I'm not seeing anything on the moon. You'll have to point it out for me. |
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I was just looking at the most spectacular color image of the moon, and I couldn't help but notice the sheer number of Hexagonal and Pentagonal shaped craters. They are mostly Hexagonal, but there are even a few octogons scattered here and there. |
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I'm not seeing anything on the moon. You'll have to point it out for me. |
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I don't see them in the craters either. |
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I'm with the other guys; the craters are not hexagons in a way that goes beyond confirmation bias. |
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You guys really don't see them? Like I said, it's especially in the more eroded craters. Start with the largest discoloration patches, and then look at the eroded craters. |
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Last edited by The Cusp; 10-04-2008 at 03:15 AM.
Look, 3 of us didn't see shit, so you're just seeing them because you want to see them. Confirmation bias. |
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The shape of snowflakes depends on the shape of water molecules and the way they fit together. Crystallization is a process of patterns building off of each other from the very small on up. Although I don't know that a similar process happens with craters, I do know that when a meteor collides with the moon or the Earth, or any much larger body, the force of the impact melts the area where it hits, and so it could cause a crystallization of the minerals as they cool and re-solidify. |
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Last edited by Xaqaria; 10-04-2008 at 03:38 AM.
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Yeah, I don't see them either. |
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Because they are older, they probably came about when the moon had a liquid core. When a large object hit it it probably caused large splits in the crust which would spiderweb out. The craters would push out along these cracks causing flat sides. |
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The older craters seem to be more level, with less impact ridges. Whatever causes it, that's the general definition of geological erosion in that scenario. Sheesh! |
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Last edited by The Cusp; 10-04-2008 at 03:38 AM.
Actually no, the "fractal" (not fractal) shape of a snowflake is due to "branching instability" The hexagon happens because that is how water molecules bond together. |
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Last edited by Xaqaria; 10-05-2008 at 12:05 AM.
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You know what else looks like a hexagon? France! I smell a cover-up. |
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lol wishful thinking. Those craters are pretty fucking round if you ask me. Maybe some rocks lay in such a way it seems a bit like neat little snowflakes. Then again, you can see fucking faces on Mars. Yeah. If you look long enough, you can probably find a crater that looks like elvis. |
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Last edited by Neruo; 10-12-2008 at 05:10 PM.
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I see what you mean, though I have no clue as to why. |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
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There are no hexagons on the moon. A hundred craters or so and a couple look like they have roughly straight edges..? |
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Unexplained insofar as they don't know if their very plausible explanation is Saturn's explanation. It has been shown that hexagonal patterns can be formed in spinning buckets of water, so that would suggest that it's just a resonance between Saturn's rotation and the prevailing wind. |
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Observing hexagon patterns either in water or on Saturn is not explaining them, is it? |
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They're not. |
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http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000927/ |
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Seriously, what's there to refute? The craters aren't polygonal in any significant sense. What do you want me to do, draw a circle around them, because that's what you've done... (point: that isn't proof) |
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Necro this thread to post a possible explanation from the Harvard website: A new explanation for the hexagonal shape of lunar craters |
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