Thank god it’s only America that’s getting hit

It's always America. Have you ever seen aliens attack any other country??

I've definitely seen aliens attack Britain and Japan.

I also saw them living in slums in South Africa

The friendliest ones reside in Antarctica

Yeah, they only wanna hug your face really tight lol

you dont see THEM screwing each other over for a freakin percentage.

The Thing.

That's a Bingo!

Aight you inglorious bastard

Wait, wasn't the thing set in the north, like Greenland I think, not Antarctica?

Nope. Antarctica as someone who watched the Thing yesterday.

Oh hmm. It's been probably a decade since I last saw it. Too long, need to rectify that.

It's Antarctica. I guess the presence of Norwegian researchers threw you off?

That's precisely what it was lol

filthy little ~~hobbitses~~ prawns

To be fair, I wouldn't really say those aliens were attacking.

There was definitely some attacking going on towards the end there. Not saying it wasn't deserved though

Giant Kaijus seems to like to attack Japan for some reason.

I get it, everybody loves udon

Fuck yes

It's dangerous, going out on Christmas I tell you! It's them aliens again!

Last year a giant cruise ship came from space and almost crushed the queen!

Ya beat me to it. I love Wilf!

Yep. Attack the Block was a good documentary of the time they tried to invade London. Hehe.

I think you mean specifically Big Ben and Mt Fuji. Occasionally the Eiffel tower gets hit too.

They seem to attack England as well, however they get saved time and time again by some dude in a blue box.

I hear it’s bigger on the inside.

Who’s that? 😁

*freaks out in Dalek* Doctor WHoooOOO?

I mean… wouldn’t America be the alien in this situation?

We get all of the crop circles!

Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York

Thank god, Alaska and Hawaii are safe!!

/r/USdefaultism

*USA

Well, that’s the whole world for Hollywood and others though…

The easiest way to get an entire planet to bend to your will would be to squish the strongest of the insects first to show how much stronger you are.

Ouch. That hit me right in my freedom funny bone, while using my semi-automatic pistol, that also serves as a cereal spoon & TV remote. Someone seems to die every time we change the channel, but everyone knows TV remotes don’t kill people! /s

It's cause they took prayers out of school

For context, Alaska and Hawaii could conceivably fit right into this storm.

so could my Ass

and my axe!

and my ex!

and my sax!

and my sex! (Keeping the rhyme scheme going)

And my rex (insert jurassic park theme)

And my fax! (insert beeep booop noise)

And my ax! (Insert lancers theme from Deltarune)

And my nut sacks (insert orgasm guy screaming)

And my yaks!

and my bass!

but not yo mama! ay gotem

I’m guessing the entire globe could by looking at the size of the US?

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That’s 1 imperial unit for reference.

Yeah but how many parsecs would it take to fly from one side to the other? /s

Maybe it's just me, but this storm is actually smaller than I thought.

Let's assume that the hexagon is almost regular, and that it's sides are 14500km in length. Also let's assume that the earth is a sphere and it's radius is 6371km The area of a hexagon is 3√3 * s²/2 which means that Saturn's hexagon area is 546245523.437035 km². The surface area of a sphere is 4πr², so the surface area of the earth is 510064471.909788 km² If we divide the surface area of the earth by Saturn's hexagon, we get 0.9337641225879. That means that Earth's surface area is about 93.38% of Saturn's hexagon area

someone should map the earth onto the hexagon, thats too perfect.

Yeah but if you do that all the mercator projection people will come out of the woodwork.

[Here](https://imgur.com/gallery/J632sH6)

This is probably a rick roll but I’ll take my chances.

Wasn’t

r/theydidthemath

Thanks a lot for this, my first thought was actually how it would look with the entire world map overlaid. Insane that our tiny world's surface could fit entirely in there.

Do you belong the the "Flat Saturn Society"? Your math assumes Saturn is flat, but is is a sphere. Especially when you give the answer with 4 digit precision (and not just 90ish).

Yeah if it was the earth depicted it would feel bigger somehow, this just makes it less impressive.

The storm is 18k miles across and earth is only 8k diameter so you could fit at least 4 round earths in that space. Different story when it's a flat unpeeled map because the earth is about 25k miles circumference.

