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Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn's North Pole

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.
 
Hexagons accommodate for ring strain quite nicely, actually in a chair formation there is hardly any strain.
 
Originally posted by: allies
Hexagons accommodate for ring strain quite nicely, actually in a chair formation there is hardly any strain.
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this isn't a freakin sugar molocule dude its a giant ring of clouds.
 
Originally posted by: allies
Hexagons accommodate for ring strain quite nicely, actually in a chair formation there is hardly any strain.
Click to expand...

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