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Crop circularity

Explore the absurdity of crop circles, questioning claims of aliens in southern England. Are these formations truly out of this world?

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It's really hard to find anything dumber than crop circles. I don't usually use words like that, but c'mon! Aliens come here from a bazillion miles away just to flatten cereal stalks? And yet there is an astonishing range of dumbosity even within the crop circle field (haha, "field"). The latest, reported on a Faux Fox News website, has one that has -- be prepared to gasp -- the number pi encoded in it. GASP! I've read the description twice, and I still can't figure out what the guy is saying. But it seems suspicious that rounding is involved. Whenever you do that, precision kinda goes out the window. But let's assume, sure, pi is in the crop circle. Then my fave is this:

Crop-circle enthusiasts claim that's just more proof that the barley and wheat stalks have been stomped on by aliens who seem to have a special affinity ...

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