Thread 16708401

W-why?

>>16708401 (OP)
resonance or something

Rossby waves AKA planetary waves which are waves formed by the rotation of a planet. Gas giants like Saturn are have an outer layer of gas, an inner layer of liquid, and a core of metal and rock. Jet streams are currents of air that form from warm and cold air at the poles and the rotation of the planet creates planetery waves that stabilize it into this shape.

>>16708431

>Gas giants like Saturn have* an outer layer of gas, an inner layer of liquid, and a core of metal and rock.

Despite the name, gas giants like Saturn are mostly liquid. Jupiter and Saturn are mostly liquid hydrogen with a solid core and gaseous outer layer.

Not suitable for colonization, but can potentially be used as a source of fuel via atmospheric mining for fusion power. If we can solve fusion power, the cost of extracting the fuel would be greatly outweighed by the power generated from it.

>>16708433

The universe has many such gas giants and the ability to tap them for fuel can be useful for colonizing outer space. If we do not colonize planets beyond Earth, the human race will be destroyed by the expansion of the sun.

>>16708434
>the human race will be destroyed by the expansion of the sun
And it's terrifyingly close on an evolutionary timescale. Only about 500 million years before Earth is uninhabitable even for bacteria, much less for most other organisms. Then consider that complex life has only been around for 400 million years or so. We're halfway through and with only one sentient species ever produced it's not improbable that humanity is the only chance for Earth's biological progeny to survive

>>16708433
Just gotta figure out that pesky escape velocity

>>16708591
>what is gravity assist
We just need some immigrant workers holding to sit on a rope ladder attached to our spacecraft baka

I think that hexagon was recreated in a computer simulation simulating the atmosphere of Saturn

>>16708401 (OP)
Dr. Grugstein here
Grugstein see that very small thing like hexagon shape, Grugstein call thing benzene or smell compound
Grugstein see that medium thing also like hexagon shape, when Grugstein look at pretty rock of quartz and basalt prism column
So Grugstein not shocked when very big thing in fluffy sky ball also like hexagon shape. Hexagon shape very popular, Grugstein think

>>16708580
The first civilization emerged in modern Iraq about 6,000 years ago. 500 million years is an extremely long timescale in the context of human history. 6,000 years from ziggurats to spaceships, in 10,000 years our history will have doubled. We are already on the edge of establishing a colony on Mars. I believe it is certainly feasible and not terrifying at all.

>>16708580
Just shoot some dehydrated bdelloid rotifers into space. If you chuck enough of them out there, some are bound to land on water eventually. Bitches laugh at cosmic radiation and can revive after being desiccated for 24,000 years.

>>16708434
>the human race will be destroyed by the expansion of the sun.
It's cute how so many people think humans will still be around even a few 1k years from now, let alone in 500 million

>>16708949
What will cause human extinction in <1k years?
>hard mode: no singularity

>>16708949
Humanity has existed for 300k years, saying that we will die in 1k from now seems a little premature, dont you think?

>>16709139
Ask your grandson.

>>16708401 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQzLY17ncWM
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hexagon+in+lab

The ancients made complex myths and theology out of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH4qpLfzyac

>>16709603
sci will never be able to talk about this
mere coincidence, apparently

>>16709603
the video never explains why it's a hexagon as opposed to any other regular polygon or just a circle.

>>16708949
2 more weeks

>>16709876
of course it doesn't, if it did the jew's secret would be out of the bag.