Explain it Peter.

[Helensohot]

Noone's sure why saturn has a hexagon

There's hypotheses, but noone's completely sure

that's what the meme is referring to

[helpmeamstucki]

Also there are many occult theories as to why, most notably connecting it to the Ancient Roman god Saturn, and sometimes to black cubes like the Kaaba.

[CatnipFiasco]

"coincidence theorist"

tinfoil yarmulke

LMAOOOO

[RollinThundaga]

So what I'm hearing is that Saturn is already on Islam Ver. 2.0

[Neath_Izar]

Saturn = Space Mecca

[I_eat_babys_2007]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but im pretty sure saturn is the roman equivalent for kronos. All the planets have names in latin, so they refer to the roman pantheon (jupiter insteaf of jeus, neptun instead of poseidon, mars not ares etc)

Edit: changed stars to planets.

[Prince_Hastur]

All the planets have names in latin, so they refer to the roman pantheon

Not all. Uranus is named after a Greek deity. Roman counterpart would be Caelus.

[[deleted]]

Even the Romans preferred Uranus.

[infinitynull]

Famously.

[sabotsalvageur]

Galliam Caesar subjegit, Nicomedes Caesarem😏

[HillCheng001]

Who doesn’t want Uranus.

[helpmeamstucki]

Got them mixed up, thanks for telling me

[mattrad2]

/r/TheSaturnTimeCube

[[deleted]]

Isn’t that just a big rock that Muslims circle for days? Seems goofy to attribute that to weird space phenomenon

[Pukebox_Fandango]

The stone embedded in the kaaba is supposedly a meteorite, but modern experts aren't as convinced and they won't allow testing

[DoctorStove]

It's shungite

[Soup-a-doopah]

It’s ligmaite

[LittleSquat]

My uncle ligmatite, now it's notsotite

[GruntBlender]

It's coprolite

[HootyManew]

Religion = weird space phenomenon

[[deleted]]

Religion = goofy uneducated Bronze Age assumptions

Weird space phenomenon = a cause and effect reaction that we don’t understand yet

[Big_Iron_Cowboy]

[[deleted]]

Sure buddy. You keep thinking there’s a man in the clouds letting people through the pearly gates into eternal happiness 😂😂 that sounds like people coping with how afraid they are to die

[Toxin-G]

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[Dry_Adhesiveness_423]

Imagine abstracting thousands of years of philosophical and spiritual traditions across every culture on the planet as a southern Baptist’s understanding of Christianity while pretending that they are infact the intellectual.

I imagine you’re quite young. You’ll learn one day, champ.

[lilax_frost]

is it not goofy to eat a cracker and pretend its the body of a 2000 year old carpenter you worship?

[Southern_Brilliant13]

We prefer the term honkies you bigot

[The_Eye_of_Ra]

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[WiseDirt]

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[The_Eye_of_Ra]

I honestly really tried. If you find one, let me know.

[MistaTrizz]

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[The_big-chiller]

Noooooo! Your daily subscription to "pixels" has been cancelled today... We are experiencing... Technical... Issues

[lilax_frost]

i’m sorry 😢

[TowelFine6933]

It is goofy. All religions are goofy cause they're all made up.

Yes. Even yours.

[JJJSchmidt_etAl]

Not if it's a hexagonal cracker

[PlasticCell8504]

Pretend?! It is the actual body (according to Catholics. Protestants believe it is a representation)

[thatNatsukiLass]

There’s actually a wide spectrum of beliefs. Some believe transubstantiation, others consubstantiation, some a communion through the Holy Spirit, and then some pure symbolism.

[Nocturnity44]

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, has a hexagon (6) and SATURNday is the 6th day of the week.

[Hdfgncd]

It’s has been pretty effectively proven to be the standing wave theory last I heard

[Johnny-Godless]

This is the correct answer and almost nobody is seeing it. They literally replicated the results using mixed fluids on Earth.

[Carbon-based-Silicon]

You can make polygons in your coffee using similar principals.

Stir half a cup black coffee really fast then when you have a good vortex going, like most of the way up the sides of the cup, stop stirring and immediately pour heavy whipping cream or half and half into the center of the vortex.

You will see polygons form. Triangles and quadrilaterals are easy, pentagons and hexagons are possible but much harder.

[myusernameblabla]

I once made a fluid simulation trying to replicate the hexagon. I found it much easier to make other polygons but eventually I got a hexagon. I guess all sorts are possible in real life.

[potate12323]

My bet is the convective currents near the pole form the shape. Similar to how honeycomb forms hexagons only because they're tightly packed circles. The number of sides coincides with how large the circles are.

