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Originally posted by Nventual
But still, the crops were flattened and burnt.
Which has the least assumptions attached to it?
1.) Some people started making crop circles one night in an attempt to gain some type of strange publicity (in which they have enjoyed success)
2.) Aliens hyper-dimensionally travelled from space in order to land in North Carolina and flatten and burn some crops on some farmers land in order to communicate with humans.
They seem so much simpler compared to the UK Circles, I wonder why?[q/utoe]
Because the hoaxers in N. Carolina are less skilled than the hoaxers in britain?
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
There is every possibility that #2 is entirely correct.
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
If you meet someone who you know speaks a different language than you do what do you do?
You still speak your language and hope there is some common words somewhere.
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
Maybe you show them a picture? Gesture with your hands?
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
Really the idea that circles are some form of communication is very possible.
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
It only really makes sense if you think the race making the circles is really different than humans
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
in terms of how they think. They may be self-aware, they may be intelligent, but so different that it makes sense to them to try and get our attention this way.
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
The creators of the circles understand us all too well.
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
They realize that we can only come to the realization of our part in the Universe slowly.
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
So they make some circles, and then watch as humans duplicate them.
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
Circles do tend to open people's minds towards new ideas,
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
maybe that is the whole point. No words or concepts as such, just the Monolith effect.
Originally posted by Alexander Tau
Again, I think the creators of the circles are much closer to home
Right, there is a possiblity for everything. There is a possibility that you can jump off the Empire State Building, a large gust of wind can lift you up, float you to the bottom, and enable you to land on your feet. Sure, that can happen. But will it? I don't want to try. Which is exactly my point, Law of Parsimony must come into effect:
The theory with the least assumptions is likely the correct theory.
If you realize that someone can't speak your language, you don't keep trying to speak in your native tongue. That's like slamming your head into a brickwall over, and over again. You know it's not going to work, so why try?
What you do is you try to learn their language. Simple as that. I've been living in Europe in for a year now and I've been in situations where I've been isolated with a group of people that can hardly utter the words 'Hello'. I surely don't speak to them in English. Why? What's the point?
If you want to communicate, You gesture; not make nonsense designs in grass.
Woah. See that assumption is totally unfounded. First we have to prove the existance of other life in this universe, so far we are 0% succesful. Now if we find this life, we have to discern if they're human. But another alien race? Making circles in grass? We are assuming all this. Assumptions are 'what ifs'.
'What ifs' lie in the domain of fantasy my friend.
Thats a big maybe attached to a long strings of what ifs and assumptions. If Arthur C. Clarke never existed, no one would even know the concepte of the 'Monolith'. It's a fictional theory, just like all humans are trapped inside a machine world called 'The Matrix'.