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Top of the Crops 2002

Steeltoe writes "For those deeply familiar with crop circles, 2, they are truly an amazing wonder of the world. Not only are they getting unnervingly complex and beautiful, but last year researchers found themselves dumbfounded by an ET-face with an accompanying encoded CD-disc, 2, 3! Clearly, there are not enough wonders in the world, but lack of wonder and excitement! If you like adventure, you cannot turn your back on this, 2! Check out the cool circles of 2002 at Crop Circle Connector and at Circlemakers 'Top of the Crops 2002', or even take a physical *gasp* tour during the high-peak season next summer and see for yourself!! Only imagination may tell what will pop up from the crops in 2003."

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  1. Uhm.... by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 4, Funny
    Quote from the first link: For the thousands reported every year, the vast majority go completely undetected

    Huh?

  2. Still no crop circles of... by dynoman7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Bill the Cat, Jenna Jameson or Osama bin Laden. Wake me up if things change...

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  3. No crop circles in by altaic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Columbia, South America. Know why? 'Cause not even aliens will mess up their special "crop." Or maybe it's cause the dumbass drunks plodding around fields wearing snowshoes all get shot for damaging the crop and being mistaken for theives.

  4. Adding fuel to the fire by senobium · · Score: 5, Funny
    Last Month July 2002 The Crop Circle Connector used over 232.42GB of Bandwidth (our highest bandwidth since 1995 for one calendar month). Since last year we have halved our Bandwidth costs, but this will still cost us around £400 to pay for July. Many people visit the web site to see the latest crop circles without contributing towards the web site with Memberships. We are asking people now to join us and maintain the best crop circle web with the best pictures on the Internet. Please do not let us down or yourselves and start joining today or sending us a donation.
    ...well, if the aliens don't make these guys disappear, /. certainly will!
    1. Re:Adding fuel to the fire by MortimerK · · Score: 4, Funny
      TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO POINT FOUR TWO GIGABYTES OF DATA?!

      Holy crap! I mean really, what? That much? For pictures of crop circles? Are they that popular? That's a lot. I mean, that's a lot.

      How about reducing the size or number of your pictures?

      Or perhaps get the aliens to beam the images directly to users' computers. That would save costs double-plus.

      No! Beam the images directly into their minds! Yes, that's it. Information delivery on the cheap. "Beamed to your head, straight from aliens." - That's what the site should say.

      "Think here to continue."

    2. Re:Adding fuel to the fire by BeneathTheVeil · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Think here to continue."

      Wouldn't that render most users incompatible with the site?

    3. Re:Adding fuel to the fire by Spunk · · Score: 3, Funny

      TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO POINT FOUR TWO GIGABYTES OF DATA?!

      Doc: Great Scott! The only thing powerful enough to take up that much bandwidth is a link from Slashdot!

      Marty: A what?

      Doc: A link from Slashdot! Unfortunately, you never know when or where it's ever gonna strike!

      Marty: We do now.

  5. Major League Baseball by Forgotten · · Score: 3, Funny

    I recently came across this press release on NASA's satellite monitoring of wheat fields, cunningly disguised as a project to aid agriculture (yeah right!). I fear for the poor crop-circle artists. Can even the stealthiest stalk-stomper evade the watchful satellite's malevolent eye?

  6. Pranks by Natchswing · · Score: 4, Funny
    If only the satellite pictures with high enough resolution to see the kids making these things would be released to the public.

    Nevermind, the public would still say it was alien crop circles made to prove that NASA faked the moon landings, as was written in the email I got proclaiming that I would get 14 million longer penises in Nigeria because of the government conspiracy to spy on us using the IR receivers for our television remotes.

    As long as religion reigns, ignorance will be our biggest social problem.

  7. It must be aliens! (Or slow crop year) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    'cause i have a hard time seeing enough drunken frat boys to do the job in one night getting those lines straight.

