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In reply to the discussion: NBC News: Mysterious California Crop Circle plowed over [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)248. Gee. I don't recall treating other DUers like I've been treated on this thread.
Ever. All the personal attacks for expressing the thought that crop circles are a fascinating phenomena.
Certainly some, if not most, are man-made. Some, however, have no plausible explanation. For instance:
Eye witness to the formation of a crop circle opposite Stonehenge.
Posted October 15, 2009
By Colin Andrews
In July of 1996 one of the most complex and spectacular crop circle designs ever
seen appeared in a field opposite Stonehenge. The design became known as The
Julia Set because it resembled the mathematical fractal called by that name. The
formation was remarkable not only because of its complexity and beauty but also
due to several anomalies associated with its discovery.
It arrived in daylight on a sunny day opposite a busy tourist spot surrounded by high
traffic roads such as the A303. What is exceptional about this event is that it is the
first time the window of arrival can be narrowed down.
SNIP...
Lucy writes, She mentioned that when people see maybe two cars or more pulled in
and looking down into the field, other cars stop and gradually the traffic builds up
and more and more cars draw in to have a look. What the group saw is described:
There was an apparition, an isolated mist over it (the formation) and as the circle
was getting bigger the mist was rising above the circle. As the mist rose it got bigger
and the corn circle got bigger. There was a mist was about 2-3 feet off the ground
and it was sort of spinning around and on the ground a circular shape was
appearing which seemed to get bigger and bigger as simultaneously the mist gets
bigger and bigger and swirled faster. It was gradual and you are standing there and
you are thinking what is going on and everyone is discussing it and more and more
traffic is building up and everything and you just think that all the time you don't
really realise what is happening and then you think then that's it and the thing is
getting bigger and you are thinking of the beginning and end. But you don't realise
what you are looking at. I didnt understand what was happening.
Lucy continues in her report to say that there was a clear space between the
ground and the mist as the crop circle formed and there was no wind or dust.
Lucys witness reports that the event took about 20 minutes to form although they
cant be sure because they lost track of time. When they left the mist was still there
and they cant be sure the formation wasnt still expanding. It may have taken more
than 20 minutes to create.
CONTINUED...
http://www.colinandrews.net/JuliaSetStory.html
As for flat earth, why the need to smear me?
FWIW: I've met and spoken with several astronauts. How many have you met, NuclearDem?
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I brush between scientific materialist meals to eliminate scientific materialist claque
Orrex
Jan 2014
#21
Scientists are frequently fooled by hucksters and charlatans like Geller...
SidDithers
Jan 2014
#210
Bingo. This rather puts Octafish's obsession with JFK CTs in perspective, does it not?
stopbush
Jan 2014
#93
Your credulity at every CT and bit of woo is becoming legend, octafish...nt
SidDithers
Jan 2014
#129
Show where I've intentionally lied or presented information that was not true on DU.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#192
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
Posting a bunch of links to your own DU posts isn't exactly proof of anything
stopbush
Jan 2014
#217
And even funnier how they cling to the tangential, while rejecting that for which
stopbush
Jan 2014
#221
when everything you posit has been thoroughly debunked over and over and over... it makes you look a
dionysus
Jan 2014
#278
does this mean i have to post a shit ton of woo to make myself more memorable?
dionysus
Jan 2014
#293
How does my stating: 'I remember your journal when it first started, zappaman' constitute a lie?
Octafish
Jan 2014
#303
You start with a drawing, then grab a couple tall stakes, some string, and some boards.
X_Digger
Jan 2014
#35
Big deal. That website is hawking a book. They do not show they made anything...
Octafish
Jan 2014
#94
So if there is no video of humans making that one, then humans didn't make it?
arcane1
Jan 2014
#160
So, unlike what you wrote, there is no video of people making those particular crop circles?
Octafish
Jan 2014
#227
I'd love to hear the yaysayers explain why EVERY SINGLE ONE of these "mysterious" things
sibelian
Jan 2014
#207
You do realize that those are not the only two people who make these things, right?
arcane1
Jan 2014
#188
What the real mystery seems to be- is why it bothers you and your ilk so much?
notadmblnd
Jan 2014
#149
he has never been as stoned, or had his hair bouffed out so much, since that day...
dionysus
Jan 2014
#281
You're Mr. Research right? If you spent any time looking into these phenomenon
snooper2
Jan 2014
#119
The gullibility of the crop circle suckers is truly amazing: "Confession Hollow" !
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2014
#284
"Can't explain"? Except that whole part where they've been totally fucking explained, right?
Codeine
Jan 2014
#47
Thanks for nothin' ET. We already figured out PI. Tell us something new. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2014
#92
You misunderstood: Followers of Amazing Randi use similar techniques as the FBI.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#267
Mocking people has nothing to do with "democratic" ideals. It has to do with making your case.
MADem
Jan 2014
#142
Gee. I don't recall treating other DUers like I've been treated on this thread.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#248
"Certainly some, if not most, are man-made. Some, however, have no plausible explanation"...
SidDithers
Jan 2014
#276
You think a Japanese utility has something to do with flattened plants in Salinas?
LeftyMom
Jan 2014
#56
Um, it wasn't "scientific materialists of yesteryear" who persecuted Galileo
William Seger
Jan 2014
#141
It's a deliberate attempt to discredit the claim that hu7mans created the circles.
arcane1
Jan 2014
#172
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
You know historically it's been woo pushers that have conspired against science
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#242
Have you seen the amazing beach sand artist of New Zealand? He's not anonymous....
Hekate
Jan 2014
#65
I like how by debunking some crop circles, all crop circles are discounted as a hoax.
cbdo2007
Jan 2014
#164
That's like saying all cave drawings are a hoax because someone last year made
cbdo2007
Jan 2014
#170
So to get a million smart ass replies, all I have to do is type 'Scientific Materialist claque'?
Rex
Jan 2014
#259
Wow. Just wow. This thread is just a study in how fucking mean DU has become.
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#283