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[–] shalafi 187 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hexagons are the bestagons

[–] Leviathan 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm very happy this has caught on.

[–] kameecoding 9 points 1 year ago

though his how to solve traffic video is abysmal

[–] Mr_Fish 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, bestagons

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Hexagons are the bestagons

[–] HonoraryMancunian 8 points 1 year ago

The hexagreatest

[–] danielbln 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's... thats a fly, with stripes for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Tiger fly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of bees that look like flies. Check out mason bees.

[–] finkrat 32 points 1 year ago

Shove the babies in them! And barf on them!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obsessive Compulsive Beesorder?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, this is how I relate to bees.

[–] LesserAbe 18 points 1 year ago

Bugs love science, simple as

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Boy that’s One Committed Bee!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean they skipped 4. Pointed polygons and chosen a hexagon instead. What's their problem with right angles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

C'mon man, don't be a square.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Less volume per unit of surface area

[–] chitak166 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I haven't really connected hexagons and circles like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a whole thing in mathematics, in two or three dimensions, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres

[–] chitak166 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bees would be the best goddamn software architects...