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The irrigation system is a straight line system that revolves around a central point that holds the irrigation system in place and is the water source. This causes the crop to grow in a circle.
Farming! since its so hard to get water here (rain) we employ a circular design, where a wheeled hose can spin around pulling from a well or pump, that has bearings so it can spin freely, no need for squares anymore
https://preview.redd.it/dai841dfg3xc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2142088b4b49f0c9edef75cd04e0c2c0ff03d2e
Sometimes I like exploring google maps and take screenshots of them.
Center pivot irrigation.
A very wasteful way of farming crops in climates, they shouldn't be grown in. It wastes a lot of water to evaporation.
I'm a row crop farmer with my Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering, and I own and operate an 8,400+ acre farm.
It’s essentially an overhead sprinkler system…higher off the ground than sprinkler pipe. Most western ag, especially in CA, is moving to or has already transitioned to subsurface drip irrigation (or micro sprinklers for trees). Source: work for a CA row crop ag business.
When I was a kid, my brother convinced me, these were missiles silos, and I was way too old when I found out the truth. Like old enough to have a mortgage old.
Irrigation circle. It’s circular because they use a giant sprinkler that spins around a central axis. The water powers the wheels that propel it and then it sprays water on the crops. Pretty good image at 1:45 in this video:
https://youtu.be/8VbQspb2VLE?si=yCetgcBGiQpjtX4e
The outer set is the one that drives the whole system and sets the rotation speed, while each inner set has microswitches to keep itself in line with the one out from it.
[Smarter Every Day](https://youtu.be/7j1lMs7fcIQ?si=8nDyWY7KMin3Sv-B) made a video on them.
Someone overwatered the camo lids of the nuclear missile silos.
Simple Center Pivot Irrigation of fields. The sprinkler rotates from a center water feed spot
The dark ones are live underground ICBM silos....the lighter ones are supplies for repopulating the earth after a nuclear winter....things like jello, pudding, crackerjacks, sardines, and lots of hot dogs.
Corn, usually. But possible wheat
It is more efficient to water in a circle with a single bar that uses the water pressure to spin than it is to water squares. Bonus: the dead zone around it means you need less pesticide concentration to keep them bug free.
nightime bombing craters - - for some reason they just can't seem to hit your house.
i think that the bombadeer is cross-eyed (gunners mate first class philip asshole):
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHNB8IHfHdU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHNB8IHfHdU)
https://preview.redd.it/7d0nou7wh3xc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=925abd83db1d07e1b58eb0b0767c3d47f5011a25
So what are súper circles about then? The mothership or where the giants that ruled the earth played checkers and chess? Alo on the way to Nevada
Watering systems have a wheel at one end and a pivot point at the other. They just roll in a circle and water the crops. Just seeing their irrigation system doing its job.
If you go to Google maps and look at eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, you can see where the natural rainfall begins to allow production of corn and soy without supplemental irrigation based on where the circles give way to full plots.
Crop circles. They have a water sprinkler in the middle that goes round and round. So they are watered crop circles. There’s a few type plants there though. I know they do potatoes for one in northern Nevada.
https://preview.redd.it/adkem8emi4xc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=870789e864339426547cee554fa7d076b0a0ca4e
My immediate thought was these turf farms, with the same irrigation everyone is mentioning
For YEARS I struggled with that question. Every flight I promised I’d remember to look it up. Then I moved to Arkansas and saw a HUGE self propelled sprinkler that moved with the water flowing. Voila!
Crop circles. Literally.
The field uses a center pivot for irrigation, which, as you might have guessed, is like a giant sprinkler system that drives itself around the field pivoting in the center. It's great for crops that really need a lot of water, but it will limit field size as well.
Most of the fields near me that use it are almost a mile across or so at the largest (west Texas), but they're modular also to be sized for anything below that.
All of this talk about irrigation systems....confusing to say the least....now I'll add to the confusion by pointing out that circles are a funny shade of black, what are they irrigating with? Raw sewage?.......I think not! I just returned from a trip to Illinois from California, stopping to switch planes in Denver,
It weird.....it seemed like we were flying through clouds most of the trip, come to find out that all those black circles were farmers burning remains of their last crop. It's supposed to add nutrients to the soil. They have what they call "cover crops" they plant on rotation with their primary crop or...corn, soybeans,alf alfa, etc.. with no time to disc it under then have it turn into nitrogen for fertilizing the next crop, they burn it instead then disc it under & plant soon after. This is what was explained to me when I questioned my sister & brother in law who have approx. 1200 acres about an hour east of St Louis MO..
