Comments on: Saturn’s Hexagon

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:39:12 +0000

Oh, and Ted’s comment FTW.

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:38:56 +0000

“Perhaps Josh means anamorphic lens flare, which is not in nature, but the nature of light recording on film.”

Actually, I presume he’s talking about still-camera lens flare or the apparent shape of points of light in unfocused areas of a photo, but I wanted to make sure before explaining that such phenomena are due to the shape of the aperture.

By: ted

ted — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:48:20 +0000

I’m just waiting for the giant Allen key to show up, so we can open this thing.

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:12:48 +0000

On a more serious note:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rotating-Water-Gives-Rise-to-Geometric- Figures-23640.shtml

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:44:40 +0000

The Giant Hexagon- A forcefield that the Saturnians have erected to create a lasting summer-climate…

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:25:12 +0000

Perhaps Josh means anamorphic lens flare, which is not in nature, but the nature of light recording on film.

By: Wes

Wes — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:15:39 +0000

Unfocused light is hexagonal? Eh?

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:18:14 +0000

Hexagons appear in nature all of the time. Be it unfocused light or snowflakes. This could be just something like that.

But I will stay with my idea of there could be something there. It is always more interesting.

By: TomB

TomB — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:44:13 +0000

Its Well World (Jack L. Chalker introduced a world full of HEXes in the Midnight at the Well of Souls, 1977)

By: Luna

Luna — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:59:51 +0000

By: Cola

Cola — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:38:45 +0000

Dude, it’s not their responsibility to explain everything to you.

Science isn’t about knowing everything, it’s about a ton of hard work and often finding out all your previous assumptions were crap every time new data presents itself. NASA, not being staffed by wizards and psychics, is not the end all be all of astronomical science. Why do people freak out when scientists admit they don’t know everything? Scientists never pretend they do. Is this some kind of lingering resentment over the discovery of germs? Do people just hate bathing?

Although I’m sure you just thought you were being clever in casting your aspersions. Don’t let me spoil your fun with my reason and logic.

By: Lnothing7

Lnothing7 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:38:48 +0000

also hexagons “tessellate”. the sum of all the angles in the shape add up to 360 degrees, so you can put them side by side and they can be repeated infinitly like triangles and squares. cool

i like that “6th planet furthest from our sun” pretty sneaky universe.

By: Lnothing7

Lnothing7 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:31:39 +0000

fractals, look it up

By: Dude

Dude — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:26:51 +0000

Never A Straight Answer

By: Wellin Fact

Wellin Fact — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:44:36 +0000

Remember, this is a six sided figure and Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun.
Co-incidence?

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:38:28 +0000

The existence of polygonal circumpolar vortices has been observed on Earth as well, and has recently been duplicated in the laboratory: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34136

By: emmakate

emmakate — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:03:47 +0000

This doesn’t really surprise me, considering how often you see hexagons in nature. Like even when you see a glint of sunlight and it’s a six-sided star shape, so I think it’s just another natural phenomenon. But I could be wrong

By: Shurik

Shurik — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:34:01 +0000

hax