what is a crop circle....anyone belive it ?
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Crop circles are areas of cereal or similar crops that have been systematically flattened to form various geometric patterns. The phenomenon itself only entered the public imagination in its current form after the notable appearances in England in the late 1970s. Various scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations were put forward to explain the phenomenon, which soon spread around the world. In 1991, more than a decade after the phenomena began, two men, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, revealed that they had been making crop circles in England since 1978 using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools. Many other people around the world are also openly making crop circles, notably Circlemakers.org. Although the commonly accepted view today is that crop circles are a man-made phenomenon, paranormal explanations, often including UFOs, are still popular.\n\nPeople who study crop circle phenomena sometimes humorously call themselves "cerealogists", after the usually known name for the pseudoscience that studies crop circles: cereology. Cerealogists call these designs agriglyphs.
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isnt it a speech bubble ... within a circle..?
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Omg I just wrote a paper on it! Copy n' paste...\n\nThe waxing crescent moon comes after the new moon. It is when we see a crescent of light on the right side of the moon. This phase continues until the first quarter moon, when the terminator (the line between the dark and light hemispheres of the moon) divides the visible face of the moon into halves, and the right side of the moon’s face is visible from the earth.\nThe waxing gibbous moon is when more than half of the right side of the moon’s face is visible. This phase continues until the full moon. After the full moon, the terminator comes into view on the right side of the moon’s face, the reverse of what the waxing crescent looked like. This is called the waning gibbous. This phase goes on until the third quarter moon. During the third quarter moon, the terminator is again dividing the moon into halves, but this time the left side is lighted.\nNext, the terminator continues moving left and the left side of the moon becomes a crescent. This is called the waning crescent. The terminator continues moving left until it is a new moon again.\n\nHope I helped!
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Yes, I also saw on tv where they were trying to make their own crop circles, but they kept breaking the stalks of the plants.  In a true crop circle, the stalks are bent, not broken at all.\n\nI believe that there are other beings out there, and that they are creating these.  Scientists have done so many test to try and replicate the crop circles, but to no avail.  Well, there can't be some person out there who knows more than the scientists do who is laughing in his chair while all of us are stumped.  That just seems rather impossible, don't you think?
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The earth isn't round. It's a squashed sphere, due to it's rotation.\n\nI wish grass fell from the sky. I have to go find a guy who knows a guy to get my grass.
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Wow.\nNow I am paranoid.\nThis is going to sound totally random, but I picked a dandelion today and I'm wondering what effect that might have had.  You never know.\n(The gardeners at my college would just have pulled it though, at least I enjoyed looking at it while I was in class...)\nLOL.  Interesting question.
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You know that the base of the cone is a circle.\n\nThen we have the surface of the cone which when laid out should look like a slice of pizza.
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QUOTE-----"The photo must be by telescope from the Earth to the moon! If no one can find any recent photos then the moon landings are a massive hoax!"\n\nTo remind u and other readers...we CAN'T see the lunar rover or whatsoever using our telescope on earth.No matter how BIG the telescope is, we still CAN'T see it because of atmospheric blurring.\n\nEven HUBBLE can't see it...because that landing site (flag and all that) is so SMALL.... and MOON is MOVING so fast.\n\nIt's just like trying to see a COIN when you are travelling with an AEROPLANE high in the SKY\n\nDID U GET IT? OR U NEED ME TO REPEAT IT AGAIN?
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People believe that?  I'll come up with something--I'm a pretty good BSer.  \n\n1 & 2:  It is like a moibus strip, so the edges wrap like a video game.  \n\n3:  Of course.  \n\n4:  The sun revolves around the earth, so the sun isn't out at night.  Because it is a moibus strip, there is not another side.
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There was a full moon out June ll.. what you saw was a reflection (either in water, or a mirror image) of the full moon. Are you into astrology? The war in the sky sounds like a zodiac of sorts. What was involved in the war? (What is going on around you? any turbulence? it's merely a reflection of this..) the reflection thing.. get it? mirror/water.. lol. it's easy! lol
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You could use the circle to crop the earth map image and then apply the "bubble" or "sphere" distortion filter to it.  It won't be a real 3d spherical map of the earth, but it may look similar if you are patient.