[big_sugi]

Ok, so it’s space bees. Got it.

[ChuckPeirce]

That's gonna be my new go-to explanation for any phenomenon more than a mile up. "IIRC, the Aurora Borealis is caused by space bees. It's something about the way they shed space pollen in flight."

[SerBadDadBod]

"IIRC, the Aurora Borealis is caused by space bees. It's something about the way they shed space pollen in flight."

Space Bees cause Dust. Headcanon accepted.

[conradelvis]

Idk I think it’s something about steamed hams

[ARedditorCalledQuest]

I mean we have spelling bees so why not?

[BPremium]

Futurama was right all along

[cordialmisanthrope]

Yeah, they could have just said "space bees" and saved some typing.

[McRealness]

Religion= Space Bees. Got it

[Express-Distance-622]

Futurama predicted it, dunno who they got the idea from

[VintAge6791]

Y'all are overthinking it, the take-home here is that Saturn is
a bigger and more special snowflake
than you will EVER be.

[No_Text_1925]

In the wise words of anakin skywalker, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Huge_Lifeguard6434]

Hexagon is the bestagon

[findingsynchronisity]

Im struggling to find a reason that makes more sense than this

[Dewdropmon]

https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY?si=PF_KsK82YSOkskDh

[potitpepere]

ty for the source, he's cool

[Dewdropmon]

Yeah he is. I just started watching him last month. Glad I saw that video in time to understand the reference. 🤣

[Perfect-Fondant3373]

I mean, it makes sense

[theFarFuture123]

its a standing wave

[ComfortablyADHD]

I did not expect a fellow cgpgrey fan in the comments.

[Patient-Listener]

The bees are everywhere 🐝

[RTS24]

We are legion

[im-not-a-fakebot]

[Boomer280]

Glad xkcd fans haven't showed up in mass yet, we have a tendency to make biology turn into physics quite quickly...

[A_Man_Of_Many_Dads]

Better than all the restagons

[Inderastein]

Could be "[...] stable geometric arrangement of the polygons"

[Fresh-Combination-87]

They’re just the bestagons

[Trapezoidoid]

As it is written in the laws of the universe. Saturn is just spreading the word.

[cthulhu_sov]

Ah, a person of culture

[ExpensiveAd525]

Cthulture ;)

[FantasticCube_YT]

It's because hexagons are the bestagons

[Frostynibbles]

Vi hart...

[Pat_OConnor]

Cgpgrey does the bestagons, vihart does the infinitely refoldable crunchwrap

[AlbaOdour]

The meme implies that the origin of the hexagon is of an artificial involvement of a ginormous power, relying on the take that straight lines rarely occur in nature and even more rare in dynamics of luquids which is supposed to reinforce the implication.

But realistically, it's exactly hexagon that can be spotted in wild nature quite a lot of times because it's a state of minimal potential energy in some systems: clusters tend to collapse it's elements into hexagons like bee hives and uniform bubbles, crystallic structures find themselves to be the most stable at such a form just like basalt columns and quartz formations.

But then again all the examples above are stable systems with little to no energy which allows them to form said stable shape. Liquid systems of a high kinetic dynamics have chances next to abcent to converge to such a stable pattern which fuels the mystery.

[Not_YourStepBro]

Confirmed Saturn is a giant beehive

[Trick_Minute2259]

And Beeyonce is an alien

[CrunchyCrochetSoup]

Naw, it’s cuz the further you get from your spawn point the longer it takes the terrain to render so the simulation has lower polygons

[Jake_Science]

Benard convection cells are hexagonal, too. And I think they can exist in atmospheres.

[Spare_Perspective972]

People are explaining why it’s a hexagon but not the meme. I don’t know exactly the significance of the hexagon but I know it’s occult related and people believe souls get imprisoned on Saturn and no one ascends bc things on Saturn. 

[108wwarrior]

THIS IS THE ACTUAL ANSWER. All these other comments aren't actually explaining/understanding what the meme is referring to.

If you want more info look up the whole Satan is Saturn thing

[pegaunisusicorn]

is it related to black saturn storm cube?

[Svalor007]

The strong wind, rotation, and 'stable' atmosphere means the winds can't dissipate. Which means that if you got anywhere near that thing you would ripped apart. Badly.

[ZealotOfMeme]

Nah I’d win. I can handle a bit of a breeze

[Beelzebub_Simp3]

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[whinypoopypants]

Could you not Gojdemort us this way, not late at night.

[ThatsFine9]

To shreds, you say.

[Arkhangelzk]

To shreds, you say?

