Mayan 'apocalypse' crop circle appears at Silbury Hill

petros

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I don't know who CAD is or what CP1 is, but GPS has both lateral and vertical navigation, and they are very inexpensive, but to be certified for instrument approaches requires some substantial fundage, for obvious reasons. Farmers do use the lateral nav for seeding.
CAD = Computer Assisted Design...CP1 is Control Point 1 where you start your lay out. Rod is a prism atop a shaft that refects to the total station which will conveniently "beep" when the rod is in the pre programmed postion doing your layout to the mm.

Handheld GPS is off by 2-3 m and you can't load a design into it.
 

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CAD = Computer Assisted Design...CP1 is Control Point 1 where you start your lay out. Rod is a prism atop a shaft that refects to the total station which will conveniently "beep" when the rod is in the pre programmed postion doing your layout to the mm.

Handheld GPS is off by 2-3 m and you can't load a design into it.
If you need to shoot around a corner or topography effects station to prism sight lines you'll have to add a CP2 so you can triangulate to find you northing and easting.
 

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Well, the folks making the crop circles, and GPS is used for seeding, spraying, and graffiti, (yes it is that accurate). You may not have noticed it but there are sprayer tracks on each field allowing people access to the sites without disrupting the crops. You can make your design on the GPS and just tramp it our where you want to, but these aren't the crude ones of years past, they are actually laying the crops down in certain patterns that reflect light differently where they want to. This is the work of artists.
so........how do insects get burned onto stalks and stems? where does the radio activity come from?
how do these people bend stalks and stems without breaking them. why wont dogs etc enter these circles?
 

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they are? can you prove that?
Yes, I believe they are, and no I can't prove it, but can you prove otherwise? The original crop circle makers have come forward and explained how they did it, it's not much of a stretch to conclude that the current crop circle makers are much different. They have better equipment and perhaps better and more elaborate planning, but I don't see any good reason to think crop circles are made by anyone but people. Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is most likely to be correct.
 

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Yeah, nothing very complex or intricate about nature. lol
Well, yes, nature is indeed very complex and intricate, but she's had an unimaginably long time to put it together, and if you look closely you'll also see that she's a long way from being a perfectionist. She's a minimizer, a satisfier, not a maximizer.
 

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Can you prove they are done by anything else?A few people have admitted making the designs by using such simple tools as a piece of plywood and a rope.
actually, yes I can
if you go to the cropcircle thread on this site I have posted a video of 2 lights, for want of a better term, forming a cropcircle.
 

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Videos can be manufactured.
I saw a photo of a flying saucer once. It turned out to be a hubcap dangled from a string that someone had photoedited out of the pic
 

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Videos can be manufactured.
I saw a photo of a flying saucer once. It turned out to be a hubcap dangled from a string that someone had photoedited out of the pic
true. I'm just asking you to take a look and decide for yourself
 

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I will.:)
Although I think it's extremely unlikely that humans and a couple other species on Earth are the only relatively intelligent bits of life in the universe, I also think it's unlikely any other species of life would give terrestrial beings any more than a cursory glance from a distance.
 
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Balls of light, heat, etc. hhhmmm Anyone ever hear of ball lightning? Anyone into science that can expand on ball lightning?
 

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tis an interesting topic....hopefully I'll live long enough to find out the truth.
watched a doc on discovery channel about crop circles. they got people who "admitted" to making cropcircles, to demonstrate how they did it. they did well, but failed in the bending stalks without breaking them, burning insects into the stalks and the radio active thing, but other than that.........
 

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Balls of light, heat, etc. hhhmmm Anyone ever hear of ball lightning? Anyone into science that can expand on ball lightning?
I've seen/experienced ball lightening......weird as it is it goes in a fairly straight line......doesnt fly all over the place