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Old 02-04-2008, 12:38 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Very nice post, there is some great insight in there and it was very inspiring.

It always fascinated me how nature evolves over time. I can understand evolution when it does things like, adapt a body to live in a wetter area then it used to or breath a different combination of gases then it is used to. But what always baffled me was aerodynamic adaptations. How does nature know what to do to make itself flow better in the medium in which the creature presides?

I personally can't wait to reconstruct my model wind tunnel that I built in middle school for a science fair project (my dad scrapped it because he needed his leaf blower back) so that I can start testing ideas I have on a scale model of my car and some of my custom ideas I make from scratch, I might actually be able to find a very good way to make a very aerodynamic car for myself someday.
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