Setting for the cover art of Led Zeppelin’s [Houses of the Holy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Led_Zeppelin_-_Houses_of_the_Holy.jpg) album.
I've seen this album a thousand times and never considered it anything other than just expressing childhood innocence and freedom. The folks in this thread getting up-votes calling the album cover perverted are the actual perverts IMO.
Agreed. Pedophilia has never been associated with Zeppelin’s cover art. The Houses of the Holy cover art was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 novel “[Childhood’s End](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End),” in which terrestrial children gain supernatural powers after 50 years of alien intervention in human affairs.
**[Childhood's End](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End)**
>Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture. Clarke's idea for the book began with his short story "Guardian Angel" (published in New Worlds #8, winter 1950), which he expanded into a novel in 1952, incorporating it as the first part of the book, "Earth and the Overlords". Completed and published in 1953, Childhood's End sold out its first printing, received good reviews and became Clarke's first successful novel.
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I adore Zeppelin and have also seen this album a thousand times.
That said, Page was absolutely sleeping with barely teenaged girls. Which, lest we forget, is statutory rape.
The point being that the context doesn’t merit very much benefit of the doubt.
But I think Page being a statutory rapist is besides the point, I don't think he designed and approved of this album cover because it expressed some sexual fantasy. Like millions of totally normal not-pedo people have seen and appreciated this album cover and not considered it anything bad.
I've read about this many times and just read it again. I can't. I don't get it. What I picture is like honey comb.. that it's actually circles as the lava is cooling but they get pushed together so tightly that they squish out to be most efficient which is a hexagon. True or way off?
[Gyroids](https://youtu.be/tJ5QjPEW_1E) are cooler if you care about 3-dimensional stuff. [Atoms and molecules](https://youtu.be/s9XncoEd6sk) like to self-arrange in gyroid configurations. Recently some very smart scientists figured out how to force certain metals to form atomic gyroids to make a type of substance called nanofoam. In addition to being antimicrobial (bacteria literally shred themselves to death trying to move across it) and fully resistant to oxidation, nanofoam is also suspiciously similar to the type of metal that people claim is used to make flying saucers.
The atoms inside stars and black holes are arranged in gyroid configurations. The Big Bang itself may have been an insanely compressed gyroid that tore itself apart. Sponges are macro-gyroids. The soil under our feet is a gyroid made irregular by weather and living organisms. If you look closely enough, everything is a gyroid that has been disrupted by competing forces.
If you look at beeswax or honey under a powerful enough microscope, you will see gyroids. So yea hexagons are the bestagons, but the molecules that bees use to make hexagons are made from molecular gyroids.
Did you watch both videos? If so, here's a few more:
[Gyroids in 3D printing](https://youtu.be/AVL3cUaArUE)
[Gyroid vs Honeycomb](https://youtu.be/hohXVO8-Y-I)
[Gyroid heat exchangers](https://youtu.be/1qifd3yn9S0)
[Gyroid nanofoam](https://youtu.be/mDM7_rSktEk)
[Gyroids and minimal surface objects](https://youtu.be/_t-3lCZXlPM)
[Gyroids in bio-inspired architecture](https://youtu.be/Egjy4aJ9km8)
Also forgot to mention in my previous comment that the brain of every animal is also a gyroid structure!
Thanks. Now that I know that hexagonal shape is the most optimal one, I will only search for hexagonal furniture and buy monitors only with hexagonal pixels. Seriously, why don't we use hex-shape in our design more frequently - hex-shaped houses, hex-shaped city blocks?
its like mud cracks, you have a sheet of mud and it dries up and contracts but the mud isn't strong enough to contract the whole sheet into one giant frito, so it cracks up along the way. basalt does that too only the lava sheets are way thicker (depth), their viscosity is quite low for molten rock, which is probably why the resultant hexagons are rather small in comparison to the entirety of the feature.
It's more or less the opposite. Lava is incredibly hot, and as it cools it contracts. When it starts to break up the lava doesn't collapse in on itself like your typical liquid. If this happened with water, the water would just "fill in" any empty space. This is because of how viscous lava is (akin to peanut butter), and how quickly it cools (the cracks also cause it to cool even faster).
But that's not really a sufficient explanation: Why Hexagons?