  8. Encoded CD by darkov · · Score: 5, Funny

    an ET-face with an accompanying encoded CD-disc

    So did someone read off what was encoded on the disc with ET? I bet it reads something like this:


    Microsoft End-User Licence Agreement

    (1) This licence entitles you to limited-use rights to this crop circle ...

    1. Re:Encoded CD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      " ET-face with an accompanying encoded CD-disc"

      In a related reuters article today- Hillary Rosen of the RIAA has has sued the ET under the DMCA for publicly showing an encoded CD-disc. Said Rosen "Every year the music publishers are losing billions of dollars because of file sharing over the Internet. The fact that even interstellar beings are stealing music means even more of studio executives hard-earned money is literally dissapearing into space!"

      The RIAA intends to lobby house and senate commities to create a mandantory encryption scheme for wheat and corn fields.

    2. Re:Encoded CD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      We'll know the aliens among us by their inability to use consistent capitalisation?

    3. Re:Encoded CD by -1bynextweek · · Score: 2, Funny

      You realise this means the aliens have been trying for years to communicate with us through Slashdot... ...but have been stopped by the lameness filters.

    4. Re:Encoded CD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      Backing up the 'request' idea is the fact that following the 0110 segment, the data strip itself continues for one complete revolution, which seems to be inviting us to use it ourselves for a reply. We would have been able to impress about eighteen letters into this unused strip, saying something like "Wow. Message received."

      There is a very good reason data cannot be recorded on that strip.

      That's where you go around the edge with a black felt marker.

    5. Re:Encoded CD by kaphka · · Score: 2, Funny
      "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. Acknowledge."
      That's terribly dissappointing. I was really hoping it would be the DeCSS source. That would have made my day.
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  9. My guess. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Curse words written by pre-pubescent extraterestrial hooligans to express rebellion and pent up sexual frustration.

  10. Re:crop circle robots by Wavicle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe even have it draw fractal patterns or somthing.

    Like the MandelCrop Set?

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  11. NEED BIGGER ONES by MonkeyBoyo · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the thousands reported every year, the vast majority go completely undetected
    The current scale of crop circles no longer impresses me. Maybe one on the scale of hundreds of miles in the Sarah desert would. Or maybe on the Greenland icecap done in yellow snow.

    1. Re:NEED BIGGER ONES by BrainInAJar · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Or maybe on the Greenland icecap done in yellow snow."

      That'll take 10X the number of fratboys as it does now. Madness I tell you, MADNESS!

  12. IN ANCIENT GREECE by SuperMario666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    There were wooden planks, ropes, and even geometry.

    Apparently, according to Slashdot, these items still exist today. Whoah, blows the mind!

    I guess I had better call the local newspaper and tell them to stop the fuckin presses.

  13. bandwidth... by CySurflex · · Score: 4, Funny
    Last Month July 2002 The Crop Circle Connector used over 232.42GB of Bandwidth (our highest bandwidth since 1995 for one calendar month).

    not for long buddy, not for long..

  14. AOL by yamcha666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not another one of those free AOL CDs is it!?!

  15. DeCSS, MPAA, and Lucus law suits. by Crasoum · · Score: 2, Funny

    So when do you think Aliens will break the DeCSS code of the E.T. DVD then have George Lucas and the MPAA fial a lawsuit in intergalactic court for illegal copies......

    Tell me that and I'll be interested in Crop Circles. Till then I'll stick with my latest copy of Aliens.(note this is a joke...)

  16. Re:crop circle robots by servasius_jr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Makes me wonder how long it will be before someone hacks together some control units, a lawn tractor, and a gps system and some randome patteren generator software and creates an autonomous crop circle generator.

    Yeah, it's all fun and games until one gets loose at the old folk's home.

    Nothing as far as the eye can see but blood, gore, and dentures. Will we ever learn?

  17. Tux Crop circle image by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Found this tux crop cirle image on deviantart.com

    http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1155650

  18. My Lawn!! by Larry*boy.3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm....Mowing crop formations into my lawn just doesn't have the same effect.

    I need a bigger lawn!!!

