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Occam's Razor - Dash87 Jan 2014 #1
Too bad. darkangel218 Jan 2014 #2
It's too square to be a crop circle. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2014 #3
Would this qualify? Berlum Jan 2014 #7
Remember this one?... SidDithers Jan 2014 #12
Hahahaa.... SidDithers Jan 2014 #4
It's a conspiracy, I tell ya! X_Digger Jan 2014 #6
Is that Braille or Conway's Life in the middle? longship Jan 2014 #8
Ahhh... greytdemocrat Jan 2014 #10
Looks like a CPU mask ryan_cats Jan 2014 #18
Exactly!!! n/t RKP5637 Jan 2014 #42
"Aerial photographer" pintobean Jan 2014 #11
Heheh... SidDithers Jan 2014 #13
Lol. Great minds pintobean Jan 2014 #17
The chemtrails made him do it!! trotsky Jan 2014 #186
This one was pretty interesting, sort of relaxing to sit and stare at it! RKP5637 Jan 2014 #5
local link... hunter Jan 2014 #9
Other than Uri Geller, has any other "phenomenon" been as thoroughly debunked? Orrex Jan 2014 #14
Hey, are you the Scientific Materialist claque? arcane1 Jan 2014 #16
I brush between scientific materialist meals to eliminate scientific materialist claque Orrex Jan 2014 #21
Some scientists... liberalmuse Jan 2014 #208
Scientists are frequently fooled by hucksters and charlatans like Geller... SidDithers Jan 2014 #210
"Scientific Materialist claque"? Vashta Nerada Jan 2014 #15
Those are so damn cool. Autumn Jan 2014 #19
The idiot is the guy who created his artwork without permission... Iggo Jan 2014 #103
Weird. Octafish Jan 2014 #20
A good plan and a few simple surveying tools. pintobean Jan 2014 #22
Tractor and GPS... onpatrol98 Jan 2014 #36
Of course we can explain it. nt RedCappedBandit Jan 2014 #23
Hahahahaaha zappaman Jan 2014 #24
My thoughts exactly. n/t X_Digger Jan 2014 #27
+1... SidDithers Jan 2014 #31
Bingo. This rather puts Octafish's obsession with JFK CTs in perspective, does it not? stopbush Jan 2014 #93
No. It demonstrates the lengths certain posters will go to smear me. Octafish Jan 2014 #96
and in the 25 years since you think they MIGHT have an explanation? ProdigalJunkMail Jan 2014 #116
That's the thing. Octafish Jan 2014 #121
As usual, your interpretation of history is wrong... SidDithers Jan 2014 #122
You practice what you accuse others of doing. Octafish Jan 2014 #128
Your credulity at every CT and bit of woo is becoming legend, octafish...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #129
Smearing me must be your objective; it's not mine. Octafish Jan 2014 #134
I don't smear you. You smear yourself... SidDithers Jan 2014 #138
If you want to practice science, you would search for truth. Octafish Jan 2014 #150
bltresearch?... SidDithers Jan 2014 #151
Has BLT Research edhopper Jan 2014 #154
Now you've made me hungry... zappaman Jan 2014 #159
I am as anti-woo as they come, SidDithers, but Octafish is a good DUer Heidi Jan 2014 #233
And, as usual, when the "evidence" is debunked, it gets ignored. zappaman Jan 2014 #174
So, we have a tall tale and a drawing pintobean Jan 2014 #127
Er, the late 1980s were 25 years ago. stopbush Jan 2014 #190
Show where I've intentionally lied or presented information that was not true on DU. Octafish Jan 2014 #192
I can't read your mind to divine your intentions. stopbush Jan 2014 #197
Nailed it! zappaman Jan 2014 #199
How telling. Octafish Jan 2014 #201
Awwwwww. zappaman Jan 2014 #202
That reads like what Allen Dulles and J Edgar Hoover wrote. Octafish Jan 2014 #200
As for Crop Circles, no where did I post who or what created them. As far as I know, no one knows." zappaman Jan 2014 #203
If I had, I wouldn't have bothered pointing it out. Octafish Jan 2014 #205
Good luck with your investigation of "The Mysterious Crop Circle Mystery"! zappaman Jan 2014 #206
When all you have is ridicule, zappaman... Octafish Jan 2014 #214
ok zappaman Jan 2014 #307
Posting a bunch of links to your own DU posts isn't exactly proof of anything stopbush Jan 2014 #217
True. What it shows is how wrong you are. Octafish Jan 2014 #218
Isn't it funny how someone can imagine all kinds zappaman Jan 2014 #219
And even funnier how they cling to the tangential, while rejecting that for which stopbush Jan 2014 #221
Well said...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #193
