Posted on 07/26/2002 11:24:55 AM PDT by Dengar01
Timing Suspicious On Mysterious Suburban Crop Circles
Could Eerie Mystery Have To Do With Movie Release?
Is it a case of mysterious crop circles -- or an elaborate movie hoax?
A soybean farmer in Naperville said the broken, concentric rings that appeared in a field off Diehl Road left him scratching his head.
"Have you ever heard of something so crazy?" Steve Berning said. "Unbelievable."
Berning said the circles appeared last weekend and damaged more than 10 percent of his 8-acre field.
The circles do resemble similar ones seen in England, but in this case, the timing of their appearance in the western suburb is a bit suspicious.
Two weeks from now, "Signs" hits the big screen. The movie starring Mel Gibson involves -- you guessed it -- mysterious crop circles.
William Leone, an investigator with the Mutual UFO Network, said soil analysis could determine whether the circles have human or extraterrestrial origins.
But Illinois Farm Bureau spokesman Dennis Vercler scoffed at that idea.
"Since I don't believe in UFOs -- at least not soybean-destroying UFOs -- I have to assume whoever did this did it intentionally as a malicious prank," Vercler said.
Meanwhile, Berning doesn't seem overly upset about the circles.
"There's some damage, which upsets me," Berning said. "But I'm more curious than anything. I"ll always be asking questions."
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...
LOL Ya gets whats ya pays for.
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!
:^)
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.
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...
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.
The The Fibonacci Numbers are used extensively and relate to the golden ratio, and can even be found in the Mandlebrot set.
Boston University - The Fibonacci Series
The Mathematics of the Fibonacci series
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.
They don't like to see evidence of that they find hard to debunk.
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