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- From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Crop circles: natural or human-made?
- Keywords: skeptic
- Message-ID: <909@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 19:17:09 GMT
- References: <Bt5FH9.FBB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug18.140952.12377@rhrk.uni-kl.de> <Bt758M.2J6@mtholyoke.edu>
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- In article <Bt758M.2J6@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) 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).
-
- So? Why *shouldn't* there be a whole army of circle makers out there?
- After all it's so easy, and pranking has a rather universal appeal.
-
- | Then there are the slight burns on the affected
- |plants which would point to a source of energy that would be difficult
- |to use in such a controlled fashion by human technology, and the
- |alleged discovery of genetic alterations in the wheat germs.
-
- None of which have been confirmed by independent sources.
- (The last is especially suspect, I would not take it at face value
- until a more thorough investigation has been done).
-
- |As this is my first post to this group, I'd like to add that I'm very
- |much a skeptic, _especially_ when it comes to UFO stories which I've
- |always dismissed, but I'm curious about this crop-circle phenomenon
- |now. The TV show mentioned above was your standard sensationalist
- |TV-tabloid fare, but I'd be very interested in the opinions of some
- |hardened skeptics in this newsgroup...
-
- Then why did it use such baloney evidence?
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