How brave. Octafish Jan 2014 #194
Waah...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #195
Really? Octafish Jan 2014 #196
when everything you posit has been thoroughly debunked over and over and over... it makes you look a dionysus Jan 2014 #278
If you think that is so, you are wrong. Octafish Jan 2014 #287
i take your attempted insult as a badge of honor! dionysus Jan 2014 #288
You've no Journal or any memorable posts. Octafish Jan 2014 #289
Yeah zappaman Jan 2014 #290
does this mean i have to post a shit ton of woo to make myself more memorable? dionysus Jan 2014 #293
Don't forget allegations that you never can back up when challenged! zappaman Jan 2014 #297
i, sir, am an astronaut. has that one been taken yet? dionysus Jan 2014 #302
Heh. I remember your journal when it first started, zappaman. Octafish Jan 2014 #294
Like most of your assertions, that would be a lie, my friend. zappaman Jan 2014 #295
Where did I lie, zappaman? Octafish Jan 2014 #298
Is your computer broken? zappaman Jan 2014 #299
Implying something I did not write does not make it so. Octafish Jan 2014 #300
LOL! zappaman Jan 2014 #301
How does my stating: 'I remember your journal when it first started, zappaman' constitute a lie? Octafish Jan 2014 #303
Because the post you copied wasn't when it "first started"! zappaman Jan 2014 #304
Mitchell and Webb do Scooby Doo... SidDithers Jan 2014 #306
Lee Harvey Oswald made a crop circle on the grassy knoll. Orrex Jan 2014 #228
I'd love to hear the naysayers explain that one. seattledo Jan 2014 #25
Yes, humans can't be precise. zappaman Jan 2014 #26
Well, circles and squares are notoriously hard to make...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #39
Not at all. A guy upthread claims he could do it with a tractor and a GPS. librechik Jan 2014 #167
Who says they're created by drunks?... SidDithers Jan 2014 #30
Who says they have to be drunk? Or that it was only two of them? arcane1 Jan 2014 #32
Too precise for drunks, so it must be.... Brickbat Jan 2014 #34
You start with a drawing, then grab a couple tall stakes, some string, and some boards. X_Digger Jan 2014 #35
Some of us love math. Codeine Jan 2014 #48
A handful of guys with boards made these works of crop circle art. Codeine Jan 2014 #52
Got a link to that? Octafish Jan 2014 #59
Here's where the images came from: arcane1 Jan 2014 #68
Obviously, aliens made that site to throw us off. zappaman Jan 2014 #69
I'm kind of curious about this "Mirage Men" documentary now arcane1 Jan 2014 #76
Big deal. That website is hawking a book. They do not show they made anything... Octafish Jan 2014 #94
What? That site is full of videos of them making circles. arcane1 Jan 2014 #145
Not the circles depicted in those images. Octafish Jan 2014 #147
So if there is no video of humans making that one, then humans didn't make it? arcane1 Jan 2014 #160
Duh. zappaman Jan 2014 #161
The claim was that the site made the ones illustrated. Octafish Jan 2014 #163
I only claimed that the site is where the photos came from. arcane1 Jan 2014 #171
That's because you only look at select woo-sites. Codeine Jan 2014 #75
!!!!! zappaman Jan 2014 #77
No, as nothing at that website shows them making the crop circles pictured. Octafish Jan 2014 #95
So, unlike what you wrote, there is no video of people making those particular crop circles? Octafish Jan 2014 #227
This one of Sarah Palin definitely made by aliens Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #271
Several farmers enjoy creating art in their fields. Octafish Jan 2014 #274
Do we have video of the artists creating that? zappaman Jan 2014 #296
This one took 2 nights to make... SidDithers Jan 2014 #62
How do we know they weren't aliens? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2014 #143
any idea how long it took to make those? How many is "a handful"? solarhydrocan Jan 2014 #182
Your set of alternatives is a couple of yahoos or the fantastic? cthulu2016 Jan 2014 #80
And they were drunk! arcane1 Jan 2014 #81
You are claiming it was not humans??? nt Logical Jan 2014 #109
I'd love to hear the yaysayers explain why EVERY SINGLE ONE of these "mysterious" things sibelian Jan 2014 #207
Don't worry, some of DU's best investigators are on the case! zappaman Jan 2014 #216
