Google’s Crop Circle Mystery
Google has the internet abuzz with theories attempting to explain the crop circle logo on its homepage yesterday. The logo depicted a flying saucer (making this the second UFO “Google Doodle” of the month—the first appearing on September 5th) hovering over crop circles that spelled out its name—with the “L” conspicuously missing.
Shortly after the logo appeared, Google mysteriously tweeted the latitude and longitude "51.327629, -0.5616088", which Twitterers quickly realized was the location for a road running past Horsell Common in Woking, Surrey—the unassuming park that was the setting for the first Martian landing in HG Wells’ classic novel, The War of the Worlds.
Twitter users hypothesized that the logo and coordinates could be a “lead-up” to the birthday of Wells, which is on September 21st. Others pointed out that a family in Surrey apparently saw a UFO on yesterday’s date in 1985. Still others took the logo as a sign that the internet search engine giant was tuned into the noosphere, and communicating knowledge of alien contact from deep within the collective consciousness.
Whatever the case, the mystery has had the effect of inciting conversation and debate about crop circles—as well as publicizing Google Earth as a great tool for viewing the formations online.
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the missing L
is actually there, written by a tractor, which can be seen driving through the formation if you look closely. A nice touch, highlighting the essential human element in the creation of the crop circle phenomenon.
A pretty savvy piece from google, I think.
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Yet another UFO Google Doodle...this time if you hover over the logo it says (at least on my browser) Birthday of HG Wells. The UFO's have tripod legs.
In addition to this, the "G" is partially gone--that doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the Wells' motif, but it creates a continuity between this google doodle and the crop circle one I wrote about above, in which the L was barely there. The above commenter was right to point out the tractor creating the hard to see L being a human driven machine--but I think that instead of communicating that the crop circles are created by humans, I think it's telling us that the crop circles are a part of an ongoing collaboration (whether conscious or not) that we have with our otherworldly bretheren.
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Collaboration with the Otherworld
JP writes, "The above commenter was right to point out the tractor creating the hard to see L being a human driven machine--but I think that instead of communicating that the crop circles are created by humans, I think it's telling us that the crop circles are a part of an ongoing collaboration (whether conscious or not) that we have with our otherworldly bretheren."
The above commenter actually seems to be supporting your position, as far as I can tell. Though he may have been too oblique.
Without humans and their tractor minding, there would be no crop circle phenomenon. I'm reminded of WB Yeats, who wrote, "These gods are indeed more wise and beautiful than men; but men, when they are great men, are stronger than they are, for men are, as it were, the foaming tide-line of their sea."
I doubt that these events are the work of interstellar neighbours, separated from us by vast stretches of space. I think they are the works of neighbours not separated from us by anything but our own refusal to acknowledge their influence on our behaviour. Patrick Harpur is correct, I believe, to make the link with the fairy legends.
Thr crop circles are a collaboration between tractor drivers and henge builders, web-surfers and pre-pythagorean mathematicians.
Google have judiciously or unconsciously recognised and located themselves within the spooky equations.
In wildness is the preservation of the world - Thoreau
I really love that second to last paragraph in your reply...
...and wholeheartedly believe about the collaboration aspect of CC's--whether fully conscious or not.
A web...
...emerging from a web! The crop circles are a true mystery. I've seen a few up-close and I'm always moved to note their position within the wider landscape - farms, burial mounds, roads, weather, military bases, villages, henges, traffic flow, helicopters, rivers, moonset, my feelings, and feelings of my compadres -- something we aren't often able to appreciate through photos.
thanks for your wholesome vibes JP.
In wildness is the preservation of the world - Thoreau
Pictures taken last summer
Do these look like tractors or regular human beings to you?
www.cropcirclewisdom.com/barburyUFO/barburyUFO.html or
www.cropcirclewisdom.com/martinsellufo/martinsellufo.html
from Andrew Pykra's website Crop Circle Wisdom. Those are all authentic photos taken last summer. A Norwegian filmmaker, Terje Torjenes, will soon being out the entire 30-minute daylight UFO video on DVD (because no UK TV station would broadcast it).
There is still some mystery as to intent, but not as to origin. The facts speak for themselves.
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"Do these look like tractors or regular human beings to you?"
Are you asking me, Red Collie? If so i would answer, no, definitely not tractors or "regular human beings."
Possibly a curious amalgam of both, but with some other as yet unknown ingredient.