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."

Comments

No mystery...

[LinuxPunk]

there's no mystery at all behind crop circles. I remember seeing a tv show about them a few years back, and they're just made with wooden boards, string, and a bit of geometry. They even showed a group of people making one.. impressive what can be done with this method in a few hours, but certainly not a mystery as to how or who/what makes them.

Someones not going to be happy..

[h0tblack]

From cropcircleconnector.com:

NEWS FLASH : Last Month July 2002 The Crop Circle ConnectorÊ 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.

Then again, maybe the no-doubt huge bandwidth bill they will receieve after being linked to from /. will be slightly offset by the contributions it (may) also bring(s)..

Re:Encoded CD

[Anonymous Coward]

"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."

http://www.swirlednews.com/article.asp?artID=512

Encoded message

[sanermind]

is in ascii, english; it says

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

as taken from this ranting article

Re:Idiot pranks

[natet]

It's much worse than just taking money away from the farmer so he can "buy more things." Farmers go into debt at the beginning of each year, and basically hope to make enough money out of their crop to pay that debt off and pay their bills for the rest of the year.

A dangerous prank

[ndogg]

It seems some pranksters go to some pretty dangerous lengths to create crop circles. I'm not sure my health and limbs are worth a stupid prank like crop circles, but I guess I'm not those people.

Nearly Perfect Geometrical Shapes

[Lucas Membrane]

No. All the mistakes you'd expect from human beings cavorting in the dead of night. Take a look at these, presented as evidence of the precise geometry:

Milk Hill 2001 (scroll down, it's the 3rd one)

Possibly made by the same people but with only 3 arms in the spiral

Perfect geometry? The spiral arms don't even have the same number of circles in each arm. The Milk Hill formation has 13 circles on five of six arms of the spiral; the other arm has only 12. The 3-arm spiral has two arms with 11 circles and one with 12.

Stand in awe if you like, but jeez, this is obvious BS that these things are anything like 'perfect'.

Re:Always the tracks...not true at all

[legLess]

if you look closely, the track always intersects the design in the center, or at a node that could be the "pivot point" of the design.

Demonstrably not true. This pattern isn't aligned at a right angle to the tracks, or intersected by tracks at any crucial points. Some are; some aren't apparently.

"MORE ON THE 'ET FACE & DISC' DECODING "

[Markos]

It was one of the links posted in the story here

"For those not yet familiar with the decoding, the full message verbatim reads: "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."

Re:Decoded?

[JWSmythe]

Oh goodie, I get to answer myself. :)

I would have been more entertained to read that it had (c) 2002, Sony Music Corporation.. Then they'd have the RIAA trying to shut down the site. :)

"Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES.
Much PAIN but still time.
EELRIJUE.
There is GOOD out there.
We OPpose DECEPTION.
COnduit CLOSING [bell sound]".

This answer was found at:

http://www.dcccs.org/the_alien_at_crabwood_farm_ho use.htm

http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/articles/crabwoo d.html

http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=381&cat egory=Environment
(this one requires a registration. I haven't read it yet)

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8 &oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=EELRIJUE&btnG=Google+Sea rch
DejaNews shows 57 threads

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe =UTF-8&scoring=d&q=EELRIJUE&sa=N&tab=g w
Google finds 66 sites.

Most of these sites scream hoax or conspiracy. One message said straight-up that there's no way anyone could decode it (yada, yada. They just didn't try hard enough. I do the impossible twice before lunch daily.{grin})