Author Topic: OK, own up... (Read 2030 times)

Chris S · « **on:** 03 June, 2009, 07:59:54 am »

... which one of you did this?

BBC NEWS | England | Oxfordshire | Plea over jellyfish crop circle

The farmer seems a wee bit pissed off. I think it looks rather good.

Adrian · « **Reply #1 on:** 03 June, 2009, 08:14:01 am »

Quote from: Chris S on 03 June, 2009, 07:59:54 am

The farmer seems a wee bit pissed off. I think it looks rather good.

I can understand both of those responses. As a work of art (or of course the activities of aliens) it is rather good. As an act of vandalism it is reprehensible. We wouldn't so readily accept people using the raw material of other peoples' factories as art stuff and rendering it useless would we?

It is also potentially an act of vandalism in more than one way. The more that people fabricate crop circles, the harder it gets for anyone to study and understand any genuine ones.

Jaded · « **Reply #2 on:** 03 June, 2009, 08:44:40 am »

Genuine crop circles?

Adrian · « **Reply #3 on:** 03 June, 2009, 08:46:51 am »

Well quite. Have they all right from the start been man made, or is there some poorly understood process that causes them?

Jaded · « **Reply #4 on:** 03 June, 2009, 08:54:28 am »

Hedgehog swarms

Charlotte · « **Reply #5 on:** 03 June, 2009, 08:55:02 am »

I worry more about the anal probes, to be honest.

The jellyfish is beautiful and very clever, but ultimately if it's done on someone else's land without permission and their crops have been destroyed, it's wrong.

delthebike · « **Reply #6 on:** 03 June, 2009, 09:00:55 am »

Quote from: Jaded on 03 June, 2009, 08:44:40 am

Genuine crop circles?

The ones made by man damage the crops, the methods used break the stems and the plant can't grow anymore. The alien made circles bend the stalks and the crop still grows.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #7 on:** 03 June, 2009, 09:03:59 am »

Quote from: Charlotte on 03 June, 2009, 08:55:02 am

I worry more about the anal probes, to be honest.

I'm looking forward to that bit.

The tough part is trying to explain to the wee thingies the meaning of The Krankies.

nicknack · « **Reply #8 on:** 03 June, 2009, 09:19:27 am »

To say it's caused £600,000 worth of damage is taking the piss a bit though.

HTFB · « **Reply #9 on:** 03 June, 2009, 09:26:03 am »

As usual it's appeared within an easy distance by landrover of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester.

It's a stylised form of communication between generations of farmers; the students who perpetrate crop art now will be the victims of crop art in the future.

What's more, I see at most 5% of the claimed 250m x 60m area flattened, in that photo. Or 750m² of lost arable: it's utterly inconceivable that the damage could be £600,000. That's 800 quid the square metre.

Looked at another way, in England wheat yields 8 tonnes / hectare at a wholesale price of up to £200 / tonne. If the whole rectangle around it couldn't be harvested, that would be a loss of no more than £2400; but 95% of the crop is still standing, so the true damage shouldn't be more than £120.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #10 on:** 03 June, 2009, 09:27:09 am »

Quote from: Adrian on 03 June, 2009, 08:46:51 am

Well quite. Have they all right from the start been man made, or is there some poorly understood process that causes them?

Cereal killers,innit.

Charlotte · « **Reply #11 on:** 03 June, 2009, 09:28:33 am »

*hands Tim his coat*

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #12 on:** 03 June, 2009, 10:10:30 am »

Apparently the police are investing in new interstallar rocketships capable of hyperspace speeds in an attempt to catch the culprits

Kathy · « **Reply #13 on:** 03 June, 2009, 10:11:53 am »

Quote from: delthebike on 03 June, 2009, 09:00:55 am

Quote from: Jaded on 03 June, 2009, 08:44:40 am
Genuine crop circles?
The ones made by man damage the crops, the methods used break the stems and the plant can't grow anymore. The alien made circles bend the stalks and the crop still grows.

...except that some crop-circle-makers have demonstrated how to make an "unfakeable" circle without breaking the stems

delthebike · « **Reply #14 on:** 03 June, 2009, 10:17:42 am »

Quote from: Kathy on 03 June, 2009, 10:11:53 am

...except that some crop-circle-makers have demonstrated how to make an "unfakeable" circle without breaking the stems

With or without anal probes?

clarion · « **Reply #15 on:** 03 June, 2009, 10:19:25 am »

Breaking the stem of an anal probe is a no-no

delthebike · « **Reply #16 on:** 03 June, 2009, 10:29:30 am »

Quote from: clarion on 03 June, 2009, 10:19:25 am

Breaking the stem of an anal probe is a no-no

I won't ask.

clarion · « **Reply #17 on:** 03 June, 2009, 10:32:27 am »

I have a vivid imagination...

rower40 · « **Reply #18 on:** 03 June, 2009, 01:30:56 pm »

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Correction: Mrs Spence inadvertently provided a figure of £600,000, rather than £600, for the damage caused, which was used in an earlier version of this story.

So the Beeb reporter heard "six hundred to a thousand pounds" and understood it as "six hundred thousand pounds". Easy mistake ot make.

hellymedic · « **Reply #19 on:** 03 June, 2009, 10:16:17 pm »

Quote from: nicknack on 03 June, 2009, 09:19:27 am

To say it's caused £600,000 worth of damage is taking the piss a bit though.

The figure has been corrected to the rather more believable £600 now though.

gonzo · « **Reply #20 on:** 03 June, 2009, 10:19:47 pm »

Apparently, the crop circles don't cause damage as they tend to just bend the stalk. What causes damage is people walking on the crops to go and have a look.

Author Topic: OK, own up... (Read 2030 times)

Chris S

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