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]
Vanamonde says
Nothing intriguing about that..it’s called planning.
Sam says
Planning? What the hell is that? ๐
Shaded Spriter says
This is what board Mathematics students do with their free time…there is no mystery.
Jeremy from Seattle says
I for one welcome our new Willy Wonka Overlords…
Skiznot says
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.
Magess says
For the math stupid, how is that a representation of pi?
Kurt says
Well, if you take the circumference of the circle, and divide it by the diameter… ๐
Richard says
Hmmmmmm…..I’m sure it was man-made.
Michael R. Mennenga says
It’s kinda perdy…. ๐
KeiranHalcyon says
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
fred says
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.
Michael R. Mennenga says
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……………
Robin says
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.
Sean says
Forget the Xenu repellant, just keep a bottle of water with you. It’s sure to be all you need for those pesky aliens.
Jeremy from Seattle says
And a bat.
Koos van Rensburg (South Africa) says
If I was the farmer who lost some crop, I would be pissed off, alien or man!
Now where did I leave my shotgun . . .
Tosus says
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…)
Deven Science says
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.
Tosus says
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?)
Gomez says
m just pointing out the number of people doubting the possibility of it being extraterrestrial on a sci-fi oriented web site