NBC News: Mysterious California Crop Circle plowed over
For whatever reason, when I look at this crop circle the thought "Tepco" invades my brainpan.
Cue the Scientific Materialist claque...10...9...8...
A mysterious crop circle in the Salinas Valley in central California attracted so much attention that the land-owner hired armed security guards to keep people off the property.
But the crop circle is gone. On Tuesday, the landlord ordered a crew to plow over the entire field.
Aerial photographer Julie Belanger spotted the crop circle as she was flying over the valley Monday morning.
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Sid
"scientific materialism" 
Crop circles are pieces of pretty art created by creative people.
Too bad the art was destroyed, but I guess the farmer had his reasons.
Sid
No matter which, do you know what this means????
The aliens from the Pleiades think we are all blind and have really big fingertips. Yup! That's it.
Not sure what it would mean if that was Conway's life.
It's clearly a BFEE circuit board design!!
sounds like a cover story.
We're expecting snow tonight. I'd better stock up on bread, milk, and vinegar.
we posted at the same time. See #12 above.
Sid
Sadly though, Geller still has believers even today.
Not the California crop circle, but people. As they can't explain the phenomenon or its origins, they mock others merely for wondering. How democratic, not.
Above is a wonder, the circle is a coded representation of pi to the 10th significant figure.
Most complex crop circle ever discovered in British fields
By Richard Savill
The Telegraph (UK)
Last Updated: 12:40PM BST 17/06/2008
The most complex, "mind-boggling" crop circle ever to be seen in Britain has been discovered in a barley field in Wiltshire.
The circle is a coded representation of pi to the 10th significant figure
The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.
It is has appeared in a field near Barbury Castle, an iron-age hill fort above Wroughton, Wilts, and has been described by astrophysicists as "mind-boggling".
Michael Reed, an astrophysicist, said: "The tenth digit has even been correctly rounded up. The little dot near the centre is the decimal point.
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"The code is based on 10 angular segments with the radial jumps being the indicator of each segment.
"Starting at the centre and counting the number of one-tenth segments in each section contained by the change in radius clearly shows the values of the first 10 digits in the value of pi."
CONTINUED...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2144652/Most-complex-crop-circle-ever-discovered-in-British-fields.html
Thanks for the heads-up, Berlum, on a fascinating subject.
Pretty good tractor and GPS...what do you think?
There's a history, yet they need to invent one.
every time you uncritically support every kooky, tin-foil idea that oozes into DU.
I do, again, laugh at your source. You think circular site.com is a credible resource for information about crop circles?
Look up bltresearch and tell me if you still think so.
Sid
no comment?
They're prominently featured in the source that YOU provided to support your claim that the Mowing Devil woodcarving is evidence of crop circles from the middle ages.
From your link:
No, the majority is not. Of all the (well over) 300 formations that were examined scientifically by Dr. William Levengood of the BLT Research Team, only 6% turned out to be 'suspicious'. They did not show the biophysical anomalies that are found in genuine crop formations (see Anomalies). Quite likely this 6% consisted of man-made formations (the so-called 'hoaxes').
And I've never told you to shut up. I do, and will continue, to illustrate why the "research" that you so frequently bring to DU, and is so lauded by your fan club, is mostly bunk.
Sid
Too funny and predictable!
Hugs and kisses back at ya!
You don't know?
ETA:
I'll let you know if there are any upcoming conferences you can attend!
And if you need help, don't hesitate to call...
Sorry if you took it as an insult.
You have a long way to go before you catch up to the master!
I see it has expanded, in quantity anyway.
I love when you get caught!
You never admit it!
Consistency!
For someone with zero sense of humor, you sure can be funny!
Keep us posted on your investigation!
When you're done, I hear there is an old amusement park that is said to be haunted!
Perhaps you can unmask the "ghost"!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A wind-up wristwatch is infinitely more complex and precise than this circular landscaping, but nobody pretends that the watch wasn't made by humans. Designed and invented by them, too.
If you have evidence that it wasn't created by humans, please present it. Otherwise it's just fantasizing.
...maybe sober people, or something.
Even filmed themselves doing it. Looks pretty damned "precise" to me.
And this beauty.
A beautiful bit of Mandelbrot-esque work made for the National Geographic channel.
Though aliens surely made that too
Humans only made the ones that have videos?
Makes perfect scientific sense, don't it?
Nailed it!
It doesn't resemble any of the ones confirmed made by people.
Here are two other people I think little of:
The Sarah Palin image you posted also looks like that.
If not, why then it's unexplainable!
the "aliens" must have taken a break, gone off to visit with their alien wives and kids, maybe hit the local alien pub for an alien pint or two, then came back the next night to finish the job.
Sid
I want to meet these guys Dave and Doug or whoever because I don't know anyone that can do that. Seriously, can you imagine traipsing around at night in a field with some boards and string and being able to do something like that?
Have you seen this one? Crabwood Crop Circle
The story behind it is a mind bender.
Apparently Doug and Dave can do 3d too- hard to get that shading just right at night, I'd think.
On August 15, 2002, a now-famous crop picture appeared at Crabwood in England. It showed the schematic image of a "military grey alien" using an old-fashioned 60-line TV signal from the 1950's, and also the image of a "spiral compact disc".
