Another mysterious crop circle has appeared in the English countryside outside Wroughton, Wiltshire, England. While its creator remains a mystery the symbolism inherent in the crop circle isn’t…..it’s an abstract representation of pi, the number at the center of Euclidean geometry.
What makes it even more intriguing is the fact that one can’t know that unless seen from above.
[Lucy Pringle/Apex News Photo from June 17 shows an aerial view of the pi crop circle near Wroughton, Wiltshire, England]
Nothing intriguing about that..it’s called planning.
Planning? What the hell is that? 😉
This is what board Mathematics students do with their free time…there is no mystery.
I for one welcome our new Willy Wonka Overlords…
There’s a difference between a cynic and skeptic. . . oh, you’re bein facetious. Yup, some clever guys in ireland with a board and a peg. . . but just to be sure I’m going to save up all my Thetans and get Xenu repellant.
For the math stupid, how is that a representation of pi?
Well, if you take the circumference of the circle, and divide it by the diameter… 😉
Hmmmmmm…..I’m sure it was man-made.
It’s kinda perdy…. 😉
How does it represent pi? Well, if you divide the circle into ten equal wedges, and then count how many wedges you go through before each jog, you get: 3 (.) 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5
alike so: http://s192.photobucket.com/albums/z308/keiranhalcyon31/?action=view¤t=picrops.jpg
Thanks for the diagram even though I’m not awake enough to make sense of it.
So once again the thought of it being the kiss of a solar angel hasn’t been considered.
Wow… what a bunch of Scifi cynics we have around here.
You’ll all be wishing you believed more when the alien overlords drop on the white house lawn and reclaim their missing brother from office. Then reveal the master plan to take over the world by using up our military forces in a over-extended war. Now, with the country bankrupt and lacking a good defense, we have opened the door to the supreme beings rule over us all! We will be forced into slave labor camps making rare resources that the overlords lack on the home planet – Tic-Tacs and Twinkies… and… and… those little Peep sugar thingys!!!
er…. ah… Sorry ’bout that. heh. Just kinda got on a roll there……………
That’s… okay, probably some bored mathematicians, yes. But being a bit of a nerd myself (Here? The devil you say!), I still think it’s pretty cool. Then again, I’m the same girl who very nearly bought a painting that was a geometric representation of the Fibonacci sequence… and might’ve if it weren’t way out of my price range.
Forget the Xenu repellant, just keep a bottle of water with you. It’s sure to be all you need for those pesky aliens.
And a bat.
If I was the farmer who lost some crop, I would be pissed off, alien or man!
Now where did I leave my shotgun . . .
Because all aliens would use a base ten representation of numerals with a small dot as a decimal point… and would be blunt enough to cut off after a few decimals. No, trust me, this is proof that crop circles are the product of bored engineering students (mathematics students would have found a representation of the exact number Pi, not an approximation…)
I think that it’s rather beautiful. The good crop circles always impress me in their precision. It takes some talented people to do that from the ground.
Agreed. Seen as art, it is quite impressive. However, you just KNOW that there are going to be people that are going to try to use this as an argument for the existence of extraterrestrial life, which it quite clearly is not (seriously, an alien race uses ellipses?)
m just pointing out the number of people doubting the possibility of it being extraterrestrial on a sci-fi oriented web site