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Thor_MN

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23. Sorry, but anti-science faith in unseen events should be pointed out more often.
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 10:03 AM
Dec 2012

I'm sorry, but you have been precisely disputing the theories, claiming that it could not be caused by currents alone.

We have seen the effect in dinner plate size and bigass planet size. One video shows dye addition "spurting" and instantly Saturn must have a precisely regular geyser of such monstrous proportions that it defies imagination to push in the flat sides. The obviously visible eddy currents couldn't possibly do it, it MUST be spurting. A video showing the hexagon pattern by suspended particles instead of dye MUST have been faked by spurts before the video started recording. A video showing the number of sides in the pattern changing, with no dye additions, is best left unmentioned.

Of course the videos are at best illustrative, they are essentially 2D representations on a flat surface of what is happening in 3D, wrapped around a spherical planet. If one can't accept that eddy currents cause the effect, that there must be some unseen (except in one video) external spurting force in play, one is on par with the church claiming that the heavens revolve around the earth.

I'm no expert in fluid dynamics, but I have experienced fast flowing water in rivers, paddled into an eddy, and watched the main current flow by just feet away. I have no trouble accepting these studies at face value. I've also paid as much attention to this as I care to, feel free to have the last word, saying again that it doesn't make sense to you, that there must be something else going on that they are not showing you.

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Wow! Is right! longship Nov 2012 #4
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Interesting lab recreation ThoughtCriminal Nov 2012 #6
ok, but those little spurts have to happen at the right intervals. snot Dec 2012 #12
Are you talking about the additions of green dye? Thor_MN Dec 2012 #13
It's the spurts that shape the hexagon, regardless of whether they contain dye. snot Dec 2012 #15
You are claiming that they are adding liquid at each of the six sides to push them in? Thor_MN Dec 2012 #16
No, sorry if I'm unclear. I'm saying all the spurts contain dye, snot Dec 2012 #17
That would, again, be a pointless exercise. Thor_MN Dec 2012 #18
Sorry; to me, both videos are ambiguous. snot Dec 2012 #20
"Old Faithful" isn't a "Spurt" large enough to affect the Jet Stream Thor_MN Dec 2012 #21
No need to insult me. snot Dec 2012 #22
Sorry, but anti-science faith in unseen events should be pointed out more often. Thor_MN Dec 2012 #23
#&*&^$%^$%^#$^ WOW!! byronius Nov 2012 #8
I wonder if this thing is similar to the Rossby Waves on Earth Odin2005 Dec 2012 #9
You've done it again, n2doc.. Permanut Dec 2012 #10
it sure is a thing of beauty XtopherXtopher Dec 2012 #11
WOW ! dipsydoodle Dec 2012 #19
wow!!!!!!! Marrah_G Dec 2012 #24
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