The UK still wins, though. We've got school boards that seriously consider including the fantasy that the earth is 6000 years old into the curriculum, but in the UK, you've just got clever people with ropes and boards stomping out patterns in the barley fields. The media seems to take the "crop circle experts" a little too seriously, but at least you've got pretty exercises in aerial photography to show for it.
Nice jellyfish!
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