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In reply to the discussion: Saturn’s Strange Hexagon – In Living Color! [View all]Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)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.