I think the BFEE makes 'em... SidDithers Jan 2014 #28
Yup, they are just testing their earthquake and weather making machines. FSogol Jan 2014 #113
Fascinating! I hadn't seen that one. Incredible. Thanks for posting. solarhydrocan Jan 2014 #37
that's amazing Liberal_in_LA Jan 2014 #41
Green for victory!!...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #44
Holy shit. do you actually believe the tripe you just posted? Codeine Jan 2014 #49
Did I say that I believed the external content I posted? solarhydrocan Jan 2014 #180
You do realize that those are not the only two people who make these things, right? arcane1 Jan 2014 #188
Thank you for the information on that amazing image. Octafish Jan 2014 #64
... SidDithers Jan 2014 #66
Proof there is no limit to human gullibility. zappaman Jan 2014 #67
What really frustrates me: arcane1 Jan 2014 #70
Shhhhh! zappaman Jan 2014 #71
You actually believe we put a man on the moon? pintobean Jan 2014 #73
Now you've done it. arcane1 Jan 2014 #74
What the real mystery seems to be- is why it bothers you and your ilk so much? notadmblnd Jan 2014 #149
Credulity Kills jberryhill Jan 2014 #204
LOLZ. I bet the OP is a big History Channel watcher Viking12 Jan 2014 #198
I love Giorgio! Amaril Jan 2014 #215
he has never been as stoned, or had his hair bouffed out so much, since that day... dionysus Jan 2014 #281
Hey Sid pintobean Jan 2014 #82
Hawkeye's an ass... SidDithers Jan 2014 #85
I disagree pintobean Jan 2014 #87
You're Mr. Research right? If you spent any time looking into these phenomenon snooper2 Jan 2014 #119
Condescension suits you perfectly. Octafish Jan 2014 #125
LOL snooper2 Jan 2014 #133
Here's how a Thinker put it... Octafish Jan 2014 #146
The gullibility of the crop circle suckers is truly amazing: "Confession Hollow" ! Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #284
Thanks for this great post. democratisphere Jan 2014 #158
Look at the lengths decoders go to: Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #280
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2014 #38
Uhh, we can explain it just fine. NutmegYankee Jan 2014 #40
+1, n/t RKP5637 Jan 2014 #43
"Can't explain"? Except that whole part where they've been totally fucking explained, right? Codeine Jan 2014 #47
Please. sagat Jan 2014 #50
Here's an explanation and demonstration of the phenomenon pintobean Jan 2014 #51
They're sober, doing hard work, with meticulous planning arcane1 Jan 2014 #54
All the kids at my high school with straight A's were alien spawn. Coyotl Jan 2014 #118
I hear you arikara Jan 2014 #83
you just might be a big silly NJCher Jan 2014 #86
When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras. n/t X_Digger Jan 2014 #89
I couldn't agree more NJCher Jan 2014 #91
Thanks for nothin' ET. We already figured out PI. Tell us something new. n/t lumberjack_jeff Jan 2014 #92
Weird William Seger Jan 2014 #98
Yes, you nailed the stupidest point of the assertion jberryhill Jan 2014 #137
Did the Amazing Randi tell you that, jberryhill? Octafish Jan 2014 #250
LOL! zappaman Jan 2014 #251
What's really goofy jberryhill Jan 2014 #253
Standard Operating Procedure. zappaman Jan 2014 #255
How many times did you meet Frank Zappa, zappaman? Octafish Jan 2014 #260
17 and a half. zappaman Jan 2014 #285
Only in your paranoid imagination jberryhill Jan 2014 #252
Yes, but he has talked to astronauts! zappaman Jan 2014 #254
As a point in fact, I have jberryhill Jan 2014 #256
Did you ask them where these "mysterious" crop circles came from? zappaman Jan 2014 #257
Remarkably, it didn't occur to me to ask, no. jberryhill Jan 2014 #258
''Paranoid Imagination.'' Octafish Jan 2014 #262
"That's the language the FBI disinformation artists used" jberryhill Jan 2014 #264
You misunderstood: Followers of Amazing Randi use similar techniques as the FBI. Octafish Jan 2014 #267
Yeah, you know what else McCarthyites and disinfo peddlers do? jberryhill Jan 2014 #269
Not my job. Octafish Jan 2014 #272
Denigrating you? jberryhill Jan 2014 #275
Post removed Post removed Jan 2014 #110
Why would aliens encode a decimal number? jberryhill Jan 2014 #140
Indeed, why would the Simpsons use base 10? William Seger Jan 2014 #230
