--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Hugo wrote: > > >> Discussions of these issues just distract attention > >> from the real questions. The bottom line is that crop > >> circles *are* a mystery, one that those who try to > >> explain them away cannot bring themselves to confront. > > > > > > Oooh yeah, I'm *scared* of confronting it. Brrrhhh too > > spooky for me. > > I don't know about you, Hugo, but the minute I see one of > these scary pics I want to crawl under the bed. It's just > too much, I tell ya.
You have my sympathy Sal. Be brave, be brave! > It looks to me like someone is having a lot of fun with PS. Could be an element of that in some pics. I would be more impressed with the whole alien intelligence angle if they were clearly done in a indecypherable language. The fact that they are mostly meaningless shapes is a bit of a giveaway. There was one recently that was a copy of a message we broadcast to space via radio telescopes. An idea they nicked from the novel/ movie Contact. Trouble is they got it wrong, another giveaway unless they were tired from their intergalactic flight. > > The fact there are "hoaxers" is not irrelevant, the fact > > is no-one has shown that non-humans are involved at all. > > Unless you want to imagine a group of aliens/fairies/ > > whatevers coming to earth and making circles in fields at > > the same time that people started doing it. Are they copying > > us? What do they think of "our" ones? > > > > The first step is seperating any signal from the noise, > > are there really some definite differences? It won't > > be the first time a bunch of experts have misread or > > misunderstood the evidence. > > > > I hope BLT are onto something new but have doubts > > about anyhting I read on the internet, I'll wait til > > New Scientist takes an interest as I don't have any > > expertise in soil analysis. > > > > Is anyone checking crop circles and then making > > solid claims about whether it was Us or Them? Seems > > like that would be the easiest way to settle it, if > > the make a bad call just once we'll know. > > > > Sal >
