Why don't people take UFOs and ancient astronauts seriously?

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The ones that I saw people making in a documentary were quite beautiful and intricate.

Humans make beautiful, intricate art all the time. It's what people do.


For those who didn't see the documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3LsGmt55M

It has an interview with the original crop circle makers. They are old men now. They were young men then. They did it for the reason young men often do pranks- because it was mildly illegal and to mess with peoples' heads. Their first crop circles were indeed crude and not very intricate. They were literally circles and little else. They did it by putting a board with a rope on the ground and using it to stomp the wheat flat and using the rope affixed to a center spike to keep the circle even. They were delighted at the response and made more and kept it a secret for years.

The new generation of crop circle makers use computers to design the very intricate circles. They work only at night and must stay on the move to not only evade farmers who are furious at the continued crop destruction but also crop circle devotees. The crop circle devotees hate the crop circle makers (and are well aware they exist) and claim that they are trying to take cerdit for the superior design of the "real" crop circles. The crop circle makers say, "nope, we did those too". One group of crop circle makers say they were once caught by crop circle devotees in the middle of making a circle and had mud and rotten fruit thrown at them and had to abort the mission.

The most common criticism is that nobody could make a crop circle so intricate in one night. The documentary films in time lapse a very intricate crop circle being made (with a farmer's permission) in 5 hours. They made a 5 hour cap since that is the time you'd have roughly on a summer's night. They did it. Watch the documentary I linked.

One of the current crop circle artists is a curious blend of "the aliens did it" and "humans did it". He is well aware that he is making crop circles with a board and rope and centering spikes. But he also says that he meditates to get the designs and that "alien spirits" tell him what the design should look like. He wouldn't be the first artist to recieve artistic intructions from the voices in his head.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

What is so extrodinary about life existing outside of earth, or the idea that beings from other planets have possibly been here......there is no absolute proof either way.

What is so extrodinary about life existing outside of earth, or the idea that beings from other planets have possibly been here......there is no absolute proof either way.

That is right. Which is why we can safely ignore theories about E.T. visitations until such time as we have some solid evidence that cannot be interpreted some other way.

ruveyn

^ Another Argument From Incredulity.

Just because you believe in something, or believe that the lack of that something is impossible, the mere belief does not make it so.

Even if extraterrestrial life exists, this "fact" alone is insufficient evidence that even one unidentifiable object flying in the sky is of extraterrestrial origin.

Well there is no absolute proof either way.....so both opionons are based on insufficient evidence.

Those who make the positive claim are bound to providing proof of their claim, but because there is absence of evidence, there is sufficient cause for reasonable doubt of that claim. Therefor, it is more reasonable to doubt UFOs being of extraterrestrial origin than being from Earth.

What is so extrodinary about life existing outside of earth,

or the idea that beings from other planets have possibly been here......

there is no absolute proof either way.

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We need to make the simplest theory that fits the evidence, else we would go nuts.