OK..this is my favourite crop circle of all time… A Firefox Logo
The subject now deepens. It seems that possible the Open Source Linuxey kernelbabble speaking Geeks have sussed out how to remotely control balls of light to draw designs in crops. My big question is..if they can do that why can’t they design a Linux OS that would allow people to edit video professionally so we can dump all the Gatesy and Jobs systems and work away free from interference either on the OS front (MS) or being tied to crap hardware (Jobs). Maybe all their resources have been tied up developing the technology for making crop circles and left no time for useful projects. I can just see one of them eating his brown rice admiring his new African tyre sandals exporting the design image from The Gimp (awesome program by the way) into Blender for 3D work and then into the remote control module linked to the ball of light launcher. After getting bored with making crop circles featuring everything from Mayan calender designs to pictures of Indian faces, what does he do? Whoops..his redesign of the Firefox logo for his own version of the popular browser slips into the process while he’s out making his Basil and mint green tea. Some poor old farmer then has to work out what the hell has happened to his field and how much the papers will pay for pics.
There again..it could be a Microsoft or Apple conspiracy to get the Geeks blamed for this stuff. There’s plenty of people with the time and technology sitting in those organisations to do this stuff. However..I suspect that if it was them then the mystery would be over, as the balls of light whizzing around might have to hang on a bit every now and again to download updates before they could go back to work…and get spotted by people coming out of the pub.
I have to admit..I don’t know where I sit on the subject. When I lived in Sussex a crop circle appeared next to my house in a flax field. Seeing as it was June and I was up all night full of Caffeine (ha hum) and working, I could see out of the window and was even walking around the garden in the moonlight. I lived in a pretty isolated spot on farmland and what I can tell you is there’s no chance a bunch of stoned students made it..as I defo would have seen and heard them. If it’s down to balls of light then that was possible when I was in the loo or something. I did hear low humming noises but put that down to my tinnitus I was suffering from. That was in the ’80s and long before Firefox or any other intricate design..just a boring old circle.
There we go. What do you reckon?