Re: Crop Circles and Evidence

The Discovery of Thirteen Short-Lived Radionuclides in Soil Samples from an English Crop Circle
By Marshall Dudley, Tennelec/Nucleus, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
  and Michael Chorost, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
  (http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword02e.htm)

    ... We can only speculate on several possibilities.

    One possible cause is the naturally occurring "plasma
    vortex" hypothesized by some meteorologists. [10] The
    question is: is this hypothetical (and never
    experimentally detected) plasma vortex theoretically
    capable of generating the requisite number and density of
    deuterons? Obviously, this is a question requiring very
    detailed analysis, which we lack the expertise to perform.
    While we doubt that the lower atmosphere can naturally
    generate deuterons with energies sufficient to activate
    atomic nuclei, the possibility cannot be ignored.

    If our research in 1992 demonstrates the presence of
    short-lived radionuclides in many crop circles, the
    meteorologists will have the burden of proving that their
    hypothesized plasma vortex can produce them. Also, since
    the radionuclides have appeared in at least one complex
    formation, the meteorologists would have the additional
    burden of proving that their plasma vortices can produce
    such shapes. So far, they have proven neither assertion.
    In fact, they have given up on the latter one. For
    example, Terence Meaden has recently asserted, "It is
    obvious that most, perhaps all, complex sets of circles
    seen in Britain in recent years have been made byhoaxers."
    [11] Our data suggests otherwise.

    The only other cause we can think of is a deliberately
    directed stream of deuterons. It would be worthwhile to
    calculate the energy required for such a stream, given
    the radionuclides observed, their concentration, and the
    size of the area in which they are found. The ballpark
    figures might help us evaluate theories of intentional
    manufacture.

    However, hypothesizing a stream of deuterons still does
    not explain how the plants are actually flattened. The
    deuterons could not exert enough force to press the
    plants to the ground, for if they did, the plants would
    also be burned to a crisp. However, perhaps they heat
    the plants to some extent. Since it appears from W.C.
    Levengood's observations of plant cells that the plants
    are strongly but briefly heated, it might be possible to
    compare calculations of the heat experienced by the
    plants with the heat theoretically generated by the
    deuteron stream. [12] Perhaps the deuterons heat the
    plants just enough to make them pliable, while some
    other force bends them to the ground in the intricate
    patterns often observed. [13] Or perhaps the deuterons
    are not directly necessary to the flattening process at
    all, but are merely a concomitant of the overall physical
    process.