NASA doesn't need to spend more studying Saturn's hexagon. I just solved it with a hand blender and some peas

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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Til Saturn is made of peas. Huh.

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 1d

and love !

notabot@piefed.social · 23 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Jupiter made with blender? CONFIRMED: SPACE IS A HOAX!!1!

nqua@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

not necessarily, usually i print things after i created them with blender and even if jupiter was printed, it would then still be real. just its origin would be ... interesting, i mean how many edges, faces and vertices? could we still see and count them with todays technologie? how was it printed - my printer doesnt even support printing liquids to astronimical bodies let alone gas. so many questions !!

notabot@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d

I reckon they didn't even bother 3d printing it. I think they just printed an image on paper and stuck it to the sky. When it goes below the horizon they scrape it off and put a new sticker up, with an image rendered from a slightly different angle, so it's ready for the next night.

FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Blender on Jupiter confirmed?

dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1d

Weird, I thought they were based in Amsterdam.

ebber@europe.pub · 14 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Well this experiment happened on earth in earth gravity, while the entirety of Saturn is like a sphere in outer space.

So we need to send the peas to the ISS and rerun the experiment.

ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d (2 replies)

On earth, witch happens to be a sphere in outer space.....

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 17m

Man, just when you think you're safe, witch happens.

HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

The difference in gravity does matter.

FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 10 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Oh! So its because the protective around around saturns blades is hexagonal, of course!

Leviathan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

Or circular with 6 equidistant holes.

treadful@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1d (8 replies)

What are you doing with those peas though?

rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 11 pts · 1d (2 replies)

A model of Saturn, obviously

ChunderBustickles@piefed.nz · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I only.just realised it's Jupiter not Saturn that has "the 'gon" and blew straight past the title...

its been a long week, though, so maybe that's related

rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 1d

Every planet deserves a hexagon. Hexagons are bestagons!

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d

Hoping for whirled peas, I suppose.

saruwatarikooji@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Split pea soup I'd assume. Pretty good when made right.

this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 1d (2 replies)

I'll tell you if your making it... Split pea .... You don't need to blend them. You just cook. If you use a blender at all you need to turn off your stove and walk away. Your not ready yet to make a start and ignore soup. Let alone one your now involving a blender to make.

deltapi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I don't know who is down voting you, but yeah, you're right, split pea soup doesn't require blending. Maybe people use whole dried peas instead of split peas blend it?

this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1d

Even then just cook them the long the softer and will turn to paste on its own its like potatos. I never have to cook them longer then 2 hours anyway or you already are past mushy peas.

ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d

The people who figured out the math of the hexagon also figured out you could do it with a bucket of water and a turntable.
Made for good demonstrations when reporting the results.
(They used more regulated and measured pieces for more rigorous tests. They just also had a bucket)

aburrito@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d (3 replies)

The bottom of Saturn has a dodecahedron decagon!

pebbles@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d (2 replies)

I think there is one less dimension and two less points on the actual shape.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260908.html

aburrito@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d (1 reply)

πŸ™ˆ you right, decagon

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

The bottom of Saturn has duodenitis

InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1d

Whirled Peas is not enough, we demand an inter solar solution.

bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com · 6 pts · 1d

And from this we must assume that Saturn is surrounded, indeed bound, by a massive metallic cylinder.

wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1d (2 replies)

So... Saturn's thicker than a bowl o' oatmeal?

GenXLiberal@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d (1 reply)

πŸ‘ˆπŸ‘€πŸ‘ˆ

wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d

Oh, lawd. She comin'. Ain't no retrograde here.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d

"Stop playing with your food!" ~ Your mom.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Oops! Wrong planet. I came here to make a stupid "Uranus" joke. /s

Logarrhythmia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Saturn… Sat on uranus! i dunno, tried my best, sorry.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 6h

That's Gold!

Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 5 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Peas are one of my least favorite foods, out of morbid curiosity, what are you going to do with that pea slurry?

Tacky4092@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1d

Ever heard of the concept of soup?

Leviathan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Probably eat the creamy soup? Just a guess, not OP. Personally I enjoy my pea soup to be lumpy.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d

One man's pea soup is another man's slurry. /s

davetortoise@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 1d

I mean to be fair there probably is the same kind of fluid dynamics effect going on here

AlphaOmega@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

I like Enoch's interpretation of Saturn.

nqua@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d

at least we now know where saturn got its rotation and storms from.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

That must be one hell of a blender.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d

Immersion Blender's will change your life. It's almost as useful as an air fryer.