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Well, now. I know you don't care what I think, but I'll tell you anyhow.
First off, the simple, plain, unconnected circles are quite possibly an atmospheric plasma effect of which we are presently unaware, easily explained with present knowledge. If acknowledged and studied.
Second, a very great many are some of the loveliest creations I've seen humans make. I mean, absolutely ethereal in their beauty. True monuments to the human soul. After all, folk have been filmed making them!
Third. There's been "Mowing Devilles" since at least the 1650s. First written of in Britain (to my knowledge), they've been found throughout EurAsia and the Americas, as well as Australia. Don't know about Africa.
Aspects of "true" crop circles are blown out plant nodes, as if they'd been subjected to heat, calcified/mineralized soil as if it had been subjected to heat, interweaving of plants, sometimes of great intricacy, witnessed creation by glowing lights, etc., and creation of very large and intricate formations in less than four hours, this including transport to and from in rural areas where strange vehicles and unknown individuals are noticed.
Of those, I think ... hmph. Don't know what to think.
Satellite lasers, eh? Secret space stations and wiseasses, huh? Yeah, maybe. Wiseasses.
Well, now. I know you don't care what I think, but I'll tell you anyhow.
Of course I care what you think; that's why I've enabled comments!
I don't know if the satellite laser story is the final answer or not, although I heard it from a good source.
Honestly, I think that's about the stupidest article on crop circles/glyphs I've ever read. No, let me correct that, it is the stupidest article on the subject I've ever read, completely on a par with that article about artificial formations on Mars that you posted awhile back as an example of what you had to contend with.
For one thing, the idea of using magetrons to split water molecules and then taking the energy released and feeding it back into the magnetron as an alternative energy source is simply perpetual motion in discuise. The first Law of Thermodynamics states that you can't get more energy out of a system than you put into it. And the Second Law states that, as a practical matter, you can't even get as much energy out as you put in. Plus I think if ET really wanted to help us solve the energy crisis, they'd figure out a better way to communicate than this. I mean, if we're too stupid to work out an obvious solution to the energy, we're sure as hell not going to "get" what these kinds of cryptic messages are trying to tell us.
Frankly, I think they're all of human origin but resulting from a combination of very low tech and very high tech methods of creation. A few months ago, I read about a team of Italian scientists who created a reasonably sophisticated glyph "manually" just to prove it could be done, although the process sounded pretty complicated and difficult -- they didn't do it with boards and ropes, I think they used blowers of some kind.
So, my own view is that they're a combination of "hand made" glyphs and glyphs created using very sophisticated technology such as microwave laser beams. Some of the more complex ones like the one in the picture definitely have a "programmed" quality to them, almost like the way an electron beam creates a pattern on a computer monitor. It's hard to imagine how you could create something this complex even with blowers, let alone boards and ropes.
So, my own view is that they're a combination of "hand made" glyphs and glyphs created using very sophisticated technology such as microwave laser beams.
I agree. I think we're seeing a weird sort of symbolic dialogue between various cranks, occultists, artists and, most likely, government agencies.
Nonhuman intelligence? Maybe, but I think it's a long shot.
Mac -- I really liked your suggestion on a previous thread about crop glyphs that we could be engaged in a kind of dialog with ET using this medium. Sort of ala the famous 5-tone sequence in CE3K only visual patterns instead. The glyphs created by satellite micorwave beams and by ET would be the real thing and the "hand made" patterns would be "noise." Sound like a great premise for an s.f. novel? (BTW, I thought "Signs" totally sucked.)
I liked "Signs" -- but not because of anything it had to say about crop circles!
"The Village" is pretty good but not, I fear, a terribly enduring film.