Crop Circles

[s1962a]

Putting this one in the science section to try and explain/debunk some of these theories.

I came across this YouTube video recently, which actually made me think about some of the points raised around crop circles. Personally I only like to believe things that are mostly science based or can have a more rational explanation, so bear with me on this one.

This is a long video, and i'm not expecting you to watch it all, but in a nutshell this is what this bloke is saying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2BQyZorSQc

- Most crop circles are hoaxes, and there are communities out there actually creating crop circles
- There are some unexplained crop circles, and there seems to some messaging/maths involved in their messages
- The hoax crop circles outnumber the unexplained ones
- There is/was a disinformation campaign by governments to focus on the hoaxes and divert attention from the unexplained ones.

So my science based questions around the unexplained ones

1. Some of these geometric/maths patterns that seem unexplained - could a human actually design them and create them? any evidence of this?
2. How could the really complicated ones be created by humans during the night, especially when it would take a whole team to do it and they seem almost 'machine made' rather than humans with trample boards? No one seemed to notice either?

Hopefully the PH science community will show me how even the unexplained ones are hoaxes and I can stop overthinking this and going down some weird conspiracy rabbit hole

[57Ford]

Drones with night vision cameras can provide a view of the bigger picture.
Farmers might want a bit of publicity

[Simpo Two]

If you wanted to land a spaceship and be noticed, you'd do a few low passes over London and wave out of the window shouting 'Hello Earthlings!'.

If you wanted to land a spaceship without being noticed, you wouldn't land it in a field of wheat...

[Sporky]

Occam's Razor surely applies.

Option 1 - aliens travel many light years to do drawings
Option 2 - people travel some miles to do drawings

[geeks]

Drink my tinkle Alpha Draconian douchebags!

[Stealthracer]

Blokes with planks and bits of rope.

End of.

[skwdenyer]

Sporky said:

Occam's Razor surely applies.

Option 1 - aliens travel many light years to do drawings
Option 2 - people travel some miles to do drawings

Horses vs zebras. Sometimes it is a zebra.

[E63eeeeee...]

skwdenyer said:

Sporky said:

Occam's Razor surely applies.

Option 1 - aliens travel many light years to do drawings
Option 2 - people travel some miles to do drawings

Horses vs zebras. Sometimes it is a zebra.

And sometimes someone's just painted stripes on a horse.

[PHZero]

Stealthracer said:

Blokes with planks and bits of rope.

End of.

Surely not!

That said, I do wonder why the aliens nearly always, always land their spacecrafts in established fields of wheat / barley etc.

[Bill]

skwdenyer said:

Horses vs zebras. Sometimes it is a zebra.

To be fair, zebras are proven to exist.

[Sporky]

Bill said:

To be fair, zebras are proven to exist.

And have never been recorded making crop circles.

[Bill]

I wouldn't put it past them, devious bds!

[Sporky]

Me neither, and I'd like to be clear that I am open minded regarding the likelihood that zebras are of alien origin and/or responsible for crop circles.

[Red9zero]

Stealthracer said:

Blokes with planks and bits of rope.

End of.

Pretty much. I went out with a farmers daughter when I was a lad and the local YFC had got them to a fine art. It always struck me as a bit odd as they were damaging their, or their neighbours crops, but they were a bunch of nutters anyway.

[paua]

Sporky said:

Me neither, and I'd like to be clear that I am open minded regarding the likelihood that zebras are of alien origin and/or responsible for crop circles.

Nah, they don't taste alien.

[Sporky]

paua said:

Nah, they don't taste alien.

That's what the conspiracy theorists want you to think.

[Fast and Spurious]

Why is this in the science section?

[paua]

Fast and Spurious said:

Why is this in the science section?

Indeed!
I've a mate who created a zebra ( from a base horse), not so much gene editing, as application of shoe polish.

[Sporky]

Fast and Spurious said:

Why is this in the science section?

Psychology of delusion?

[Simpo Two]

PHZero said:

That said, I do wonder why the aliens nearly always, always land their spacecrafts in established fields of wheat / barley etc.

The only logical conclusion is that they like making bread and beer, substances not available on their home planet.