WHY???

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because hexagons are the bestagons.

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  • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the only answer i’ll ever need

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  • RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    SUPER BESTAGON

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    • not_so_handsome_jack@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      BEGIN

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  • Matty_r@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bestagons, Roll out!

    wait…

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    !lemmygold

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• MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If only there was a Wikipedia article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon?wprov=sfti…

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  • Evolushan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Test apparatus from Oxford article:

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    Resulting hexagons observed:

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    This is on my phone hope the text is readable.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tl;Dr

    “Why is it a hexagon”

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    • MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Atmosphere outside hexagon spins faster than atmosphere inside hexagon

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  • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    either that, or

    Giorgio A. Tsoukalos “aliens guy” meme, no text

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    • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They would never be so obvious

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• y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL all the Civilization maps are on Saturn

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  • ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only after civilization 3

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    • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      *civ 4.

      5 was the first one with a hex grid

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which is still my favorite for some reason

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    • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      4… But I assumed a typo

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  • NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That makes sense…

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    god playing settlers of catan here…

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• ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s less weird when you realize it’s not a hexagon, it’s a sine wave in cylindrical coordinates. There are a lot of negative feedback loops such that a sine wave can turn into a standing wave. You just have to get a little lucky with a couple important things like your rossby number et voila, hexagon.

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    this.English()

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    • hayvan@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image Take this, bend it around the pole so it becomes circular.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here’s a better visualization from Minute Physics idea how these “wave” patterns can make geometric shapes, using the fact that Earth’s moon doesn’t make a smooth circle around the sun.

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcxuM-qXec

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That doesn’t sound less weird.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s where all the 10mm sockets end up

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only the six point ones.

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wat

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was just thinking of popping out my hex set so I can pop open Saturn

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• Icytrees@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s bees.

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  • g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its always bees

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unless it’s Bees.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But never lupus

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because hexagon is bestagon!

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Excelentagon.

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• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because Saturn is Catan.

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Base game got boring, I recommend the Ringfarers expansion.

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    • Bleys@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Somewhat topically, Terraforming Mars clears

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TLDR That’s what happens when circles get squished together.

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• MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Things like Hexagons and the golden spiral occurring in nature are interesting - but very well-travelled.

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  • NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    And I don’t mean she travels a lot. -Bender Bending Rodriguez

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• antrosapien@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lazy rendering

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d like to file a bug report, the texture wrapping is broken

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• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because storms want to be circles but any given gas giants atmosphere is basically a series of nothing but storms and when you tile circles you get a hexagonal grid due to the spaces in between them?

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  • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So it’s a soccer ball

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• naught101@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Standing wave. Earth kind of has one in the jet stream (3 peaks and troughs though, usually), but you can’t see it with visible light.

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• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aguiar, Ana C. Barbosa, et al. “A laboratory model of Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon.” Icarus 206.2 (2010): 755-763.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Get out of here with your real answers. 😜

    I think the actual answer even with this source is, we sort of have some clues, but we have more questions too.

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• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is because this is how these things do be. QED.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If only we could see other natural hexagons somewhere

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  • bestelbus22@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To better understand how nature doesn’t always make smooth circles out of circular patterns, this Minute Physics video does a banger job using the Earth’s moon as an example.

  For saturn, you’re talking about storm patterns, but the concept is somewhat similar, which is that forces acting on objects (storms) can arrange circles into wave-like shapes.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcxuM-qXec

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• Bonus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hexagons are just nature’s way of making arrays of triangles.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What, you want to tighten the axis with a torx?

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A T10^4

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• ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Based on what I recall of the explanation by the person who figured it out: spinning makes fluid near the edge spin faster than fluid near the middle. The difference in speed creates a wave. Since it’s finite and moving, the wave interferes with itself and because of math, makes a hexagon. Something about how the wave pattern changes density and brings different glasses to the surface on the planets.
  Then they showed an example by spinning a bucket, and it kinda fell flat because they had to explain that a bucket isn’t a sphere so you have to spin it just right to get it to work, but it did work in the end.

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• Ulvain@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because the fox made it into the henhouse.

  Now all the hexagon.

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• LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You get hexagons as well when you drill a countersink bit into plywood. Something something layers.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did not know that so I looked on Google.

    AI Overview That statement is incorrect. Drilling a countersink bit into plywood (or any wood) produces a smooth, conical hole, not a hexagonal one.

    Followed by every article talking about why the bits make hexagons, with videos and pictures.

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    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha I love AI! We’re so close to AGI I swear bro!

      Interesting, I’ve only had the hexagon thing happen to me in plywood, but it seems it can happen in regular wood as well.

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    • DempstersBox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Incredible.

      When my drill bits are super, super dull, they make smooth triangles. Like triangular shaped holes, with no true points or flat edges. If I get crooked while laying on it and drilling (not uncommon with a dull-ass bit) two lobes will stand out more clearly than the side I’m not leaning towards.

      Not hexagons, and sure as hell not cones.

      Now if they’re sharp, it’s just a fucking hole. Circular. Like they’re supposed to be

      Buy me new drill bits. for science

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• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like I just got goatsed by Saturn

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• Shaper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This was the topic of an awesome old web comic strip, I believe it was from smbc. It was a debate of two where one would simply state the existence of the hexagon, with increasing amounts of slurs. Banger.

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  • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those are not slurs lol

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