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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.

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    • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.

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      • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This whole time bees were drawing Satanic summoning circles, also originally known as Pagan fertility stars before Christians culturally appropriated it.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hexagons are the bestagons

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    • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m very happy this has caught on.

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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        though his how to solve traffic video is abysmal

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  • Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah yes, bestagons

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    • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes. Hexagons are the bestagons

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      • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The hexagreatest

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  • danielbln@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s… thats a fly, with stripes for some reason.

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    • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tiger fly

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are a lot of bees that look like flies. Check out mason bees.

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  • finkrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shove the babies in them! And barf on them!

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Obsessive Compulsive Beesorder?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, this is how I relate to bees.

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  • CJOtheReal@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bestagons

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  • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bugs love science, simple as

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boy that’s One Committed Bee!

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  • mtchristo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You mean they skipped 4. Pointed polygons and chosen a hexagon instead. What’s their problem with right angles.

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    • emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      C’mon man, don’t be a square.

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    • casino@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Less volume per unit of surface area

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  • Abracadaniel@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe the hexagonal tiling maximes area while minimizing perimeter, right?

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s just what happens when wax deforms from pressure. You can do the same thing with plastic straws, if you pack them tightly, or compress them with your hands.

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    • Abraxiel@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A circle should have the greatest area per perimeter and I can’t think of a regular polygon with more sides that tessellates.

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  • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting. I haven’t really connected hexagons and circles like this.

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    • Magnetar@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a whole thing in mathematics, in two or three dimensions, see en.wikipedia.org/…/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres

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      • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fascinating.

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  • maniel@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why does it look like a fly?

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    • paradiso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      sssshhhh is bee

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  • BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bees would be the best goddamn software architects…

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