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# Look at it a bit more closely.
What does it look like to you?
The 'Aestog' part of the name should give you a clue.
(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 14 Oct 2005, 20:42, archived)
# Is the Aestog bit
an anagram?
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(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Fri 14 Oct 2005, 20:43, archived)
# a goatse?
(I helped save b3ta! megapowerskills is farming apple meat, Fri 14 Oct 2005, 20:44, archived)
# Aye.
A bit more obvious when the polyaromatic system is highlighted.
(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 14 Oct 2005, 20:52, archived)
# nah
i just squinted. it always works.
(I helped save b3ta! megapowerskills is farming apple meat, Fri 14 Oct 2005, 20:53, archived)
# Mmmmm
benzene rings and tasty electron delocalisation.
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(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Fri 14 Oct 2005, 20:56, archived)
# And more than a bit unstable with 10 of them fused together.
This thing is like a huge amino acid - it would probably form polymers, and they'd be nice and rubbery thanks to the disulphide crosslinks....

/science mode OFF now!
(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 14 Oct 2005, 20:58, archived)
# I've forgotten most of my organic chemistry
Strangely, my job as a civil servant does not often call for in depth knowledge of, say, electrophilic aromatic substitution. Ho hum.
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(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Fri 14 Oct 2005, 21:04, archived)