One thing has always made me wonder about things like crop circles, if we just ignored them and went about our daily business or chores would they stop showing up? 

Funny Philly!! 

just like the other natives down here ... 

I have no idea who is doing the crop circles, but it does sort of remind me of mischievous children, if the adults just ignore them they move on to something else.  Just saying. 

It still doesn't explain RnD.

and wouldn't that be "Phunny, Philly!!"?

Phoon phigures phorum phans will phorgive you of that! Phortunately.

'splain that!

Fur Circles Created By Fleas 'Stoned' On Opium

By disturbedcomputer at 2011-08-03

By disturbedcomputer at 2011-08-03

While there is a disease which causes circular area/s of hair loss to occur, ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002421/ , and http://www.aad.org/skin-conditions/dermatology-a-to-z/alopecia-areata ) the connections between the lesions...  are somewhat more difficult to explain.

Ps comes to mind, for some reason.

I kinda like the guys chest with the crop circles! Or should we say hair circles? What kind of alien plays with men's chest hairs anyway? Makes ya' wonder, ha? Some kind of sickos!!!

Here's an interesting clip...these must be the crop circle engineers. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1CtdNy Some really cool coverage here to see.

Found this.... here.

Crap......and I had to click on it. 

I read it was a bunch of Rednecks looking for their lost still. One ran in a circle and the rest just followed.

Personally, I think that the scientist in the OP is clutching at straws [pun intended].  Crop circles appeared in history long before man had the scientific knowledge to make the internal combustion engine, much less microwave emitters and the like.

And wallabies stoned on opiates?  Yeah right!  With the amount of 'day trippers' we have in this country, there'd be NO opiates left for wallabies or any other wildlife to get high.   Nope, Aussie crop circles were made by aliens... just ask any one of the 'day trippers', they'd know, out there congregated in the bush together as high as kites.  Yup, they'd have a bird's eye view of things from up there.... and that's why the cops are always seeking out and destroying dope plantations [except for the bit they keep for themselves]... it has nothing to do with the illegality of pot, they just don't want the stoners to see what's really going on out there. 

You see, the Aussie government is in league with these crop circle making aliens, and in exchange for some alien technology, Julia Gillard is implementing a carbon tax to raise enough money for the fuel to get them home to their own planet.  Space travel ain't cheap, you know, and we, the Aussie public are paying for it. while experts offer up smoke screens such as climate change, global warming and stoner wallabies.

As for the scientist who wrote the paper on crop circles, well the government gave him some of the best opiates confiscated from out bush, and he was like putty in their hands... wrote exactly what they told him to to throw us off the scent... of the UFO's and their secret stash.

*Pssstt, if I fail to show up here again you'll know what happened... I'll have bee silenced by the government*

Go wash your mouse.

Be glad you didn't step in it. 

This is absurd.

Everyone knows crop circles are just aliens using DesktopX on their quantum-Higgs-dark-energy galactic PC desktops...er, spacetops.

Melbourne got 'down' to 17.4c last night.....a 'Hot August Night' on the wrong side of the planet.....for August.

Previous 'hottest' on record was 16-something...140 years ago.

But it's all just an anomaly.....not global warming at all....

...good to know we'll all be snuffed out eventually by an anomaly....;)

I knew this topic would bring out the best WC has to offer!!! 

Awesome link, Giz!! 

Had about 4c here.... and I had to take my shirt off cos I got all hot under the collar.  Damned carbon, man, it's everywhere... everyone in the house is made of it, just hope I don't get taxed extra after I fill out the census and they find out there's 6 of us.  Damned trees are full of it, too... and there's effing hundreds of 'em on my freakin' doorstep  Shit, better get me a chainsaw and cut the bastards down... don't want things getting any warmer around here.

Exactly, but rather a fallacy.... the only anomaly is in Canberra... sits in the PM's chair during parliament, and a nasty piece of work at that.  Can't tax the real cause of weather fluctuations, volcanoes, earthquakes, sun spots and other natural phenomena to make up for reckless government spending, so a tax on carbon will do instead. Good one JuLIAR, add to the cost of living, make electricity unaffordable, add to inflation so the RBA increases interest rates again.... so on and so so.

Anyhow, back to the crop circles.  It seems seems there's no mystery to it at all... and no dope, either. If you chain a wallaby to a post in the middle of a wheat field and dangle a wattle root from its collar, it'll create a crop circle whenever and wherever you like..  For larger circles just lengthen the chain... for repeated circles just move the post.  During adjustments, please ensure that wattle root is still dangling in front of subject, otherwise it will just sit there as wallabies [like most Australians] are lazy bastards who need considerable motivation to get orf their arses.

How about this one

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc8r2e_crop-circles-message-for-human-race_tech

Yup, dangle a binary code in front of an alien and he'll create an elaborate crop circle to let you know he's seen and deciphered it.  That's what I like about aliens, they're punctual, precise and purposeful... like, um, they don't mess about, do they!