Comments on: Hurricane Sandy's Fibonacci golden spiral http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 12:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: awjt http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1577455 awjt Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1577455  Fresh AIR.  Fresh AIR.

]]> By: Brent Kirkham http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1576763 Brent Kirkham Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1576763 OK, In this particular case, regardless of photos from space, or GPS, the whole Sandy thing will conform to the "Golden Ratio".  It's not really an idea or belief, it's reality.  If you watch stuff happen for long enough, you see patterns.  Unfortunately, as a species, we are selected as pattern seeking mammals.  Not great, but OK. The problem here is : are we pattern spotting or is it a spiral? It's a spiral.  They have properties.  One of the properties of spirals is that they conform to the Golden Ratio.  It's just basic physics. OK, In this particular case, regardless of photos from space, or GPS, the whole Sandy thing will conform to the “Golden Ratio”.  It’s not really an idea or belief, it’s reality.  If you watch stuff happen for long enough, you see patterns.  Unfortunately, as a species, we are selected as pattern seeking mammals.  Not great, but OK.

The problem here is : are we pattern spotting or is it a spiral?
It’s a spiral.  They have properties.  One of the properties of spirals is that they conform to the Golden Ratio.  It’s just basic physics.

]]> By: GuyInMilwaukee http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1576195 GuyInMilwaukee Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1576195 days of pain in 30 seconds. http://youtu.be/fEvQCp5AjGc days of pain in 30 seconds.
http://youtu.be/fEvQCp5AjGc

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1576047 Ipo Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1576047 Ooh!  There's another one.   Ooh!  There’s another one.  

]]> By: remainzz http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1576031 remainzz Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1576031 amen amen

]]> By: chris coreline http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575942 chris coreline Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575942 The Fibonacci Everywhere fallacy, along with Santa Claus and Common Human Decency are all 'scientifically dis-proven myths i still believe in because their awesome' The Fibonacci Everywhere fallacy, along with Santa Claus and Common Human Decency are all ‘scientifically dis-proven myths i still believe in because their awesome’

]]> By: Ladyfingers http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575914 Ladyfingers Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575914  I believe there's a mawkish Bette Midler song that would be an appropriate corollary to this statement.  I believe there’s a mawkish Bette Midler song that would be an appropriate corollary to this statement.

]]> By: Oskar http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575897 Oskar Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575897 Exactly. Everybody needs to read this article, and stop finding Fibonacci numbers everywhere:  http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm Exactly. Everybody needs to read this article, and stop finding Fibonacci numbers everywhere:  http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

]]> By: Ladyfingers http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575884 Ladyfingers Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575884  THC?  THC?

]]> By: Tim Westbrook http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575870 Tim Westbrook Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575870 skeptoid did a "not everything is the golden ratio" including the famous nautilus shell example I always think of.  skeptoid did a “not everything is the golden ratio” including the famous nautilus shell example I always think of. 

]]> By: Boundegar http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575836 Boundegar Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575836 It is the Elder Sign!  Ia!  Ia! It is the Elder Sign!  Ia!  Ia!

]]> By: politeruin http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575820 politeruin Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575820  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3FvtMSUeLk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3FvtMSUeLk

]]> By: awjt http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575816 awjt Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575816 The best, man.  My 8th grade social studies teacher, Mr. Takhar, would say, "I'm on a natural high.  Best kind of high there is." The best, man.  My 8th grade social studies teacher, Mr. Takhar, would say, “I’m on a natural high.  Best kind of high there is.”

]]> By: Anon_Mahna http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575813 Anon_Mahna Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575813  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYi07EhENJI  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYi07EhENJI

]]> By: Robert Drop http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575801 Robert Drop Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575801 And yet it still manages to be more of a Fibonacci spiral than most supposed examples.  People like to claim all sorts of things adhere to the golden ratio, but they almost never actually do.  Usually they're not even remotely close. And yet it still manages to be more of a Fibonacci spiral than most supposed examples.  People like to claim all sorts of things adhere to the golden ratio, but they almost never actually do.  Usually they’re not even remotely close.

]]> By: Alex Hill http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575795 Alex Hill Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:57:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575795 Isn't reality beautiful? Isn’t reality beautiful?

]]> By: HorsePunchKid http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575790 HorsePunchKid Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575790 That's pretty much what I thought when I saw this. How far off from a golden spiral could you make the spiral and still have it look like it "fits"? I played with it briefly in Inkscape and found I could make all kinds of unrelated spirals that looked more or less like they fit, though I don't know how its parameters correspond to the golden ratio. That’s pretty much what I thought when I saw this. How far off from a golden spiral could you make the spiral and still have it look like it “fits”? I played with it briefly in Inkscape and found I could make all kinds of unrelated spirals that looked more or less like they fit, though I don’t know how its parameters correspond to the golden ratio.

]]> By: Elipsis http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575762 Elipsis Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575762 Cool picture, but it doesn't fit. It's a spiral, just not a fibonacci spiral. The right side misses inside, the  left side misses outside, and the center could be anything. Cool picture, but it doesn’t fit. It’s a spiral, just not a fibonacci spiral. The right side misses inside, the  left side misses outside, and the center could be anything.

]]> By: GawainLavers http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575740 GawainLavers Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575740 Conclusive proof that it's all part of God's plan to derail Mitt Romney.  Right?  Right? Conclusive proof that it’s all part of God’s plan to derail Mitt Romney.  Right?  Right?

]]> By: Ryan_T_H http://boingboing.net/2012/11/06/hurricane-sandys-fibonacci-g.html#comment-1575739 Ryan_T_H Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=192574#comment-1575739 This is just plain neat This is just plain neat

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