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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s actually the prevailing theory. A hexagonal shape is the path of least resistance for the wind patterns on Saturn. It probably is really that simple.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If only we could see other natural hexagons somewhere

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unrelated though - that’s a packing efficiency thing.

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t think it’s completely unrelated though. I don’t claim to understand what’s actually going but seems to me that whatever winds are whipping about there could create fronts that are sort of similar as pressure as what happens with honeycombs. In one it’s just the cells themselves create the pressure whereas here it’s the giant planetwide storms.

        Idk.

        As a an interplanetary stormologist. Or a geometrisist.

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• bestelbus22@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Classic application of the “it is what it is” lemma.

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