Comments on: Hexagon Spotted on Saturn.

By: mrgoodbar

mrgoodbar — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:17:07 +0000

I doubt it has anything to do with the winds and more to do with some sort of extreme magnetic interference at the pole. Also this isn’t the fast swirling top clouds you’re seeing but a deeper, denser (and perhaps more stable) layer.

Nothing weird here that science can’t explain with some good theorizing and continued observations, but I bet the tin-foil and UFO kooks are having fun with it. Secret space base of the Third Reich, anyone?

By: beajerry

beajerry — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:49:36 +0000

It would be interesting to see how it changes over time.

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:23:25 +0000

@Amanda

I think they found it odd because of the way the extreme wind speeds are creating the hexagonal shape…that and it’s about 15,000 miles wide.

By: amanda

amanda — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:16:36 +0000

I don’t get why this is unusual. I mean snowflakes are ALL hexagons too, when you get down to it…and what about the golden mean, it’s everywhere. Certain matter behaves in certain fashion under pressures or during chemical processes. A geometric shape doesn’t imply abnormality at all.

By: Wah

Wah — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:16:35 +0000

Hexagons and circles are pretty similar. You can get the same effect by using a few diffuse light sources shining through circular holes. The shadows will be hexagons.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:45:24 +0000

This thing is a hexagon.

By: Sid

Sid — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:52:12 +0000

I’m guessing Xenu placed it there. If they can look closer, it will probably have the divisions of a Trivial Pursuit token.

Hail Xenu!