Ok this season is frankly disappointing, what's with all these basic ass designs? I mean the center of this one looks nice and wavy, but I wish we could get at least one more stunning design like Milk Hill 2001 or something that actually makes you second guess if it's even possible for humans to pull off. It pains me to think that the genuine phenomenon may no longer be with us, and that the original creators have given up and moved on. Just on numbers alone, the past few years absolutely pale in comparison to the heyday of the phenomenon of the late '90's / early '00s. I mean just go to cropcirclecenter.com and scroll down to the statistics area, we're barely breaking 20-30 formations per season nowadays compared to the staggering 200-300+ formations per season back in the day. I think the saddest part of it all is that NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ANYMORE.
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Yeah I've tried to wrap my head around that too. Like maybe if you have two people holding a taut rope and they walked in the same rotational direction while keeping the rope taut? But yeah seems like you'd definitely need something in the center to pivot around or else it would be really easy to get it wrong.
Like take this recent (imo definitely man made) formation from July 14th where you can clearly see holes in the center of the circles where they put a pole to pivot around (and conveniently along the farmer's tram lines):
Here's a video to get a closer look
(I didn't post this one here since it's a shoddy man made "crap" circle, lol jk it is decently done but not a finished work I would say)
Multiply 9 times any number and it always "reduces" back down to 9 (add up the individual numbers in the result)
For example: 9 x 872 = 7848, so you take 7848 and split it into 7 + 8 + 4 + 8 = 27, then do it again 2 + 7 = 9 and we're back to 9
It can be a huge number and it still works:
9 x 987345734 = 8886111606
8+8+8+6+1+1+1+6+0+6 = 45
4+5 = 9
Also here's a cool video about some more mind blowing math facts
love seeing the basketweave lay of the crop, meticulous attention to detail.
I loved The Last Mimzy, kids find some "toys" that give them powers. It's cheesy but damn if its not wholesome as hell.
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love my RG353M, can't really see how the form factor for a pocketable horizontal device could be improved beyond it, besides a more powerful chip of course.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" - Jiddu Krishnamurti
cool thanks for the correction on JFK, I hadn't watched Corbett's video in your link at the time of posting but now I have. I've come across Corbett before but there's a wealth of knowledge there I still need to absorb, gonna watch his Century of Enslavement documentary next.
Re: de-banking, this reminds me of the old conspiracy cliche of implanted microchips (the so called "Mark of the Beast") where all your financial transactions have to pass through the implant and if you get out of line they just deactivate the chip so you can't buy anything. Turns out they don't actually need to put an implant in you to exclude you from buying what you need to survive.
"Well, one day their own opinion, or their lack of keeping up with their social credit score / carbon tax, will be their reason for being de-banked."
Good point here. A comment that came up in the Data Privacy thread here on Lemmy recently hits on a similar idea. Cheering on censorship or more government power is all fine and dandy until one day you hold an opposing viewpoint to the power structure then you'll wish you hadn't supported these mafia thugs.
Re: solutions, our ability to create an entirely new world definitely exists and is actually capable of being implemented, but not with the bullies still in power. Any attempt to implement meaningful change will be met with force by those who have a monopoly on the use of said force. Does it have to come down to fighting fire with fire though? Or can enough people eventually wake up and just choose to walk away from the system that it crumbles without firing a shot?
I have to concede that the design of essentially every crop circle so far could potentially be reproduced by man given enough time, since some of the formations that are known to be man made can be very complex and beautiful. Human artists are amazingly talented and are capable of pulling off great designs.
However this concept of ghost circles suggests that in addition to the known man made formations, there is also something anomalous happening in the "genuine" formations. Granted, this ghost phenomenon doesn't happen with every formation. If it did, then we could conclude that the pressure of the planks or rollers used by humans would compact the soil and alter the growth of the next crop planted in that field. But we don't ever see the return of formations that are known to be man made.
So there has to be some kind of energetic or chemical change happening in the soil of the "genuine" formations that affects the plant growth of the next year's crop.
In John Root's fantastic presentation "The Majesty And Mystery of Crop Circles", he shows that this phenomenon doesn't always manifest itself in the same ways. While it can lead to stunted plant growth in the next year's crop:
It can also lead to enhanced plant growth:
And also it can have effects on snow, like delaying the melting of the snow where the formation was:
Or even accelerating the melting of snow:
Here's a few other examples of ghost formations:
Also more ghost pics of the Cley Hill formation above, taken between the two pics in the pics above
Is capitalism dying or will it just get more and more ruthless until like 10 people have 99.999% of the wealth? Is there a difference? Either way it seems like humanity will have to make a choice soon whether we want to keep propping up a system that has fundamentally failed them.