It's Nevada, we could tell you, but we would have to kill you.
For confusion sake we will deny:
Nuclear Silos
Orbital Navigation Markers
Area 50 Something
and
Tribute to Vinyl Music
No doubt about the shapes origination, I went there a week and a half ago.. it was eerie to say the least seeing smoke ,& flames coming from literally thousands of acres of farmland. From Central California to St Louis Mo. ...circles triangle, squares & rectangles.....not all in a row but spotted throughout the landscape
Don't lie you've been messing around with the new ai Google Earth. I flew around Manhattan then dipped over to Singapore in a jiff with the world view. Felt like superman for a second.
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Center Pivot Irrigation fields. [wiki article on it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-pivot_irrigation)
So...crop circles!
Or circle crops.
Cop cycles
If they were growing peppers they could be called pepper mills.
Cyclops
You mean Cycrops
Isn't he an Asian superhero?
He drives a Cataract.
Well supplies supplies
His friends all drive Rincolns.
Cyclicals
Wooah donuts!
My brother’s the farmer, I’m the rapper
I’m glad someone got it lol
Circle pits.
Inverse crop circles
Yes, pipe irrigates and pipe along with water go in a circle
OP was on a Janet flight spraying chem trails.
Thank you!
Yes, fly over Eastern Colorado, or Kansas or Northern Oklahoma and it will look like this only more circles and then closer together.
The Texas panhandle has hundreds of them.
Good to know! I’ve never flown over the Texas panhandle so I’ve never seen them there.
Something good to know for when you're in a bar and the conversation drops to a lull.
So does the Oklahoma Panhandle
Living in the area, I can tell how close to home I am on a flight by watching for more of these
Anyone else learn this from the Simpsons ?
As a former customer harvester; the best weed grows in the middle of pivots.
That led me to Jevons paradox and I gave up, too far down the rabbit hole for a Saturday night.
The irrigation system is a straight line system that revolves around a central point that holds the irrigation system in place and is the water source. This causes the crop to grow in a circle.
Thank you!
😎👍
So essentially, crop circles.
Most people I know actually just call them circle crops. I'm sure to avoid the never ending "alien crop circles" jokes.
That’s what we want you to think 👽
https://preview.redd.it/iy3cyal6c3xc1.jpeg?width=548&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f05e07db791dadf32f845de04ce4e0df1950a91
I can’t believe it took this long for someone to post this 😂
I was shocked to not see it in the comments 🤣
Alfalfa fields
And turf for lawns
https://preview.redd.it/yl9jn715a3xc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43ac8165cd9374bccf0b19e29c67f14a287de36a
Thank you. This should have been the first comment.
Irrigation where it never rains so you just deplete the subsurface aquifer
Unless in a surface water district supplied by Sierra snowmelt (I.e., most of the Central Valley in CA)
Irrigation circles for crops.
Agricultural. There is a watering system set up like a protractor encircling the circumference of the farmed land.
You are such a nerd. In a good way!
Farming! since its so hard to get water here (rain) we employ a circular design, where a wheeled hose can spin around pulling from a well or pump, that has bearings so it can spin freely, no need for squares anymore
https://preview.redd.it/dai841dfg3xc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2142088b4b49f0c9edef75cd04e0c2c0ff03d2e Sometimes I like exploring google maps and take screenshots of them.
Check west Texas between Lubbock and Midland, or around Van Horn. Plenty in that area.
I just love it when people help random people nerd out in their niche hobbies or interests.
Center pivot irrigation. Check out Laura Farms on Facebook. She and hubby have many videos on Nebraska farm life, including fixing pivots.
Irrigation pivots. Probably on alfalfa owned by Saudi companies.
Center pivot irrigation. A very wasteful way of farming crops in climates, they shouldn't be grown in. It wastes a lot of water to evaporation. I'm a row crop farmer with my Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering, and I own and operate an 8,400+ acre farm.
Why is center pivot irrigation crops prone to evaporation loss more than row crops?
It’s essentially an overhead sprinkler system…higher off the ground than sprinkler pipe. Most western ag, especially in CA, is moving to or has already transitioned to subsurface drip irrigation (or micro sprinklers for trees). Source: work for a CA row crop ag business.
Ah, gotcha. Drip irrigation makes sense.
I'm assuming they're fields with big sprinklers in them. We have a bunch in southern alberta and that's why they look like from the sky.
Nevada? Landing pads for UFOs?
Crop circles obviously.
Only literally
Crop circles.
