Good Crop Circle Website (?)

[*J*]

http://www.lovely.clara.net

I was impressed by this site, and wonder if y'all agree with the perspective on hoaxing in it. The author seems extremely skeptical, yet a passionate observer. Anyway, it's definitely more 'down-to-earth' than the other sites I've seen so far.

On a whiny note: I wanted a Crop Circle 2005 calendar, but they don't ship to Prague! :(

*J*

[ December 19, 2004, 01:25 AM: Message edited by: *J* ]

[Humming]

That's a great site. I've read his book in pieces while bumming out at bookstores, but I don't own it.

It's completely amazing to me that anyone who's actually looked at some of these etchings could *possibly* think that they're "hoaxes".

The power of humans to deny reality....

[nanouk]

isn't it curious that there were hardly any cropcircles this year?

[Freeburg]

I haven't actually seen the Discovery channel program in which 3 MIT students are assigned the task of creating a crop circle. Apparently, the students were asked to recreate these observed phenomena when making their circle:

1) Elongated apical plant stem nodes (the first node beneath the seed-head)

2) Expulsion cavities in the plant stems (holes blown out at the nodes)

3) The presence of 10-50 micron diameter magnetized iron spheres in the soils, distributed linearly

According to the article, the students built a "portable microwave unit to try to replicate the elongated and exploded plant stem nodes and a 'particle shooter' of their own design to create and distribute the iron particles".

Amazing ... I don't even know where to begin. Thats like trying to prove that humans create all trees by building one out of plywood.