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8 Comments
shuacThis video was made before they discovered that crop circles are man-made jokes, right? Right?
StormsingerDecoding crop circles is trivial. Every one of them says, "I'm bored. Let's pull a prank."
bareboards2How pissed off are farmers at losing so much crop? Enough already, I'm betting they are thinking.
hpqpHumans have been drawing huge pictures on the ground for thousands of years. Now it's aliens? pssshht.
rottenseedThis has got to be the best hoax ever...not in the enormity of how many people it fooled, or in the entertainment value gathered, but from the amount of knowledge the pranksters needed to have in order to pull it off. Not to mention, crop circles look badass...
Stormsinger>> ^rottenseed:
This has got to be the best hoax ever...not in the enormity of how many people it fooled, or in the entertainment value gathered, but from the amount of knowledge the pranksters needed to have in order to pull it off. Not to mention, crop circles look badass...
It's much the same as all the tricks we were taught in grade school, about solving geometric problems with a compass and ruler. Crop circles just take a board and some rope.
rottenseedI was referring to ascii coding and the understanding a reconstruction of Sagan's image>> ^Stormsinger:
>> ^rottenseed:
This has got to be the best hoax ever...not in the enormity of how many people it fooled, or in the entertainment value gathered, but from the amount of knowledge the pranksters needed to have in order to pull it off. Not to mention, crop circles look badass...
It's much the same as all the tricks we were taught in grade school, about solving geometric problems with a compass and ruler. Crop circles just take a board and some rope.
Stormsinger>> ^rottenseed:

I was referring to ascii coding and the understanding a reconstruction of Sagan's image>> ^Stormsinger:
>> ^rottenseed:
This has got to be the best hoax ever...not in the enormity of how many people it fooled, or in the entertainment value gathered, but from the amount of knowledge the pranksters needed to have in order to pull it off. Not to mention, crop circles look badass...
It's much the same as all the tricks we were taught in grade school, about solving geometric problems with a compass and ruler. Crop circles just take a board and some rope.
Oh...I took it for commenting on the more general case. You're right, there is a distinct bit of geek background there.
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