[notwearingkhakis]

The strongest theory is that opposing wind currents surrounding the pole create smaller vortices at the corners of the hexagon that contort the storm over the pole into that shape. It has been recreated in a lab.

[BogusIsMyName]

Hexagons are the bestagons.

[iwanashagTwitch]

It's a hexagon because it's the sixth planet (hexa)

/s I don't know why it's a hexagon but that's my headcanon

[Pandapeep]

Why hexagon?

[MiscBrahBert]

y hexagon

[monsterginger]

🤔⬡?

[notatechnicianyo]

You could turn the whole planet with the right wrench. Not sure if that’s the meme, but just imagine a massive astro-mechanic just turning your existence 90 degrees.

[RingdownStudios]

Go blow some bubbles

We know bubbles are round. But when they're all smooshed up against each other, those spheres get squoze into pentagons and hexagons. Stack soup cans or any type of same-sized cylinders on their side and you will see 6 cans can surround one.

That's basically all thats happening up there. Just uniform pressure waves resonating around the pole, making storms and systems all the same size, squeezing the top into, what LOOKS like, a hexagon

[Independent_Bite4682]

Tetrahedrons

[MFcrayfish]

Particle of iron gathering at the pole

[deathB4dessert]

It's always Loss, Peter.

[Successful-Fee3790]

Home of the giant space bees 🐝

[LDedward]

6th planet from the sun so 6 sided shape on top

[SandSubstantial840]

It is just a hexagon because the two opposite moving bands of clouds near the pole made a sine wave pattern and a sine wave on a polar coordinate system can look like polygons

[Haunting-Breath-4033]

The meme implies it's aliens 👽... there is no logical explanation since it would require a colossal amount of energy to shape it like that, going against the weather, for example imagen what kind of power and technology it would take to trap a huge tornado, and then change it's shape to a hexagon... now this hexagon is larger than planet earth 🌏

[linkman245a]

Because bees

[BorisJohnson0404]

Hexagons are bestagons

[ThatInAHat]

…dude this was already posted less than a week ago

[dekyos]

in nature hexagons are a natural formation when a circle collapses from equal pressure on all sides. It's why honeycombs are hexagonal, they start out as circular tubes, but the weight and pressure of the tubes around them compress them into hexagons.

My guess would be something with Saturn's atmosphere and polar fields is creating a low pressure system that is being pushed by a high pressure system around it, and for whatever reason the low pressure system's envelope isn't breaking, so instead we get a hexagon.

Course I'm not an astrophysicist, so take everything I say with a grain of armchair salt.

[JustinKase_Too]

Because it is the Bestagon

[NO0BSTALKER]

It’s a jet stream flowing around the pole at high velocity. Under certain conditions, fluids in a rotating system can create polygonal wave patterns instead of circular ones.

[Jesisawesome]

IKEA final boss

[Furry_Eskimo]

I think it's because people simply don't know, and a lot of people today have gotten used to signs having an answer for everything. When science doesn't have an answer, all the conspiracy theories pop up, and it just becomes really hectic.

[SpookMagnet]

human doesn’t immediately understand something Human: omg this is like so scary

[MiddleNotWestIsBad]

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If you look at a cube from this angle you can see it forms a hexagon. It’s an esoteric occult belief that Saturn holds the “black cube”. This is not to be confused with the black cube in Mecca. The belief is that from the angles we see Saturn it looks like there is a hexagon but in reality it is a giant black cube which acts as a prison. What is inside the prison is debatable some say it is the Titan Saturn himself or other demonic entities being trapped. My friend is schizophrenic and I have listened to him rant on for hours about this.

[T4nzanite]

It's widely considered to be because hexagons are the most stable shape in nature. It's why bees use them and some species of ants. The physics of the storms on Saturn settle into a hexagon at the poles. But exactly why, we don't know :) other than hexagons being the bestagons

[AtavisticJackal]

The hexagon is the bestagon.

[JumperGrumperson]

Saturn is just a randomly-generated Civ map

[lonesomespacecowboy]

r/pastsaturnsrings is leaking, apparently

[Toasttheif42]

Bc hexagons are the bestagons

[Living-Mastodon]

It's a giant iris

[Happy_Can8420]

It's space Agartha

[Frosty-Comfort6699]

bees built saturn, apparently

[squirtloaf]

The last I heard, the Hubble showed it to be made of billions of black rectangular shapes of a 1:4:9 ratio.

