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2007-03-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Mysterious hexagon spotted above Saturn (this is cool)

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Posted by Slomons Ebbomoth2581 2007-03-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gas planets aren't gaseous???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-29 00:35|| 2007-03-29 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Joe, so you were being literal! And I thought my babelfish is broken! ;-)

I can explain the hexagon -- interference pattern -- six standing waves that meet in the polar region, but can't explain the source of waves. ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-03-29 01:07|| 2007-03-29 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 My guess, A huge active volcano on the surface, belching it's product by a factor of 6 on Saturn's geosynchronous rotation! The size of this polar volcano, probable the first to be discovered in the solar system in the future is as big; as Mt Everest is to an ant mound. The 'lines' may be caused by a "suction hiccup" from the flue, or a rotational 'pause' of the entire surface of the planet from the backkick! Hey, it happened to Earth during that last tsunami for a fraction of a second!!

Posted by smn 2007-03-29 01:09|| 2007-03-29 01:09|| Front Page Top

#4 You guys are so weird. It's just a giant stop sign for UFOs before they hit the outer solar system. Duh.

Posted by gorb 2007-03-29 02:02|| 2007-03-29 02:02|| Front Page Top

#5 OMG, it's the Mother-Ship with Kloud-Kloaking!

Posted by RD 2007-03-29 02:18|| 2007-03-29 02:18|| Front Page Top

WANTED FOR QUESTIONING.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-03-29 02:23|| 2007-03-29 02:23|| Front Page Top

#7 SMN, Saturn is a gas giant. There is no rocky "surface" for there to be a volcano on. Just different levels of gas compression, until you come to the point where gas congeals.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-03-29 03:52|| 2007-03-29 03:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Mizzou, actually, some astronomers presume a solid core, possibly rocky, with inner core in hot, semi-liquid state. The main reason is that the planet outputs more enegy than it receives from sun.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-03-29 04:02|| 2007-03-29 04:02|| Front Page Top

#9 A regular shape like a hexagon can only be designed by intelligence, and it is clearly an inefficient use of energy, which will probably accellerate the heat death of the universe. Saturn must be made to understand the error of its ways. Al Gore must go there immediately, on a sacred mission to have Saturn sign the Kyoto protocol. Show them a movie or something. Or else, I will simply be unable to cope.

/Moonbat viewpoint

Posted by Bunyip 2007-03-29 04:10|| 2007-03-29 04:10|| Front Page Top

#10 When I saw that picture, giant honey bees came to mind. There are many naturally occurring geodesic formations on earth; so why not in outer space or on other planets? Still, I like the idea of sending Al Gore to Saturn as an emissary.

Posted by GK 2007-03-29 05:30|| 2007-03-29 05:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Hexagons instead of circles in situations of crowding are quite common in nature. Someone else already mentioned honeycombs. Another example is fish nests when the population density is high (sunfish have been known to do this).

Perhaps there is some general paradigm which applies here.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-03-29 06:50|| 2007-03-29 06:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, not sure that can be applied here. We have one single element here (the nesting does not count--it i still a single element), we would have more hexagons present side-by-side if crowding was the case.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-03-29 07:01|| 2007-03-29 07:01|| Front Page Top

#13 I for one welcome our new hexagonal overlords.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-29 07:36|| 2007-03-29 07:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Since man landed on the moon Allah had to move somewhere....

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-03-29 08:34|| 2007-03-29 08:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Reminds me of the standing waves that result from sending vibrations through a liquid. Although on this scale it would have to be VERY low frequency (I think) and I have no idea what would make a planet vibrate.

Posted by phil_b 2007-03-29 09:55|| 2007-03-29 09:55|| Front Page Top

#16 WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!! THE GREY ALIEN INVASION IS COMING!! IT IS ALL BUSH'S FAULT!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-29 09:55|| 2007-03-29 09:55|| Front Page Top

#17 ..and allan said: A hex be upon you.

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2007-03-29 10:57|| 2007-03-29 10:57|| Front Page Top

#18 It's the socket for the Allen Wrench so that the rings can be removed.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-03-29 11:18|| 2007-03-29 11:18|| Front Page Top

#19 Deacon, I think you've got it!

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-03-29 11:33|| 2007-03-29 11:33|| Front Page Top

#20 I vote for Deacon's theory.

Posted by Mike 2007-03-29 12:48|| 2007-03-29 12:48|| Front Page Top

#21 Deacon: SAE or Metric threads and are they LH or RH?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-03-29 14:28|| 2007-03-29 14:28|| Front Page Top

#22 Deacon's got that engineers eyeball. That's gotta be what it is.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-29 14:45|| 2007-03-29 14:45|| Front Page Top

#23 SAE Left Hand.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-03-29 16:24|| 2007-03-29 16:24|| Front Page Top

#24 LOL!!

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-03-29 16:45|| 2007-03-29 16:45|| Front Page Top

#25 Man, oh man, am I going to be listening (and visiting the websites) to what George Noory and Richard Hoagland have to say about this little bit of mystery (The Enterprise Mission article on the moon Enceladus is fascinating).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-29 18:17|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-29 18:17|| Front Page Top

#26 "A regular shape like a hexagon can only be designed by intelligence" Like the Giant's Causeway off the coast of Northern Ireland?

Posted by Phealet Hitler6959 2007-03-29 18:23|| 2007-03-29 18:23|| Front Page Top

#27 Its obviously a STARGATE !

Posted by JohnnieBartlett 2007-03-29 18:37|| 2007-03-29 18:37|| Front Page Top

#28 I watched the movie. The entire thing rotates, although slowly. I saw darker 'streamers" moving from the "corners" toward the inner formation, which looked layered. Some pretty cool stuff, I admit. Reminds me of one of my favorite websites.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-29 20:05|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-29 20:05|| Front Page Top

#29 Brain Storm this people, imagine a bath tub full of mucky water rotating clockwise, while it's drain plug has been 'pulled'. The funnel affect of that water being siphoned down counter clockwise while looking straight down into the vortex (ie, drain) would look remarkable like the phenomena we see on top of Saturn. The "hex lines" would have to be caused by some type of factor 6 reverse pressure; and the person who figures out that 6 factor will be the one on the newspaper frontpage.

Posted by smn 2007-03-29 23:38|| 2007-03-29 23:38|| Front Page Top

#30 By the way, without any 'back pressure' at all, you would have affectation similar to a "visible" black hole, a perfectly circular event horizon, which this isn't.

Posted by smn 2007-03-29 23:45|| 2007-03-29 23:45|| Front Page Top

#31 Looks like Saturn is off its nut.

Posted by Cromert 2007-03-29 23:57|| 2007-03-29 23:57|| Front Page Top

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