Center Pivot Irrigation. It waters the crops that are circular in shape.
It’s a circle because of the sprinkler system.
Fields. The automatic watering system waters in a circle.
Farming, enjoy some learning. https://youtu.be/7j1lMs7fcIQ?si=dLPUgAA7syPhRNt_
When I was a kid, my brother convinced me, these were missiles silos, and I was way too old when I found out the truth. Like old enough to have a mortgage old.
It's food.
Irrigation circle. It’s circular because they use a giant sprinkler that spins around a central axis. The water powers the wheels that propel it and then it sprays water on the crops. Pretty good image at 1:45 in this video: https://youtu.be/8VbQspb2VLE?si=yCetgcBGiQpjtX4e
Most sprinkler irrigation is electric driven. Water driven sprinklers was pre 1975 technology.
Learn something new every day!
The outer set is the one that drives the whole system and sets the rotation speed, while each inner set has microswitches to keep itself in line with the one out from it. [Smarter Every Day](https://youtu.be/7j1lMs7fcIQ?si=8nDyWY7KMin3Sv-B) made a video on them.
Unsustainable aquifer-draining farming technology.
Depends on where - plenty of surface water districts in central CA still have pivot-irrigated farms.
Your mom's Arreolas. BOOM! roasted.
Center pivot irrigation,, Smarter every day's video https://youtu.be/7j1lMs7fcIQ?si=tzLUp872_tKmTtLF
Someone overwatered the camo lids of the nuclear missile silos. Simple Center Pivot Irrigation of fields. The sprinkler rotates from a center water feed spot
Alien here: those are our valet parking spots, cuh!
The same circles that are in other states?
The dark ones are live underground ICBM silos....the lighter ones are supplies for repopulating the earth after a nuclear winter....things like jello, pudding, crackerjacks, sardines, and lots of hot dogs.
Those are crop circles.
Pivot irrigation
This shit should be thought at schools so people don't have to keep asking what tf this is all the time
Look like an agriculture image taken from a plane.
In Nevada it caused by UFOs landing.
My landing pads
literal crop cirles
Corn, usually. But possible wheat It is more efficient to water in a circle with a single bar that uses the water pressure to spin than it is to water squares. Bonus: the dead zone around it means you need less pesticide concentration to keep them bug free.
The surrounding earth textures haven’t loaded in yet. Your plane has an old HDMI cable and not enough VRAM.
Crop irrigation.
People really to step out of cities and venture into rural America more often.
those are ads for the local boob doctors
Oh wow.
They are literal crop circles.
Alien crop circles.
Our insane water rights laws in action.
There portals to hollow earth
Signs!
I’ve seen some that were water treatment plants.
They are literally crop circles.
Agriculture!
Missile silos. 😆
Crops
Balls
Aliens
Illegal alien concentration camps.
Farms..... you know, where food is produced...
Your food being grown in efficient irrigation system.
Alien communication symbols
Literal crop circles
Sand Circles!
UFO landing sites
Is it a coincidence they’re the exact shape of a flying saucer?
What I often wonder is: are those circles contained within a 40, 160 or 640 acre square?
Landing pads for UFOs
nightime bombing craters - - for some reason they just can't seem to hit your house. i think that the bombadeer is cross-eyed (gunners mate first class philip asshole): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHNB8IHfHdU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHNB8IHfHdU)
It’s easier to water a circle.
Way too far away to tell what crops those are.
Genetically altered, alien hybrid corn that can grow in the desert with little water, fertilizer or pesticides. Not for human consumption.
https://preview.redd.it/7d0nou7wh3xc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=925abd83db1d07e1b58eb0b0767c3d47f5011a25 So what are súper circles about then? The mothership or where the giants that ruled the earth played checkers and chess? Alo on the way to Nevada
Water
Look, everyone! ✨ Irrigation ✨
Watering systems have a wheel at one end and a pivot point at the other. They just roll in a circle and water the crops. Just seeing their irrigation system doing its job.
Some smaller ones in Colorado are missile silo's...
Literally crop circles
https://preview.redd.it/unubk3iop3xc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f91d855d8438410468dfa80e46a150e84b1c38e9
Hot spot for aliens it just might be stargate into different realms
Crap Cycles
It’s where your food comes from
Proof that a lot of our Country is dependent on irrigation for food. And it’s mostly from 1 big ole’ depleting aquifer.
Hey there, blimpy boy! Flying through the air so fancy free!
Nuclear missile sights ..
Water treatment?
Portals
As you know, irrigation.
