From ozestrange@... Mon Mar 18 18:21:04 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: ozestrange@... X-Apparently-To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 19 Mar 2002 02:21:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 99129 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2002 02:21:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 19 Mar 2002 02:21:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n10.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.65) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Mar 2002 02:21:03 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.180] by n10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Mar 2002 02:21:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:21:00 -0000 To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Subject: Marfa/Min Min Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 2173 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "ozestrange" X-Originating-IP: 63.60.239.176 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=61845547 X-Yahoo-Profile: ozestrange Hi > Occam's Razor is a scientific rule of thumb first stated in the Middle > Ages (I think) that basically says that the simplest explanation is > the best one. Actually, its a philosophical rule of thumb. "Sceptics" use it to shave off anomalous ideas/reports ect that grow in places. ;) > cut violation of this. However a close reading of Min Min accounts > from the Australian desert suggests as much--electromagnetic phenomena > combined with visual ones in close proximity to each other. I live in Australia, and have ventured out several times into the desert looking for and videoing lights/interviewing witnesses etc about the Min Min lights. As I have pointed out before in this forum. When you start getting report after report from sheepshearers/kangaroo shooters etc of Min Min lights doing the following you end up with a problem with Min Min = earth light. The lights can move in groups and follow/chase a car for up to 20 minutes-they can move away from an approaching observer, and then move towards, when the observer retreats, the lights can be shot at with a .22 and remain,yet vanish when fired at with a .303 Many people forget that because some lights are "explained" as "earth lights" which are linked with geological conditions, doesnt mean that ALL anomalous lights = earth light, and I am not talking about ET type stuff. If the basketball shaped light appears in a graveyard, ghost hunters will go "look, a ghost",if the same light appears a few metres above the ground in a paddock, a cattle farmer will go ,"look, a Min Min"/and if you move the same light into the night sky, at say 30 metres, UFO bufs will go ,"look a UFO". So which is right? I am interested how hard core EL proponents would explain the following. A light appears , which is about the size of a small car,stops about 10 metres above a small dam,sucks up water into itself for about 5 minutes and then leaves.This is in front of about 30 local aboriginals. Occams would have to say fraud wouldnt it. ! Because it doesnt fit. And thats a tame report.! Mike