Didn't anyone see 2010? That's a big STOP sign...someone doesn't want us exploring any further out.

There's got to be a Jesus or a Virgin Mary in there somewhere.

No Steve, that skull IS a Jesus.

Muahahaha!!

Hold my beer.

I wonder what the Velikovsky-ites are making of it.

What, it's metric? Aw, I hate working on these foreign models.

My theory is that it is not a hexagon but instead a static sine wave of 6 wave lengths. We see it as a hexagon because it is mapped on a circle. I created this image using the polar coordinates filter in photoshop Attachment 12224

Nice! I agree.

Slight that is an awesome explanation, thanks!

But what about the skulls?

Well, this was an interesting conversation, until Slight got all serious and fucked it up...

(Seriously...that's awesome...I never would have thought of that. Of course, I hated trig.)

Wait, Photoshop has a polar coordinates filter? What's next? Path integrals?

A skull filter.

So what causes a 60 mile high sine wave around the pole? Does it extend to, or close to, the surface? Is the cloud mass greater, closer to the pole, causing a sine wave where the boundary lies?

That's the trouble with space, or science in general, every time you come up with a good answer, it just creates more questions.

It's not a sine wave. It's the result of the viscous fluid (the atmosphere) lagging behind the spinning container (the planet)*. The shape is a ... mathematical coincidence. Rather, our perception of some meaningful pattern is the coincidence. The shape is just the math and physics.



* Or just lagging compared to the parts of the atmosphere that are spinning at different rates. Similar phenomena have been observed in the eyes of terrestrial hurricanes. I provided a good link above.



edit: No, I haven't recently returned from a vacation on Saturn, Uranus (or anyone else's for that matter... ha ha)