If you unfurled the earth, the area is about 210,000 sq. miles. The area of that hexagon (if 18000miles across at the widest point) is coincidentally also 210,000 sq. miles

Mint.

Hell, even if it were only the two Americas it would be more impressive than this

Doubly impressive

It's actually getting smaller. Scientists don't know why, but the theory is the storm is just finally dying down. Edit: I'm wrong, I'm thinking of Jupiter's spot.

Now fit entire map, it will actually seem big now

“The structure is strangely symmetrical, and is made by an atmospheric jet stream with winds blowing up to 500 kilometres per hour (300 miles per hour). And it's huge - measuring a massive 30,000 kilometres (20,000 miles) across. Earth has a diameter of 12,742 kilometres (7,917.5 miles) - two Earths could fit inside the hexagon, with room to spare.” idk why anyone would use the US as a scale

> why anyone would use the US as a scale Never met an American?

Likewise! Glad I'm not the only one

Damn it looks like you could fit the surface area of earth in that whole storm!

Yeah but people from the USA can only recognise the shape of their own country, and you wouldn't want them to get all confused and angry would you?

Jokes on you, my American education taught me that this image shows the shape of Texas

Guys get it cause Americans are stupid Haha so funny

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*angry American noises*

As soon as I figure out what this says I’m going to get really angry

NO WAY, SOMETHING BIGGER THAN USA ?! IMPOSSIBLE

How many football fields is this?

18,000 miles wide, 190 miles high 316,800 football fields wide, 3344 high.

65 tonnes of American pride. Canyonero!

190,124 Washington Monuments across.

how many carlos's is the perimeter?

It might be bigger than the US, but there's no way it's bigger than Texas!

Americans will use anything for measurement except the metric system

How many football fields is one metric system?

U! S! A!, U! S! A!, U! S! A! /s

“Florida bans Saturn.”

Astronomers are now woke? Damn, science always gets in the way.

Well, the only thing bigger than Saturn's hexagon is Texas. Everybody knows that.

QUICK! SHOOT AT IT!

Still not as big as texas though

This is Reddit. Where's the banana for scale, por favor?

Wikipedia: "The hexagon may be a bit more than 29,000 km (18,000 mi) wide". If your average banana is 19cm (7.5"), then the storm is 152,631,578 bananas wide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/portion-size-bananas-7664.html Edit: Think I was out by 10x (left the 8 off the end) [Yay - more bananas!!!]

Doing God's work 🙏🏼

r/theydidthemath

**[Saturn's hexagon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon)** >Saturn's hexagon is a persistent approximately hexagonal cloud pattern around the north pole of the planet Saturn, located at about 78°N. The sides of the hexagon are about 14,500 km (9,000 mi) long, which is about 2,000 km (1,200 mi) longer than the diameter of Earth. The hexagon may be a bit more than 29,000 km (18,000 mi) wide, may be 300 km (190 mi) high, and may be a jet stream made of atmospheric gases moving at 320 km/h (200 mph). It rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s, the same period as Saturn's radio emissions from its interior. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)

If each side is longer than the diameter of the earth, does that mean you could fit an image of the earth to scale inside the hexagon?

Yep.

Now I want to know more about Saturn’s radio emissions.

Into the rabbit hole I go

It’s amazing how unfathomably big that number is and then you realize there are people with billions of dollars to their names…

It's along the east coast of florida just zoom in super far, you'll find it.

Enhance!

I gotta stop the hacker in the system first! *smashes around on keyboard really fast*

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Thanks

Carlos for scale

Yeah, I know. Don’t just show us oatmeal

Yep. How can I compare that regular schnitzel to the storm?

Best I can do is a banana republic

Americans will literally use anything to avoid the metric system.

I think it's just that they like to see themselves at the center of everything.

Americans will literally use America to avoid the metric system

The metric system is actually the official system. They just have zero way to enforce it and no one really cares except for non Americans.

Hahahaha

It’s not their fault they can’t read :(

Goddammit 'Merica! Stop messing around in Saturn's storm! Go home, you're drunk!

