Into All That

A photo courtesy of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, known to neighboring intelligences as the paparazzi:

Which is a clear sign that inefficient bureaucracy is a universal constant. Clearly, the folks that make crop circles were supposed to go to Mars (as crop-circlese is undoubtedly some Martian language), and this gesture of good will was meant to come to us. Somehow, the work crews’ orders must have gotten mixed up somewhere along the line.

But you can’t knock their craftsmanship. Naturalists and environmentalists, take note of the fine job they’ve done integrating their work into the surrounding landscape, as though it simply grew there.