11 Dec
2002
11 Dec
'02
11:26 a.m.
You might be amused that the Fibonacci sequence made a cameo appearance last night on the SciFi Channel's "Steven Spielberg Presents Taken" mini-series (a well-produced junk-science UFO drama a la "X Files", "Close Encounters" etc). I wasn't quite following the random dialog, but it got my attention when one of the characters scribbled 1 1 2 5 8 13 on a pad and held it up, mentioning that each is the sum of the two previous. Then there was something about 55 (number of landing sites?) and finally they claim that there were exactly 46368 alien abductees, exulting "24th Fibonacci!"