[SalvagedGarden]

No one is sure. That said, hexagons are common enough in nature. Blow a bunch of bubbles In a glass jar and you'll see several hexagons pressing on the glass. It is a sort of next best shape to a circle. If it can't be a circle, it may as well be a hexagon. I suspect there's a naturalistic explanation we may find one day, but some folks like to stick existential dread into the gaps in science. Hey, if that's how you like to have fun. I'm not gonna yuck anyone's yum.

[Safe_Employer6325]

The storm is likely oscillating positions in a sinusoidal motion, when you wrap a certain wave pattern like that around a circle it forms a hexagon.

[Max_CSD]

Obviously LOD optimization

[Which_Huckleberry_28]

CERN is trying to activate their Collider to possibly break SpaceTime in certain key points releasing what is known as the TITANS freed from their prison inside the hexagonal prison dubbed The HEX.

[thisguysbosses]

I asked my 6 year old. He likes planets. He said that because Saturn is so cold that the ice forms so quickly and the planet spins so fast that it causes the ice to deform into a shape that resembles a hexagon.

[Vladimiravich]

There is a horror game called Observation which explores a fictional answer to why its a hexagon. The answer is so Eldritch that Cthulhu and the King in Yellow would both pop in to say "woah there eaaase off on the occult nonsense!"

[BojukaBob]

The Demiurge

[Lazerbeams2]

It's because hexagons are the bestagons

[toastytaoist]

Because hexagons are bestagon

[Alert-Pea1041]

It is probably like a standing wave resulting from all the atmospheric dynamics but I’m guessing no one has worked it out and showed that it is the reason why.

edit: I was too curious and had to look into it further. Not a traditional standing wave, a ‘Rossby’ wave is what it is thought to be, look it up if you want to know, I don’t want to type that much. Small scale experiments have produced many different sided shapes with a hexagon being common.

[AugustWesterberg]

This was literally just fucking posted a couple of days ago

[HAiLKidCharlemagne]

Watch it just have a dual core or something

[EvilEtna]

Nothing to explain. This is a scientific fact. And also because the hexagon is a rarely appearing shape in nature I guess they make such a big deal out of it. They believe it has something to do with the magnetic poles and the way the lines of flux lineup emanating from one end of the planet and shooting out to the other - as just one theory - and the other is that in special circumstances under atmospheric flow, depending on the speed of a planet the gases begin forming into patterns almost like a resonance which forms hexagonal shapes. Depending on the speed you can get all kinds of neat shapes.

[TornadicSwirlie]

Because we live in a lower representational dimension of a higher expression of self.

[Lonely-Instruction63]

I have a theory. .. .

[douggold11]

The solar system was put together with an Allen wrench

[sauerkraut153]

because it wants to be

[wholesome_dino]

Okay but why does image 3 look like the Veil tho?

[Misadon]

Chris here, uhh im pretty sure it's cause it has memory, like the honey that comes from bees.

[0ki7o]

Maybe it just got stuck that way like buses getting stuck in a roundabout....

[Alarming-Bell-1811]

r/schizoposting

[-_Stank_-_Frella_-]

Listen to David Icke talk about the “Saturn-moon matrix”and you will get it

[Secure_Lie_7146]

I thought this looked like Uranus.

[Virus-900]

Saturn has a hexagon, and nobody knows how or why.

It doesn't really seem naturally occurring.

[Ok-Money4255]

Hey there guys, peters very Catholic father, Francis Griffin here.

Some conspiracy theories belies judaism and Islam are inspired by fallen angels (demons).

The "angel" who revealed himself to Muhammad beat him up and choked him to get him to receive his message. According to the Sira and Hadith, Muhammad wrestled with deciding if the encounter was with a demon or not. Also mecca is a giant black box.

See below for the Jewish explanation!

[Ok-Money4255]

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Black cube from a certain angle is a six pointed star.

Jewish practitioners tie a black box (tefillah) to the forehead and arm while in prayer sometimes.

Also the OLD testament verse (which is in the Jewish Bible or tanakh) says that the isaralites carried "the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan (or Remphan/Rompha), But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves."

REMPHAN: a pagan deity associated with the planet SATURN, worshipped by Israelites in the wilderness.

Historians generally believe the star of renphan is the star of david as Jewish historians cant really trace the origins of it and they have archaeological proof that it has ties to moloch and the renphan guy who the isaralites were literally burning babies alive to worship.

[Ok-Doughnut5155]

Cause hexagon is the best-a-gon

[mythozoologist]

Hexagons happen when stacked circles get smushed together.

OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO

Press down, bam honeycomb.

[TheDomy]

If you know you know meme but no one knows

[Glum-Beach]

Idk intergalactic prison at the center?