  19. Re:Crop Circles by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny
    If I were an alien, I'd look for a more direct means of communication, myself.

    Who says they're even trying to communicate? Crop circles are just a means of confusing and distracting the human race as the aliens prepare to destroy us.

  20. nitrates by Seehund · · Score: 4, Funny
    • Reported increase in crop yield - Some farmers and researchers have independently reported greater yield in the years following the appearance of formations in their fields. ...


    Wow. Bullshit works as a fertilizer. Who'd a thunk it?
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  21. Re:crop circle robots by Cybercifrado · · Score: 2, Funny

    What OS will they run? Turtle LOGO?

  22. Why aliens do it... by natet · · Score: 3, Funny

    This sounds to me like the Extra-Terrestrial version of "Cow Tipping."

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  23. Re:Crop Circles by l810c · · Score: 4, Funny
    If I were an alien, I'd look for a more direct means of communication, myself.

    I agree, nothing like a good ole cattle mutilation to get yer point across.

  24. Re:Amazing wonder? Uh, no. by Styx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, it would be kind of hard to make a crop circle in a parking lot, since nothing much grows there, wouldn't it?

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  25. Re:No mystery... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Kill your television.

  26. They may be a prank... by ndogg · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but I have to admit that the pranksters have a lot of creativity and talent. Some crop circles out there look downright cool.

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  27. Greetings, people of Slashdot. by mraymer · · Score: 4, Funny
    I am a member of an advanced alien race. We have technology that would take humans thousands of years to develop. This is evident by the fact that we have ships capable of traveling at faster-than-light speeds, proving how little you humans know about the universe and the laws of physics.

    I am typing this post with a device that is installed in my brain. It's wireless, and can be transmitted on to your Web site with relative ease.

    We're also very good at making sure the only people that ever see any really substantial evidence (in the rare event that one of us screws up and leaves some) are judged as insane.

    Lastly, but not least, we are so very insanely advanced that we use... er, uhm... *cough* fields of wheat *cough* ...to erhm... communicate.

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  28. Okay then. . . Into the breach again. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 4, Funny
    First off, Kudos to the Slashdot editors for allowing this story through the newspage stupid-filters. Cool! --And on the tail of the SOHO story, no less. (Which I am still out with the jury on, BTW. Too little info, too much hype, and not enough distance from the subject yet. Better brains than mine must mull over SOHO before I can raise two cents to chip in with.)

    In any case. . . Crop circles. . .

    There are, to my knowledge, four entirely different parties making circles. I'll start from the lowest and work my way up.

    1. Pranksters. There's quite a scene actually, of circle makers with an internal social protocol similar in ways to graffiti artists who spray paint buildings and boxcars. --Often, artists will leave their 'tag' on a crop glyph, or even tag other glyphs to claim ownership. In any case, it has been conclusively demonstrated that with a slat of wood, a length of twin, a tape measure, (and a policebox full of eager engineering students), one can construct very convincing circles of the most remarkable geometric complexity. --Some circle makers even leave weird objects at the centers, up to and including radioactive residues, etc. Humans are smart, and they are good at playing tricks, and many crop circle researchers are entirely willing to be fooled. A happy and kind of infernal madness.

    2. Non-pranksters. Ooh, those pesky military dudes! (Or whoever. Blackops or somebody.) Always trying to obfuscate and mislead. The same types are responsible for replicating cattle mutilations in an effort to mislead and misdirect. (Getting more done before 6 A.M. and all. There's no life like it!) --Though probably not with $400 military slats of wood and $500 military tape measures; there has been a great deal of fast advancement recently in our realm by way of technology. Alien assisted, in some cases. --The crop glyph with the Alien head and the CD thingy was one of these. The garbled word, "BELIEvE" was just that; a garbled word. (Way to go, guys! Wishful thinking, the identity stamp of the greedy & the self-obsessed, will getcha every time. Bush drools for a reason kids, debauchery will do that to you. A rule of thumb: Bad-guys use coke.)

