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reply to post by Chadwickus
The next point is Carl Sagan, he had nothing to do with the composing of this message
Dr. Frank Drake, then at Cornell University and creator of the famous Drake equation, wrote the message, with help from Carl Sagan, among others.[1] The message consists of seven parts that encode the following (from the top down):[4] The numbers one (1) through ten (10) The atomic numbers of the elements hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus, which make up deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) The formulas for the sugars and bases in the nucleotides of DNA The number of nucleotides in DNA, and a graphic of the double helix structure of DNA A graphic figure of a human, the dimension (physical height) of an average man, and the human population of Earth A graphic of the Solar System A graphic of the Arecibo radio telescope and the dimension (the physical diameter) of the transmitting antenna dish
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Originally posted by stirling
Considering plasma balls or whatever you call them, have been photographed, both producung the crop circles, and "scouting out" spots where crop circles later apear(more than once spotted where a crop circle shows up soon afterwards....)
The physicality of the actual crop in an "authentic"is far more complex, than in hoaxed ones....
The stems are bent over just above ground level in such a way thet they are not snapped off or crushed.
The stem apears to have been heated from WITHIN, and it is sort of steamed at thet point.....
The cellular structure is altered.
NO bunch of drunks made the real ones.Electromagnetic and other phenomena are also associated with circles which are made in the foregoing description.
That some outside agency with advanced technological means has created some of these from a distance.....
How far that distance may be remains to be discovered.
How about we just take the contact at face value, and see where it may lead....?
Why get all het up about arguing the validity of form the communication takes?
If we are to get any further with this communication, we must reply, and we must take it seriously, at least until the skeptics come up with something better than a couple of old drunks.Or even a herd of biology majors for petes sake.....
Perhaps it is formed by beings which exist only one dimension away from us, but right here on earth.....
Perhaps we are seeing our first message from another star system.....
Whatever the source, we have to assume it is bona fide till proven otherwise.
The open contact type crop circles bring us cannot be intercepted or censored by TPTB.
The visitors may be pissed that the goodies they gave the Blck ops boys have not been shared ......?
Perhaps they grow weary of awaiting disclosure, and are trying to circumvent the goverments....?
This is precisely what they may do......its subtle for some, but it is undoubtedly gaining traction with me.....
As i have no ability to construct an answer i shall endeavour to make the suggested reply......
perhaps we all could try....
Any farmers out there who could plow or plant the reply in large type?
Originally posted by samstone11
To your point, wasn't Carl Sagan known to be exceptionally closed minded, or for lack of a better word, stubborn regarding the presence or non-existence of ETs? As I recall, feel free to correct me if I am incorrect, he was a confirmed naysayer with no clear reasoning as to why he worked with the concept of aliens other than to disprove the idea?
Originally posted by VelvetSplash
These particular crop circles always look waaaaaay too suspect to me.
It just so happens they show "aliens" looking exactly what the popular image of an alien is, i.e. the classic grey.
Nah, I don't buy it.
One question for you. The same question posed by the OP and the same question he repeatedly asked throughout this thread.
How did whoever it was that created the initial message to be sent from earth know that human DNA actually contained over 4 billion parts instead of the well known and generally accepted throughout the entire scientific community 1 billion?
Recall that the OP mentioned that basically the entire scientific community at the time this message was sent were on the same consensus that there were only 1 billion parts to human DNA.
-Alien
Originally posted by VoidHawk
We have seen the formations and we know for absolute certain they were not made by any ordinary member of the public. To create formations of this detail, in the dark, overnight, would take military style planning. The scientific content of the formations is not the kind of stuff that us ordinary folk would know about either so who is left?
Originally posted by samstone11
First, I'm OK with the thread not being about crop circles, but I have a question that could is pertinent nonetheless. What about those of us who do not think it realistic (notice I did not say "impossible") that the circles are man-made, yet still find it hard to believe that advanced civilization would choose that means of communication? Seems like there would be much easier or more direct ways for such an advanced culture to get a message to us.
To your point, wasn't Carl Sagan known to be exceptionally closed minded, or for lack of a better word, stubborn regarding the presence or non-existence of ETs? As I recall, feel free to correct me if I am incorrect, he was a confirmed naysayer with no clear reasoning as to why he worked with the concept of aliens other than to disprove the idea?
I would be happy to be proven wrong. Still, from what I read, neither side of the debate wants to fully align itself with him or his beliefs or methodology which essentially caused him to be an outsider to all concerned. Again, I hope I am wrong because I personally believe he was one of the finest thinkers we will ever have who also took his opportunity and made the most of it.
Back on point, I have a great deal of difficulty still, reconciling this type of message with the technology that would have to be available to another life form capable of being here in the first place. In other words, its a little like us going to an island with inhabitants who have never seen any technology, but refusing to communicate with them through anything other than drawing pictures in the sand.
I am open minded to be proven wrong, but this is how I see it at the moment.