love Network, been years since I’ve seen it but great movie
First of all thanks for being here. So I'll try to answer your questions in the context of the two possible creators of these designs: man made or "something else" (for the record I think the formation in this post above was man made)
Man made:
As far as I know their method uses planks with string attached to both ends that they hold while they step on the plank to flatten the crop. This flattening causes harm to the plants by either breaking the stems or creasing them in a way that is unrecoverable to the farmer. So naturally the majority of farmers are very much against this. Recently in the 6/23 Owslebury formation the farmer actually dumped a load of manure in the middle of the formation to try to prevent people from coming into the field to check out the formation for themselves.
"Something else":
So to even begin to suggest a different possibility than the mainstream view of "they're all manmade without exception", you need a bit of background information which I would suggest starting with this documentary, but just to sum up some of the buzzwords: bent nodes, expulsion cavities, microscopic metal spheres, chalk aquifers, microwave radiation, energy/magnetism distortions (swinging compass needles/tech failures/drained batteries), "ghost" circles, squaring the circle/perfect geometry/fractal/mathematical theorems, the interactive effect, time distortions, balls of light, shafts of light, etc.
In the case of the "genuine" circles, the plant stems are bent several inches off the ground so that there is an empty gap between the ground and the floor of the formation so that it "crunches" under foot like walking in snow. However the plants themselves are not harmed and eventually start to rise vertically again due to phototropism (the tendency of plants to grow towards the sun), so the farmer can still harvest the plants inside the formation most of the time. In some of the fields that formations frequently appear, the farmer would charge an entrance fee to allow the public to visit the formation which would recompense for any potential damage.
As for videos of one being made, I can't currently find a video of people making one but NBC hired the "Team Satan" team to make a formation for their show "Unmasked: The Secrets of Deception". As for the "something else", well there is no video that directly shows them being made (other than the controversial 1996 Oliver Castle video that is widely seen as being a hoax nowadays). But there's also this video that shows orbs over a field then cuts to the next morning apparently inside the formation where the orbs were the night before. If nothing else this video shows the intricate ground lay with knots and "nests" made in the formation.
Is there even an objective truth though? I’d say there technically is, but I think we all have our own subjective versions of what our “truth” is that rise and fall like a sine wave around the straight line of objective Truth.
Just remember that what is popular is not always true, and what is true is not always popular.
yeah, weird intro but the rest of the show's good (if you like Bill Hicks or George Carlin's style of rebellious standup)
Uhh well, it's something I guess.. I made a promise to myself when I made this community to post about every formation that comes out, regardless of the quality. I totally understand if this post gets downvoted though lol.
like wtf.. were they trying to convey "cutthroat"? this has got to be an advertisement for a knife company or something
not really a single game but probably accumulated the most hours playing Super Mario World kaizo romhacks
single game would probably be Battlefield 4 though
I prefer my ambient to have a psychedelic aspect to it instead of just pure drone, so probably my favorite ambient artist is Ishq, namely his albums Orchid, Sama, And Awake, Bloom, and Lotus. Sinepearl and Chandanam are also artists that have a similar sound to Ishq. also check out Woob's Repurpose album
getting into more of the psybient/psychill genre than pure ambient, mostly everything on Ultimae Records is gold imo (Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Cell, H.U.V.A. Network, Sync24, etc.)
almost exclusively electronic music, just can't seem to get enough of it. (ambient, downtempo, drum & bass, dub, electro, glitch, goa trance, house, idm, psybass, psychill, psytrance, synthwave, techno). I'd be happy to try to give recommendations of any of these if you ask.
also love funk like Parliament/Funkadelic and some electronic focused jambands like STS9 & Lotus
got any electro recommendations? I love MetaComplex, Morphology, Microlith, Plant43, E.R.P., Shinra, Reedale Rise, etc.
anything you recommend? looking for more artists like those on Naked Music Recordings (Blue Six, Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw, Aya, etc.)
yeah as far as I know, that's the only way to subscribe to communities that aren't on your instance. If you visit a community that's not on the instance that you made your account on, it will say this in the corner (for example): "You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]"
This one is identical to the July 12th 1990 pictogram that was featured on the cover of a Led Zeppelin album. Coincidentally this formation is near the burial site of the drummer from Led Zeppelin, John Bonham.
but cmon circlemakers this isn't 1990, expectations have been raised past simple pictograms lol.