Lucy Pringle (http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/articles/crabwood),
Martin Keitel (http://www.martinkeitel.net/cropcircles/articles/alien.html)
and Paul Vigay (http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/articles/alienface.html) have already given excellent analyses of that particular crop picture, which was perhaps the most significant to date.
Yet its "compact disc" provided only a fairly obscure message for the inhabitants of Earth, when translated from 8-bit binary ASCII code into English. Thus, its 1368-digit string of zeros and ones read as follows:
"Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES.Much PAIN but still time.BELIEVE.There is GOOD out there.We oPpose DECEPTION.COnduit CLOSING\"
Taken on face value, that ASCII message would seem to: (i) warn us against any possible alliance with the military grey aliens, who may have promised (some governments in secrecy) advanced weaponry systems for nation-state warfare, that turned out later not to work; (ii) warn us that there will be much trouble on Earth in our short-term future; (iii) inform us that there are also good, spiritual extra-terrestrials hanging around Earth today, in addition to the nasty ones; (iv) inform us that they know about media lies and deception concerning the reality of modern crop circles; and (v) inform us that such messages are being sent to Earth by means of "space time conduit" technology, that we later saw depicted in the "wormhole" crop pictures from 2006 (see www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/wormholetechnology.html).
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/time2007n.html
Sid
Is that these beautiful designs are a testament to human cleverness, creativity, and ingenuity, and yet the reaction is "Humans aren't clever, creative, or ingenious enough to do that. We can put a man on the moon, but these patterns in crops are just too complex for mere fleshy mortals."
Same thing with the pyramids 
Bad Pintobean!
“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
His hair is proof positive of alien technology at work!
There's some asshole stirring shit on the facebook DU group and Hawkeye seems to think it's you.
Sid
They still don't believe it is human made even after the admission by NVidia.
Lots of nonsense about it in their three part report:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2159&category=Environment
Response to Octafish (Reply #20)
So obviously they are aliens
Illegal aliens, that is
You should not wonder. You should never wonder. Do not ever employ your imagination. You should be sensible. The worst possible thing is to be thought of as "woo woo." You may believe only in what you can see, feel, and touch. You can believe in radio, though, 'cuz we can listen to the radio.
Well, it could be worse. You could be gullible!! That's right--gullible. There is nothing worse than being a gullible person. That means you bought into something that somebody said that may or may not be true. Now that is downright disgraceful and ranks right up there as the number one sin. You are worse than Charlie Manson and Bernie Madoff combined if you are gullible.
Humans are quite capable of dashing off these crop circles in a matter of minutes. No overnight tromping around with boards and a yard stick necessary. You know--humans. The same ones responsible for Tepco, Nazi Germany, and the Republican party?
Cher
It is very important to think inside the box.
Cher
Guess you couldn't refute him so instead you change the subject and make it personal.
Shocking!
Maybe you should ask one of your astronaut buddies about pi?
I sincerely hope you solve The Great Crop Circle Mystery!
Since we don't have video of every crop circle being made, we can therefore conclude many are unexplained and could even be alien in origin.
Makes sense, don't it?
Ever. All the personal attacks for expressing the thought that crop circles are a fascinating phenomena.
Certainly some, if not most, are man-made. Some, however, have no plausible explanation. For instance:
Eye witness to the formation of a crop circle opposite Stonehenge.
Posted October 15, 2009
By Colin Andrews
In July of 1996 one of the most complex and spectacular crop circle designs ever
seen appeared in a field opposite Stonehenge. The design became known as “The
Julia Set” because it resembled the mathematical fractal called by that name. The
formation was remarkable not only because of its complexity and beauty but also
due to several anomalies associated with its discovery.
It arrived in daylight on a sunny day opposite a busy tourist spot surrounded by high
traffic roads such as the A303. What is exceptional about this event is that it is the
first time the window of arrival can be narrowed down.
SNIP...
Lucy writes, “She mentioned that when people see maybe two cars or more pulled in
and looking down into the field, other cars stop and gradually the traffic builds up
and more and more cars draw in to have a look.” What the group saw is described:
“There was an apparition, an isolated mist over it (the formation) and as the circle
was getting bigger the mist was rising above the circle. As the mist rose it got bigger
and the corn circle got bigger. There was a mist was about 2-3 feet off the ground
and it was sort of spinning around and on the ground a circular shape was
appearing which seemed to get bigger and bigger as simultaneously the mist gets
bigger and bigger and swirled faster. It was gradual and you are standing there and
you are thinking what is going on and everyone is discussing it and more and more
traffic is building up and everything and you just think that all the time you don't
really realise what is happening and then you think then that's it and the thing is
getting bigger and you are thinking of the beginning and end. But you don't realise
what you are looking at. I didn’t understand what was happening.”
Lucy continues in her report to say that there was a clear space between the
ground and the mist as the crop circle formed and there was no wind or dust.
Lucy’s witness reports that the event took about 20 minutes to form although they
can’t be sure because they lost track of time. When they left the mist was still there
and they can’t be sure the formation wasn’t still expanding. It may have taken more
than 20 minutes to create.
