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Posting this as I find it astonishing how nature invented electrical motors with gearshift way before humans did.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get what you're saying, but also nature has been around for a lot longer than humans, and nature is "infinite monkeys on typewriters" in real life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Infinite monkeys with a QC department

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Destin also made a nice video about the same topic. These thighs are pretty amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am really sad that Destin basically went mostly with the ID-perspective and I blame him being a devout Christian. Don't get me wrong, the video is well crafted, but he presented ID talking points as if it was a viable alternative to evolution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that Christian stuff can get in the way at times.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I wrote my PhD thesis about bacterial flagella. Not about the motor though (which is incredible), but about the long part of the flagella that is extracellular. It is able to change its shape as the bacteria moves. The mechanism by which this happens is at the same time quite simple, but just about impossible to explain via text. Really, really neat bit of evolution that has proven to be home to incredibly rich physics that is still being studied to this day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

facinating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Someone has been crocheting some really trippy designs.