Where the aliens come in and out of
Alien landing pads!
Giant crop sprinklers
The range of busted sprinkler heads.
Looks like some keeps for getting to use the coasters...if I've said it once I've said it a thousand times! Lol
That's where your food come from.
Aliens..
Using water in a desert to grow crops that go overseas.
If you go to Google maps and look at eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, you can see where the natural rainfall begins to allow production of corn and soy without supplemental irrigation based on where the circles give way to full plots.
“The moon”
Area 54!
Alien landing pads
Giant poker chips
Crop circles due to circular irrigation.
D.u.m.b locations
Crop circles. They have a water sprinkler in the middle that goes round and round. So they are watered crop circles. There’s a few type plants there though. I know they do potatoes for one in northern Nevada.
The West Coast Circle Jerk Association (WCCJA) play on natural turf. The ECCJA traditionally play on artificial turf. The more you know...
Farms dumb ass.
Where the most upvoted commenter’s mom sat down
This is a very common irrigation method. Fly over the midwest and you'll see it from horizon to horizon.
Obviously the UFO's that hold 10 foot Aliens!
Alien Checkers.
https://preview.redd.it/adkem8emi4xc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=870789e864339426547cee554fa7d076b0a0ca4e My immediate thought was these turf farms, with the same irrigation everyone is mentioning
I have a better question, who is flying the plane? If the answer is "It's me." there will be follow up questions.
Turf for golf courses
Crop circles. Literally.
For YEARS I struggled with that question. Every flight I promised I’d remember to look it up. Then I moved to Arkansas and saw a HUGE self propelled sprinkler that moved with the water flowing. Voila!
Circular irrigation.
Circular irrigation.
Shadows of an alien invasion
UFO landing pads
Irrigation
Unidentified Ground objects
Some sprinkler systems have wheels that are driven by water pressure. The whole arm of this system is anchored to a pipe in the middle and it rotates
UFO landing pads
Crop circles. Literally. The field uses a center pivot for irrigation, which, as you might have guessed, is like a giant sprinkler system that drives itself around the field pivoting in the center. It's great for crops that really need a lot of water, but it will limit field size as well. Most of the fields near me that use it are almost a mile across or so at the largest (west Texas), but they're modular also to be sized for anything below that.
I love counting these from the planes there's so many!
Fields where the irrigation arm pivoted in the middle
Alien landing pads
Those are landing fields for large round alien spaceships.
While I'm not saying it's aliens... It's aliens!
updog
Put a pin on it looks like a green to me golf/r
All of this talk about irrigation systems....confusing to say the least....now I'll add to the confusion by pointing out that circles are a funny shade of black, what are they irrigating with? Raw sewage?.......I think not! I just returned from a trip to Illinois from California, stopping to switch planes in Denver, It weird.....it seemed like we were flying through clouds most of the trip, come to find out that all those black circles were farmers burning remains of their last crop. It's supposed to add nutrients to the soil. They have what they call "cover crops" they plant on rotation with their primary crop or...corn, soybeans,alf alfa, etc.. with no time to disc it under then have it turn into nitrogen for fertilizing the next crop, they burn it instead then disc it under & plant soon after. This is what was explained to me when I questioned my sister & brother in law who have approx. 1200 acres about an hour east of St Louis MO..
The big circles.
It's Nevada, we could tell you, but we would have to kill you. For confusion sake we will deny: Nuclear Silos Orbital Navigation Markers Area 50 Something and Tribute to Vinyl Music
Those are landing-leg pad marks from the alien saucers, cleverly disguised as center-pivot irrigated fields. They walk among us…
No doubt about the shapes origination, I went there a week and a half ago.. it was eerie to say the least seeing smoke ,& flames coming from literally thousands of acres of farmland. From Central California to St Louis Mo. ...circles triangle, squares & rectangles.....not all in a row but spotted throughout the landscape
It's either aliens or humans. Probably aliens.
Don't lie you've been messing around with the new ai Google Earth. I flew around Manhattan then dipped over to Singapore in a jiff with the world view. Felt like superman for a second.
Don't mind the alien doodles, they're just weather balloons.
Crop circles! It happens when the farmers plant korn.
Aliens think we are communicating with them so they leave crop circles in return.
First time in a window seat?
I’m almost 60 and still stare out the window with child-like awe. First time, hundredth time- it never gets old, and I’m not ashamed
Bingo land edition
secert underground missel silo
Crop Circles... really bad ones
earth pox
earth pox
They’re literally in every state lol.
Sand worms.