There’s a new Google doodle today and it’s a pretty unusual one, designed to mark the 125th anniversary of the world’s biggest snowflake. It’s not clear why they’ve decided to single this particular event out, but then the Google doodles have always been pretty random.
The world’s biggest snowflake was recorded on January 28th 1887 in Fort Keogh, Montana. Records from the time claim that this snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. Does that sound credible to you? There are no photos of the snowflake, and you have to wonder whether such a thing is even possible. Nevertheless, the legend has stuck.
There is apparently no scientific reason why a snowflake couldn’t be that large, even if weather conditions would likely break such a fragile thing up pretty quickly. There have been reliable accounts of snowflakes as wide as six inches in the past couple of decades,
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Does anyone know who designed this doodle – I love it.
Maybe some gold prospector measured the record snowflake against his penis size. This could explain how this snowflake was so large. Sorta like fishermen when they measure a fish.
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that is hilarious
i call bullshit
If there’s no photos about the snowflake and it was in 1887 how would they know if is true? If there is no pictures about the snow flake than is impossible for me to believe it. It was probably a tale told to young children back in the days until now they still tell it.
You know, Diana – there’s no photos of the iceberg that the Titanic hit either. Is that impossible to believe?
There is photos of Titanic after it struck the iceberg. Where’s the autopsy polaroid of whoever it landed on?
Well done, true or not it is thought prevoking
8-pointed snowflake – that’s unusual!
BALLS!
Sorry, not balls! Snowflakes structurally are always hexagonal, never octagonal. Plenty of articles to be found on them. However, the Doodle was still entertaining.