Crop Circle Madness

Don Smith sent in this rather humorous photo, which would appear at first glance to be an abortive attempt at a crop circle.  If so, then our fateful alien artist has tied on a good one.  For it would seem inebriation and driving is not solely a human malady! 

Don explains:

• I came across (this pic) while actually having a serious discussion about ancient aliens, modern visitations, other worlds and dimensions.

What's more is the shear scale of this "project"!     Use the cars at the bottom for scale and you can see that our artist, earnestly covered several acres!  That what I call dedication.  And the fortitude?!  This had to have been at least two kegs!  There is an alien artist that surely loves its' work. 

Crop circles physics, not aliens?

If you lean towards crop circles being made by mysterious beings or some other form of ahem power might get some mileage from this Yahoo News article sent in by Tim Sayell.

Researcher Richard Taylor of the University of Oregon has found that some of the structures seem to rule out traditional tools often said to be involved in creating the circles. From the article:

• Taylor contends that in the modern age, planks and ropes (to flatten plants) and even bar stools to jump from one area to another undetected, are just too cumbersome to produce results (in so short a time ed)
• Instead, he argued that latter-day crop-circle (producers ed) use high-tech gadgets such as GPS monitors to place the shapes and magnetrons (tubes that use electricity and magnetism to generate intense heat) to cause the crop stalks to fall over at high speed.

Tim says he especially likes the Australian explanation:

• some formations in Australian poppy fields have been blamed on wallabies. Yes, those kangaroo-like animals apparently eat the legally grown opiate, become "high as a kite," and hop around to create their own circle work.

read the complete article here