Mocking people has nothing to do with "democratic" ideals. It has to do with making your case. MADem Jan 2014 #142
Sigh...what's next, flat earth? NuclearDem Jan 2014 #243
Gee. I don't recall treating other DUers like I've been treated on this thread. Octafish Jan 2014 #248
I don't have explanations for every single crop circle ever made. NuclearDem Jan 2014 #249
I brought up the astronauts because you brought up the flat earth. Octafish Jan 2014 #261
Oh FFS... SidDithers Jan 2014 #263
SidDithers, DU's friend of what is and what should be. Octafish Jan 2014 #265
Monitoring?... SidDithers Jan 2014 #266
''Don't fucking flatter yourself''? You're the one who said it, Dude. Octafish Jan 2014 #270
"Certainly some, if not most, are man-made. Some, however, have no plausible explanation"... SidDithers Jan 2014 #276
The thing is Sid... CanSocDem Jan 2014 #279
Thanks for your comments... SidDithers Jan 2014 #282
I will be keeping an eye on you! zappaman Jan 2014 #291
crop circles Skittles Jan 2014 #29
Now THAT I can believe! arcane1 Jan 2014 #33
"Scientific Materialist" - those nasty people that insist on actual evidence... Archae Jan 2014 #45
I guess you are still bummed you can't post about "chemtrails"... zappaman Jan 2014 #46
WARNING: You are having forbidden thoughts & using forbidden words Berlum Jan 2014 #57
There's certainly nothing natural pintobean Jan 2014 #58
Nice picture of contrails...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #60
Dude, take your meds. Seriously. LeftyMom Jan 2014 #90
It looks to me like you're taunting admin pintobean Jan 2014 #156
Not everything is a conspiracy. Some things are just bullshit. NuclearDem Jan 2014 #305
Please let me know if you think aliens did this. Because I will laugh. n-t Logical Jan 2014 #53
I'm with Dusty Smith on this one. Gore1FL Jan 2014 #55
Logic. Iggo Jan 2014 #104
You think a Japanese utility has something to do with flattened plants in Salinas? LeftyMom Jan 2014 #56
I was wondering that myself. arcane1 Jan 2014 #61
I hope the OP is busy writing a script. LeftyMom Jan 2014 #63
The OP is a plain and simple news report from NBC News... Berlum Jan 2014 #100
Um, it wasn't "scientific materialists of yesteryear" who persecuted Galileo William Seger Jan 2014 #141
They were locked into their narrow perception of reality...so Berlum Jan 2014 #162
So words mean whatever you want them to mean William Seger Jan 2014 #166
Why do you keep equating people creating crop circles sufrommich Jan 2014 #168
It's a deliberate attempt to discredit the claim that hu7mans created the circles. arcane1 Jan 2014 #172
Amazing, isn't it... SidDithers Jan 2014 #169
I'll watch the movie too if it has MindMobsters cemaphonic Jan 2014 #220
So, when is the OP going to admit that they were wonky-woo about the original crop circle Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #241
No point in doing actual research? Berlum Jan 2014 #244
No point in this case or any crop circle case. Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #245
Spreading falsehoods just casts Scientific Materialists in an uglier light Berlum Jan 2014 #246
You wrote: Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #247
Ooo Corporate deception! Aliens! Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #268
You know historically it's been woo pushers that have conspired against science NuclearDem Jan 2014 #242
Nah. I never said that. No need to set up a straw man Berlum Jan 2014 #120
Have you seen the amazing beach sand artist of New Zealand? He's not anonymous.... Hekate Jan 2014 #65
Beautiful! They are being done in snow too. arcane1 Jan 2014 #72
Proof that aliens use doilies. pintobean Jan 2014 #99
That is incredible. Stunning and beautiful. Thanks for posting! solarhydrocan Jan 2014 #181
The snow patterns are done by just one guy, Simon Beck arcane1 Jan 2014 #187
So cool - thanks for posting! polichick Jan 2014 #191
If you want a good laugh! Rosa Luxemburg Jan 2014 #78
Um... the Scientific Materialist claque is Responsible for this cthulu2016 Jan 2014 #79
Aliens mapped out the streets of Washington DC arcane1 Jan 2014 #84
Resembles an old pentium processor. N/T beevul Jan 2014 #88
You scientific materialists are so predictable mathematic Jan 2014 #97
Nice satire n/t. edhopper Jan 2014 #152
