• fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    I believe that joke about cow winning the same competition is also correct?

    Also, I guess lobsters are expected to have a pretty aerodynamic shape (or is it aquadynamic at that point?) 'cause, well, otherwise they won’t be able to move efficiently under water due to it’s density or something, I’m not a physicist.

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    My husband’s work in R&D often involves him looking to nature to find ways to improve the efficiency of designs and materials. Evolution has done a lot of trial and error that often results in the most efficient way to deal with a problem, so giving a look to natural adaptions seems like a smart move.

    And that’s why everything that we’ve designed to solve a problem in our house is a crab.

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      You’d be surprised how inefficient much of evolution is. Look at a giraffe’s laryngeal nerve and you’ll see what I mean but because it hasn’t been a reason to die or deter mating it carries on.

      Even in humans or knees are awful but because we evolved from monkeys our knees had to bend backwards to climb. So to get around this we have long feet and an ankle that serves as the fulcrum instead of knees like basically every other know bipedal species.

      I could ramble on about this for a while but I’ll spare you my nerdy excitement.

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    A wrangler is basically driving a tipped over refrigerator down the highway. 0-60… eventually. Sure does climb hills well though, and it’s a blast to whip around in snow.