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Old January 23rd 04, 09:26 PM
Brian Sandle
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Eric Hocking wrote:
"Bob Harrington" wrote in message news:yW%Pb.103902$5V2.398094@attbi_s53...
Brian Sandle wrote:
Recall the crop circle "mystery" -- it eventually was
acknowledged to be a hoax -- by the hoaxers themselves - after
countless "experts" had been quoted as saying, "it can't be a hoax."

Ha ha, yes. It became quite a hobby of the `sceptics' or pranksters
to show how it could be done. How did they hoax the real crop circles
in which the bent over wheat is said to keep growing - it is not
trampled? Enlightenment please.


The same way the %#&$ lawn keeps growing no matter how many "mow rows"
you apply to it? =)

The crop circle crowd seem to be awfully good at looking at something
not all that overly impressive and instantly deciding it was humanly
impossible. Others might call this "wishful thinking" or "delusion" -
kinda like the "Rods" scam from a few years back.


Sorry to drop in out of lurking, but I always found it amusing to
watch ET cropcircle proponents squirm when I pointed out at
sci.skeptic that;


During the foot and mouth disease outbreak in the UK in 2001 the
government closed all countryside footpaths, effectively blocking any
but the farmer from crop fields.


During the ban no crop circles were recorded in the English
countryside.


The first crop circle in England to be recorded was the day after the
walking ban was lifted in that county.


Very community minded is our ET.


Any decent scientist knows
(a) correlation is not causation
(b) to check the data.


(a) About 90% of the walkways were open in September 1991 in Britain.

Linkname: CropCircleInvestigated
URL: http://www.geocities.com/hbccufo/Cro...estigated.html

Crop Circles Return Three Years Later
by Gordon Hoekstra
Citizen Staff, September, 2001
They'rrrrre baaaack !
Crop Circles have been discovered again in Vanderhoof, almost three years
to the day they were firs found in a ripe oat field just off the airport
runway.
[...] The researcher said tests performed on the oat samples
in a U.S. lab later confirmed the Crop Circles were genuine: that is to
say there were cellular changes in the oats not found in known hoaxes.


So that they occurred world over again at the end of foot and mouth in
Britain may or may not be just a coincidence.


(b) Though I now confound myself somewhat by giving this:


Linkname: Weird Wiltshire - Crop Circles - News Archive
URL:
http://www.thisispewsey.co.uk/wiltsh...rd/231001.html


First published on October 23
THE foot and mouth epidemic may have hampered the search for crop circles
in Wiltshire's corn fields but the people who spend time looking for them
still managed to record some incredible formations.
[...]
In spite of the foot and mouth restrictions which meant that the croppies
had to keep away from fields and could not fly overland, about 40
formations were officially recorded in Wiltshire.



Not sure how they did it.