crop shop

Oh crop circles. They're filled with wonder and can instill fear in the likes of myself and practically the rest of humanity. Since appearing in the media in the late 1970's crop circles have become the subject of speculation by various paranormal, and ufological investigators. Some have proposed that they were created by freak meteorological phenomena while others say they are messages from extraterrestrials. The location of many crop circles near ancient sites such as Stonehenge has led to many New Age belief systems incorporating crop circles, including the beliefs that they are formed in relation to ley lines, lines that go across the Earth and are points of a stronger gravitational pull, and that they give off energy that can be detected through dowsing which is a process where a Y-shaped rod is used to detect radiation. Many researches have claimed that within the grains of several crop circles that pieces of metal have been found that give off radiation in this dowsing process.

Not only is metal found in the crop circles, but they are produced in areas inaccessible to vehicles. At first they were simple circles of bent-over grain stalks. Soon a new crop of more elaborate designs evolved—geometric forms reminiscent of profound mathematical theorems. Some cerealogists (people who study crop circles) say that these diagrams must be created by intelligent alien beings from elsewhere. Even though these diagrams must be constructed in a very short time span, the genuine crop circles never show any serious mistakes or blunders of execution. Cerealogists see this as evidence that the aliens must be very intelligent and much more advanced than we are. That's mere speculation, of course.
The crop circles are formed through the bending and succinct laying down/manipulation of the crops which happens because the instruments aliens use are said to emit mitogenetic radiation (M-rays) that are well known to affect some living plants, especially wheat, barley, oats and corn. M-rays weaken the stalk structure near the ground, and the stalks bend over gently to lie flat on the ground, showing no evidence of forceful breaking.

One of the most interesting circles to appear in recent years appeared during early August this year at Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire that has been named 'The Galaxy'. This particular circle comprised of more than 400 circles, perfectly aligned in a psychedelic swirl. The whole formation measured a mammoth 1500 feet across with the circles ranging in size from a few feet in diameter to more than 70 feet across! John Lundberg, who is a self-confessed crop circle hoaxer, said 'If this formation was man-made, allowing for time to get into and out of the field under cover of darkness, the construction time should be around four hours. Given that there are 400 circles, some of which span 70ft, that would mean that one of these circles would need to be created every 30 seconds and that's not even allowing time for the surveying, purely for flattening. This formation pushes the envelope, and that's a massive understatement.'

Karen Douglas, 31, who is a crop circle expert from Gosport, Hampshire, added: 'This is very, very exciting. Even the people who usually debunk the formations think this one is incredible. It is the sheer size and complexity that sets it apart. There have been big formations before but never as many circles. People are really astounded by it.'

The second picture is a modified crop circle version of a message that was sent out into deep space in 1974 from the Arecibo satellite dish in Puerto Rico, broadcast in the direction of the globular cluster M13. The Arecibo message was a simple graphic consisting of 73 rows of 23 "bits" per row. This number of rows and columns was chosen because each is a prime number. Prime numbers could be easily guessed by any recipients, and that would help them to decode the graphic. The message was sent by simple shifting of the signal between two frequencies in the 2,380 MHz band. It took three minutes to send the message. So basically, this message was just sent randomly into outer space and it gave the kind of information that any culture would want to learn about us: where we are located (at least within our solar system), what we look like (a crude stick figure), a simple drawing of the telescope used to send the message, and something about our biological construction (DNA and some of the building blocks of our biochemistry.)

The crop circle found in Hampshire looks very much like the one broadcast in 1974. But there are some differences: the Hampshire pattern has replaced the Arecibo Telescope with another graphic that is reminiscent of a space satellite with solar cells. The diagram that shows our solar system has been replaced with another that still has nine worlds, but planets 3 through 5 are offset, and the last is drawn larger than the others. Finally, the graphic of the human has been modified by a stick figure that, while humanoid, has a far larger head. This shit is so fucking weird, but intensely interesting. Here's a picture of how one could go about understanding the crop circle created in Hampshire. I have a feeling that the Galaxy circle shown above is legitimate, but I don't know about the communication between aliens and we here on Earth. I mean the workmanship looks rather rushed and messy, far worse than that of the Galaxy. So, I think that the 'ET Message' was probably a hoax on a major scale, perhaps made to 'cash in' on the 'Galaxy' crop circle that appeared just a few weeks before! Get at these circles on your own, they're quite intriguing.













Thanks to Cosmic Crops.