QUOTE(Essan @ May 21 2005, 05:19 AM)
Records of actual 'Crop Circles' go back hundreds of years - as Zandore's quote demonstrates.
They're all round and are almost certainly caused by meteorological phenomena, probably tornadic vortices.
The fancy patterns we see every year now are formed by human beings and are about as mysterious as a London Bus.
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So please tell us in detail just how you would make one of the more complicated ones. I would particularly like details of just how you would set the obviously needed control points, even if a rope were used to make the arcs. I am a professional civil engineer, and have been involved in many a construction staking project, but without a transit and other technical surveying equipment, and a great deal of time . . . I'm talking hours and hours of labor . . . there is no damn way to construct one of the more complicated of these things.

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I don't know how they're made. I don't know how to make a TV or a jet fighter or a nuclear power station either........