Comments for Going Around in Crop Circles at http://www.randi.org/site , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.randi.org/site Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:56:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1382 crop circle believer`s who think they are made by OOTWB (OUT OF THIS WORLD BEINGS) should form a club and beat themselves with it ! - myteedogg Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:18:06 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1287 The guys who started the whole thing are still at it and are for hire: http://www.circlemakers.org/ Their tongue-in-cheek prose runs rings around the believers'. Too subtly unfortunately, I can imagine a crop circle aficionado reading the whole thing and still believing in ET's stomping on the farmland. - Bruno Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:23:06 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1233 But there [i]are[/i] crop circle experts - those who can demonstrate how they can be made with a piece of plywood. Sure it could have been aliens using pieces of plywood. Or aliens using advanced technology based on physics we know nothing about? But Ockham's Razor and all that.... And how do you go about checking for science that we know nothing about. It would be like Darwin checking for evidence of genetic differences underlying the phenotypic differences in finches that he observed in the various Galapagos islands! - BillyJoe Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:47:35 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1226 I think the qualifications for "crop circle expert" are the same as for "UFO researcher" - an unquestioning, unthinking willingness to believe crap. And I think most of these experts are really good at that one thing. - sfdyoung Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:26:16 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1225 Since all crop circles are clearly there, and are in fact crop circles, they are all unarguably genuine, regardless of origin. The crop circles in the teacher's test patch are themselves entirely genuine. That's the beauty of the whole thing -- no crop circle can be proven as inauthentic because no fact other than its presence is necessary to make it authentic. The spaceships sneak in the side door by the simple expedient of ignoring the possibility that a teenager with a piece of plywood might be the source of it. As for crop circle experts, they arrive at their expert status in similar manner. One can rapidly become an expert on the matter by simply ignoring the fact that there is nothing to be expert about. - jcmontana@pelligroup.com Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:16:43 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1203 If you want to read a hilariously illuminating book on crop circles, read Jim Schnable's Round In Circles, chronicling his experiences among the croppies in the UK. - Cuddy Joe Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:43:27 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1202 Yup, it really is visitors from another world tramping through the fields of Earth. Their spaceships run well on a particular substance found scattered on the surface of our little planet. There are large quantities of anti-matter, the substance that powers the aliens FTL drives, to be found in the excrement of male ungulates bovinae. That's right... the aliens spaceships are powered by bull crap, the substance that also powers the crop circle experts! ;D Willy K - Willy K Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:02:32 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1200 Well, it we don't know who these aliens are, who's to say they don't have an obsession with corn fields. Maybe they need it like a shoe fetishist needs a shoe. 8) - BillyJoe Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:01:28 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1197 Why exactly are all these aliens landing in soybean, corn, sorghum and wheat fields? What is their interest in these particular flora? Maybe it's a clue! - Resume Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:19:36 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/357-going-around-in-crop-circles.html#comment-1196 You can't expect perfect results; they only had an expert in crop ellipses, not circles. Still, at short notice you take what you can get. Just like the readers of the local newspaper. - hopfen Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:01:20 +0100