The Uplifted Planet

Agriculture viewed from above is always impressive. The endless rows and columns of crops as seen from the highway give way to the geometric considerations of grander consequences.  The patchwork landscape of an engineered world present polygon after interlocking polygon as far as the eye can see, which is pretty far when seen from above.

Interestingly and often interspersed in the polygons the sky bound observer spies shapes who require pi for figuring interspersed in the polygons. Irrigation is decidedly the driving force for the shapes of these crop circles. A centrally attached access for water to flow through spokes outward across the radius of the field via a crawling pinwheel of wheels and pipes. This arrangement brings water to all reaches of the tended field.

Yet the clipped corners of the quadrilateral plots lay fallow under farmer induced drought causing the observer to wonder what metric won the day when determining the design. More crop, more crops covered in water, more crops, more crops covered in what more crop, more crops covered in water….

And then the Rockies erupt from the ground and all thoughts of agriculture fade away.