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Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by trueforger
I bet quite a few crop circle makers have in fact "messed up" in the past (stray lines, etc.), but they perhaps changed the design "on the fly" to incorporated those mistakes into the finished design (for example, add extra circles to cover up a stray line).
Originally posted by jfj123
Here's an example of a crop circle being made sans little green men.
I guess this just completely blows all the believers out of the water huh?
[edit on 26-7-2009 by jfj123]
Originally posted by elysiumfire
...I certainly do not believe that ropes and planks of wood are the only tools used in today's circles, and to be honest, I have not really sat myself down to work out how they could do it, but they obviously have managed to come up with a means in doing so....
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
I don't know what tools they specifically use, but in a post a few pages back I worked out geometrically how it could be laid out by using only rope, tape measures, some stakes in the ground, and a home-made "carpenter's square" to help them lay out the angles.
The tools you will need are relatively unsophisticated; a 30 metre surveyors tape - this is preferable to string which tends to tangle easily... a 1-2 metre board or plank with a rope attached to each end to form a loop - this is known as a stalk-stomper... dowsing rods - these should be made of copper, and purchased from an expensive new age shop, or, in an emergency, a couple of bent coat-hangers will do... and a plastic garden roller (available from reputable garden centres, or, if only for occasional use, these may be rented from tool-hire shops for about £2 a night). A luminous watch is also useful as a summer night can be surprisingly brief.
Originally posted by watchZEITGEISTnow
Originally posted by jfj123
Here's an example of a crop circle being made sans little green men.
I guess this just completely blows all the believers out of the water huh?
[edit on 26-7-2009 by jfj123]
Blows me off my chair with laughter...
did you even watch the youtube you posted - did you see the "perfect" crop circle - give me a break that was a great example of how NOT to make a "perfect" crop circle.
Originally posted by Gorman91
Well jfj123, I guess you don't want to talk anymore? Any response on my last comment?
Originally posted by Wally Hope
reply to post by jfj123
Do you have a video of them making one of the bigger more complex well known 'circles' they claim to have made?
That one looks really sloppy, and they didn't swirl the plant just flatten it, yet they claim to be able to 'do the swirl'. They would have left footprints.
There would be broken plants.
If they are the ones making them, it's not by the method used in that vid.
Researchers would spot that one was man-made, they know what to look for.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by jfj123
My last response page 17.