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Firefox Crop Circles Prove Intelligent Alien Life
This past weekend, the OSU Linux Users Group descended on a field in Oregon to create a 45,000+ square foot crop circle of Firefox. The photos and write-up are worth checking out.
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Bonus geek points for using an HP graphing calculator and string instead of GPS. Though I'm not quite sure why the farmers would give permission for parts of their crop to be destroyed (even if he/she's an OSS advocate).
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It makes sense that geeks would be the ones making crop circles. Aliens surely have better things to do.
I guess that's how you amuse yourself when you live in Idaho's Portugal.
It proves a collection of browser zealots have plenty of free time and not much else to do with it. I mean, cool advertising, but some extraterrestrial's gotta be laughing at us.
My problem with spontaneous human combustion is that never seems to happen to the "right" people.
Otherwise, I'd have to suggest the perpetrators be sentenced to muck-out a feedlot or two.
"Use Open-Source on My FARM!?! That's what did more damage to my oats than a hailstorm followed by locusts last year!"
the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air. R. S. Mulliken
... one Washington farmer reported a complete loss after IE enthusiasts recreated a blue screen of death across his soybean field.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
man, talk about beating the magic out something - that's a hell of a lot of pictures.
but I guess sometimes it's just really hard to decide between posting this shot or this one on your website.
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Isn't the tail in the logo supposed to be on fire?
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Look at the size of that thing! It's almost as big as Firefox' memory footprint!
Hey, which one are you in the photos? Also, there was a GIRL present? A REAL one??
Thanks,
--Ponga
P.S. - Nice work!!
Great pics, especialy the good looking lil geek babe in pic #77. Bonus!
At the moment; viewed 98 times
Close up of tape measure; 73 times
Out of focus closeup of oats; 68 times
Geek guy; 47 times
Well, there you have it guys, you're less interesting than an out of focus picture of oats.
KFG
Will all virgins please raise their hands... http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle/img_5374_1
I suspect an overabundance of sugar in your diet.
me and gordonel!
*does the girl geek dance*
Google does not own a network of satellites
Oh man, I think it's hilarious that you believe that. Sure... Google doesn't own a network of satellites, and they're not watching you right now either, and they're not building lasers on the moon either... Hey, whatever lets you sleep at night dude.
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I'd always wondered what they needed that moon base for!
Couldn't you get a cut of the profit if you only helped with the crops but stayed away from your grandpa's shit? He sounds like one cranky old dude.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I think most of us here are only familiar with girls dancing when there is a pole involved.
Well, no. They bring paperclips.
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Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
To create an authentic circle, the makers would have to. . .
1. Create the circle entirely at night without any lighting systems. (In none of the several thousand circles formed have pranksters been observed.)
2. Leave no impressions on the earth at all. (No foot prints or ladder or pole impressions on powder-dry or moist earth.)
3. Create a much more complex formation.
4. Make sure the flattened grains fall in mathematically precise overlapping weaves. (In authentic circles, the multi-layered pattern of the weave is one of the mystifying features.)
5. No plant stalks may be damaged during the process. (Real circles do not interrupt the life-process of the plants; In such formations, the plants eventfully spring back up entirely undamaged.)
6. Bend the stalks, never break them.
7. Create the formation in under 20 minutes. (Probably circles are formed instantaneously, but the only observed time lapse has been by a pilot and photographer flying over an a field without a circle only to see one twenty minutes later on a return flight path).
8. Witness unnumbered black helicopters coming to check things out.
9. Create the phenomenon of seeds from inside a formation growing in a peculiar manner as compared to control seed samples.
Do all of this, and the firefox logo would indeed be special.
-FL