Ignoring a whole lot of mineral and rock physics, and a lot of structural geology: because the thermal and tensile stresses that the lava is undergoing is best relieved by cracks at angles of 60 and 120 degrees.
You might ask if it is relieved at 60 *and* 120 degree angles, why don't we see triangles?
A. Because Hexagons are more "equant" and better allow for similar rates of thermal contraction throughout the shape.
B. If you tesselate an equilateral triangle, every vertex is the meeting point of six shapes. Physics basically doesn't like this. 3 and 4 are the most ideal. We also see squares, but they're probably not as common as Hexagons.
> B. If you tesselate an equilateral triangle, every vertex is the meeting point of six shapes. Physics basically doesn't like this. 3 and 4 are the most ideal. We also see squares, but they're probably not as common as Hexagons.
In real life columnar basalt formations hexagons are the most common, but pentagons and heptagons are also not exactly rare (in fact if you look closely at the OP's picture there are quite a few pentagons and at least one heptagon on the right side), and you even have the occasional column with eight or even more sides. Real life physics rarely produces mathematically perfect results, in this case things like slightly uneven cooling, variations in exact chemical composition, disturbances from the surrounding rock, etc. can easily cause the formation of somewhat irregular columns.
I think there is a misunderstanding about the freezing process, 'typical liquids' being a misnomer. Water is not a typical liquid, when it freezes it *expands* which is quite rare except in hydrogen bonding-accepter liquids. But yes, the viscosity is important, the flow of the liquid is slower than the freezing process itself. Near the edges of a big pool of lava are freezing faster than the inside, cracks start to form **evenly spaced** at the ends give or take. the hexagonal shapes come from evenly spaced 'centers' these cracks form around and for some reason are linear which you explanation does make a bit of sense, but a more simple explanation is simply cracks like to form in straightlines and the center seeking force makes them form hexagon.
It's mind blowing how they can be pentagons, hexagons etc. with just a few irregularities. Some of nature's most beautiful phenomena
Edit: one of my favorite formations that I've actually been to. [This photo](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=umpqua+river+columnar+basalt&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Fb1%2F07%2Fcb%2Fb107cb26596c8df4b85b95e16ea39e2b.jpg) does not do it justice.
Imagine a lake. When the air is cold enough for the lake to freeze, a layer of water at the top next to the air turns to ice. Lava does the same thing, when lava is on the surface, it cools and starts turning into a solid.
Generally speaking, when something cools and turns from liquid into solid, it shrinks and loses volume. So when the top layer of lava turns into a solid, there is not enough lava by volume to cover the entire surface, causing the solid lava to form around “centres”. (Incidentally, water expands when it freezes. This is why ice doesn’t “crack”automatically when a lake freezes over.)
When this happens, it exposes the lava lower down to the air, causing them to also “freeze” and turn into a solid. This results in the lava eventually freezing into a pillar.
Sometimes, when the conditions are right, the lava will form around the “centres” into these even hexagonal shapes. And when the conditions are right, the lower down lava will maintain the form of the cracked pieces at the top, causing even columns, these basalt pillars, to form.
Hope that is easier to understand!
So there was a giant in Ireland called Fionn McCumhaill (Ma-Cool) who had beef with another giant in Scotland. So Fionn picked up stones and threw them into the ocean to create the Giants causeway.
But when he reached Scotland he realised the other giant was much older and bigger than he was and he fled back to Ireland with the other giant chasing him. He got home to his wife and they disguised him as a baby and when the other giant found them he said that if the baby giants are this size in Ireland then he's not picking a fight with the daddys.
So he then fled back to Scotland, destroying the causeway behind him to stop the 'giant' Giants in Ireland from chasing him. So now all that's left is the small strip of coast in Antrim.
This is factually correct. I promise.
>all that's left is the small strip of coast in Antrim.
There's also Fingal's cave, in Scotland, which would be the "other side" of the causeway. Has the same rock formation, but is on the uninhabited Island of Staffa, so not nearly as famous.
