space.com — One of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole.Rather than the normally sinuous cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this thing is a hexagon.
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Closed AccountMar 28, 2007
The square of 1,2 and 3. It is also alluded to in the book that those dimentions extend to the squares of subsequent numbers.
ottoMar 28, 2007
Yeah yeah yeah!
benlindelofMar 28, 2007
Here's what it looks like... 3 axis of some force (magnetic?)... all 3 circle the planet...At the pole, looks to me like the force is pulling the normal circular storms out, near where the 3 axis meet.Also I saw an image of 5-sided effect like this by spinning water. Perhaps this a wave that we are seeing, a wave that is curved around in a circle... looks pretty natural to me.
peter303Mar 28, 2007
Giant snowflake?Water crystals have hexagonal symmetry.
jengaMar 28, 2007
@raithetarkon: Actually, it is. Fluid spinning on a rotating table is the standard method of experimentally simulating both atmospheric and oceanic processes in which coriolis forces play a major part. It is best suited to modeling polar regions... precisely what this effect on saturn is. If you look through a number of links posted in this topic by other diggers, you will find that the effect has been predicted by this exact experiment.
antebiosMar 28, 2007
I bet you Richard Hoagland has something to say about this.
mottersMar 28, 2007
I'm bracing myself for the mad rush of conspiracy theorists, saucer cultists and tales of alien abduction ("they took me to Saturn..."). David Icke is on standby.
knotmylineMar 29, 2007
It is the nut that holds the planet together. Please do not loosen it!
fixedcomaMar 29, 2007
The design that is seen frozen in the methane -ntrogen ice is actually the frequency of the planet, thats what frequency its giving off, kind of like the experiment when the guy poured rice on the sound speaker and changed frequencies... the planet is running a low wavelength therefore crystallizing the frequency into the ice cap like a snowflake that is constantly recreating itself to the frequency of the planet.
waterdragonApr 7, 2007
I've seen these hexagons in many movies. it is usually a part of the lens that causes it.
tuaregoramaMay 17, 2007
Wow! I've always liked posts like that. Dugg.