trapped in a 4D universe.

I personally think that Lectroids from the 8th dimension are responsible for crop circles.
 
2002-08-12 07:21:06 PM
Still doesn't explain a crop rhombus, though.
 
43%
2002-08-12 07:21:20 PM
Cyberpunk: Since when does 'unexplained' mean 'aliens'?
 
2002-08-12 07:22:11 PM
I don't really point to crop circles as evidence in my believe in extraterrestrial life. I also don't believe this guy invented them.

My honest belief is that there are indeed advanced races of beings living all over the universe, but we are simply the universe's ghetto. Think about it: Let's equate civil advancement to money. If you are well off enough to afford a nice house and car and amenities in life, exactly how often are you going to want to make contact with folks in a ghetto? You hear there is a section of the country that no one knew about. They send explorers. Explorers come back and say "yeah, there are folks there, but they are uncivil brutes who murder each other and destroy thier own resources haphazardly in the interest of making a few bucks." How quickly are you or anyone like you going to hop in your mercedes and cruise that little strip??

There is life out there.

They have absolutely no interest in us because on a universal level, we are the crackwhores of the cosmos.

But here on earth, I get mad respect for my phat SUV that gets 9 miles to the gallon (hwy.. only 4 in the city).
 
2002-08-12 07:22:11 PM
I knew it.. :)
 
2002-08-12 07:22:33 PM
Aliens? Ha. Next your going to tell me some guy living on a cloud made everything.

Ha I say!
 
2002-08-12 07:22:48 PM
QEEBLE: Dorchuk, we have discovered a planet teeming with occasionally intelligent life. They have radio, nuclear weapons, and digital watches. What should we do?

DORCHUK: Naturally, Qeeble, we should say hello.

QEEBLE: Very well. I have analyzed all of their radio transmissions, and we have determined the basis of their languages. I'll send them a greeting immedediately, asking them for permission to land on the White House lawn.

DORCHUK: No, Qeeble, that would be too easy. If we did that, we'd be forging diplomatic relations with these creatures in a matter of days, maybe even in hours. No, what this calls for is fifty years of ambiguous "communication" in the form of cryptic, low-bandwidth patterns etched into their agricultural base. We must make these patterns in such a way that it is clear to all but the least-influencial members of their society that they could have been made by a small group college dropouts in a single night, using nothing more than wooden boards, ropes, graph-paper, and a spirograph.

QEEBLE: Brilliant! What should our first pattern be?

DORCHUK: How about the number forty-two?

QEEBLE: That'll fox 'em!
 
2002-08-12 07:23:05 PM
The article mentioned the guy scraping radioactive luminous paint off an old clock and spreading it around the circles. Hahaha, so much for authenticating crop circles with gieger counters!
 
2002-08-12 07:23:26 PM
Whatever..


I want to believe.


UFO--------> (^)
 
2002-08-12 07:23:59 PM
"Without question, there is life beyond Earth," said Gary Beckman, publisher of the Edge, a Twin Cities metaphysical newspaper.

Missy Beckman's statement here is a lie. That there is life beyond Earth is questioned all the time. Therefore, she's a liar. Therefore, everything she puts in her crappy little paper is very suspect. Liar!
 
2002-08-12 07:24:53 PM
43%: Since about the same time UFO meant flying saucer.
 
2002-08-12 07:24:56 PM
All BS
 
2002-08-12 07:24:56 PM
so aliens are smart enough to mask their ship and thier escapades on earth but NOT smart enough to figure out a way to avoid leaving an obvious mark on the ground where they landed thier ship?

we're talking about beings that have apparently figured out how to travel at faster than the speed of light and they can't just make their ship hover? we're stupid humans who can't get out of our own solar system and we can make things hover.
 
2002-08-12 07:25:05 PM
Heh. Crop Circle Season. Hehehe...
 
2002-08-12 07:25:34 PM
I'm still pretty sure that crop circles have always been man-made. But this guy couldn't have invented them, I thought they started showing up around 1975.
 
2002-08-12 07:25:35 PM
Crop circles are made by leprechauns, dumbass.
 
TJ
2002-08-12 07:25:48 PM
jeez... i thought this was made by a u.f.o.

 
2002-08-12 07:26:25 PM
It's all summed up with the following:

I WANT to believe.
 
2002-08-12 07:27:07 PM
Actually, Hytes, didn't they just find life on Mars?
 
