Some of the patterns are so symetrical, so involved, surely they can't be a natural phenomenon - or are they?
2006-07-20 04:22:18 · 23 answers · asked by Bored at work 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
More than 99% are made by students on Friday nights as has already been explained, and they are all the symetrical ones, but some are natural and unexplained. Maybe they are due to strange weather phenomena we do not yet understand causing micro-whirlwinds. No one can explain Ball Lightning, but it still exists. You should never dismiss things just because you don't understand them. That way we would never learn anything new.
2006-07-20 07:04:46 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Crop circles are areas of cereal or similar crops that have been systematically flattened to form various geometric patterns. The phenomenon itself only entered the public imagination in its current form after the notable appearances in England in the late 1970s. Various scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations were put forward to explain the phenomenon, which soon spread around the world. In 1991, more than a decade after the phenomena began, two men, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, revealed that they had been making crop circles in England since 1978 using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools. Many other people around the world are also openly making crop circles, notably Circlemakers.org. Although the commonly accepted view today is that crop circles are a man-made phenomenon, paranormal explanations, often including UFOs, are still popular.
People who study crop circle phenomena sometimes humorously call themselves "cerealogists", after the usually known name for the pseudoscience that studies crop circles: cereology. Cerealogists call these designs agriglyphs.
2006-07-20 11:26:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reading the previous answers it's clear that the correspondents have never seen a crop circle up close. The crops are not "trodden down" or "flattened by a plank" but rather woven in to a flat carpet.
Some, I'm sure, are pranks but the one I saw in Hampshire c15 years ago was very elaborate and I don't see how people could have produced it over night.
2006-07-20 21:13:47 · answer #3 · answered by fidget 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not a natural phonomenon. People go out and stomp down crops to make the patterns. The good ones use computers to help design the layouts.
2006-07-20 11:26:53 · answer #4 · answered by Jolly1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the real ones, i.e. those that were produced not as a prank , but as an attempt to communicate important knowledge to a species just about always on the brink of annihilating itself, can be discerned by those "sensitive" enough to read their energetic signatures. they are not a natural phenonenon. they were produced by highly advanced off planet intelligences trying to help. some of them portray keys to important considerations based on sacred geometry, for example. if one does enough meditation and associated practices, one can consciously sense the "energies" being emitted by everything and everyone. among other benefits, you then know clearly which humans to avoid like the plague they are. conversely, you can benefit from knowing what locations, and people, it is helpful to be in contact with, since such contact is"uplifting". the real crop circles are just such "locations".
2006-07-20 11:36:55 · answer #5 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, people walk around with a large, wooden plank and stomp the grasses down. They plan out the patterns before hand. It is all a hoax.
2006-07-20 11:31:03 · answer #6 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're messages from a more advanced civilization and when we figure them out, we'll be ready for contact. Unfortunately, there are too many nutcases running around out there yelling, "I made them, I made them!" If that's the case, some of these people must be using frequent flyer miles like they're going out of style. They are too mathematically precise, not to mention gemometically precise to be natural and are too complicated for a pair of people to do them in one night.
2006-07-20 16:42:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
College students who know some maths and graphs and equations and stuff like that, armed with ropes, stakes and planks and stuff like that can produce amazing crop circles.
2006-07-20 11:26:09 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they are not a natural phenomenon.
100% man-made!
2006-07-20 12:33:46 · answer #9 · answered by catrin l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
College Students practicing geometry on a large scale. Nothing mystical about it, just math.
2006-07-20 11:24:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