Stryderunknown said:Phlog, your explaination kind of reminds me when I moved a dead rat with a stick when younger, to see what I thought was it's intestines fall out... until the ball of pseudo-tract started wriggling. I agree that maggots will find the easiest way out of body, if a section is wrotting it's easier for them to chomp. (as well as into it).
Simply everybody that believes it's aliens believes "The equipment used is too advanced" however the reality is far different, barbarism has been round for centuries and it didn't need any guise of spaceage tools.
So the victims (including cattle) weren't grotted with a rope, however Cattle "Jump" when being herded and notibly can even push each other over the edge of ravines. They can get injured on their own attempting to leap a fence and then bleed to death through a severed artery.
(Btw, I'm only this morbid around Halloween)
Star_One said:So you are saying, cattle themselves are the cause of the "cattle mutilations" phenomina?
phlogistician said:It's natural causes, plain and simple. It just looks a bit weird, but then, nature is. Some animals just up and die. When they do, they start to rot, get infested with various creatures, and these are the results.
I'm sure there's a web site with the results of FBI experiments on this. People leave their body to medical science are sometimes left out in the open, so various effects can be measured in an attempt to determine time of death more accurately. This include predation, rotting, and infestation by maggots, all of which produce the images we see here. Go research, it's all there. And when I say that, I mean on reputable, not crank, web sites.
whitewolf said:So it looks like evidence of aliens to you merely because it is brutal and inhumane to do such a thing? Silly.
phlogistician said:The 'precise' part is just a factoid reported by a crank magazine. Don't give it too much credence,
Also, the 'overnight' bit is spurious. Farmers don't inventory their livestock every day, uness they are milking cows, which would be missed as they are milked regularly. Cattle raised for meat production are allowed to roam, and not counted accurately every day. So, does the article specify what type of cow they were?
It's simple, there is evidence for this type of degradation happening naturally in humans and animals, but there is no evidence for aliens perfomaing the mutilation. So it's just a flight of fancy to leap to 'aliens did it', and shows a lack of understanding of the real world.
phlogistician said:The 'precise' part is just a factoid reported by a crank magazine. Don't give it too much credence,
Also, the 'overnight' bit is spurious. Farmers don't inventory their livestock every day, uness they are milking cows, which would be missed as they are milked regularly. Cattle raised for meat production are allowed to roam, and not counted accurately every day. So, does the article specify what type of cow they were?
It's simple, there is evidence for this type of degradation happening naturally in humans and animals, but there is no evidence for aliens perfomaing the mutilation. So it's just a flight of fancy to leap to 'aliens did it', and shows a lack of understanding of the real world.