    The psychology behind the alien head & CD glyph: To the susceptible: "Trust the 'good and friendly' greys." To the regular folks: "Crop Circles are scary and weird. Don't trust them."

    3. The Scary Bad Aliens Themselves! Sometimes called 'fourth density' aliens, depending on what sources you look at. They inhabit the level of reality directly one step above ours, where time is a direction which can be navigated backwards and forth. They eat negative emotions when in their corner of reality, and absorb cow and (east-indian human child) plasma when in ours pulling the Men in Black thing. "The Vats are Real." They have set set us up to live in eternal misery, and when the big day comes, it's harvest feast time to the tune of 6 billion very unhappy humans clinging to bibles filled with wrong-headed messages which got garbled way back in the dark ages. Mmm. Yummy fear.

    Anyway, there are supposedly not too many circles directly made by this bunch, but you can identify the ones which have been; The plants in such circles are microwaved and sort of fried and grow funny after the event.

    And last but certainly not least. . .

    4. The good and all knowing entities. --From a another two levels up, called 'Sixth density' (Or 6th harmonic, or vibrational frequency, or whatever depending on your preferred source and level of service.) "We are you in the future. . !"

    Proper circles made by this Yoda-like bunch are supposedly messages documenting the nature of reality in these end-of-times. --Not that I've been able to make head or tail of them. Math isn't my strong suit. (Though, weirdly, precious few are even making the attempt.) "Your media resists. Why?"

    Oh yeah. How to tell a 'real' circle from a fake one, (aside from the perfectly bent stalks and no foot prints, versus the wake-of-carnage system preferred by the slat of wood and ball of string kids). . .

    "One thing to look for would be growth disruptions to the area. Real circles do not disrupt the creative principle."

    A quick side-note to all those who are on guard here: The creepy Scientologists and Moonies, etc., I figure, were set up in order to obfuscate and sound a eerie and somewhat similar, (although selfish and thoroughly dispicable), message. --And to be generally creepy and culty and all that. Ignore those ass-wipes. Travolta and Cruise are royal dinks and should be considered as such. The real story is far less stupid, though still startling. Essentially. . .

    The world is going bye-bye within the next decade or so; global war, economic depression, rich New World Order jerks scrambling over the duped hoards as the ship goes down under the weight of hungry aliens, comet impacts, ice-ages, famine, cats & dogs living together; mass hysteria. (I believe Bill Murry may even be hosting.) Anyway, it's already underway, led by George, "See the Bad Nurse Make Disease" Bush. --Deny it if you will, but everybody can feel it on a gut level. All the little subconsciouses are chattering away. --And it's going to get much, much worse. So buckle up!)

    Have no fear though. When time is circular, (as I am assured it is), all ends are also beginnings. If you don't get smeared by a comet or shot in the head by a Nazi reincarnated as an Israeli, beam-weaponed by an invading alien giant, or just ass-fucked by an American zombie, then you're going to witness some really neat stuff when the Big Shift comes. So get your closets cleaned out, and your heads and your hearts in order. It's all about awareness, baby!


    -Fantastic Lad --mod THAT!

  29. Photoshop by sdflkgfljdqshgjkqsfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    How long before a cropfeild filter comes out on photoshop?

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  30. Re:wow, tv shows explain everything... by cheekyboy · · Score: 1, Funny

    tv is the final knowledge centre...

    wow, +4 informative, you're a genius

    I also learn how to gamble on tv too and how the crappy loosing deadbeat USA stockmarket works too.

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  31. Sarah by Spunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    in the Sarah desert

    Sarah, a stark beauty, hotter than you might believe, has always left a dry taste in my mouth due to her hostility toward men. Once fertile, now barren, she drifts aimlessly in the wind, never looking quite the same the next time you see her.

    You, MonkeyBoyo, are a poet. But maybe I'm biased (see sig).

  32. No, that was misread by jcsehak · · Score: 3, Funny

    I read it as:

    crYOgenically freeze yoUR body bEfore mArch second. we will amalgaMate OR destroy all nOn-frozeN life then.

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