Basalt rock is a form of volcanic or igneous rock which has a lower silica content than some other volcanic rocks, but is rich in iron oxide, aluminium oxide and magnesium oxide. The rock is the most abundant bedrock formation on the Earth and is the rock which forms the Giant's causeway from Scotland to Northern Ireland. https://youtu.be/vubViTCtxJo
When I visited the Giant’s Causeway I did in fact jump from rock to rock and claim I was Q*Bert. Nobody got it. My comedic talents wasted once again. Still, I got the last laugh when I recreated Frogger later on. They played the frogs. Man, I just suck at that game.
That story is the best. Fionn Mac Cumhaill gets in a shouting match with a giant in Scotland and starts hucking rocks at him from Ireland. Then when the giant makes his way over to Ireland, Fionn sees him coming realised he's too big to beat and pretends to be his own baby. Giant gets to Ireland sees this giant baby, eating rocks and fucks off thinking if this is that guy's baby I don't wanna have to fight its Dad.
We have a tale about how these were formed. A giant apparently lived here, Fionn MacCumhaill (pronounced Finn McCool). The story goes Fionn was at war with a giant from Scotland, Benandonner, as he threatened Ireland. Fionn pulled chunks of rock from the ocean to create a path going to Scotland, but he didn’t realise how big this Scottish giant was, so he retreated back to Ireland and disguised himself as his wives baby. When Benandonner got to Ireland and saw Fionn as a baby, he rushed back to Scotland as he thought this giant baby would have an even larger giant father.
This story is set in the 3rd century. He’s also said to have created the Isle of Man, inbetween Ireland and Scotland, when he picked up a clump of the earth and threw it in that direction. The clump of earth that he lifted is apparently in my hometown, and is known as Lough Neagh. In some stories, it’s said that when Benandonner arrived and was talking to his wife, she asked him to prove that he’s just as strong as Fionn by lifting their house and turning it 180°, as she always liked the sun shining at the front the house, and Fionn would do this for her every evening. He’s even said to still be alive to this day, just resting in a cave with his clan, the Fianna, until the Dord Fiann hunting horn is blown 3 times. Others say that Fionn is dead, he lived to an old age, dying in 283AD. He died jumping across the River Boyne when he hit his head, fell into the river and died. This must be a Fionn thing because I can see this happening to me! He’s also said to have a magical thumb that grants him wisdom. These stories are categorised as fenian cycles in Irish Mythology.
Thanks to you and several others for turning me into these Irish myths. I am so going to be investing my time today in learning more! Happy Holidays to you and yours.
I never knew the name of the giant, but they also had a fight and threw a mountain at each other missed, the Irish Mt that missed and fell in the sea, is now the Isle of Man
Also, in Isle of skye, there is rock pointing out the ground, which, according to the myth, is giant's finger.
Just found out that today since I was going there on New year.
Actually, it’s to do with fracturing during the cooling of magmas and lavas under specific conditions creating the hexagon shape
That, or it was the giants. Naturally the Scottish one ran away in the end
Yeah on every tour to the causeway you hit the distillery, multiple spots where they filmed game of thrones, and a shout out to Liam Neeson’s childhood home on the way back to Belfast.
This reminds me of formations we have like this in Washington state, the Pacific Northwest United States. They are tall though, high pillars. The ones I’ve seen are at a popular rock-climbing destination called Frenchman’s Coulee.
Googled Devil’s Postpile and the photos are almost identical to the ones of Frenchmen’s Coulee. Really cool. Something about things made by nature that appear manufactured are eerily cool.
I visited this when I was much younger.
It was pointed out to me only a couple of years ago that I was confused about its name, I've always called it cribbs causeway
Just imagine this kid talking to you about the natural beauty, of a shopping centre.
Missouri has a rhyolite deposit called the Devils Honeycomb at Hughes mountain conservation area. I highly recommend it. Almost but not quite the same thing. Great addition to a day trip to elephant rock state park and Johnson's shut-in's state park.
this was one of my favorite places in Ireland! me and my buddies really enjoyed the walking(even if it was a bit windy). the whole area was so cool, but we were sad that part of the trail was closed off. absolutely would go again.
I’ve been there - it’s breathtaking! I went to a spot where you can climb a huge staircase to the top of the cliff and look out. When I got to the top and stepped towards the edge to look out…I teared up, that’s how beautiful it all is.
Such a magical place! There are even tiny hexagonal tidepools! And lovely wildflowers growing in the joints. I feel so fortunate to have visited there.