CONTINUED...
http://www.colinandrews.net/JuliaSetStory.html
As for flat earth, why the need to smear me?
FWIW: I've met and spoken with several astronauts. How many have you met, NuclearDem?
Sid
Don't fucking flatter yourself.
I do, however, notice the complete hoseshit that is sometimes posted at DU, and often comment on said horseshit. That your posts catch my eye so frequently is surely no more than a coincidence.
Now, don't you have some JFK - crop circle - Fukushima - BFEE "research" to do? Surely they're somehow all connected.
The truth is out there!!
Sid
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022673617#post61
As for Fukushima:
Fukushima, Plutonium, CIA, and the BFEE: Deep Doo-Doo Four Ways to Doomsday
I notice you were quick to side with nuclear power. What a surprise.
Doesn't get much more wildly entertaining than that bit of incredible nonsense.
Sid
And your journal!
Chuck Norris' way of telling corn that sometimes it just needs to lay the fuck down
And this is the next best thing?
Be careful z-man, or one of the Wanker Nazis around here will ALERT on you for VIOLATING TOS and you will be banished for using forbidden words to describe forbidden thoughts. Get a grip on reality, man. Save yourself. Conform.
Try thinking peaceful PERMITTED thoughts, and focusing on the splendors of of the celestial as depicted in this natural photo - nature in its glory, framed by the Power Tentacles of the Scientific Materialist Cabal (R).
...It makes no assertions about anything other than that the crop circle existed, and then was rapidly obliterated. Whatever evidence of whatever cause has been erased.
Most of the talk and insinuation on this thread about impossible aliens, improbable space forces, or whatever else has come from the provincial kneeJerk reactions of the Scientific Materialist Claque, eager to set up strawmen they can assault with their pre-formed opinions. They cling to their theory as unchallengeable fact: that the thousands upon thousands of crop circles that have been formed around the world, have been created (largely in secret) by fun-loving prankster beer drinkers with ropes and boards
One can only observe that in hewing to this stance the Scientific Materialist Claque is to science as the Teabaggers are to politics. Not a one of the rowdy SM MindMobsters writes to encourage a thorough exploration and evaluation of whatever forensic evidence may be available concerning the California crop circle that is factually cited in the OP. Nor is there any acknowledgement that actual research into the actual cause of the California crop circle might be worthwhile. Rather, as usual, the corroding clique of claquesters remains passionately invested in their pre-formed opinions, and then in projecting those fantasies onto others.
So - LeftyMom -- if you are looking for a good fantasy script, you need look no further than the woozy woebegone claque of scientific materialists skulking about in cybersphere with their pre-formed judgements, poised to pounce like a pack of rabid, teeth-slashing, bone-gnashing jackals on any poor soul who questions the Orthodox Received Perception of Reality.
Recalling how the scientific materialists of yesteryear persecuted Galileo for his heliocentric heresy, one today can only gnash teeth and rend garments upon realizing - alas -- that the same narrow spirit survives on into the 21st Century.
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...in that sense they were indeed the Scientific Materialists of their day, fantasizing that they alone had cornered The Truth and scorning anyone who had the audacity to think otherwise. In a similar manner, the Latter Day Scientific Materialists of our era rest calcified in their absolute certainty that thousands upon thousands of anonymous beer -drinking Hoax Freaks are at large in the world creating thousands upon thousands of elaborate crop circles year after year after year -- and then scorning anyone who thinks there could possibly be some other explanation. Same thing. It's Flat-brained Scientific Materialism, whether wrapped in the robes of Religion or Barren Materialistic Arrogance (BMA).
In Berlum's world, the Catholic Church of 1632 are scientific materialists.
Sid
Scientific Materialists can of course, and likely will cling to their beliefs, even though such beliefs can only lead to massive disillusion. As for me -- Mr. OP -- I'm interested in truth, not beliefs. It was definitely worthwhile to research this fake crop circle to learn that it had been created by a profit-driven Scientific Materialist corporation out to intentionally deceive the public. I take this deliberate deception as problematic and unethical, and well worth doing research to find out about.
Those who want to remain ignorant have the right, of course, to remain so -- that is as we know a core Republicon value, as exemplified in their own perverse belief in a veritable grab bag of Scientific Materialist Delusions.
Example:
I've also noticed that they've started working with grass. It's mostly in major league baseball parks, but I expect it to expand to lawns soon.
A simple Google search would have solved the mystery for them.
The use of colors! The geometric letters! WHO COULD HAVE DONE THIS?
Absolutely nailed it. 
Sid
a group of pranksters. They are legion. They never forget.
University of Southern CALIFORNIA Marching TROJAN BAND?
and held this press conference to cover it up and protect the aliens.
(CNN) -- Sorry, dear readers, but the crop circle discovered last week etched in a farmer's barley field in Chualar, California, was not created by aliens.
Instead -- surprise! -- it was a stunt intended to attract publicity to the release of a mobile processor used in automobiles, tablets and cell phones made by the computer graphics company NVIDIA, according to its president and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang.
more …
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/tech/california-crop-circle-hoax/
Sid
Duh!
