Now THAT is interesting! I'd have to vote for that being it, unless there's no way to form that nice hexagon with Bohr's polygons. Or maybe if the formations require the boundary drag of the container walls.

Bohr says they don't know why the figures form, I wonder if in the end it ends up being resonant pressure nodes like a Chladni pattern. That would be fun to investigate.

For exp. regarding honeycomb structure - it is said that is ideal for containing max amount of honey with min amount of wax needed for structure! it was proved around 2000 that hex grid is the best way to divide the surfice into regions being equal with the list total parameter.

So, polygons are close packed world - min. spacing in bee twin - maybe nature is economizing! No waste!

A hexagon has six sides, and Saturn is the sixth planet from our sun. May be just a coincidence, maybe a pentagon will show up on Jupiter.

There really is quite a bit of terrific information being shed here. I was unaware of the majority.
Now, with the vibrations/rotations needed to create the anomolies, isn't it intriguing that these conditions are in place and don't seem to alter over time on Saturn?

Is it possible that perhaps the rings have something to do with it?

The Chladni effect in liquids, is, IIRC, dependent on several variables, one of which is the density and viscosity of the medium. I'd also lay bets that is true for Bohr's polygons.

So maybe what you're seeing is something you can only observe if the variables are all in a pretty narrow band, and Saturn's currently there.

First thing that comes to mind is the current warming trend throughout the Solar system. Maybe the gases need to be warmed a bit before the formation occurs.

Originally posted by Tom Bedlam

First thing that comes to mind is the current warming trend throughout the Solar system. Maybe the gases need to be warmed a bit before the formation occurs.

Tom, your info is great - nice job, and thank you.
As far as the current warming trend throughout the solar system goes. Voyagers 1 & 2 saw this more than 20 years ago, so I would have to assume that it's really a non factor here. But who knows?

Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
I look upon this more from a spiritual perspective than a "natural" perspective. However, since everyone seems to be focussing on the possible "natural" causes of this enigma, I have to say that one must understand that geometric shapes make up physicality itself.

Every corpuscle in our body is nothing more or less than a conglomeration of geometric shapes. The saying that: "God is a geometer," has alot of truth to it. If one looks at the basic structure of any natural object, he/she will find it is nothing more or less than a conglomeration of geometric shapes.

I think there is a diagram about this topic, once i remember where I saw it I will post it or send you the link.

Originally posted by lombozo
Tom, your info is great - nice job, and thank you.
As far as the current warming trend throughout the solar system goes. Voyagers 1 & 2 saw this more than 20 years ago, so I would have to assume that it's really a non factor here. But who knows?

Given the bulk of the thing, I'd imagine that Saturn would take a while to heat up even a little. And maybe it had to rise a few degrees, and just now got there.

Originally posted by defcon5

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Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
Almost looks like a Chladni pattern. Maybe the winds hit the right note!

This is the neatest answer I have seen for this so far, excellent thinking Tom…
Maybe its not that the winds have hit the right note, but rather some sort of vibration is causing it. Isn’t there a natural vibration, which we call a frequency, to all radiated energy? So has something changed in that vibration either on the planet or in space? Could this be an effect from a change in radiated energy since the Suns magnetic poles shifted? Could this be related to the changes in other planets that many folks attribute to the solar system warming?

Interesting idea, interesting topic, anyone here have any thoughts along this line?

You know you can make the same patterns in water by placing a bucket full of it on the metal plate shown above and submitting it to varying frequencies. The gas giants are the same as a big bucket of water; they are gases that as they get denser further in, become liquid, and possibly solids toward the middle. So basically we are looking at the same kind of set up were the planet is the bucket of water, and the solar system is the metal plate.


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Thank you Tom Bedlam and Defcon5. A Chlandi pattern is a very good beginning explanation for this phenomenom. Thank you for thinking about this a little instead of taking the easy way out by crying "alien intelligence".

I personally find these natural explanations much more interesting than the lazy old explanations involving ET's.

I thought this was very cool when I first saw it the other day and kept trying to get my head around how it could form naturally. I pictured a significant wobble to the planets polar tilt that would cause that particular mixing of the atmosphere. I also thought about the older images of some of the rings that showed a sort of braiding of one of the rings. How it seemed to spiral about itself, and that made me think of a planetary wobble. Now that I have seen the link posted by Thain that shows a hexagon formed in spinning water. I am convinced that is at the heart of the answer. Great find Thain!!!!

As for the posting stating that the hexagonal rocks were affected by bacteria.... Those are Basalt crystals. Sometimes Basalt forms in long columns that are hexagonal in cross section. Devils Tower is a great example of this. It is totally natural and can be found in several locations around the globe.

I am thinking the source for this phenomenon is harmonics of some kind, possibly resonating from deep within the planet a resonating vibration in a consistent tone?

It is odd, and the more you think about it, the more mind boggling it can become.

Fascinating is the best description I can give it.

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Originally posted by blue bird
Hexagonal Ice- is in the form of all natural snow and ice on Earth , as evidenced in the six-fold symmetry in ice crystals grown from water vapor.

Ice being a solid. You don't get the water to form that shape in nature.

The wind which forms this hexagon, is also not a solid.

A glass of room temperature water will never form a complex geometric shape unless there is something to change it's natural fluid form. Same for the wind.

Im not doubting there are natural formations of geometric shapes, but just disputing the opinion that this is an example.

The closest thing so far I've seen that could lead me to believe this, is that youtube video of the chladni pattern.

Humm, i had no idea that this was happening on Saturn.

Interesting indeed. Thanks for the link.