The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.
187 0 ReplyAnd thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.
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Hexagons are the bestagons
121 0 ReplyI'm very happy this has caught on.
21 0 Replythough his how to solve traffic video is abysmal
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Ah yes, bestagons
90 1 ReplyYes. Hexagons are the bestagons
48 0 ReplyThe hexagreatest
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That's... thats a fly, with stripes for some reason.
38 0 ReplyTiger fly
3 0 ReplyThere are a lot of bees that look like flies. Check out mason bees.
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Shove the babies in them! And barf on them!
32 0 ReplyObsessive Compulsive Beesorder?
24 0 ReplyYes, this is how I relate to bees.
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Bugs love science, simple as
18 0 ReplyBoy that’s One Committed Bee!
11 0 ReplyYou mean they skipped 4. Pointed polygons and chosen a hexagon instead. What's their problem with right angles.
9 1 ReplyC'mon man, don't be a square.
8 0 ReplyLess volume per unit of surface area
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Interesting. I haven't really connected hexagons and circles like this.
5 0 ReplyIt's a whole thing in mathematics, in two or three dimensions, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres
4 0 ReplyFascinating.
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Bees would be the best goddamn software architects...
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