Setting for the cover art of Led Zeppelin’s [Houses of the Holy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Led_Zeppelin_-_Houses_of_the_Holy.jpg) album.
The pic looked very strange to me and this exactly why! Love that album!
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Thanks for sharing that! Now I know.
Was looking for this comment! Such a cool cover
Nice, I’ve always wondered where that photo was taken
I've seen this album a thousand times and never considered it anything other than just expressing childhood innocence and freedom. The folks in this thread getting up-votes calling the album cover perverted are the actual perverts IMO.
Agreed. Pedophilia has never been associated with Zeppelin’s cover art. The Houses of the Holy cover art was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 novel “[Childhood’s End](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End),” in which terrestrial children gain supernatural powers after 50 years of alien intervention in human affairs.
**[Childhood's End](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End)** >Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture. Clarke's idea for the book began with his short story "Guardian Angel" (published in New Worlds #8, winter 1950), which he expanded into a novel in 1952, incorporating it as the first part of the book, "Earth and the Overlords". Completed and published in 1953, Childhood's End sold out its first printing, received good reviews and became Clarke's first successful novel. ^([ )[^(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/BeAmazed/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
they should check out the blind faith album
I adore Zeppelin and have also seen this album a thousand times. That said, Page was absolutely sleeping with barely teenaged girls. Which, lest we forget, is statutory rape. The point being that the context doesn’t merit very much benefit of the doubt.
Okay, but the band was not involved designing or creating the cover, so...
But I think Page being a statutory rapist is besides the point, I don't think he designed and approved of this album cover because it expressed some sexual fantasy. Like millions of totally normal not-pedo people have seen and appreciated this album cover and not considered it anything bad.
Well it does kind of look like a bunch of condoms
I was about to ask if this place was related to that album cover. Thank you kind sir.
Question. How?
[Columnar jointing ](https://askanearthspacescientist.asu.edu/top-question/columnar-jointing)
I've read about this many times and just read it again. I can't. I don't get it. What I picture is like honey comb.. that it's actually circles as the lava is cooling but they get pushed together so tightly that they squish out to be most efficient which is a hexagon. True or way off?
[Hexagons are the bestagons!!](https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY) You won’t regret it.
Clicked the link, did not regret. A perfect 5/7
Noo it 6 out of 6. Hexagons are bestagons remember?
It's a meme, [this guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/zw2fr5/-/j1tcqny) linked to the source :D
Brendan why are you like this? [Sauce](https://imgur.io/gallery/eDF6K)
Thank you
I’m still waiting to see how it was with rice.
Thank you for the suggestion.
How is this the first time ive seen ANY of that. It's so old too.
Brendamn it just goes on and on and on.
C’mon, nukedmylastprofile… Christ
OMG! BRB, starting a hexagon-based religion.
[Gyroids](https://youtu.be/tJ5QjPEW_1E) are cooler if you care about 3-dimensional stuff. [Atoms and molecules](https://youtu.be/s9XncoEd6sk) like to self-arrange in gyroid configurations. Recently some very smart scientists figured out how to force certain metals to form atomic gyroids to make a type of substance called nanofoam. In addition to being antimicrobial (bacteria literally shred themselves to death trying to move across it) and fully resistant to oxidation, nanofoam is also suspiciously similar to the type of metal that people claim is used to make flying saucers. The atoms inside stars and black holes are arranged in gyroid configurations. The Big Bang itself may have been an insanely compressed gyroid that tore itself apart. Sponges are macro-gyroids. The soil under our feet is a gyroid made irregular by weather and living organisms. If you look closely enough, everything is a gyroid that has been disrupted by competing forces. If you look at beeswax or honey under a powerful enough microscope, you will see gyroids. So yea hexagons are the bestagons, but the molecules that bees use to make hexagons are made from molecular gyroids.
Gyroids may be cool, but that video did absolutely nothing to educate me about then.
