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Re:Openworm – a biological simulation of a worm with 302 neu... by szundi on Friday July 07, 2023 @04:07AM (#36628693)
And for some reason it is because somehow life is not able the produce rotating axles?
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Re:Openworm – a biological simulation of a worm with 302 neu... by PeterisP on Friday July 07, 2023 @04:41AM (#36628969)
Not only, it's also because of the square/cube law making it impossible to have a 50 ton flyer that flies in the same manner as a 5 kg flyer, you can't simply scale things up.
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Re:Openworm – a biological simulation of a worm with 302 neu... by cnlevy on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:36AM (#36629725)
Rotating molecular motors exist (a proton powered turbine in the video)

http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_mitochondria.html

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Re:Openworm – a biological simulation of a worm with 302 neu... by dekhn on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:25AM (#36632230)
You mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum
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