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Re:From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break ... by kian on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:40AM (#23999436)
That poetic thought at the end is beautiful. Forces and actions (dual tothings) have shapes that are dual to living things - most likely because those spiraling shapes are more protective against forces than right angles.
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Re:From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break ... by mojomark on Friday July 31, 2020 @07:29PM (#24015571)
Actually, spirals found in nature are indications of the presence of 2 perpendicular force vectors: one in the direction of the spiral path, and one pointing towards the center of the spiral. See centripedal force (1).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_force

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