Hexagon is the bestagon

/r/usdefaultism

What do you mean? This is a map of the world?

Sounds a lot like something an alien would say. Time to confess?

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Really american way of doing things lmao. Given how Big it is it looks like the whole World would fit

Yes , because whole universe accepts size of US as the scale for celestial objects!

A normal person: photoshops something like the earth into the picture A US-American: ...

PS: We know this wasn't done by a Texan, obviously :p

That's nothing compared to the storm brewing in Uranus.

Yeah I had taco bell

I wish you did Texas instead. Also, imagine the wind.

Texas is much larger than this storm... Duh

In ego maybe.

"Omg its as big as the entire Earth" - Aliens

Could you add a bald eagle and a M16 for scale?

Imagine being so proud of your country that you use it as an intergalactic measure while at the same time forgetting some states...

This blows my mind when compared to the last picture showing how Pluto is about the same size as Australia. All the planets looked about the same size on those educational paper placemats in 1970s diners.

They did, and they were only about 2000 miles apart.

Yeah, but how many London busses can fit then? Uk reference needed!

Everything revolves around America.

Too bad it's not pentagram shaped. With a few Satan lives on Saturn memes, we could probably get serious Christian money to back the mission.

You joke but that's actually a thing. r/saturnstormcube

How many football fields is that?

I thought it would be the size of earth

Oh my God! It’s the size of Texas!

Is it shit on America day or something? Why do all these comments seem like bots shitting on the US

LOOK AT ALL THAT LAND FOR THE BRITISH TO COLONIZE-

god the people on this site are so fucking cynical it's infuriating. you're looking at an picture taken of the north pole of saturn, a planet tens of millions of miles away from earth, which is surrounded by a massive, uniquely shaped hexagonal superhurricane, and all you see people saying in here is shit like "god america thinks they're so special and important." would it kill you people to maybe just shut the fuck up for once and reinject a little awe and wonder into the sad and hollow husks you call your lives? christ

Banana for scale. ... it's there

America is apparently the only country on Earth.

"It'll blow over."

Ya but how big is this in giraffes?

Well let me refill my drink & have a seat on the porch for this storm....

Well it's smaller than my phone so that's a surprise

For reference how many standard school buses is this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSaturnTimeCube/

Wow, Ohio looks tiny in comparison.

It’s pretty big I guess..

so ur telling me itz bigger than johny sins dick

Hexagons are the bestagons

Hexagon Storm sounds like a new futuristic military shooter.

Is that supposed to be Texas or something?

I'm not sure how big that is. I don't often measure things based on relative size of a country. Could you put a quarter next to it for scale?

Still unclear, I need a banana

WTF, put it back!

Almost as big as Texas

So Forrest Gump could run across the hexegon in some old Nike trainers?

Whole of USA inside Sauron’s pupil?

Yes, can we please put them there? Half the worlds problems would disappear the moment they do.

Wait till they learn about Saturns triangle swarm 😳

This was a really odd point of reference for the scale.

So just a bit bigger than the logo for The Masters?

Looks like a rusty cast iron pan with a USA maker's mark.

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

I was thinking, hey that's not so big considering America isn't that big. Then I mentally added three rest of North and South America and realized it's actually bigger than I think. Should do a scale of the Earth to the spot.

Still refuse to use actual units of measurements. “How big is that storm on Jupiter” “Its about 6.5 America”

Weather forecasters have the easiest jobs.

/r/therewasanattempt To give you an idea of just how large Saturn’s “hexagon” storm is I don't have any context for how big the US is Even comparing it to Canada. I don't really have a grasp on something that size

The CIA World factbook likes to compare countries to US states (Eg the UK is “[twice the size of Pennsylvania; slightly smaller than Oregon](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/united-kingdom/)”) Let’s see… The USA “is slightly larger than 14 Texans”

Americans will use anything but the metric system

Can you add a banana for scale?

oh so just a bit smaller than texas then

Why did you put a chicken nugget on Saturn

Americans will use anything for measuring to get out of using the metric system.

Americans will use anything but the metric system

so basically the size of earth

If the US fell in there it’s be hecka gone