--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 8/25/06 9:06 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > >> <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> > >> > , "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > >> > wrote: > >> > <snip> > >>> >> Thanks for this- I had no idea these intricate designs could be > >>> >> made by humans. Now I know- Yes they are beautiful! > >> > > >> > I've been investigating a little further. > >> > > >> > This is just hilarious, and mind-boggling. > >> > > >> > There's a long-running fight, it seems, between > >> > the people who think the circles aren't manmade > >> > and the guys who claim to have made them. The > >> > former are insisting that the claims that they're > >> > all manmade is the hoax. > > > This reminds me of the Bill Witherspoon story. About 16 years > ago, Bill and some Fairfield friends carved a huge yantra in > the Oregon desert. It was discovered by some military jets > flying over and the media picked up story. Some of the UFO > community went nuts over it, believing it was carved by > aliens. They refuse to this day to believe that Bill and his > friends made it. See http://www.oregonuforeview.com/oregondesert.html
Reminiscent, but in the crop circle case you've got many hundreds of examples scattered all over the place, *and* very distinctive differences between two groups of them, one of which is clearly manmade and the other not at all clear--including characteristic microscopic changes in the plants that have been flattened in the "real" group that do not appear at all in the manmade group. I said earlier that the plants weren't killed, and that many of them revived. That's only in the "real" group, where the stems are bent, not broken. In the manmade group, the stems are all broken, as you'd expect if somebody was whacking them down with a piece of board. There's a host of other differences as well. It just isn't anywhere near as clear-cut as I had thought. The more deeply you go into it, the more confusing and contradictory it gets. Whichever explanation you pick may make sense of some aspects but leaves a bunch of others more mysterious than before. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
