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oldmanalex@sh.itjust.works to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 1 day ago

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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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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oldmanalex@sh.itjust.works to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 1 day ago
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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    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)

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    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.

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

      • TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world
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        The difference in gravity does matter.

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

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

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    I like Enoch’s interpretation of Saturn.

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    Til Saturn is made of peas. Huh.

    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
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      and love !

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

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      Ever heard of the concept of soup?

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

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

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

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

    • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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      Or circular with 6 equidistant holes.

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    19 hours ago

    So… Saturn’s thicker than a bowl o’ oatmeal?

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      👈👀👈

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

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    That must be one hell of a blender.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      Immersion Blender’s will change your life. It’s almost as useful as an air fryer.

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

    • nqua@sh.itjust.works
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      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 !!

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        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.

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

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    Blender on Jupiter confirmed?

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      Weird, I thought they were based in Amsterdam.

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

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    What are you doing with those peas though?

    • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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      A model of Saturn, obviously

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        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

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          Every planet deserves a hexagon. Hexagons are bestagons!

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      Hoping for whirled peas, I suppose.

    • saruwatarikooji@lemmy.world
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      Split pea soup I’d assume. Pretty good when made right.

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        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.

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          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
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            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.

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