Bees use the hexagonal shape to provide the maximum space with the least amount of building material

The first time artist Rose-Lynn Fisher looked at a bee’s eye magnified 10x to 500x in an electron microscope, she was amazed to see a field of hexagons, just like honeycomb.

“I wondered, is this a coincidence or a clue?,” notes Fisher. 

“ Is it simply that hexagons are ubiquitous in nature, or is there a deeper correspondence between the structure of the bee’s vision and the structure she builds - in other words, similar frequencies being expressed in similar form?” 

This got Fisher wondering if there exists a parallel kind of encoding relevant to humanity.

“At a refined level of our own nature, does our deeper capacity to see and to do correspond with an intrinsic structuring?”

Bees use the hexagonal shape to provide the maximum space with the least amount of building material. 

Snowflakes also exhibit this hexagonal pattern. 

Again, these patterns, in which things fit together with the least waste of space, is most efficient and what makes nature most comfortable. 

Most school children would be hard-pressed to tell you this.

By the way, the word "grocer" comes from the word "gross." 

Literally, a grocer is one who packs by the gross. 

The derogatory meaning of "gross" undoubtedly came from people who couldn't stand the lack of correspondence between the way a grocer packed and the way Hindu-Arabic packed.

So in two dimensions we can see how gravity generates sixes and multiples of six. 

The old framework for mathematics would be ten balls in a row, and then rectangular extension of this. 

The hexagonal arrangement of the figure would be a good model for a core-6 system.

If one packs spheres in a three-dimensional layer around a central sphere, one will find exactly twelve in this layer. 

This is the shape created due to the natural force of gravity.

If additional spheres are added, the resulting figure maintains exactly twelve vertices.

Gravity, one of the primary forces in the universe, always maintains this twelveness as it adds additional layers of spheres.

This is again the way that the grocer packs oranges, and it can be easily demonstrated with clay balls. 

We saw how a triangulated hexagon can be created by connecting the centers of closest-packed spheres. 

Every segment of this figure is exactly equal to every other segment. 

Only a hexagon has this ability: to radiate from its center with segments equal in length to its sides. 

In the above figure we see twelve spheres closest-packed around one. 

Here  we have connected the centers of these spheres to create a figure that is the spacial counterpart to the hexagon we just left.

In this case, there are twelve segments radiating from the center, and each of these segments is equal to the segments making up the sides of the figure. 

Only this figure has this spacial ability: to radiate from its center with segments equal in length to it outside segments. 

(Fuller calls this figure the Vector Equilibrium.) 

The base-ten numeration system reflects a rectangular concept. 

Also, ignorance of closest-packing tends to make people conceive of "five in a row" or "ten in a row," and then ten more in the next row, and ten in the next row, etc. so that an unnatural rectilinear shape with a base is formed. 

Most of our houses are built with this shape (the necessary triangulation is usually hidden), but Fuller showed that by using a triangulated half-sphere, the geodesic dome, one can decrease the structural weight required to shelter a square foot of floor space from 50 to 0.78.


http://www.earth360.com/math-naturesnumbers.html 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-ollivier/worlds-within-worlds-the-_b_785457.html

The elongated, round-bodied swordfish with its sword-like bill, does not spear its prey, which would be awfully tricky to de-skewer, rather, they slash and catch their food. However, when swordfish are babies, they’re little, and that pointy protrusion is merely a toothpick! To emphasize how big these extremely small baby fish grow, the largest swordfish on record was 4.55 m (14.9 ft) and weighed 650 kg (1,430 lb). The average swordfish is around 3 m (9.8 ft) in length, and 113 kg (250 lb) in weight. https://mb.ntd.tv/inspiring/life/a-teeny-weeny-baby-swordfish-is-so-small-that-itll-fit-on-your-finger-tip.html

 
The Department of Fish and Game in information released this week says water chemistry at the Springfield Hatchery in eastern Idaho is so different from that in the central region that the young fish can't adjust when released into the wild.

 
"It's not a disaster, it's part of what you experience when you open a new hatchery," Paul Kline, Fish and Game's assistant fisheries chief, said in a post on the agency's website.

 
Idaho Rivers United, an environmental group, blasted the report as more reason for removing four dams on the lower Snake River that impede salmon.

"Until we address main-stem survival we're missing the biggest opportunity for these amazing fish," Kevin Lewis, the group's executive director, said in a statement.

 
Sockeye salmon are a prized sport fish and the Idaho run is culturally important to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. 

An estimated 150,000 sockeye returned annually to central Idaho, and Redfish Lake was named for the abundant red-colored salmon that spawned there.

 
Federal officials say the run began to decline in the early 1900s due to overfishing, irrigation diversions, dams and poisoning, teetering on the brink of extinction in the early 1990s.

 

The fish have been the focus of an intense recovery program centered at Fish and Game's Eagle Fish Hatchery in southwestern Idaho after being listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 1991.

 
The Springfield hatchery was completed in 2013. Salmon eggs from the Eagle hatchery and the federally operated Burley Creek Hatchery in Washington state are transported to Springfield where they are raised until they are ready for release as young fish, called smolts, into the Salmon River.

 
The goal has been to release 1 million smolts with the hope that up to 5,000 of them could survive the ocean odyssey to return annually as adults to Redfish Lake. 

This year, 162 adults returned, none from the Springfield Hatchery.

 

Fish and Game officials say smolts from the hatchery released in central Idaho are not surviving.

 
The main theory, officials say, is that water at the Springfield Hatchery has a high amount of dissolved minerals, called hard water, while the water at Redfish Lake and the Salmon River does not, making it soft water.

 
Young fish headed for the ocean transition from living in fresh water to salt water.

Biologists say the additional stress of trying to also adjust from hard water to soft water could be killing the salmon.

 
Idaho officials say they plan on trying various solutions, including releasing fish directly into Redfish Lake in the fall as pre-smolts, raising more sockeye at the Sawtooth Hatchery in central Idaho, and gradually softening water as fish are transported from the Springfield Hatchery in trucks to central Idaho.

 
TheBonneville Power Administration paid for the Springfield Hatchery as part of federally required mitigation to replace fish killed by hydroelectric projects that provide power to the region.

"We are confident that this hatchery is still viable and that our partners will find a solution," said David Wilson, spokesman for the agency.

 
https://www.ien.com/operations/news/20983379/hatchery-built-to-save-salmon-is-killing-them