Crop Circles

Ursa major said:
I thought fairy circles were rings of mushrooms rather than arrangements of trodden-down crops.
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Me too. I came across one last summer on a roadside verge. It was only a few feet across but very distinct. A ring of darker grass with yellowy/creamy 'shrooms dotted around the outside edge.
My 8 year old eldest daughter, who has a vivid imagination and is a voracious reader,wouldn't step inside it.

No aliens involved. Just magic.
 
There was a program on 60 minutes (here in Australia) some years ago now, and it covered the crop circles that people (with boards) had created, and the circles were intricate and very convincing. The program then moved onto other crop circles and compared the two together.

The crops of the man made circles were snapped at the base and were lying on top of each other in a mess. The crop of the other circle, however, was bent over, not broken, and they were interwoven, not lying on top of each other. In addition, there was also a very strong magnetic field associated with the latter crop circle that was absent with the former.

I'm not suggesting non-earth entities are involved, but I am suggesting that there is a small percentage of crop circles that cannot be explained (yet) and were certainly not made by a bunch of weed smoking hippies with a board.
 
I don't trust scientists because I have personally witnessed a mountain of lies spew from the area of theior mouths. Heck, I was in on a lot of them, and they made sense at the time. Many still do.
People aren't clever they are generally dim and unimaginative. You may continue to assume otherwise because you hang in a inelletchal place like the Chrons. ):)
What's very interesting is the fact that so-called official sites, like NASA or serious UFOlogy sites, are the most uptight and resistant to discussion. The mere mention of posting the wrong Mars photos, and opening a discussion about same, will get you instantly banned by NASA. They have their hands full with the 'never went to the Moon' crowd, I guess. They also have horrendous crimes hanging from them, like any Govt. agency that indulges in secret tests, missions and so forth.
Will all this human crime be revealed when ET finally shows?
I'd like that, but you can bet the gravy train crowd will do anything to stop it and put their version of the truth out there. They do seem to have stopped throwing people out of skyscrapers for threatening to go on TV and talk, so that's a start.
 
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J Riff said:
They do seem to have stopped throwing people out of skyscrapers for threatening to go on TV and talk, so that's a start.
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NASA used to defenestrate it's critics? The same NASA that people have been castigated for years by the naysayers, doom-mongers, and every other person on the planet with an axe to grind about anything as being a bureaucratic mess costing gazillions in cost overruns and waste? That NASA? The NASA whose legendary inefficiency is about the only thing that crop circle fruit-loops and hard science buffs can agree on? Can you imagine the paperwork involved in NASA throwing someone out of a window? The poor f**ker would still be filling out forms as he hit the street.
 
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There is a lot we do not know.
Man has learned to identify DNA and how it works, atomic forces, amazing feats of spaceflight, don't denigrade what NASA has achieved -- amazing technology.

But all the same, all man can do is to find out more about how nature works.

It is nature that created DNA and the planets and the galaxies, not man.

It is very arrogant for man to decide what exists out there, unseen. Logic only goes so far.

Our physical vision is restricted to a tiny slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, etc.

Science is only a tool for understanding nature. Man is not inherently superior to a caterpillar or a horse.

The act of observing an electron determines its position. Somehow, everything that I see, or you see, is created by the act of perception.

Strange world we live in ...
 
RJM Corbet said:
It is very arrogant for man to decide what exists out there, unseen. Logic only goes so far.
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The thing is, the crop circles are not out there, they're down here and very much visible.

Bringing together Occam's Razor with the occasionally true equation (students plus alcohol give rise to pranks) suggests that it would be arrogant to blame some poor innocent alien life form for crop circles.
 
I'm just saying we don't know everything. Science doesn't know everything. We can't demystify everything. There are mysteries of nature.

Man vs caterpillar smackdown? How about man vs lion or grizzly bear? Man has no strength or speed or horns or fangs. Man has no right to think he has any more rights in nature than a caterpillar.

There may be beings out there who perceive man as man perceives a caterpillar. Perhaps part of their advancement includes a respect for nature. How do you talk to a caterpillar? We don't know, do we? :)
 
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On the other hand, we ought to be interested in advancing science and logic, and should not be diverted by somethhing that's simply... er... moth-making.










:rolleyes::eek:;):)​
 
Ursa major said:
The thing is, the crop circles are not out there, they're down here and very much visible.

Bringing together Occam's Razor with the occasionally true equation (students plus alcohol give rise to pranks)
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V True.

And

Taking Barnum's Assertion then multiplying it by average life expectancy, I calculate there are (roughly) some 32,587,200 suckers alive at any one time. Though as Barnum failed to say whether his Assertion applied only to the USA and whether this was a finite number, or if it would vary in proportion to the population, this result may well be a hideous underestimate. If the 1 per Min. number is not absolute (see Straczynski's work in the field of Minbari soul migration) then it is obvious that this number is wildly out of date and vastly underestimative. There are a lot of suckers out there. Most of them seem to have internet access.
 
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Ursa major said:
On the other hand, we ought to be interested in advancing science and logic, and should not be diverted by somethhing that's simply... er... moth-making.
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Not at the expense of nature and the world that supports us. Oil companies, logging the Amazon, etc.
 
And the latest piece of misheard news: "Amazon is cropping writers' circles!"











;):)​
 
RJM Corbet said:
Where do you find these things, Metryq? :)
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Someone sent the Theological Engineering Exam to me by e-mail ages ago, and I laughed myself silly. I especially love the bit about Stan being massless and frictionless.
 
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