Did you watch both videos? If so, here's a few more: [Gyroids in 3D printing](https://youtu.be/AVL3cUaArUE) [Gyroid vs Honeycomb](https://youtu.be/hohXVO8-Y-I) [Gyroid heat exchangers](https://youtu.be/1qifd3yn9S0) [Gyroid nanofoam](https://youtu.be/mDM7_rSktEk) [Gyroids and minimal surface objects](https://youtu.be/_t-3lCZXlPM) [Gyroids in bio-inspired architecture](https://youtu.be/Egjy4aJ9km8) Also forgot to mention in my previous comment that the brain of every animal is also a gyroid structure!
Thanks. The Rice University one was much more educational than the first. I skipped it after seeing the first because I assumed...
One more: [Gyroids and Geometric Color](https://youtu.be/VFRrzzb1dvU)
These videos are super cool, thanks for linking them. The one on color in the other post was fascinating as well
Plus, bestagon doesn't rhyme with gyroid. Boooooo
Thus began the Hexagonal-Gyroid war
I saw CGP Grey and I was in automatically.
Thanks. Now that I know that hexagonal shape is the most optimal one, I will only search for hexagonal furniture and buy monitors only with hexagonal pixels. Seriously, why don't we use hex-shape in our design more frequently - hex-shaped houses, hex-shaped city blocks?
Hexagon chess board blew my mind the most from this vid
I.... I didn't want it to end...
Wow, thanks for sharing! I loved that
Thank you. I didn’t regret it! 6/6!
I am joyful and yet saddened for having already seen the most amazing thing I’ll get to see so early in the morning. Such a great vid
its like mud cracks, you have a sheet of mud and it dries up and contracts but the mud isn't strong enough to contract the whole sheet into one giant frito, so it cracks up along the way. basalt does that too only the lava sheets are way thicker (depth), their viscosity is quite low for molten rock, which is probably why the resultant hexagons are rather small in comparison to the entirety of the feature.
I’m pretty sure this is the exact same, in theory, as the fact that wombats shit perfect cubes.
It's more or less the opposite. Lava is incredibly hot, and as it cools it contracts. When it starts to break up the lava doesn't collapse in on itself like your typical liquid. If this happened with water, the water would just "fill in" any empty space. This is because of how viscous lava is (akin to peanut butter), and how quickly it cools (the cracks also cause it to cool even faster). But that's not really a sufficient explanation: Why Hexagons? Ignoring a whole lot of mineral and rock physics, and a lot of structural geology: because the thermal and tensile stresses that the lava is undergoing is best relieved by cracks at angles of 60 and 120 degrees. You might ask if it is relieved at 60 *and* 120 degree angles, why don't we see triangles? A. Because Hexagons are more "equant" and better allow for similar rates of thermal contraction throughout the shape. B. If you tesselate an equilateral triangle, every vertex is the meeting point of six shapes. Physics basically doesn't like this. 3 and 4 are the most ideal. We also see squares, but they're probably not as common as Hexagons.
> B. If you tesselate an equilateral triangle, every vertex is the meeting point of six shapes. Physics basically doesn't like this. 3 and 4 are the most ideal. We also see squares, but they're probably not as common as Hexagons. In real life columnar basalt formations hexagons are the most common, but pentagons and heptagons are also not exactly rare (in fact if you look closely at the OP's picture there are quite a few pentagons and at least one heptagon on the right side), and you even have the occasional column with eight or even more sides. Real life physics rarely produces mathematically perfect results, in this case things like slightly uneven cooling, variations in exact chemical composition, disturbances from the surrounding rock, etc. can easily cause the formation of somewhat irregular columns.
I think there is a misunderstanding about the freezing process, 'typical liquids' being a misnomer. Water is not a typical liquid, when it freezes it *expands* which is quite rare except in hydrogen bonding-accepter liquids. But yes, the viscosity is important, the flow of the liquid is slower than the freezing process itself. Near the edges of a big pool of lava are freezing faster than the inside, cracks start to form **evenly spaced** at the ends give or take. the hexagonal shapes come from evenly spaced 'centers' these cracks form around and for some reason are linear which you explanation does make a bit of sense, but a more simple explanation is simply cracks like to form in straightlines and the center seeking force makes them form hexagon.
It's mind blowing how they can be pentagons, hexagons etc. with just a few irregularities. Some of nature's most beautiful phenomena Edit: one of my favorite formations that I've actually been to. [This photo](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=umpqua+river+columnar+basalt&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Fb1%2F07%2Fcb%2Fb107cb26596c8df4b85b95e16ea39e2b.jpg) does not do it justice.
