Cthulhu-shaped Crop Circle?

Is the Sleeping One being worshipped?

Did Cthuluesque Crop Circle Prophesy New Sun Spot Activity?

{HPL to Derleth, 25 October 1926] As to the supernatural - there is no harm in each person's believing whatever his appraisal of the evidence before him prompts him to believe; and no lack of dignity in changing opinion when data warrants it.
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Chrispy doubts that there is any true connection to the following, but it makes for great stimulation of the horror imagination.

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Sun Spot of 8 July 2009
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The Infamous Squid Crop Circle
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A sunspot that suddenly appeared on July 3rd, 2009 was thought by some to support the crop circle prediction that there'd be a major solar storm today, July 7th. However, Spaceweather.com is reporting that Sunspot 1024 is decaying and solar flare activity is subsiding, so the prediction doesn't appear to be panning out, even though it's the most activity the quiet sun has had in the last two years.

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It's true, we've had a spectacular minima of sun spot activity, and suddenly they have reappeared. In Lovecraft's day they had little idea, and though we are a century beyond, it still has us at a loss to fully explain the astrophysical mechanism of maxima and minima.

Squid Crop Circle Forebodes Solar Storm

Lovecraft Caveat: HPL would have gagged over pseudoscience, paranormal stuff, and metaphysics. I've been reading his give and take with young Derleth (a believer) and while usually gentle with Derleth stated flatly is was nonsense.

However, sometimes Chrispy is credulous. This one has me scratching my head, but has some interesting touchpoints for gaming and story telling of Mythos.

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Discovered last month in a UK barley field, this crop circle appears to be a jellyfish. But intrepid crop circle analysts have discovered that it predicts a devastating solar storm on July 7. And they have diagrams to prove it.

Whenever a severe solar storm impacts directly on Earth, then our planetary magnetic field or "magnetosphere" changes into the general shape of a "jellyfish". That seems to be what those crop artists were telling us at Wayland's Smithy on May 29, 2009.

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on July 7, 2009, the second of four lunar eclipses in 2009. This eclipse will only enter the southern most tip of the penumbral shadow and thus will be very difficult to observe visually. It will be seen rising over Australia after dusk on July 7, and setting over western North and South America in the early predawn hours of July 7.

One recent study suggested the Sun may be on the verge of a decades-long quiet period, during which big outbursts would be less likely (New Scientist, 10 January 2009, p 11). But such predictions are fraught with uncertainty.

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"Dr. Stevens, the squid crop circle checks out. Not only is Pi and Phi encrypted in the geometrical pattern, but our Miskatonic supercomputer indicates that the stars and signs are right - the moon shall eclipse on the 7th, and the para-seismograph shows that the Sleeping One stirs."

"Then the time and times have come," Stevens replied, "and the mother of all solar storms is about to erupt!"