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Most critical observers, and the scientific mainstream, are convinced that crop circles are sniggles or hoaxes engineered by humans. This explanation, supported by the documentation produced by some crop-circle hoaxers, has the advantage of not requiring us first to assume the existence of flying saucers or other as-yet-unobserved phenomena. However, there are many contending hypotheses which assume that at least some crop circles are not the products of mundane hoaxers; these hypotheses vary in their degree of scientific rigor, but all fall to some extent outside the mainstream.\n\nOne modern unscientific belief, is that crop circles are created by flying saucers landing in fields and flattening a neat circle in the crop. However, the increasing complexity of formations from the 1980s on, and the implausibility of the idea that extraterrestrial beings would travel to Earth for the sole apparent reason of flattening crops, make this conjecture seem unlikely.\n\nSome pseudoscientifically inclined enthusiasts suggest that an explanation more plausible than flying saucers might be cymatics, the visualisation of vibration or sound. According to this hypothesis, the complex patterns are two-dimensional geometric or visual representations of sound frequencies, with higher sound frequencies producing more complex shapes similar to both mandalas and crop circle designs.\n\nAnother pseudoscientific hypothesis is that a man-made satellite in Earth orbit is using some kind of beam (e.g., microwaves) to create the designs. Heating stems of wheat with a short intense burst of microwave energy can produce wilting similar to that in a crop circle. Flattened stems often have the bend just below a stem-node, and also may feature blackened burn holes indicative of intense heating. Microwave heating has been shown to be capable of producing these effects. It is postulated by believers of this theory that the U.S. Pentagon's "Star Wars" programme has a satellite capable of delivering such a microwave beam.\n\nOften touted as evidence for the mystic origin of crop circles is the coincidence that many circles in the Avebury area of southern England occur near ancient sites such as earth barrows or mounds, white horses carved in the chalk hills, and stone circles. Other ideas on their formation have been proposed include tornadoes, freak wind patterns, ball lightning, and something called "plasma vortices".\n\nA number of witnesses claim to have observed circles being created, saying that it takes a few seconds and the corn falls flat like a fan being opened – though these accounts are always anecdotal and have never been supported by any evidence beyond the claimants' assertions. Crop circle enthusiasts, though they do not always have scientific backgrounds or credentials, claim that there are other features of crop circles that undercut the hoax theory. They say that bends in the corn in many circles occur just below a joint, while the flattening of the corn by hoaxers produces a crack at any point in the stem, and some scientific studies on apical nodes bear them out. Also they say that flattened corn often lies in groomed layers, rather than random crushings. While there have been cases in which believers declared crop circles to be 'the real thing', only to be confronted soon after with the people who created the circle and documented the fraud, the bending issue remains in dispute. For this reason, skeptics prefer the explanation that there are simply different hoaxers employing different techniques.\n\nIn 1991, more than a decade after the phenomena began, two men announced that many crop circles were a hoax of their doing. Doug Bower and Dave Chorley revealed that they had been making crop circles since 1978 using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools. Bower and Chorley stated to reporters that a small group of people can stomp down a sizeable area of crop in a single night. "Stomp" d
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Many people believe that the world will end in the near future. I do not think there is too much proof, though going back into history the Mayans who demonstrated having advanced mathematical/astronomical knowledge, (derived from ALIENS?) their calender stopped in the year 2012. As for crop circles they are suggested to be communication methods from visitors as well as a message from Earth itself as Earth is a living organism
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it refers to the four corners of the earth, which is an expression we still use today.  the Bible also refers to the circle of the earth.  did you know that?
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According to www.military-net.com, the ball on top is called a TRUK it represents the shot fired 19th April 1775 fired at Lexington Mass. \n\nThere are some myths about ornaments used at the head of a flag pole. Some crazies started a myth in the 1950s that the round ball commonly found on the head of outdoor flag poles in the United States contained a razor, lighter, or flare to be used in the event of a Soviet takeover to destroy the flag. This is of course sheer fantasy. The balls were in use long before there was a Cold War. Besides that, getting at the ball would have required considerable effort. Another myth is that the flat headed finials were designed to provide landing guidance for Alien space vehicles. The fact that those caps had been used long before Alien vehicles were contemplated is explained by saying that individual aliens were commonly sent ahead of the main wave by several generations so that humans wouldn't think any thing unusual about flat headed flag poles. \nPhil Abbey, 7 October 1998 \n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOne myth, apparently created during the Cold War, is that the ball at the top of a U.S. flagpole contains three items, all intended to keep the communists from capturing the flag. These are most commonly said to be a razor blade (to cut the flag from the halyards), a match (to light it), and a bullet (to shoot the attackers).\n\nAlthough this is absurd on the face of it, there seems to be no end to the line of morons who believe it. I'm not calling anyone else who questions this myth a moron -- they're to be applauded for having the good sense to question it. It's those who believe it without questioning it that need to be put away. So the following points are intended for use by those who are confronted with this idiocy in answering the true believers:\n\nThere have been balls on flagpoles for centuries, long before there were communists or, for that matter, self-contained bullets or friction matches. They're there because someone discovered that flagpoles look better with a ball on top. (No, not to keep birds from perching--birds have no trouble at all perching on the ball on a flagpole.) \nIf you want to destroy the flag, why not just lower it by the halyards the normal way and use materials readily available on the ground to destroy it, or better yet take it with you? As opposed to trying to cut it apart and burn it while hanging from the top of the pole like a monkey. \nOK, so you don't want to lower the flag because that would signify surrender. How on earth would you retrieve what's in the ball in the face of an enemy assault? Assuming you don't have a ladder(if you do, why can't you find some matches?), there are only two ways up -- climb the pole or have oneself hoisted up on the halyard. Maybe a professional acrobat could do the former, given time; we're talking about shinnying up a smooth metal pole or pulling yourself up a narrow rope 50 feet (15 meters) or higher, all with enemy troops shooting at you. \nLet's suppose you're going up by being hoisted on the halyard. As you do that, the flag comes down--whoops, you've just surrendered. Anyway, the flag is now at ground level, so your friends can detach it using the clips and escape with it or destroy it as described above. You don't have any friends on the ground? Then how did you get to the top of the pole? Just try pulling yourself up a flagpole some time and see how easy that is. \nWhy the bullet? Are your friends on the ground just standing around watching, or are they fighting back? Oh, right, you're all alone and you're a world-class gymnast who can just climb up the pole or halyard 50 feet or more under fire. OK, well then, if you have a gun with you (that coincidentally is of the right caliber for the bullet), why didn't you load it before you started up? And a single bullet to deal with the Red h
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Those are probably the fungo circles.  When teams are taking their fielding practice, coaches hit fly balls to outfielders using a fungo bat.  By dedicating a dirt patch for that, it helps prevent wear and tear on the grass.
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Robertmca has given you a good description. But you may perhaps mean what is correct: fullscap or foolscap - and why is it so called?\nIt is foolscap. It is called foolscap because, in days gone by, there used to be a  'water mark' on the paper which could be seen if the paper was held up to the light. The mark was the shape of a dunce's cap - or fool's cap.