CROP CIRCLES

CROP CIRCLES
Alright, I’ll admit I’m on the fence on this one, but crop circles? Just last week on the news there was another incident right here in the United States. Same scenario as all the others. The farmer wakes up and looks into his field and presto, an incredibly intricate and beautiful geometric pattern has appeared in his previously lush crop field.
The farmer and his neighbors insists that they heard no noise, saw no lights and report no other damage to the surrounding land. In short a miracle. To add to the mystery, these events have occurred all over the world.
Now there are only 2 logical assumptions, as to what may be transpiring here. Either some local misfits from the geometry club are playing a prank, or some alien life force is trying to communicate with us. Either way, it would be hard to argue about the grandeur of the results. The complex and perfectly symmetrical crop circles are a sight to behold.
Ok, let’s go with theory # 1 first. Jeb and the college buddies surreptitiously sneak into the field in the middle of the night with a U-Haul full of equipment. They mobilize a small army equipped with chain saws, snow shoes, some trained beavers, and a dozen or so John Deere mowers. They work all night carefully laying down the stalks of corn, with almost military precision. This carefully choreographed piece of work is always finished by first light(no union breaks) and none of the surrounding field shows any sign of activity, ingress or egress. And if that’s the case I wonder if Jeb’s forefathers were pulling the same prank back in 200 B.C., when similar perfectly engineered yet unexplained lines (Nazca Lines) were etched into solid rock in Peru, that were visible from space.
Well, that leaves theory#2….The earth gets visited by some nocturnal space visitors. These guys fly over the field and using microwave or some other energy source turn the crops into some kind of space age etcha-skeatcher. Of course I would have to ask myself…If I had the technological skill to build a space craft, travel millions of miles, and elude all of earth’s radars and detection abilities, why would I want to screw around with some poor farmers in Idaho.
I don’t want to go star Trek on you here, but what if the designs in the crop circles are a way to communicate. Given that there might be a language difference and their Spanish may be a little rusty, mathematical or geometric symbolism might be the closest common bridge of understanding.
Personally I don’t know why they wouldn’t just take out an ad in the Wall Street journal, land on the 50 yard line at the superbowl, or leave us a note on the back of a cocktail napkin. I mean if, Oshma Bin Laden can communicate with us and sneak a video, out of some cave in Pakistan three of 4 times a year, I’m sure this advanced culture can call 911 or something.
Of course, maybe we just don’t want to hear them knocking. That would mean that we are not the sole life form and purpose of the entire universe. Some scientist estimate that there may be between 100 and 500 billion planets…but I’m sure we are the only intelligent life out there.(if I not mistaken..the lottery has better odds than that) Worse yet, maybe we are not the highest, best and most intelligent life form in the universe. Well, just because we don’t want to believe it, doesn’t necessarily make it untrue.
Live Long and Prosper…..
P.I.B.