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  Weird crop circle sighting...

  by troubled mind in

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  my husbands cousin lives in a small rural area in illinois and over the weekend crop circles appeared in their soybean crop .

  i just talked to his cousin , and she is beside herself from all the publicity .

  she said the phone started ringing at 6am this morning .

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  skeptic2

  Some good points from a slightly credulous site .
  
  

  I find it odd, to say the least, that people refuse to accept that crop circles could be man made because of their complexity but are happy to accept that it could be the work of aliens. http://www.circlemakers.org supply some useful 'insider' information on their web site including how long it took to make some of their crop circles. One formation made for The Daily Mail was 300 feet across and made in 4.5 hours. Another was 200 feet across and made by three people in 2.5 hours, and yet another was 218 feet across made in just 2 hours by only two people. It is also interesting to note that Circle Makers say that it is easy to see that crop circles are man made because of prominent construction lines that underlie the paths of flattened crop that circlemakers use to lay out the geometry of the design.

  So, to sum up, what do we have?

  1) We know crop circles first appeared in the UK following that silly Australia Saucer Nest story of 1966. 2) We know that crop circles were started in the UK by two pranksters, basing their idea on the Australia Saucer Nest story of 1966. 3) We know crop circle started with simple circles and gradually, with practice, progressed to more complex geometric shapes. 4) We know we have Circle Makers who regularly make crop circles. 5) We know it is a simple matter to make large, very complex circles in a few hours under cover of darkness. 6) We know that man made construction lines can be found under the circles.
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  Weird crop circle sighting...

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husbands cousin lives in a small rural area in illinois and over the weekend crop circles appeared in their soybean crop .

  i just talked to his cousin , and she is beside herself from all the publicity .

  she said the phone started ringing at 6am this morning .

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  I said I was 'puzzled'. I have no explanation or even a guess. But I disagree that it has been demonstrated that people have the ability to copy some of these designs on some huge scale, even when given the advantage of daylight and not being concerned about detection. check these out

  It doesn't need to be demonstrated that people could create these circles, it needs to be demonstrated that they couldn't (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence). There is no such evidence.
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  Weird crop circle sighting...

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husbands cousin lives in a small rural area in illinois and over the weekend crop circles appeared in their soybean crop .

  i just talked to his cousin , and she is beside herself from all the publicity .

  she said the phone started ringing at 6am this morning .

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  skeptic2

  Here's another nice example from the UK team:

  
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  Weird crop circle sighting...

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husbands cousin lives in a small rural area in illinois and over the weekend crop circles appeared in their soybean crop .

  i just talked to his cousin , and she is beside herself from all the publicity .

  she said the phone started ringing at 6am this morning .

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  skeptic2

  Here's a beautiful example (the Firefox web browser logo):

  Link to story

  Without admission by the students who created it, I'm sure people would be in awe... and this was their first crop circle.

  Greenpeace crop circle:

  

  Link to story

  
  Here are some examples of work of UK crop circle makers (http://www.circlemakers.org/):

  

  

  

  Anyone who believes that any crop circles are not man-made, can you tell me what differentiates an 'unexplained' crop circle from the above man-made crop circles?
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  Weird crop circle sighting...

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husbands cousin lives in a small rural area in illinois and over the weekend crop circles appeared in their soybean crop .

  i just talked to his cousin , and she is beside herself from all the publicity .

  she said the phone started ringing at 6am this morning .

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  skeptic2

  It seems downright impossible for a person or group to make some these intricate, perfect designs overnight without leaving any clues or being observed.

  You're not doing the word skeptic justice - are you alternate explanations more or less 'impossible' than a person or group creating such patterns, given that persons/groups have indeed demonstrably created such patterns?
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  Weird crop circle sighting...

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husbands cousin lives in a small rural area in illinois and over the weekend crop circles appeared in their soybean crop .

  i just talked to his cousin , and she is beside herself from all the publicity .

  she said the phone started ringing at 6am this morning .

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  skeptic2

  Aliens come millions of light years across the galaxy, find other life in the universe (us) and then.... draw patterns in our crops?
  Question about 'some are unexplained' - what are the differences between a man-made crop circle and an 'unexplained' crop circle?
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  Ecstacy Riseing PrimeTime Special Edition (Has the Government Lied)

  by frankiespeakin in

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  while surfing in the the net and visiting maps i came across this interesting tv broadcast about ecstacy:.

  http://www.youtube.com/w/ecstasy-rising?v=aaeaueqewzq

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  Herbal Ecstasy is another form of MDMA that is composed of ephedrine (ma huang) or pseudoephedrine and caffeine from the kola nut.

  Not sure where the misunderstanding is but:

  Pseudoephedrine is present in some cold remedies sold over the counter (e.g. Nurofen Cold and Flu in the UK).

  Ephedrine is more potent, is amphetamine-like in effect, and can I believe be boiled up to make methamphetamine, also many people use as a diet pill.

  MDMA is a specific chemical substance called Methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

  To describe ephedrine and caffeine as another form of MDMA is nonsensical.

  So herbal ectsasy is no different to having a cold remedy with a cup of coffee (does perk you up quite a bit, but not in anywhere the same league as MDMA!).
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  Snakes on a Plane...for or against?

  by jgnat in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i admit it, i'm not cool.

  i miss the trends.

  i don't notice a new fashion until half the women in this city are draped in it.

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  I think you're missing the point, it's supposed to be extremely OTT and very tongue-in-cheek... that's what makes it enjoyable to watch.
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  The Ghost Car

  by Yizuman in

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  guys, ya gotta see this....... .

  click this link .

  wth???

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  I think it's most likely the driver being chased employs local knowledge.

  After turning onto the side road, the driver accelerates before breaking hard and turning slightly (looking for something maybe?), carrying on forward for a moment, then turning off hard left (see something he was looking for?).

  Watch it frame by frame from 17 seconds to 24 seconds (if you save it to your hard-drive you can enlarge it).

  This is my guess for what happens between 17s and 24s (a rough plan, likely the road is not straight etc):

  Note also that, after meeting the fence, the police would have driven along to see where the guy got around/through it - but that of course didn't make it into this video... (reminds me of the UFO over New York, where the inital video clip showed a 'UFO', but when later sections of the same video were posted it could clearly seen to be a blimp)
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  The Bible is NOT the word of God

  by sinis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after reflecting on the article i have come to the conclusion of the author as well, in that the bible is not the word of almighty god.

  perhaps some tribal demi-god but not god almighty.

  good read:.

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  Trying to invent a story to fill that gap, the bible, is just that, a man made story with a man made God, with man made weaknesses.

  Reminds me of a line from a song: "Man wrote the Bible, God wrote the rock".