MDMD(1): Aggregated Snowflakes

[jporter]

Well, snowballs- or Snow-Balls- as it were, are a far cry from rockets, but
there seems to be some points of comparison. Both must undergo an assembly
process before they can be launched, though snowballs usually don't require
slave labor.

They don't look alike either, except maybe from one strange perspective-
snowballs are aggregated snowflakes. And, as anybody who has ever looked at
them under the magnifying glass knows, snowflakes are great examples of
symmetry- hexagonal (unforbidden) crystals, and by the rules of symmetry,
all the same, yet, by the nature of chaos, no two exactly alike.

(check out- http://www.weburbia.com/pg/symmetry.htm)

So what's the connection with rockets? Well, think of that A2, but this
time as it ascends, moving away from us toward other places, outta here.
>From directly underneath- as one of the GR covers demonstrates- there it
is, the hexagon. Remember all those tail sections stacked on eachother in
the sigmated tunnels of Nordhausen? Snowflake and rocket, joined by a
certain symmetry: the obvious, as in the first lines of two Pynchon novels,
and the Hidden, as in six-fold symmetry.

Now, how about octagons?

jody