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- From: brihut@pro-palmtree.socal.com (Brian Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Bozos Synonymous
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.194922.15@pro-palmtree.socal.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 19:49:22 PST
- Organization: The Palmtree BBS - 310/453-8726 - Santa Monica, CA
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- the Int'l E-cafe, that hosts the board (Pro-Palmtree)
- that I'm posting this at, will be be hosting a showing of Richard Hoagland's
- second video in a series about the "face on Mars" and
- other nearby geological stuff, there, as well as about geometry
- as it relates to planetology & physics (what he calls "tetrahedral math."),
- (Hoagland's formerly of NASA).... that's on 18th Street,
- just north of Olympic Boulevard, in Santa Monica (get-off the I-10
- at 20th, and turn north) this Sunday at 7:30pm, $10.
-
- note that I'm not promoting this. my concern has to do
- with the apparent (I only saw the first video) linkage
- of the Martian stuff with the recent appearance of agrocycles,
- or crop-circles, in Druidland, UK -- yes;
- the land of the old, Celtic tree-worshippers/agriculturists.
-
- now, the supposedly wonderous geometrical forms, that these things take,
- are just the sort of thing that you'll find *in abundance*
- in the "exercises" section of many texts *on* geometry, although
- I know of no new, profound "laws" of math being embodied, there,
- as one researcher had thought (reported in Science News) -- that is, *if*
- they're not just pictograms, as most of`em are, nowadays, or
- amateurishly-drawn Mandelbrot-sets.... that's the part
- that belongs under "sci.math".
-
- speculation about the nature of such agricultural stuff
- --with emphasis on, cult--should perhaps go elsewhere, but
- this board is rather small, so ... look:
- why go overboard (or outerspace) in attributing these things, when
- some of the (earlier) circular ones could well have been
- of fungal origin (as in, faerycircles -- rings of mushrooms
- that generally grow in lawns (cultivated grasses) -- why not ask,
- why not?
-
- what possible need is their to invoke a couple of old buffoons,
- dragging a log around at night, or flame-brained ETs, when
- a small, ritually-dedicated group of latter-day Druids could do it,
- systematically, after the harvest, when the grass is down
- and the sun is up?... I mean, let's face it:
- no modern-day mechanized farmer spends much time gaurding his fields.
- what needs to be manipulated, folks, is not the stalks of wheat (or
- rapeseed, or what ever), themselves, but the *soil*, and
- that could be done e.g.fungally, with gravelflour, with NPK or (God
- forbid it) herbicides -- applied at any particular time
- o`the year.
-
- Hoagland, get a grip on it!... that one guy
- that's been promoting the agro-cycles/-grams, Colin Andrews,
- himself said that he'd been working with the British Psychical Society --
- I heard'im on Roy Tuckman (who's co-hosting this)'s show on KPFK, but
- I *also* thought that I'd heard another gentleman on Roy's show,
- Dave Emory ("archivist in audio") say that the BPS (or
- some thing that sounds like it, that's British, psychological & organized;
- it's late-night radio, zzzzzzz) was originally an arm
- of the Brit's Psych.War department.
-
- or, did you just remember that, Roy?
-
- y`all go back to bed,
- now.
-
-