Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Everything You Know About the Shape of a Snowflake is Wrong

From Science Magazine



The classic image of a snowflake is a fluke. That flat, six-sided crystal with delicate filigree patterns of sharp branches occurs in only about one in every 1000 flakes. And a snowflake seen in 3D is another beast entirely. Researchers have developed a camera system that shoots untouched flakes "in the wild" as they fall from the sky.

What else do we 'know' that is not necessarily true. The story's moral- question everything.

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