2002-08-12 07:27:11 PM
TJ: The photoshop contest is in another thread, man :)
 
2002-08-12 07:27:20 PM
"David Olson later said he had scraped radium off the dial of a Timex watch, mixed it with dirt and spread it around the circles."

"who has leukemia that is in remission"

Women who worked in Russian watch factories used to get tongue cancer from licking their paint brushes to get a nice, sharp point on it.
 
2002-08-12 07:27:41 PM

Buckaroo Banzai will solve the mystery!
 
2002-08-12 07:27:46 PM
"Am I an expert? No," Beckman said. "But those (unexplained) circles could not have been reproduced with the present equipment we have on Earth. Not a chance."

Nonsense. I can tell you from experience that if you give few motivated college students a water hose, a case of beer, and a kiddie pool from Wal-Mart, they can reproduce about any crop circle design you want.
 
2002-08-12 07:28:35 PM
Crop circles were originally reported in the 1800's.
 
2002-08-12 07:28:59 PM
Weems:

I don't get it.
 
2002-08-12 07:30:26 PM


A UFO obviously landed here. 409 times. I'm guessing a blown anti-matter reacter, but perhaps some other technical difficulties, too.
 
2002-08-12 07:30:36 PM
and as we all know in the 1800's nobody had any wood to strap to their feet...blah blah..
 
2002-08-12 07:31:47 PM
This is off topic but where did the daily boobies link posted earlier go?
 
2002-08-12 07:32:09 PM
ElectronicLithosphereSurveillancePulse_InductionTechnician

FARK! That name alone nearly crashed my computer!

Getting back to the crop spheres... uh, circles... has anyone ever thought to see whether they rotate clockwise or counterclockwise? I'm just curious...
 
2002-08-12 07:32:46 PM
BELIEVE!

N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L
 
2002-08-12 07:33:22 PM
There was a miniseries on crop circles on the history channel (or maybe discovery channel?) recently. They took the position that they were supernatural, of course

The Discovery Channel, History Channel, and TLC are sell-outs. They'd rather teach pseudo-science and pseudo-history than actual science and history. It's fine if they want to talk about these topics... but they always bring on some wacko who has all the 'evidence' for why UFOs are alien spacecraft, or the Loch Ness monster is real. Then they bring on a real (non-wacko) scientist and give him about 2 minutes to speak on why the wackos are wackos. This is to give the show the illusion of covering both arguments for and against the nutty theory. But no matter what the insane idea, the viewer is led to believe that it could really be true. Just imagine something and someone somewhere will believe it, and invent all the 'evidence' as to why of course it is true.

The latest sell-out show is "Ghost Detectives" where a group of Ghostbusters rejects goes to various "haunted" locations and tracks "paranormal" activity with electronic gizmos and "psychics". What a joke.

And how about on Animal Planet - now they have the "Pet Psychic". Just a fraud that should be in jail for taking the money of gullible people.

Heck, even the Travel Channel has sold out. It used to be boring shows about travel. Now all it shows 90% of the time is chicks in bikinis. Not that I mind.
 
2002-08-12 07:36:00 PM
i think it would be unintelligent to say for sure that all crop circles are made by people with boards and ropes. you can't really call your self a skeptic if you doubt the paranormal just becuz it's paranormal. that's one sided skepticism. i find it hard to believe that guys in burlap sacks are making all these crop circles. maybe there is more to circles and maybe there isn't but don't call yourself a skeptic and refuse to listen to any argument. that's just being bull headed. also, who really cares if people think that flying saucers are creating these. there's no harm in a little imagination.
 
2002-08-12 07:36:05 PM
Crop circles. Man, its a something that really cant be explained. TELL ME, mr scientist, WHERE ALL THESE farkING CROPS COME FROM THEN?

HUH?

WELL?
 
2002-08-12 07:36:20 PM
I am eating pretzels right now. mmmmmm salty.
 
2002-08-12 07:36:23 PM
When the guys with boards can explain how they can make said circles in the middle of the night without any lights or sounds within about 30 seconds without leaving any trails in the crops and without damaging the stuff they step on, yep, then it's case closed!
 
2002-08-12 07:36:47 PM
Did they just find life on Mars? I thought they found evidence of life on Mars. Regardless, here I am questioning it, proving once again that MISSY IS A LIAR!!!!
 
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