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Ninja and Pirate and Raindogs apparently are on the Vindimonitors but Safety is uninterested in saving them…

And I’ll leave this right here…

Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge. More abstractly and more precisely, it may be taken to ask whether specified axioms of Euclidean geometry concerning the existence of lines and circles entail the existence of such a square.

In 1882, the task was proven to be impossible, as a consequence of the Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem which proves that pi (π) is a transcendental, rather than an algebraic irrational number; that is, it is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients.

The expression “squaring the circle” is sometimes used as a metaphor for trying to do the impossible.