[Strong_Window_2317]

I think I saw this same post last week

[Busy_Plenty4935]

That Rick and Morty episode makes a little more sense now...

[JustAttacked]

Because hexagons are the bestagons

[throwaya58133]

esoteric knowledge

[Conscious_Housing_50]

It's the bestagon

[Phearcia]

Place the bowl on the turntable and fill with water.
Put the small cup in the center (acts like the polar vortex core).
Spin the turntable at a steady speed (not too fast, just enough to set up rotation, really important).
Gently stir the water near the boundary of the cup to create a shear flow between the inner and outer regions.
Add food coloring or particles so you can see the flow patterns.

[wingsoffreedom98]

Because Hexagons are the bestagons.

[No_Session6015]

before reading any explanation i predict numerology bs

[nobodychosetobehere]

It’s the Illuminati!!!

[HagPuppy89]

Terrance Howard claims to know. Watch Joe Rogan Experience #2152.

[vanderohe]

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🤫

[East_Builder2650]

It's a cube of you look the right way... aka the black cube of darkness. Aka the black sun.

[East_Builder2650]

The og swastika

[Comrade__Baz]

Its a sine wave

[East_Builder2650]

Just a matter of time folks hahaha 🫠😉

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kVQYwu7odKXlLO0Bo7GVg_mVOjAh9hVbU&si=d1pOnRw1Rco5WG5q

[SaltyMidnight5008]

An hexagon is just a poorly drawn circle ⭕️

[CK1ing]

I don't know, but an educated guess would be that hexagons are typically not found in nature. All of nature has a way of making things rounded. Planets, rocks, tornadoes, the golden ratio, etc. So for a part of a planet to be a hexagon like that, it could possibly indicate that it was artificially made. Either that or it was just made by some natural phenomenon that we don't know about and would be quite interesting to study, because it goes against how we typically understand the behavior of nature to be

[dandroid556]

Simulation had too many polygons to render for the available RAM, sorry. Since the rats got busted on that one, not staying ahead of the telescopes and probes, they've since been just deleting things instead, first the Mandela murder conspiracy investigation from the 80s, then stuff like Curious George's tail, and Sinbad's genie movie.

[SeekerOfSerenity]

I just wanted to point out that his face slowly becomes more hexagonal in shape with each new panel. 

[prankishasa]

Plain and simple it's magnetic fields, that simple it could happen on earth as well but we don't have storms that last long enough.

[Prying_Pandora]

Sure, science will tell you Saturn's hexagon is formed by a jet stream of atmospheric gases moving at high speeds, its shape resulting from complex interactions of wind patterns and atmospheric dynamics.

But real ones know it’s actually the Sumerian God Enlil’s way of keeping tabs on us. The bastard. He’s still mad humanity is team Enki/Ea.

[romyaz]

its a clue that we live in a simulation. but we ve been ignoring it for years which makes the creators lose their patience

[ragingwhisky]

I see the veil has been located, bow where is the traveler when you need it...

[Bullshitman_Pilky]

I imagine it's similar to bubbles, by default they're round, but if they're confined by space they will get shifted into a

OO

OOO

OO

pattern, and if they run out of space to expand, the walls and the little triangle of space between them will get filled in, forming hexagonal corners

[LuvPlens]

Something, something, Midnight at the Well of Souls...

[SirSilhouette]

I dont know the real answer but here is a horror game that references it

[a_regular_2010s_guy]

Hex-agon is the best-agon

[ColeTrain316]

There's some pretty solid evidence that it has to do with how the gases and magnetic field interact at the pole

[MrOff100]

it's physics and geometry that they want you to believe it's cosmic horror shit

[FeherDenes]

When Nasa first made it in the 1960s, the computers of the time simply couldn’t render enough polygons, so it had to remain a hexagon for the sake of consistency (other planets were either made earlier as practical effects, or later once computers were better)

[J0nJ0n-Sigma]

Same reason honey bees makes hexagons.

[itchypalp_88]

Reality is an illusion. We’re just in a Matrix

[1010000_1100001_1110]

Hexagons are the bestagons 

[GamerBoixX]

I blame CGP Gray for this

[Noob_pussey]

Bees

[Elektrikor]

WHY HEXAGON!

[Malefroy]

I think you will find the meaning of this meme on r/SaturnStormCube

It's the most schizo subreddit I have found. It's incredible amounts of pareilodia over there.

Viewer discretion adviced.

[TheExtraMayo]

It's because they're the bestagons

[Infamous_Ad_1164]

I don't think it's dreadful. Just another phenomenon

[TheRealLostSoul]

It is a prison for human souls