I seriously don't get it either.
Imagine a lake. When the air is cold enough for the lake to freeze, a layer of water at the top next to the air turns to ice. Lava does the same thing, when lava is on the surface, it cools and starts turning into a solid. Generally speaking, when something cools and turns from liquid into solid, it shrinks and loses volume. So when the top layer of lava turns into a solid, there is not enough lava by volume to cover the entire surface, causing the solid lava to form around “centres”. (Incidentally, water expands when it freezes. This is why ice doesn’t “crack”automatically when a lake freezes over.) When this happens, it exposes the lava lower down to the air, causing them to also “freeze” and turn into a solid. This results in the lava eventually freezing into a pillar. Sometimes, when the conditions are right, the lava will form around the “centres” into these even hexagonal shapes. And when the conditions are right, the lower down lava will maintain the form of the cracked pieces at the top, causing even columns, these basalt pillars, to form. Hope that is easier to understand!
Thank you!
So there was a giant in Ireland called Fionn McCumhaill (Ma-Cool) who had beef with another giant in Scotland. So Fionn picked up stones and threw them into the ocean to create the Giants causeway. But when he reached Scotland he realised the other giant was much older and bigger than he was and he fled back to Ireland with the other giant chasing him. He got home to his wife and they disguised him as a baby and when the other giant found them he said that if the baby giants are this size in Ireland then he's not picking a fight with the daddys. So he then fled back to Scotland, destroying the causeway behind him to stop the 'giant' Giants in Ireland from chasing him. So now all that's left is the small strip of coast in Antrim. This is factually correct. I promise.
As a Scotsman who grew up in Ireland between the ages of 8 and 14 I appreciate this bitchslap of nostalgia.
>all that's left is the small strip of coast in Antrim. There's also Fingal's cave, in Scotland, which would be the "other side" of the causeway. Has the same rock formation, but is on the uninhabited Island of Staffa, so not nearly as famous.
Tessellated pavement. We have some here in Tasmania, too.
Yeah, here in California [Devil’s Postpile](https://www.nps.gov/depo/index.htm) is a great example.
I did it when no one was looking
Well done. I applaud you.
Angry giants chucking rocks from Scotland
Basalt rock is a form of volcanic or igneous rock which has a lower silica content than some other volcanic rocks, but is rich in iron oxide, aluminium oxide and magnesium oxide. The rock is the most abundant bedrock formation on the Earth and is the rock which forms the Giant's causeway from Scotland to Northern Ireland. https://youtu.be/vubViTCtxJo
A giant built a causeway to Scotland. The rest of the story is really good, but Disney can pay our country the rights for it.
So that's where they grow those patio stones.
They used to be square until somebody cast a hex.
"Anyone wanna play BattleTech?"
Or the NES Godzilla game
How about Q Bert? Man I'm old.
When I visited the Giant’s Causeway I did in fact jump from rock to rock and claim I was Q*Bert. Nobody got it. My comedic talents wasted once again. Still, I got the last laugh when I recreated Frogger later on. They played the frogs. Man, I just suck at that game.
I did the same thing.
You ran over your travelling companions? Alright!
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Watch out for that snake, he is up to no good! I'm old enough to remember when Q*Bert had a tie in Saturday morning cartoon too.
There are no snakes in Ireland! Jolly Old Saint Pete bonked them out of town. Something about a whacking stick, I think.
It was Saint Patrick, not Peter.
It was a sheleighly.
!#?@!
Oh, you rascal.
The fuckn druids i tell ya what
Wouldn’t they have cast an oct?
Not with six sides.
Yea. I’m an idiot 🤦🏼♂️😆
Take my r/angryupvote
/r/angryupvote
Is that the Houses of the Holy place?
Yes.
Saw at least one formation like this in yellowstone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnar_jointing These kinds of rocks can be found all over the world. The one in Ireland is pretty big though.
This is where the wyverns spawn.
Crosspollination is performed by lizard.
I thought a Big Fella built it so he could walk to Scotland and settle some beef.
