Dec 17, 2012
Breaking scandal at the BBC
UPDATE: This has ended up being one of the most popular Sciencebase blog posts and garnered almost 100 retweets. Despite this, the BBC is yet to hex their oct. Bizarre really, they spent several minutes on Radio4 Today discussing how to genetically modify Brussels sprouts to avoid stinky farts but they cannot get their crystalline water symmetry right…
This is a disgrace. Octagonal snow flake (actually a snow crystal) on BBC’s 2012 Christmas ident. Snowflakes abide by hexagonal symmetry due to crystal packing characteristics of water molecules in ice. As they would know if they’d read Deceived Wisdom. Hasn’t there been enough scandal at The Beeb this year without this?
The showtime idents are the worst idents I seen. So lazy
Someone has gone a bit flaky over this …
Tear it down. Tear it all down.
Literally every human being knows this! My entire family knows this (I think), and most of them probably don’t realize water is a chemical!
No snowflake or water ice crystal ever, ever has eight sides. Idiots.