I must have dropped it in Wiltshire.
Why, yes, I always take notes by rearranging agricultural fields. This is the Midwest, doesn’t everyone do it that way?
Later. Now that I’ve got the formula again, I’m going to have to tune up my lawn mower and take off for Epsilon Eridani.
Wiltshire is woo central as far a England is concerned ,similar to how Roswell has become for America .
I must say, that’s a work of art… A typical mathematical formula (or diagram) isn’t nearly as pretty.
It makes me think (vaguely) of Frank Lloyd Wright’s stained glass window designs.
How do those ‘crop circles’ affect the harvest? I would think that it would decrease it a measurable amount. I wonder if anyone has ever been sued for crop damage?
Crop circles are competing with supply-side economics as “longest-running prank.”
Wotthehell kind of farming requires so many close pairs of parallel lines across a field in the first place, w/ or w/o Klingon annotation?
re 4:
I bet they think they will recover the loss through media coverage. 15 minutes of fame, and all that, so to speak
Maybe the artists pay the farmers for using the field as a “canvas” to advertise their artistic skill, anonymously. oops
re @6:
I think those limes are tracks for the equipment they use to sow, maintain, and harvest the crops.
The tractor tracks are probably about 10-15 m apart, so this would cover something in the order of 1000 square m. The lost harvest would be in the order of 1000 kg of grain, worth something like 100 £ when cut and dried. AFAIK energy for the drying can be a substantial expense for the farmer depending on weather.
slithey tove… @ # 8: … tracks for the equipment they use …
I s’poze – an image search implies as much, though skimming same indicates that European farmers do that a lot more than USAnian ones.
Hold on, I learned a little Alienese from watching every single episode of Futurama.
WORD
TO
YOU’RE
M.O.T.H.E.R.
Hey! that’s the wrong conjugation of “you”.
That one is from 2009 – does your lawnmower also time travel?
Hey, someone even wrote “half a novel” based on that design.
https://youngbloodblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/the-future-is-crystal-reworking-a-wip/
I find the variation in green and tan intriguing wondering what it reveals
uncle frogy
@unclefrogy #13:
The colour difference usually indicates a change in the amount of water available to the crops. If you look in the top left hand corner there are several straight lines in green, which may suggest drainage ditches dug on an old medieval field strip system (the weather was warmer and wetter back then, so, depending on the geography, in various parts of the country strips were outlined either by raised footpaths or by drainage ditches, all now ploughed level).
Going by the scale given by the tractor paths (where the outside edges of the drive wheels will be about three metres apart), the resulting 20m equates to one edge of one of the old definitions of an acre of land, which was four perches by forty perches. Unfortunately there was no standard definition of the length of a perch (anything from 16 to 24 feet) across the country until just a few centuries ago, and I don’t know which one may have been used in Wiltshire at the time so I could be off on completely the wrong track here.
Wow, thanks for finding my shopping list. My wife would’ve raised merry hell if I missed a few entries again!
Please do excuse my poor penmanship.
I’m pretty sure it says “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
It’s amusing to think that a species that has harnessed the power of the universe in order to travel uncountable light years to Earth can only communicate with us by stomping grass.
It’s the construction plans for an interocitor.
@18
Well at least they aren’t cooking in their room.
@12
Based on what I remember of a general relativity class from grad school. If his lawn mower travels faster than light, it also time travels.
You’d need a pretty big lawn to try that out.
Send more Chuck Berry!
Somebody once got talking to me about crop circles, and I remarked that they had all appeared close to universities.
Her response: “Wow! So you think the aliens are seeking out the smartest people to communicate with, then?”
If I’m reading the symbols correctly it’s a job posting. There’s a boom on Mizar 5.