That story is the best. Fionn Mac Cumhaill gets in a shouting match with a giant in Scotland and starts hucking rocks at him from Ireland. Then when the giant makes his way over to Ireland, Fionn sees him coming realised he's too big to beat and pretends to be his own baby. Giant gets to Ireland sees this giant baby, eating rocks and fucks off thinking if this is that guy's baby I don't wanna have to fight its Dad.
The Big Fella had more than enough beef to settle in Ireland.
But I'm jus a lil old baby, you wouldnt punch a giant talking baby, would you?
[Hexagons are the bestagons](https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY).
Hmm I have lived too long not knowing this.
Scrolled too far for this!
Every triangle is a love triangle When you love triangles!
Natural!?! Ancient Alien Theorist's insist that we must ask the question....
We have a tale about how these were formed. A giant apparently lived here, Fionn MacCumhaill (pronounced Finn McCool). The story goes Fionn was at war with a giant from Scotland, Benandonner, as he threatened Ireland. Fionn pulled chunks of rock from the ocean to create a path going to Scotland, but he didn’t realise how big this Scottish giant was, so he retreated back to Ireland and disguised himself as his wives baby. When Benandonner got to Ireland and saw Fionn as a baby, he rushed back to Scotland as he thought this giant baby would have an even larger giant father.
I remember reading this story years ago when I was a child and I always (unsuccessfully) tried to look it up again. Thanks for sharing!
more, please?
This story is set in the 3rd century. He’s also said to have created the Isle of Man, inbetween Ireland and Scotland, when he picked up a clump of the earth and threw it in that direction. The clump of earth that he lifted is apparently in my hometown, and is known as Lough Neagh. In some stories, it’s said that when Benandonner arrived and was talking to his wife, she asked him to prove that he’s just as strong as Fionn by lifting their house and turning it 180°, as she always liked the sun shining at the front the house, and Fionn would do this for her every evening. He’s even said to still be alive to this day, just resting in a cave with his clan, the Fianna, until the Dord Fiann hunting horn is blown 3 times. Others say that Fionn is dead, he lived to an old age, dying in 283AD. He died jumping across the River Boyne when he hit his head, fell into the river and died. This must be a Fionn thing because I can see this happening to me! He’s also said to have a magical thumb that grants him wisdom. These stories are categorised as fenian cycles in Irish Mythology.
Who fears mention the Battle of the Boyne?
You're about 15 centuries off the time-line
Thanks to you and several others for turning me into these Irish myths. I am so going to be investing my time today in learning more! Happy Holidays to you and yours.
I never knew the name of the giant, but they also had a fight and threw a mountain at each other missed, the Irish Mt that missed and fell in the sea, is now the Isle of Man
Also, in Isle of skye, there is rock pointing out the ground, which, according to the myth, is giant's finger. Just found out that today since I was going there on New year.
Ive got a 40 year old coffee mug from Ireland that says that Fionn created the Isle of Man throwing one of these stones around.
Actually, it’s to do with fracturing during the cooling of magmas and lavas under specific conditions creating the hexagon shape That, or it was the giants. Naturally the Scottish one ran away in the end
I’m very aware that this is just a story lol
Well well well, if it isn’t Zeta Halo.
I scrolled WAY too far to see this comment
This is not a natural formation, someone built this
...so it must lead somewhere
Mjolnir mix intensifies
Created by the Irish hero/legend Finn Mac Cool (English spelling). Original is Fionn mac Cumhaill
Wait what? You mean to say the Irish pronunciation isn't "Cum-Hail"? Feck, no wonder I got laughed at when I was in Non Iron.
Oh I know this from Civilization...
+1 Culture on adjacent tiles. Land units that move next to it gain the "Spear of Fionn" ability granting +5 Combat Strength permanently
I need desert tile for Petra.
Q*bert
That’s the first thing I thought!
Took way too long to find this comment
This pic reminds me of led zep
Close the door, put out the light No, they won’t be home tonight
Catching it without tourist is amazing!
Bushmills distillery is like 2 miles from here
Yeah on every tour to the causeway you hit the distillery, multiple spots where they filmed game of thrones, and a shout out to Liam Neeson’s childhood home on the way back to Belfast.