Finally...a thread to compete with the moon bombing one...nt msanthrope Jan 2014 #101
They're obviously pissed about that pintobean Jan 2014 #102
They can do one in my yard and then ... LisaLynne Jan 2014 #124
That looks like it was made by a wind turbine blade. nt msanthrope Jan 2014 #157
no, 3 meters of hail fell precisely, then melted, leaving no trace.... dionysus Jan 2014 #286
3 meters, which is also 60cms! zappaman Jan 2014 #292
Shame on NBC for calling crop circles "mysterious". sufrommich Jan 2014 #105
When in doubt... CanSocDem Jan 2014 #106
There is no "mystery". Google sufrommich Jan 2014 #107
What's the mystery?... SidDithers Jan 2014 #108
The mystery... CanSocDem Jan 2014 #112
So unsolved arson fires might be aliens? nt Logical Jan 2014 #115
What are you talking about...??? (eom) CanSocDem Jan 2014 #117
So the mystery of crop circles is sufrommich Jan 2014 #123
Mystery solved!! SidDithers Jan 2014 #235
It's like finding graffiti mysterious. Brickbat Jan 2014 #135
Perfect analogy... SidDithers Jan 2014 #139
Hmm..."STRING"...hmm... Iggo Jan 2014 #155
'String' - I have a theory about that... MineralMan Jan 2014 #175
Is there any made up shit you don't believe? Ghosts? Esp? Astrology? nt Logical Jan 2014 #111
uh...no?!? (eom) CanSocDem Jan 2014 #114
Wow, what higher intelligence could have left such a message? Glassunion Jan 2014 #126
the circles are obviously alien college frat pranks n/t Godhumor Jan 2014 #130
Unpossible Glassunion Jan 2014 #131
They do it for the same reason Jesus sufrommich Jan 2014 #132
Or maybe, they are so smart, their efforts to communicate to us seem dumb. Glassunion Jan 2014 #136
NononononononononoNO. Not QUITE entirely right. sibelian Jan 2014 #209
I humbly stand corrected. lol. nt sufrommich Jan 2014 #212
Spooky Jesusoid would be great name for a band...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #213
Space trolls Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2014 #144
yep Glassunion Jan 2014 #148
" I saw Bigfoot once. edhopper Jan 2014 #153
The quotation marks around that statement make me nervous. Iggo Jan 2014 #222
Movie reference edhopper Jan 2014 #223
Heheheh. Iggo Jan 2014 #224
I like how by debunking some crop circles, all crop circles are discounted as a hoax. cbdo2007 Jan 2014 #164
No they are all real edhopper Jan 2014 #165
That's like saying all cave drawings are a hoax because someone last year made cbdo2007 Jan 2014 #170
Huh? arcane1 Jan 2014 #173
No one's saying cave drawings were made by space aliens. Iggo Jan 2014 #179
That is as it should be. The burden of proof falls on the extraordinary. cthulu2016 Jan 2014 #176
It was both pintobean Jan 2014 #184
bEST.vOLKSWAGEN.eVER. Iggo Jan 2014 #185
So your argument... jeff47 Jan 2014 #226
Show me one that couldn't have been made by humans... Orsino Jan 2014 #229
Never underestimate the creativity and perseverance of MineralMan Jan 2014 #177
curious which crop the artist vandalized to make this... Deep13 Jan 2014 #178
I live fairly close to the farm in question senseandsensibility Jan 2014 #183
In a circle-making site linked elsewhere in this thread... arcane1 Jan 2014 #189
ARE WE sure it wasn't made by the yuiyoshida Jan 2014 #211
That's not the USC Trojan Marching Band. stopbush Jan 2014 #231
Tepco? Pretzel_Warrior Jan 2014 #225
Nvidia Promotes New Chip With Crop Circle Crabby Appleton Jan 2014 #232
Obviously, Nvidia is getting their technology from aliens pintobean Jan 2014 #237
A crummy commercial? Sonuvabitch! MineralMan Jan 2014 #240
Crop circle: No, it wasn't aliens, it was marketers SidDithers Jan 2014 #234
Obviously, modern processor technology comes from space aliens. arcane1 Jan 2014 #239
The only mystery about crop circles is why do people believe aliens did it? hobbit709 Jan 2014 #236
lol! Yup. HappyMe Jan 2014 #238
So to get a million smart ass replies, all I have to do is type 'Scientific Materialist claque'? Rex Jan 2014 #259
Condescension makes a certain class of mind feel superior. Octafish Jan 2014 #273
I knew from the first days in 2001, a very special type of DUer Rex Jan 2014 #277
Wow. Just wow. This thread is just a study in how fucking mean DU has become. ScreamingMeemie Jan 2014 #283
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