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[Reelya]

I googled "Pi is 4" and it turns out the guy with the article in Nexus is a long-term anti-Pi-ist.

http://milesmathis.com/pi2.html

Basically his argument is that Pi is 4 if you roll a circle along the ground, and measure how far a specific point on the circle moved in a single rotation (it moves in an arc). And he calls the use of 3.14 Pi a "cover up".

Nevermind that if you took the arc from his maths and tried to make a circle it would be a bigger circle than before, which you could then inflate to infinity

[IronTomato]

A long time ago on my laptop I got an extension for Google Chrome which would superimpose Shia Labeouf saying "JUST! DO IT!" onto the webpage whenever I pressed the button. Today, I turned it on and Chrome was ridden with adware. After some research I found out that this particular adware was notorious for bundling itself with various shady products, except I had no idea what it was since I hadn't downloaded any program at all in months. After a while of searching for the source, it turns out Shia Labeouf had updated himself to include the newest hippest adware.

thanks donald

NINJAEDIT: Also how the fuck does time affect an arc of a circle unless we're taking erosion into account?

[Reelya]

He rolls a circle along the ground. You take the point touching the ground, then roll the circle until it's touching the ground again.

The mathematical "Conspirators" would have you believe that you measure how far the circle rolled along the ground, and that's the circumference.

But he knows better: you pick the starting point and see how far that actual point traveled (a shape similar to a parabola basically). And he calls that the true "kinetic" circumference. Which your evil masters don't want you to know about.

[pisskop]

but ...  what applications would that have?

[Teneb]

but ...  what applications would that have?

TRUTH and FREEDOM.

[redwallzyl]

He rolls a circle along the ground. You take the point touching the ground, then roll the circle until it's touching the ground again.

The mathematical "Conspirators" would have you believe that you measure how far the circle rolled along the ground, and that's the circumference.

But he knows better: you pick the starting point and see how far that actual point traveled (a shape similar to a parabola basically). And he calls that the true "kinetic" circumference. Which your evil masters don't want you to know about.

but what about pi? is it a conspiracy by big diameter?

[Reelya]

... actually I think I know how he gets "pi = 4" and it's even dumber than that.

When you have two motions, and you want to work out how far a point traveled, you add the motions together.

In rolling, the circle is rotating once, and also moving by the circumference length.

1 rotation is 2Pi. Moving along the ground by the circumference length is also 2Pi.

Therefore you moved 4Pi. Which proves Pi = 4!

Yeah that was probably completely wrong btw, but it was more right than what he writes.

[Yoink]

I googled "Pi is 4" and it turns out the guy with the article in Nexus is a long-term anti-Pi-ist.

What a boring soul.
He contributes to a magazine like freaking Nexus and the most interesting topic he can come up with is math!?

But yeah, I don't disbelieve in the power of crystals (nor do I necessarily believe in it, I have not investigated myself or seen any evidence either way-- using them to heal your computer seems dumb as shit, though) but if something as mild as that has y'all WTFing like mad, some of the stuff in Nexus magazine should be a real hoot from what I remember.
Now I actually kind of want to pick up an issue and see what bizarre things they're going on about these days... wonder if anywhere sells it around here.

[pisskop]

Are you talking about displacement?

[Reelya]

@Yoink. It's actually more WTF worthy when people question basically common sense things.

e.g. a Nexus article about the Earth being hollow and their being a saurian world down there is less WTF than the Pi thing.

[Yoink]

...Wait, WHAT.
Nexus's head office is apparently in Maleny. I used to live there. Why am I not surprised? This is hilarious.
I probably knew some of the oddballs who put the magazine together in the first place, I just never realised. Maybe I even unwittingly offended some of them by laughing at the stuff in their publication, who knows.   

[Reelya]

"Shop address is 4/10 Coral St, Maleny (behind Maleny Auto Spares)".

Must be a focal point of many ley-lines.

[smjjames]

@Yoink. It's actually more WTF worthy when people question basically common sense things.

e.g. a Nexus article about the Earth being hollow and their being a saurian world down there is less WTF than the Pi thing.

Sounds like they took "Journey to the center of the Earth" too seriously.

[Yoink]

Spoiler: YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (click to show/hide)

Turns out this magazine is sold in pretty much any newsagency Australia-wide. Amazing.   
I was surprised enough to learn that they were still able to afford the costs of putting out a physical magazine, let alone distributing it so widely. There was a similar magazine above it on the rack called New Dawn which looked like it made poor old Nexus look positively mundane and grounded in reality by comparison... I had a brief flick through and most of what I saw it read like some sort of incomprehensible manifesto. Pretty sure I remember seeing at least one or two issues of that amidst my dad's girlfriend's Nexus collection, too.

I wasn't about to shell out for two conspiracy theory rags, though.

Plus, Nexus has an article on anxiety in this issue. I am awfully keen to learn how I might overcome my anxiety issues, possibly through regular meditation, aromatherapy and only leaving my house during certain phases of the moon. I wish the cover art was better, though... I remember the magazine tending to have all sorts of interesting psychedelic artwork on the covers, far more befitting of its contents than a singing sunflower.
New Dawn definitely had it beat in that regard. Looked like it was inspired by that "expanding brain" meme, or whatever its actual name is.   

   

[Draignean]

Spoiler: YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (click to show/hide)

Turns out this magazine is sold in pretty much any newsagency Australia-wide. Amazing.   
I was surprised enough to learn that they were still able to afford the costs of putting out a physical magazine, let alone distributing it so widely. There was a similar magazine above it on the rack called New Dawn which looked like it made poor old Nexus look positively mundane and grounded in reality by comparison... I had a brief flick through and most of what I saw it read like some sort of incomprehensible manifesto. Pretty sure I remember seeing at least one or two issues of that amidst my dad's girlfriend's Nexus collection, too.

I wasn't about to shell out for two conspiracy theory rags, though.

Plus, Nexus has an article on anxiety in this issue. I am awfully keen to learn how I might overcome my anxiety issues, possibly through regular meditation, aromatherapy and only leaving my house during certain phases of the moon. I wish the cover art was better, though... I remember the magazine tending to have all sorts of interesting psychedelic artwork on the covers, far more befitting of its contents than a singing sunflower.
New Dawn definitely had it beat in that regard. Looked like it was inspired by that "expanding brain" meme, or whatever its actual name is.   

   

Yoink, I have a very serious question I need to ask you.

Are you Weird Al Yankovic's son?