Comments on: Crop circle failure

By: david stein

david stein — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:09:46 +0000

They have mastered inter-galactic travel but they can only leave a message by stepping on grass?

By: Red Collie

Red Collie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:25:58 +0000

Since this original blog was posted in 2006, there have been several well-documented multi-witness sightings by independent camera crews, of large and complex crop pictures forming silently in a field where no humans were detectably present, whether by visible or infrared light.
The two most well-known cases were East Field of July 7, 2007 and Silbury Hill of July 5, 2009. Since I have spoken to both groups of witnesses, and was able to confirm that they were quite relaible people, then simple logic compels me to believe that some quiet, invisible energy made both of those crop pictures.
While my wife and I visited England one month ago, two large crop pictures appeared seemingly in early morning daylight, while another appeared after a night of cold, wet rain. All of tho direct observational evidence now suggests, therefore, that the basic theses of this post and of “Discover” magazine (the name seems like a contradiction in terms) are both outdated and wrong. In fact, it has now become a kind of intelligence test, to see whether the typical bloggger can think independently from his herd? So far, only a few have passed.

By: Fools Gold

Fools Gold — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:31:16 +0000

The conceit and ignorance on display here is astounding but entirely expected.
Places like this are where the insecure gather .
A place where they can let their superiority complex run wild and feel secure without the need for any real discourse or intelligent insight as you are not here to learn or understand but feed your complex.

If some of you did any research at all you would know that there is a reason that 20% are unexplained – that is that no hoaxer/debunker has ever been able to reproduce the characteristics exhibited in these examples.

That does not mean all crop circles are not Man made but it does not mean that they definitely are Man made either.
It is worthy of investigation certainly and whether crop circles are Man made or not they are certainly things of beauty.

Even the most fundamental things such as Life, consciousness and the nature of reality itself are complete mysteries to even our greatest minds but here we have people who know the answer to everything and everything is mundane.
Thank God all humanity is not so trapped we would still be in the dark ages not daring to believe there may be things exist as yet unexplained.

Perhaps a little light reading on quantum mechanics might help expand some of your minds.
There are experiments with outcomes that would literally blow your minds.

I will leave you with this pertinent thought;

The paradox is that a sceptic is far more likely to accept a believable lie than an unbelievable truth.

Question everything and discount nothing, your World will be unrecognisable just a couple of decades from now.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:17:26 +0000

The aliens are landing on our beaches!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1202491/Race-tide-Artist-creates-intricate-masterpieces–sea-washes-away-hours.html

By: peter345

peter345 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:25:46 +0000

ps, Im sorry, I shouldn’t have called you kooks, I was just in one of those moods… The rest stands..

By: peter345

peter345 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:18:32 +0000

What a bunch of ignorant kooks most of these posters are ! ! I guess thats what to expect in a society manipulated by a contrived Scientific Theocracy , Obviously nobody here has done a Shred of research because they can’t see beyond their pre conceived limited mind sets and present weak straw man arguments and statements that make them feel all nice and secure in their scientific ideology-Obviously their are no historians of science here and nobody capable of asking the right questions so that human consciousness may evolve , you all wallow in you self appointed roles as gatekeepers of a consensus reality, When in fact you are so far from understanding fundamental reality that it is a comedy of errors of galactic proportions…..

How quaint…….

By: Senua

Senua — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:14:00 +0000

My brother used to help make some in Wiltshire:
This is one he helped make back in 2001:

http://www.gaiaguys.net/Milk%20Hill%2001.jpg

I remember watching a programme on crop circles which showed this one.
They claimed it couldn’t have been made by humans.
Either angels or aliens did it.
I asked my brother which one he was.

By: Geroge

Geroge — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:09:02 +0000

How much of the news is active in crop circles…..meaning, the cash crop circles.

By: Mark Martin

Mark Martin — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:32:40 +0000

That’s possible in general, but Friedman never seems to see fit to point out that he’s not a working nuclear physicist by any stretch of the imagination. Occasionally he’s even referred to as “eminent” nuclear physcist, and he makes no effort at modesty about it.

There’s not any publicly available evidence that he was even a *good* nuke-physicist, since by his accounts all his work was of proprietary nature, and not published externally. (In fact, to make sure, I just did a Google Scholar search. The only article which appeared under any category is just a transcript of a lecture he delivered on UFOs conspiracies.)

