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- From: john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore)
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- Subject: Re: Crop circles: natural or human-made?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.160750.22461@anasazi.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:07:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.035522.3008@newsroom.utas.edu.au> Tim.ONeill@english.utas.edu.au (Tim O'Neill) writes:
- ]> Anyway, I saw the same TV show, and I have to admit that it did stir
- ]> my interest. They made some pretty strong arguments that it was
- ]> rather unlikely that the crop-circles were made by humans... for one
- ]> they said that the recent frequency of appearance alone would make it
- ]> difficult unless there were "a whole army of crop-circle makers out
- ]> there" (loose quote).
- ]
- ]Is there anything to rule this out? There hasn't really been that many
- ]of them and they are easy to make. I myself know two hoaxers, and there
- ]are sure to be many more. Isn't it also interesting that they seem to
- ]appear in certain areas; possibly because several independant groups of
- ]hoaxers are working together, are inspired by each others work and are
- ]encouraged by the media attention which then gets focused on these
- ]'centres of crop circle activity'.
-
- Consider the following more likely (IMHO) explanation:
- -most crop circles are natural (circular symmetry, after all, is one
- of nature's favored forms) or a result of unintended human intervention
- (such as filling in a sink-hole and then planting crops over it).
- -a few crops circles are made by hoaxters - especially the hieroglyphic
- type.
- -no crop circles are made by aliens, energy beams, or new age
- causes of any sort
-
- PS... I saw a crop circle last week! On departure from London Heathrow
- airport, I was looking at the fields to see what I could see. I
- saw a pattern that was like:
-
-
- o
-
- o O o
-
- o
-
- in a field... about 5 minutes after takeoff towards the North.
-
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