--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's a lady in FF who's really into crop circles. She's Marlene > Stanley, > > Alex Stanley's sister-in-law, wife of Raja Tom of the Kingdom of > Denver. She > > gave a presentation recently and has some interesting stories to > tell. I'll > > try to tell them later as time allows. > > I hope you do Rick because I really don't "get" the crop circles > thing. The pics Nab posted look like laser cutouts on wood panels > when I blow them up in Photoshop. Judy's maze crop cutouts are > what cutout crops look like.
Er, the one I just posted was a joke. It's a picture of Gerald Ford, for goodness' sake. Nobody's pretending it's anything but manmade. It's "crop art," not a crop circle. Many of the pics I have seen look like a > simple Photoshop layers imposition of an image onto a picture of a > field. I guess I am missing the link of someone on the ground we > can trust telling us what we are looking at. No problem. There are zillions of eyewitness accounts, photos, and videos of crop circles from the ground. Just Google "crop circles"; search for "crop circles" on YouTube. They're even visible using Google Earth and Google Maps. Here's a video of a bunch via Google Earth: http://tinyurl.com/yqjbod Somebody created a Google Map of crop circles, but you have to have a Google account to use it: http://tinyurl.com/yv8ev9 > Of course the jump from "We don't know what caused this" to "We do > know what caused this and it is aliens" is gunna be an even harder > jump for me Here's where I've jumped to, after reading quite a bit of material on crop circles: Many of them are hoaxes, some are not. We have NO idea what causes the ones that aren't, and whatever it is, is very, very, VERY weird. , but I would like to start with the support basis for the > pictures themselves. How are they distinguishing them for > Photoshopped pics? If you're suggesting the photos are fake, that's right out. You can quickly disabuse yourself of notion by spending a little time looking around the Web, as noted. There's a veritable army of researchers studying crop circles on the ground. Some of them are from La-La Land but quite a few are dead serious, and quite credible. Here's the Web site of a serious outfit: http://www.bltresearch.com Prowl around on that site a bit and see if you don't get the heebee jeebees. There are a lot of crazy people and hoaxters of various sorts associated with the phenomenon, as well as folks exploiting it commercially, but if you dig around, you'll find the more reliable reporting and theorizing.
