Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn's North Pole

spidey07

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So the aliens from "Chicken Little" were correct. It's all in the hexagons.

The sky is falling!

Although there is a REASON why the hexigon is used so much in nature. Points for anybody that knows.
 

allies

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Hexagons accommodate for ring strain quite nicely, actually in a chair formation there is hardly any strain.
 

BrownTown

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Originally posted by: allies
Hexagons accommodate for ring strain quite nicely, actually in a chair formation there is hardly any strain.

this isn't a freakin sugar molocule dude its a giant ring of clouds.
 

Tiamat

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Originally posted by: allies
Hexagons accommodate for ring strain quite nicely, actually in a chair formation there is hardly any strain.

Thank god its not in the boat conformation, it would just explode.
 

BrownTown

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wtf do capacitors have to do with magnetic flux, and what do either have to do with this phenomenon?
 

XZeroII

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It's a joke that astronomers play on the public. Next they'll spend $5 billion getting a closeup and find that it's only an octagon or something.