Strange Hexagonal cloud formation at Saturns North Pole

I saw this and thought I'd share, is there a Hexagonal Structure at the north pole of Saturn ?


New Scientist

Once more, our Science trips over a total mystery right here in our own backyard — it's as if we wake up in a new world every day, a world in which our Science can't really account for anything. We've known about the existence of this hexagonal thing on Saturn for damned near 30 years, but we still can't fathom what it is.

Yet our Science speaks with authority of cosmological curiosities such as big bangs, black holes, quasars, gamma bursts, et cetera, billions of light years further away from us than Saturn. Chances are, since our Science doesn't have a clue about the planets in our own solar system, they have much less than a clue about the rest of the universe.

So, next time you're watching one of those "Birth of the Universe" programs on Discovery or the Science Channel, just remind yourself: It's pure fiction, we know less than nothing about our universe.

— Doc Velocity

[edit on 3/30/2007 by Doc Velocity]

Originally posted by Doc Velocity
Once more, our Science trips over a total mystery right here in our own backyard — it's as if we wake up in a new world every day, a world in which our Science can't really account for anything. We've known about the existence of this hexagonal thing on Saturn for damned near 30 years, but we still can't fathom what it is.

Yet our Science speaks with authority of cosmological curiosities...

It's probably a standing wave form in a gaseous atmosphere. We just don't have confirming data or a thorough understanding.

You may want to read up on scientific philosophy and how the scientific method works. Scientist often speak about a theory in a matter of fact way because philosophically, it as real as one can get.

By the way... if science can't account for anything...what are you typing on? Can you build a computer without science and engineering?

I agree, completely. Human Beings have only been on this earth for about one million years - give or take a few million. What makes us think that we know OUR OWN PLANET, never mind the COSMOS. We think we are so clever in our answers to questions that cannot be answered. This is our vanity showing through, once again.

Pretty extensive conversation about this going on over at this thread-
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Check it out.

Originally posted by Quest
It's probably a standing wave form in a gaseous atmosphere. We just don't have confirming data or a thorough understanding.

Well, "probably" ain't Science. Scientific knowledge is either fact or or it's pure hypothesis. Scientific fact isn't about consensus agreement (or it shouldn't be) — if there's even 1% doubt, it shouldn't be presented as scientific fact. This is true for "the big bang," "ozone depletion," "manmade global warming," and any number of other hypotheses that are regularly trotted out to the public and deliberately mislabled as "scientific fact."

Originally posted by Quest
You may want to read up on scientific philosophy and how the scientific method works. Scientist often speak about a theory in a matter of fact way because philosophically, it as real as one can get.

Scientific philosophy? You're right, I'd better read up on that. As far as I know, Science is the pursuit of fact, and philosophy is the pursuit of truth. Two entirely different pursuits. Science is far more difficult, in that you must not only prove your case, you must also disprove your own case until it can be disproven no more. Scientists often speak about their theories as fact because it's convenient for gathering consensus support (and government funding).

Particularly in the areas of astronomy and planetology, we're talking about pure theory and very little in the way of fact.

Originally posted by Quest
By the way... if science can't account for anything...what are you typing on? Can you build a computer without science and engineering?

I can build a computer with a few bamboo rods and ceramic beads. I bet you could, too. Long before the advent of Science and the scientific method, the ancient Greeks built highly complex computers, and we're still trying to determine how they did it (see Antikythera Mechanism for more on this). Thousands of years earlier, our stone-age ancestors were building computers with piles of rock, supposedly to calculate the seasons of planting and harvest.

A computer is simply a rough analogy of the human brain, and we've been building them since before we knew how to write. It goes without saying, they're still not perfect, and our best computer technology today will be looked upon as retarded child's play in the not so distant future.

— Doc Velocity

Chalk up one for science and the universe

This is an interesting topic but it is already discussed in another thread...as mentioned above

This has been posted twice before:

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Very interesting, though.