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Crop circles
Royce:
So, is it drunk teenagers with nail clippers, aliens from outer space or is it the spirit of Gaia shining through from within?
Seriously. What is going on here? That people did it might be most plausible, but anecdotes suggest that they pop up in a matter of hours, and the details are astonishingly accurate. I do think that some of them are made by folks, but everyone?
So, what do you guys think. It might be that this "mystery" is solved already, but I just thought about this phenomenon, and it is way more fun talking about it here instead of googling myself towards the right conclusion ;)
sciborg2:
Do you have examples of cases that make you think it's more than pranks?
I have to admit a cursory interest in this "UFO-ology" stuff, though when I had a chance to read Jacque Vallees Passport to Magonia I balked at the repetition of cases. I understood why he did it, as he is presenting a thesis that makes him controversial even in UFO circles:
That UFOs are not extraterrestrial aliens but in fact bear striking resemblance to fairy encounters of older times.
He's also posited that the phenomenon represents some kind of teaching program to get humans to think a certain way.
I wouldn't go too far down the rabbit hole, but for the sake of fun speculation I do enjoy Vallees a great deal.
Royce:
--- Quote ---Do you have examples of cases that make you think it's more than pranks?
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I have not. I am not even sure I trust all these pictures filling up the internet containing all these wonderful works of art.
If they are real, then those "pranksters" who made them must be nothing short of genius. If they are all made of folks, then there are many people lying too. There is just no way that you could make that stuff over night when it is dark. Stumbling around with a flashlight and a nail clipper. To me that sounds just as likely as an alien doing it :P.
So those people who say that these pieces just pop up in a matter of hours must be lying right?
I also noticed that there is a commercial aspect regarding this too. Thousands of people travel to see it, shops are set up where they sell t-shirts, stickers and whatnot. So it does stink of something, I am just not sure how to label the stink yet. I do not think I care to investigate that much either :)
I just brought this up to see if there were an 100% actual explanation for these "phenomenon"
Madness:
--- Quote from: Royce on March 09, 2014, 12:06:14 pm ---I also noticed that there is a commercial aspect regarding this too.
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I have other thoughts but this is important. The whole phenomenon can be collapsed in that someone makes a profit by the existence of crop circles and thus have a vested interest into their production.
sciborg2:
--- Quote from: Madness on March 09, 2014, 01:42:06 pm ---I have other thoughts but this is important. The whole phenomenon can be collapsed in that someone makes a profit by the existence of crop circles and thus have a vested interest into their production.
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But people have a vested financial interest in just about anything. Even the people who dislike the ubiquity of financial interest have books to sell us on the matter. ;D
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