Crop circles have been a mystery ever since they first appeared. In today’s world, people merely glance at an article about them. They simply brush it off to the side saying that “it has to be fake” or “it can’t be real”. Pat Delgado, a former NASA engineer, said, “It is perfectly natural to ask if crop circles are hoaxes, but very difficult to explain why they cannot be hoaxed satisfactorily” (Silva “Crop Circles”). Crop circles are very mysterious and interesting in many ways. A way this can be shown is through the first person accounts of the people who saw one being made.
One of the best known first person accounts would be the Robbert and Nancy case. Nancy Talbott, a well-known cerealogist (someone who studies crop formations), and Robbert van den Broeke have one of the most interesting stories of their experience with witnessing a crop circle being made. Nancy was sent to collect some data on the geomagnetic and electromagnetic field in the crop circles that had appeared a couple of months earlier. They got back the house and were disappointed due to lack of explanation to their questions. Nancy went upstairs to her bedroom to read. While she was in the bed, she was interrupted by the noise of cows who were in misery. This disruption stopped, but three minutes later, the disruption started again. However, when the noise started to die down, a tube of light came down from the sky in the field of string beans across from the house (Eyewitness Report of a Cropcircle Forming).
The tube of light came back a couple of seconds after the first one was gone. When the third tube of light came down, Nancy was back downstairs to watch the strange phenomenon with Robbert. They went outside with flashlights to look at the field across t...
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On March 13, 1997, an inexplicable phenomenon took place in the sky over Phoenix, Arizona. Thousands of people witnessed the occurrence, and a few dozen even caught it on camera. The event was so astonishing that the most world-renowned news source, CNN, broadcast it on national television. Disappearing, the mind-boggling event left thousands, or even millions, in disbelief at what they had just witnessed. What was it? The world may never know.
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The proprietors of the colony had hoped to grow profitable export crops of tobacco, cotton, indigo, and olives at first but all attempts to produce these crops were unsuccessful (Roark). Then in the...
The real ones still have the stem and have been bent somewhere else. Colin Andrews helped scientist come up with the real or fake crop circles. Crop circles could just be jokes that people pulled and they grew famous. (Andrews)Next, victims ask the same questions when they see crop circles. When did this happen? Why did this happen, and many more. Crop circles mostly made during the night time. People use the night time to hide themselves and to most likely not get caught. The majority of crop circles have been made in the UK but have now spread due to the publicity. They mostly take place in the UK because they mostly grow wheat. The main reason they occur is because they wanted to get publicity and be recognized for what they did. The ones want to have fame and try to get attention because they normally don’t get recognize for what they do. Crop Circles are made by mankind because they wanted to get attention. (Nickell)Then, most Scientist believe that crop circles are made by man. Scientist say that crop circles are made by man because they want to cause struggles for others because of things that happened to them. Scientist say they occur
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Before the land of what we no class Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and other countries in the middle east grains, such as wheat and wild barley, could be seen growing in the wild without human hand to cultivate and nurture it (Authors 2007). Over time, humans began to recognize the benefit of the plants and began the first signs of human agriculture. The skill of farming took time and trial and error, but along the way, humans began to settle down to tend to their crops. Though the first crops were nothing more than seed s thrown about without rhyme or reason to the process we know today such as fields having, rows and sorting out the seeds to create a higher yield each harvest (Authors 2007). Because of the trial and error process, agriculture of plants did not take place of a short period but took many, many years to evolve to what we know today as agriculture; the new fa...
the lettuce fields, including a mentioned five day rule by a farmworker known as Manuel.
Throughout The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, the author argues that the coevolution of plants and humans is seen within the relationship of humans manipulating plants to fulfill their desires. Pollan touches on four main examples where coevolution can be easily seen throughout history and the present. The apple satisfies sweetness, the tulip beauty, marijuana intoxication, and the potato control. As we are benefitting from evolving the plants for our own interest, the plants themselves are benefitting as well. The environmental message of the book surpasses that of coevolution and dives into the technology of genetic engineering
The blessing and curse of the Agricultural Revolution is advocated with its augmentation and dissemination. Taking the stipulative definition of “blessing” and “curse” from the original premise, one can only superimpose the layman’s terms of “negative” and “positive”. Upon examination of the two classifications within the Neolithic Period and ancient Mesopotamian civilization one can confirm the premise. Therefore, the agriculture revolution was a blessing and a curse for humanity. Human society began to emerge in the Neolithic Period or the New Stone Age. This new age began around 9,000 B.C.E. by the development of agriculture in the region surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and what is commonly referred to as “The Fertile Crescent” located in West Asia.1 The very development of agriculture had benefited humans by no longer having to move about in search of wild game and plants. Unencumbered by nomadic life humans found little need to limit family size and possessions and settled in a single location for many years. One negative aspect of this settling is that the population increased so much so that wild food sources were no longer sufficient to support large groups. Forced to survive by any means necessary they discovered using seeds of the most productive plants and clearing weeds enhanced their yield.2 This also lead humans to develop a wider array of tools far superior to the tools previously used in the Paleolithic Period or Old Stone Age. The spread of the Agricultural Revolution in the Neolithic Period also cultivated positive aspects by creating connections with other cultures and societies. Through these connections they exchanged knowledge, goods, and ideas on herding and farming.3 Another major positive aspec...
Since the 1600’s, crop circles have fascinated millions. Originally from the town of Hertfordshire, UK, the first circle was claimed to be by the “Mowing-Devil”, as found in an English newspaper dated back to 1678. (Gail) The image in the center of the paper depicts a small, devilish creature with a scythe, mowing two rectangular, offset circles. Modern circles form in anything that will take imprint, typically in fields of oats, barley, or corn.
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This is a form of rotational grazing. It is considered the best method of grazing. It involves the farmer dividing grazing areas into 20-25 paddocks. The paddocks depend on the size of our herd. Every day cows will graze one paddock. This method is based on the idea that each tiller has three actively growing leaves at an...