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Title: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: neilep on 20/09/2006 22:37:01
Whajafink !!

Truth or false ?

Science or Sc-Fi ?

Aliens or Human ?

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Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Mirage on 20/09/2006 22:38:55
Flying Monkeys I say

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Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: neilep on 20/09/2006 23:05:38
Not those bleeding flying monkeys again.......... *pulls down trousers, bends over, loads up with bananas and shoots the airborne primates out of the sky. Stands up, eats a banana and blows a raspberry then runs away* [:)]

Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Karen W. on 20/09/2006 23:17:13
Only thing I know is that I sure think they are neat! They look so cool! I don't know what to believe about the origin...Cool Pics Sir!

Karen
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Mirage on 20/09/2006 22:38:55
Flying Monkeys I say

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese says:

My famous last words will be
"I dunno, press the button and find out."
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: neilep on 20/09/2006 23:05:38
Not those bleeding flying monkeys again.......... *pulls down trousers, bends over, loads up with bananas and shoots the airborne primates out of the sky. Stands up, eats a banana and blows a raspberry then runs away* [:)]

Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Karen W. on 20/09/2006 23:17:13
Only thing I know is that I sure think they are neat! They look so cool! I don't know what to believe about the origin...Cool Pics Sir!

Karen
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: lightarrow on 21/09/2006 15:01:50
I'm sure some of them are man-made for some reason. Others, in my opinion, could be made from military satellyte masers.
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Karen W. on 21/09/2006 15:15:06
Hummm .....what are satelite  "masers?"

Karen
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: ROBERT on 21/09/2006 16:45:03
quote:
Originally posted by Karen W.

Only thing I know is that I sure think they are neat! They look so cool!

The farmers whose crops are ruined would not agree.

quote:
I don't know what to believe about the origin

Spirograph obsessives can create "crop circles" with a length of string and a plank of wood.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Mirage on 21/09/2006 16:48:19
quote:
Originally posted by neilep

Not those bleeding flying monkeys again.......... *pulls down trousers, bends over, loads up with bananas and shoots the airborne primates out of the sky. Stands up, eats a banana and blows a raspberry then runs away* [:)]

Men are the same as women, just inside out !



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It hurts trying not to laugh as I'm at work

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese says:

My famous last words will be
"I dunno, press the button and find out."
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Mirage on 21/09/2006 16:49:50
OOoo, I like that triangula shape one

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese says:

My famous last words will be
"I dunno, press the button and find out."
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Karen W. on 21/09/2006 18:54:41
robert I bet it makes the farmers furious, but that was not what I was talking about.. they are intrigueing on a general level, farmers have a right to be very upset about the usage and destruction of their work!!

Karen
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: lightarrow on 22/09/2006 15:25:04
quote:
Originally posted by Karen W.

Hummm .....what are satelite  "masers?"
Nothing proved; I suspect militars have beam weapons on satellites. A "maser" is something like a laser, but with microwave, instead of light (you know, microwaves are those inside a microwave oven).

I think this, because microwaves are more effective than light in transfering energy to a ballistic missile (and destroy it), for example, and because I heard that, in some crop circles, ears of wheat were found folded and heated under the ground. The only thing it comes to my mind able to do something like that it's microwaves.

Furthermore, it shouldn't be difficult for electronic circuits controlling the beam, to make it all those kinds of shapes (I think discoteque-lasers can do them).
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: science_guy on 22/09/2006 15:38:33
If it can be military from space, why couldn't it be aliens[:)].

1 point for the ET's!

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Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: lightarrow on 22/09/2006 15:59:31
quote:
Originally posted by science_guy

If it can be military from space, why couldn't it be aliens[:)].
I didn't say it couldn't be aliens.
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: neilep on 22/09/2006 16:00:41
It is Aliens....do you think it's just some juvenile Aliens poking fun and freaking us out for laughs !! ?

Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Mirage on 22/09/2006 16:26:21
Well considering poking and fun are key words when it comes to Aliens......I'm with Aliens are the cause, or even possibly Alien Flying Monkeys

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese says:

My famous last words will be
"I dunno, press the button and find out."
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: ROBERT on 22/09/2006 17:04:08
"Crop Circles" are the rural equivalent of urban graffiti.
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Mirage on 22/09/2006 17:05:14
How about Urban Myth

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Flying Monkey Slayer AKA The Big Cheese says:

My famous last words will be
"I dunno, press the button and find out."
Title: Re: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION ? CROP CIRCLES !!
Post by: Karen W. on 23/09/2006 11:38:06
quote:
Originally posted by lightarrow

quote:
Originally posted by Karen W.

Hummm .....what are satelite  "masers?"
Nothing proved; I suspect militars have beam weapons on satellites. A "maser" is something like a laser, but with microwave, instead of light (you know, microwaves are those inside a microwave oven).

I think this, because microwaves are more effective than light in transfering energy to a ballistic missile (and destroy it), for example, and because I heard that, in some crop circles, ears of wheat were found folded and heated under the ground. The only thing it comes to my mind able to do something like that it's microwaves.

Furthermore, it shouldn't be difficult for electronic circuits controlling the beam, to make it all those kinds of shapes (I think discoteque-lasers can do them).

Interesting ideas is if they can produce something close to this theory!

Thank you for explaing masers,

Karen