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.
Hydrodynamic
Why it's grease lightning
Hydrodynamic is the word you're looking for.
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.
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.
Oh, I'm aware that a trait surviving doesn't necessarily mean it's the best and I'm not trying to say that everything from the natural world is something you'd put in a design (you truly cannot understand how much I hate the human musculoskeletal system).
With that said, there are also a lot of really cool adaptions that can be utilised in R&D. My point was more a general comment about biomimicry being rad. Also, I think I was considering evolution as something of a...database that can be good to use when doing R&D.
Sorry if this isn't very coherent...I'm meant to be asleep...
Also always happy to hear about weird quirks of evolution!
God damn crab people!
I'm going to go out of my way to make my solutions more crab-like now. Maybe they'll get better.
A Jeep is one of the least aerodynamic things in the world.
Which would be fine if they were still used for their original purpose.
If you're stuck in mud with your wheels spinning, aerodynamics is the last thing on your mind, but you still might need enough space in the back for 8 sheep and a dog or six heavily armed insurgents.
Laughs in Suzuki Samurai
and Landrover Defender
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.
And they are also less aerodynamic than a cow.