By: Irishman

Irishman — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:10:21 +0000

To be fair to Stanton Friedman, he may not have identitified himself that way to the reporter. The reporter may have dredged that label out as the obligatory nod to Friedman’s credentials. Once someone gets labeled, they tend to remain labeled that way.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:01:28 +0000

That “Firefox circle” was great. . . . The funniest part (for me) was when they said “inspired by the discovery channel” — I know the guys who were recruited to make the circle in that documentary. Nice to see their hard work being acknowledged.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:38:28 +0000

ruler+straightedge really means “compass + straightedge”, but it was affected by alien influence^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hit being Monday.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:36:34 +0000

Any idiot can make a circle. If aliens really wanted to impress us, they’d make crop heptagons or crop tridecagons for which there is no ruler+straightedge construction.

Of course, they’d still be fakeable, but if did it in fields of turnip or broccoli, I certainly would be willing to cut them the slack just for the destruction of nasty vegetables

By: CodyG

CodyG — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:32:29 +0000

lol Ghost of Tookie
I agree, journalism is way out of control in the stupid department. They lost the stories of drama, of well fed and well loved an/or not. They haven’t even noticed the story about our rock through space, Earth. Now these so called story tellers only spew the silliest stories glorifying silly philosophies. What’s worse, for the past few years on my cabel tv, the supernatural story quota has gone through the roof.

Somebody ought to do something … sillyjournalism.com ??

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:39:03 +0000

Mark: Let me rephrase, then. If you’re going to believe in something, why crop circles of all goshdarn things?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:24:24 +0000

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I would never have parsed that “nobody really knows the origin” quote as meaning that no one (including the ones who make them) know where crop circles come from. I think we all agree that’s silly. I read it as “no one knows where the IDEA came from”, which is not a lot better, since the people who started it have now “come out”, but it’s less stupid than the alternative.

By: The Ghost Of Tookie

The Ghost Of Tookie — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:08:38 +0000

Don’t you all know? Most “journalism” these days is “written” by sixth generation Eliza-like programs.

You : Who makes crop circles
Eliza: Why do you ask?
You : I’m curious
Eliza: How long are you curious?
You : What?
Eliza: Is this question interesting for you?
You : No
Eliza: Why are you so negative?

By: Seen Elsewhere « i-Science

Seen Elsewhere « i-Science — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:03:13 +0000

[...] Crop Circle Failure Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer has found the best quote I’ll read today in a news story on crop circles. From crop circle designers and top-level researchers to the baffled farmers who usually find them, nobody really knows the origin of crop circles. [...]

By: Mark Martin

Mark Martin — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:57:41 +0000

jrkeller, you’re quite right. Crop-circles only happen in crops. Never in another medium. Cearalogists never seem to ask why sophisticated E.T.-artists never work in something with more longevity, such as solid rock. If pictures started appearing overnight carved in the sides of granite cliffs, then we’d have a mystery.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:16:13 +0000

Typical example of modern day journalism; no stand-point and everybodys opinions should be considered on equal terms regardless of how stupid it is.

Journalist everywhere, do you bleeping research in a proper manner and we can stop stupid people from slowing the development of the human race in one generation.

By: jrkeller

jrkeller — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:46:12 +0000

I find it interesting that we never see similar circles in fields where the crops have been cut or in empty fields full of snow. They only appear in fields where it is easy to hid human activity.

By: Mark Martin

Mark Martin — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:08:44 +0000

Joshua Says:

“Why are we still talking about this crap?”

It’s because, like Maulder, people “want to believe”.

By: Rimantas

Rimantas — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:13:32 +0000

Oh, those aliens… http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle

By: bassmanpete

bassmanpete — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:01:38 +0000

“Sometimes I almost wonder if the big networks arenâ€™t being paid to encourage the U.S. population to be dumb & credulousâ€¦”

They are – by advertisers!

By: Seamyst

Seamyst — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:54:33 +0000

Huh. What I think the funniest part is is what you quoted, Phil: “From crop circle designers… nobody really knows the origin of crop circles.” So the people who design crop circles – most likely to be implemented by other people – don’t know the origin of the crop circles they design? Huh??