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MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• 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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    • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But why hexagon and not a circle

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      • underreacting@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Laws of Physics. Also aliens. (Aliens created physics).

        Ps. I’d also like to know the answer.

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      • MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Circles are hard to render. It’s why we don’t have perfect spheres. Labs can only get “close to perfect”.

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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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They would never be so obvious

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