--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Their > > > conclusion was later questioned by Talbott, noting that the > > > team had only been able to recreate 2 of the 3 criteria. > > > Talbott also expressed concerns that the iron particles were > > > not distributed laterally. Furthermore, she felt that the > > > team's use of night vision headsets and other technologically > > > advanced items would be out of reach for the average hoaxer. > > > > Doesn't this just prove that the somewhat nutty guys who are so > > into this that they would spend their nights doing it are just > > way better at it than a bunch of hired dabblers? It seems to > > make the point that no extraterrestrial agency is necessary > > doesn't it? > > Well, not really. They could only meet two of the three > criteria, for one thing; and they didn't do such a good > job with one of the two they managed to accomplish. > > But even more of a problem is why crop circle makers > would go to all the trouble of creating these effects > with advanced technology in the first place: > > > > 1. Elongated apical plant stem nodes > > > 2. Expulsion cavities in the plant stems > > > 3. The presence of 10-50 micrometer diameter magnetized > > > iron spheres in the soils, distributed linearly
It may be an artifact of the unknown process that they use. Which also answers this point: > It strains credulity to think circle makers would have > "planted" this kind of anomalous, virtually invisible > evidence throughout circles that would have been > difficult enough to create overnight without it. It may be just a byproduct of how they are doing it. The extent of human ingenuity is fantastic. The jump you don't seem to make, which many people do who are into this is to claim, is that they know they are done my aliens. Same with UFOs, they are "unidentified." The jump to identifying them as alien crafts is an unnecessary jump. with crop circles all we can say is that we don't have all the answers to all ways they are done. But the suggestion that we need to imagine that humans couldn't do it seems far fetched to me. Is this one for your "don't rule it out" box? I think I am more convinced that it is humans who are really into this kind of thing. But this topic always interests me in where you are drawing your lines while challenging the simple explanations. It is one of your best "raps" IMO. > > These characteristics were only discovered after > intensive scientific investigation; they aren't anything > anybody would be able to see without careful > measurements with complicated instruments. Nor would > they result simply from the process of mashing down > crops in patterns. > > It strains credulity to think circle makers would have > "planted" this kind of anomalous, virtually invisible > evidence throughout circles that would have been > difficult enough to create overnight without it. > > This is an instance where what I've called the folk- > wisdom version of Occam's razor applies. You really > have to stand on your head to explain it away. >
