On May 17, 10:16*am, Martin Brown
wrote:

If it was a hoax someone went to a lot of trouble making it.

http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/temp/cropc.jpg

http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/temp/cropc2.jpg

Indeed! Thanks for the links.

BTW can you (or any other volunteer) read Danish scientific papers?

In what context? New or Old Danish?

Why not just use a free online translator and interpolate? OCR can
also be useful.

On May 16, 11:15*pm, "Chris.B" wrote:
On May 17, 2:21*am, Andrex muttered:



Neat how it got caught in the aerial photograph for Google Earth, huh?

Are we now blaming steam trains for crop circles? Has this particular
locomotive caused the strange (alien) markings on the nearby
roundabout? The egg shape is surely highly symbolic and offers the
chance of interpretation by even by the most foolish of ufologists?

Sorry to be a bit derogatory about your post but didn't you know it
was caused by Google Earth? Where do you think the pictures came
from?

http://www.richardfisher.com

On May 17, 5:30*pm, completely outmatched, Andrex gummed his keyboard
nervously:

it is interesting that the photography uploaded
to Google Earth contains such rare mobile objects as the Tornado
and one has to wonder if it was serendipitous or deliberate.

The Tornado? What on earth?

On 17/05/2011 17:32, Chris.B wrote:
On May 17, 5:30 pm, completely outmatched, Andrex gummed his keyboard
nervously:

it is interesting that the photography uploaded
to Google Earth contains such rare mobile objects as the Tornado
and one has to wonder if it was serendipitous or deliberate.

The Tornado? What on earth?

Rebuild from scratch modern steam train Peppercorn class A1 Pacific with
a 4-6-2 wheel configuration. A live steam enthusiasts dream!

http://www.a1steam.com/

It is rare in the sense that there is one of it. But if you take enough
satellite photographs it could easily appear on more than one of them.

He is being deliberately obscure to score points. The link to
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=51%C2%B043'44.95%22N%20%7C%201%C2%B04 3'46.72%22W&biw=1916&bih=995&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il

should make it clear that it is a steam locomotive under way but with
only one carriage so not a scheduled service. I expect it spent a fair
amount of time pottering about on the sidings at Swindon. It would be
much more interesting if they caught it on the East coast main line.

As for it being rare I have been on a train passed by it on the main
line once - did wonder at the time why everyone was hanging around on
bridges and platforms. They have to be careful about routes and timings
as very few stations can feed and water a steam train these days.

Google prefers the coordinates as : 51 34 44.95N 1 43 46.72W
Then you have to zoom in a lot.

Regards,
Martin Brown

You are kidding, right?

This pattern was obviously created by an intelligent being. It is quite a
sophisticated and very carefully constructed design. No tornado created
this.

You have two options:

1. The intelligent life is human, probably living in Wiltshire, and did it
for a bit of fun.

2. The intelligent life is extra-terrestrial aliens, which visited Wiltshire
and made patterns on the ground for reasons unknown.

You can choose which to believe, but personally when I see some crops have
been bent over my first thought is not that an alien spaceship must be
involved.

Okay, bear with me. Let's assume that the human race has developed
interstellar travel. A light, jump-ship travels to a far-off planet.
Where a backward and technology crazy race is struggling to overcome
the usual scourges of global management: Overheating, global apathy,
one hundred percent corruption, near total narcotic dependence, rabid
religious fervour (typical of rats on sinking ships) and rapidly
reducing resources.

Unless they can get their global act together soon this latest lot
will go down the plughole like those on so many other battle-scarred
planets. With no more than very limited interest in the few remaining
artefacts, as auction trash on iBay, it hardly seems worth a visit.
Not even by his fully organic, one-man, Apollo 2097i class vessel.

Captain Neil Armstrong 29th Jnr. still suffering from the mild effects
of jump-space lag, struggles to decide what he can do to help this
newly discovered species. After several hours of deep thought he
shares his idea with the ship's log:

The best possible way to communicate with this desperately struggling
race is to make pretty patterns on the fields of a completely
insignificant, severely overcrowded, traffic gridlocked, despot-run
island. One, whose only remaining pretensions to importance, is some
earlier notoriety as vicious, global, slave traders and a remarkably
decrepit monarchy...........

Nope. It's still not working for me. :-)

In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:

If it was a hoax someone went to a lot of trouble making it.

Have you never been a student?

-- Richard

In article ,
Chris.B wrote:

Nope. It's still not working for me. :-)

You're not thinking right. Consider someone who makes crop circles.
Can't you imagine them stowing away on an interstellar flight purely
so that they can make such circles on another planet?

-- Richard

"Richard Tobin" wrote in message
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| In article
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| Chris.B wrote:
|
| Nope. It's still not working for me. :-)
|
| You're not thinking right. Consider someone who makes crop circles.
| Can't you imagine them stowing away on an interstellar flight purely

Kilroy woz 'ere.

| so that they can make such circles on another planet?
|
| -- Richard

On May 18, 1:58*pm, (Richard Tobin) wrote:

You're not thinking right. *Consider someone who makes crop circles.
Can't you imagine them stowing away on an interstellar flight purely
so that they can make such circles on another planet?

Take that to its logical conclusion and we would have been visited
long before now. Probably repeated over time by several mischievous
teenagers stealing their dad's spaceship. Then crashing them on Earth
while trying to do two things at once.

Making crop circles quickly gets boring if you are rebellious and from
an advanced civilisation. i.e. One capable of interstellar flight. To
have reached that point surely assumes some advances in society and
culture beyond bored teenagers.

Crop circles are strictly a pastime for those with very limited
ambitions. Rather like being a troll on a vanishingly small science
forum. A total waste of a very limited lifespan and whatever talents
were thrown up by their damaged genes. The very idea is simply
ridiculous.