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Title: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Kazan on August 15, 2006, 04:14:31 pm
 :lol:

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-circle/mg_5560

some people went out and made this
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: IceFire on August 15, 2006, 05:21:45 pm
Sweet...now aliens are using Firefox too :)
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: pecenipicek on August 15, 2006, 05:36:06 pm
awesome :D :lol:
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Shade on August 15, 2006, 06:38:42 pm
Crap. If the aliens are moving away from MS software, that's one less weapon in our arsenal when they come to invade us :nervous:
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Fineus on August 15, 2006, 06:49:37 pm
Nice :D
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Darius on August 16, 2006, 02:33:21 am
That would have required a LOT of planning to get it looking that good at that size  :eek2:

I'm looking forward to when they start breeding real firefoxes (http://thefatwebsite.rabidcarrot.com/the_real_firefox.jpg).
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: karajorma on August 16, 2006, 03:16:57 am
Crap. If the aliens are moving away from MS software, that's one less weapon in our arsenal when they come to invade us :nervous:

Or one less reason for them to get angry enough to invade us in the first place :)
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 16, 2006, 04:54:03 am
I am enjoying it, but i detect the faint odor of Photoshop possibly...........
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Ferret on August 16, 2006, 05:46:40 am
Hahahah, brilliant, I know Firefox fanatics are .. fanatic, but would they really go this far?

I also smell Photoshop.
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Kosh on August 16, 2006, 06:10:17 am
They probably would go this far. OSU is an amazingly boring place to be. There's a very small town next to it and then just farmland.



And yes, I did used to go there and its ****ty location was one of the reasons I left. Too much of a city guy.......
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 16, 2006, 06:23:50 am
Electricity and concrete, home coforts ;)

God i love it...........
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Kosh on August 16, 2006, 06:45:55 am
Most of the time the electricity worked, but sometimes it wouldn't. I remember several major power outages my first year there.......
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Shade on August 16, 2006, 07:23:00 am
Try looking at the gallery (http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-circle) the pic is part of - The whole making of the thing is documented in pictures. It's quite real :)
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Ferret on August 16, 2006, 07:27:33 am
I WANT a Firefox pancake!
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 16, 2006, 07:39:15 am
I dunno, i'm not disputing its possible, I just think this is a tyical studenty prank to pull.
They may have done it but i;m in a state of indecision..... :)









edited for great justice
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Kazan on August 16, 2006, 08:11:00 am
I am enjoying it, but i detect the faint odor of Photoshop possibly...........

nope.. it's legit.. well as legit as crop circles get (IE people went out and made it)
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Shade on August 16, 2006, 08:23:27 am
Disputing if it's possible?

Seriously. You have a group of smart, dedicated, slightly boozed-up nerds with access to considerable resources. Is there anything they can't do? Boozed-up nerdiness, frankly, is seriously underrated; it is actually a superpower rivaling anything your standard comic superhero can muster.
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 16, 2006, 08:25:56 am
Crap i meant to say i'm NOT,

I'll edit for great justice.
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: aldo_14 on August 16, 2006, 08:33:16 am
Crap. If the aliens are moving away from MS software, that's one less weapon in our arsenal when they come to invade us :nervous:

Or one less reason for them to get angry enough to invade us in the first place :)

*Imagining the climactic 'blow up whitehouse' scene of Independence Day failing due to a BSOD*
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Kazan on August 16, 2006, 08:42:39 am
don't mess with the BSOD*

(http://www.rubyan.com/politics/archives/blue-screen-of-death.jpg)


*Boobie shirt of delight!

Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Kosh on August 16, 2006, 08:45:46 am
I am enjoying it, but i detect the faint odor of Photoshop possibly...........

nope.. it's legit.. well as legit as crop circles get (IE people went out and made it)


Like I said, OSU is a boring place to go.
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Mefustae on August 16, 2006, 09:23:28 am
don't mess with the BSOD*

*snip*
Words cannot describe the awesomeness of that shirt. :yes:
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Night Hammer on August 16, 2006, 09:31:40 am
:wakka:
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Apathy on August 16, 2006, 12:51:37 pm
:wakka:

^ only thing you really can say  :D
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 16, 2006, 03:15:12 pm
Except that the buttons were obviously Photoshopped on. :p

I'm looking forward to when they start breeding real firefoxes (http://thefatwebsite.rabidcarrot.com/the_real_firefox.jpg).

Man, it's not even a fox. :p
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: IceFire on August 16, 2006, 04:49:04 pm
don't mess with the BSOD*

*snip*
Words cannot describe the awesomeness of that shirt. :yes:
I'll take that BSOD any day :)
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Nuclear1 on August 16, 2006, 06:09:02 pm
Crap. If the aliens are moving away from MS software, that's one less weapon in our arsenal when they come to invade us :nervous:

So the Independence Day aliens were using MS? :p
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Shade on August 16, 2006, 06:19:12 pm
How else do you think they were able to upload a virus so easily? The aliens were running windows, and using a non password-protected wireless LAN no less, making it even easier. They really were asking for it if you ask me :D
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Ulala on August 21, 2006, 07:00:47 pm
The Firefox team here at OSU is pretty known for stuff like this. When they had 50 million downloads of their browser, they drew in chalk a giant version of the Firefox logo in the Memorial Union Quad here at OSU. Then, at 100 million downloads, they launched (with the help of Oregon Space Grant, my employer) a high-altitude weather balloon with a giant Firefox poster and camera attached. I helped design and launch that payload. We never recovered it, however. I imagine it was torn apart by the jet stream. The crop circle is the latest Firefox stunt I've seen/heard of.

You can see their weather balloon stunt here:
http://news.com.com/2300-1032_3-5911355-1.html?part=rss&tag=5911355&subj=news
and here:
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-one
In fact, here's me, working on my laptop by the helium tanks:
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-one/DSC_0114
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-one/DSC_0119

Okay, well enough shameless plugs of my life!  :p
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Kosh on August 22, 2006, 01:03:37 am
These guys have way too much freetime.
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: karajorma on August 22, 2006, 09:13:05 am
Good. If they didn't you'd be typing that on IE :p
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: ZmaN on August 22, 2006, 11:24:18 am
wow thats sick!

I just had to save that picture...
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Scuddie on August 22, 2006, 11:36:01 am
I dont know what's more offensive.  Nerds making cropcircles, or nerds making cropcircles about firefox.  If they wanted to do it right, it should have been opera, not some piece of overhyped ****.
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Ulala on August 22, 2006, 04:03:45 pm
I'm not sure you understand though. These aren't just random nerds who use Firefox. Oregon State is home to the open source lab that writes it. It wouldn't make sense if they made an Opera crop circle when they're writing/supporting/etc-ing Firefox and the lab that works on it.
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: ZmaN on August 23, 2006, 10:13:28 am
I prefer using IE all together.  I ahd firefox but its too hard to totally integrate. and It always botherd me when I couldnt get certain sites to work.  After that I jsut left it.  I uninstalled it a few days ago.
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Mathwiz6 on August 23, 2006, 10:23:57 am
That is so my background!

Nobody may understand it, but it's still cool!
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Wobble73 on August 24, 2006, 10:33:11 am
UMMM??? :confused:


What's a crop cricle when it's at home?


Surprised none of you guys noticed???
Title: Re: firefox crop cricle
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 24, 2006, 10:38:48 am
:jaw: I never noticed, I thought a forum Elder would have zeroed in on it immediately........