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Mysterious Suburban Chicago Crop Circles
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| 7/26/02
| NBC 5 Chicago
Posted on 07/26/2002 11:24:55 AM PDT by Dengar01
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To: discostu
Did you really have to spam the thread with all that rubish? There's no reason to read beyond here: These geometrical archetypes, reveal to us the nature of each form and its vibrational resonances. Well you might as well just tell us that there's no such thing as a pyramid or triangle, all the more complex figures that you more than likely never heard of are all just hogwash, and that all of the great mathematicians that ever lived were just a bunch of idiots...
To: Texasforever
Yeah right...Thanks for nuttin'!
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posted on
07/26/2002 10:24:32 PM PDT
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dennisw
To: FormerLurker
You aren't spamming. Crop circle threads are heavy graphics and slow loading. So what!
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posted on
07/26/2002 10:25:54 PM PDT
by
dennisw
To: general_re
I just love buzzwords don't you? The wonderful world of Total Quality Management, ISO 9000 and "How to win the Malcolm Baldridge Award and go broke in the same year".
To: dennisw
Yeah right...Thanks for nuttin'! LOL Ya gets whats ya pays for.
To: FormerLurker
There's a big difference between believing in shapes, which is just a stupid assertion how could anyone not believe in a shape, and believing said shape has mystical powers. If you're an audio engineer talking about the vibrational resonances of an auditorium I'm listening. If you're a freakazoid talking about the vibrational resonances of broken corn I can't possibly take you seriously.
To: FormerLurker
Fibonacci bump
To: dennisw
He's spamming. He just put a couple dozen pages worth of gobblygook on here. Very little in the way of graphics, just tons of text. If he'd put up a bunch of pictures I wouldn't be upset, crop circles are pretty. But he didn't, he put up a bunch of rubbish, a LARGE bunch of rubbish.
To: Dengar01
this is like the ufo hoaxes, always way out in the country in some podunk town...why don't they make circles in the downtowns of cities like LA, New York, or Boston where all the people are?
To: discostu
My dad was a very frugal (cheap) man. LOL In the '70's he saw a commercial for a small pyramid that was guaranteed to sharpen razor blades. He bought one. The next week he bought new razor blades and band-aids.
To: Texasforever
I remember "pyramid power". I always thought it was suspicious that the pyramid fad hit at the end of two decades of heavy drug use in our country. Right along side orange plaid bellbottoms and leisure suits, really the pyramid caps accessorized pretty well.
Let that be a lesson to the kids out there, take a look at the fashion of the late 70s. Drugs make you dumb, that's a simple undeniable truth.
To: InvisibleChurch
They're afraid they'll get mugged.
To: discostu
Yep, and Disco too.
To: Momaw Nadon
Very intricate!
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posted on
07/26/2002 10:55:53 PM PDT
by
DennisR
To: Texasforever
The wonderful world of Total Quality Management, ISO 9000 and "How to win the Malcolm Baldridge Award and go broke in the same year". I always had problems with that sort of thing. But then I discovered this website, and there's no looking back now.
I just sprinkle a few of those phrases in the memos and notes that I write, and look at me now! I don't know a g*dd*mn thing, but I'm Executive VP for the whole North American division! Oh, sure, some might say we're "bleeding cash" or "about to go belly-up", but I just put that we're "well-positioned for future growth" in the annual report, and it's all gravy!
:^)
To: general_re
LMAO. It is not what you say but HOW you say it.
To: InvisibleChurch
this is like the ufo hoaxes, always way out in the country in some podunk town...why don't they make circles in the downtowns of cities like LA, New York, or Boston where all the people are? Umm actually Naperville has 130,000 people. It is hard to call Naperville a podunk town. I could understand if your statement regarded a country town in the middle of nowhere. But Naperville is still part of the Chicago Metropolitan Area along with fact that this city is the 4th largest in Illinois, not some small town.
To: Dengar01
Let's, just for a second, go with the alien origin of these crop circles. I have to question the media they are using. Symbols are the communication media of primitive civilizations. Now, are the symbols used in crop circles an alien form of communication WITH a primitive civilization OR are the symbols the language of the Aliens themselves?
To: longshadow
If you had ever studied Mathematics, you would know that "Sacred Geometry" is a nothing more than the product of mystical astonishment on the part of people whose understanding of Mathematics was nowhere near what it is today. If YOU had ever studied Mathematics, you'd know that the Mathematicians who studied "Sacred Geometry" gave us our most basic and fundamental knowledge of Mathmematics and Geometry.
Modern Mathematicians don't waste much of their time on "gee-whiz" stuff like "what's the value of Phi to a bazillion decimal places?"
Well then I guess the University of Arizona (amongst others) must be living in the stone age...
The Golden Ratio
If I am wrong about this, then there should be no shortage of non-introductory or non-remedial course offerings that are devoted to the study of "Sacred Geometry" in the Math Department course catalogs of virtually every top-50 University.
But I've never heard of any of them offering such a course...
One example..
University of Buffalo - EGYPTIAN GEOMETRY
OTOH, such things as "Phi," the "Golden ratio," etc., are widely covered in intro-level survey courses for non-technical majors and in History of Mathematics type courses, as curiosities from a bygone era of Mathematics.
Your ignorance of the topic is quite obvious here. Phi is a universal constant that is used in Mathematics, Physics, and related fields such as Geometry and Astronomy. The Golden Mean is also widely used. Even DNA follows the Golden Section.
DNA
The The Fibonacci Numbers are used extensively and relate to the golden ratio, and can even be found in the Mandlebrot set.
Fibonacci Number
Boston University - The Fibonacci Series
Mandelbrot Morsels
The Mathematics of the Fibonacci series
The Math Forum @ Drexel
e-zgeometry.com
dmoz.org
The Fib-Phi Link Page
Now, if space aliens are smart enough to do the Mathematics it would take to do the physics of designing spacecraft that can travel the galaxy, and if they were visiting Earth, would they be stomping messages about some mystical, naive "Sacred Geometry" in wheat fields, or would they be more likely to depict some more advanced Mathematical message that would clearly denote their technical sophistication?
They more than likely would depict something that you wouldn't understand, be it fractals or the Pythagorian Theorum. "Sacred Geometry" has been around since at least the Egyptians, and more than likely so have they.
To: dennisw
Crop circle threads are heavy graphics and slow loading. So what! They don't like to see evidence of that they find hard to debunk.
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