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>Hexagon on Saturn

EXPLAIN THIS BULLSHIT

>> No.1375914

Symetry is god.

>> No.1375915

HAIL SATAN.

>> No.1375919

That's no Saturn....

>> No.1375936

>>1375919
if you say space station I'll murder you in your sleep

>> No.1375941

HAIL SATURN.

>> No.1375952

1) Get a bucket
2) Fill it a little bit of water
3) Spin it
4) See at which frequency gives you a perfect hexagon
5) ?????
6) PROFIT!

>> No.1375953
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Saturn is a cool guy, he sees what you do and has a hexagon for a hat.

>> No.1375960

>>1375952
this

http://www.astroengine.com/?p=1583

article here explains it

>> No.1375972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eH8dJgJG-c

Cool video of glowy green dye, and hexagons in water.

>> No.1375980

Standing waves.

The real mindfuck are the odds of it happening to work out that way, but if it was going to happen somewhere it may as well have been Saturn.

>> No.1376024
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fETf1reWxQ

>> No.1376061

Got created the gas giants and he liked them, so he put rings on them. He likes his planets like he likes his women: big and gassy.

>> No.1376106

Hexagon is the most efficient packing shape. That's why honeycombs compress into hexagons.

>> No.1376115

I can make a hexagonal shape of spinning piss-foam if I piss into my toilet bowl at the right angle.

Hexagon on Saturn can be explained in terms of natural processes and jet streams.

It's not aliens or miracles.

>> No.1376150

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn#North_pole_hexagon_cloud_pattern

It's a storm or something.