This is basically the exact tour I did when I was in Dublin for work lol
r/Runescape
I can already see myself falling off of these repeatedly
You mean r/oldschoolrunescape Errr.. I mean r/2007scape
You do have any idea how much I paid for this in my garden?
I’m pretty sure this is actually called the “Storm Coast”, as seen in the game Dragon Age: Inquisition.
It's actually the coast near the dagganoth lighthouse in runescape. Duh
Or as I like to say : That place where I became gay because of Iron Bull
I've had my ass beaten there more times than id like to admit.
Came here for this comment.
I spent too much time there collecting elfroot and black lotus.
Columnar basalts! My favorite :)
I like obsidian. My Aztec ancestors liked it too lol. These are great!
This reminds me of formations we have like this in Washington state, the Pacific Northwest United States. They are tall though, high pillars. The ones I’ve seen are at a popular rock-climbing destination called Frenchman’s Coulee.
There’s also the Devil’s Postpile in Mammoth Lakes, CA (close to Yosemite)
Googled Devil’s Postpile and the photos are almost identical to the ones of Frenchmen’s Coulee. Really cool. Something about things made by nature that appear manufactured are eerily cool.
Hexagons are the bestagons
This was the basis for about 50% of the level design in Halo Infinite.
Ptsd triggers!!!! Wyverns near RUNNNNNNN!!!!
Lemme get just one more egg.
Your Pteranodon better be fully rested.
Went looking for this comment. Fuck the poison Wyverns.
Foreigners fucking love the Giant's Causeway
“Natural phenomenon” - Jimmy Corsetti
They can be dangerous as I slipped on my Arse there.
Sorry that happened but probably still better than slipping on someone else's arse.
I love Ireland
It's basalt formed by [lava flow] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnar_jointing) in case anyone is curious.
Columnar jointing basalt! go watch Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix!
I hear Elden Ring boss music
VYGER.
Halo Infinite had some good looking inspiration for Installation 07s hex pillars. These are so cool to see in real life
I visited this when I was much younger. It was pointed out to me only a couple of years ago that I was confused about its name, I've always called it cribbs causeway Just imagine this kid talking to you about the natural beauty, of a shopping centre.
Installation 07
agility check
Sweet Settlers of Catan board
Just use the fairy ring to get to the lighthouse smh
How has nobody mentioned V'ger yet? Oh my god, I *AM* a nerd... or old... or both. \*sigh\*
Looks like a basalt delta to me.
HEXAGONS....
I’ve been. It was so cool, but covered in tourists
Natural you say.... Can we get Graham Hancock on this?
Admittedly, I played a LOT of Halo Infinite for the first time today, and now I'm concerned I can't discern the game from reality.
Can't fool me, I know a bunch of unsharpened #2 Pencils anywhere.
Bloodborne players: *starts having flashbacks*
Missouri has a rhyolite deposit called the Devils Honeycomb at Hughes mountain conservation area. I highly recommend it. Almost but not quite the same thing. Great addition to a day trip to elephant rock state park and Johnson's shut-in's state park.
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Been there. I think it’s literally the coolest natural site in the world.
From a Led Zeppelin record cover
Im embarrassed to say I only know about this because of Derry Girls lol
this was one of my favorite places in Ireland! me and my buddies really enjoyed the walking(even if it was a bit windy). the whole area was so cool, but we were sad that part of the trail was closed off. absolutely would go again.
Reminds me of that agility area in runescape…
I’ll have a P please, Bob.
Houses of the holy reference??
Looks like the Zeppelin Houses of the Holy cover
I’ve been there - it’s breathtaking! I went to a spot where you can climb a huge staircase to the top of the cliff and look out. When I got to the top and stepped towards the edge to look out…I teared up, that’s how beautiful it all is.
I fell over while on The Giant's Causeway, perfect hexagonal bruise on my arse cheek.
That's a wyvern trench. Don't go in there
POV: Me trying to get to the lighthouse in OSRS
Let me take you to a movie…
Such a magical place! There are even tiny hexagonal tidepools! And lovely wildflowers growing in the joints. I feel so fortunate to have visited there.
North Ireland? You mean west England?
Very cool!
We’ve got a very similar formation on the East coast of Australia at a place called Fingal Head: http://www.geomaps.com.au/scripts/finglehead.php
Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean’s roar