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The end may be cold, rather than hot–if that’s the case, we’ll see plenty of snowflakes. Snowflakes come in what seems like endless variety of shapes, although the verdict is out on whether or not no two are ever alike.
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2010 is here, the weather is getting colder and that means SNOW. Are two snowflakes ever alike? And why are most of them depicted (in art, anyway) as completely wrong?

Snowflakes are usually drawn inaccurately. They are shown as having four, five or even eight-corners although, despite the fact that no two are alike, they ARE all six-cornered. The six-corner configuration is a result of how they’re made: In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner quotes researcher Thomas Koop as saying, “The resulting hexagonal crystal lattice is the lowest energy form of water at cold ambient conditions,” which is a scientist’s way of explaining that they can only have 6 sides, no more and no less.
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