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jason udall	14/09/2013 17:39:26
2032 forum posts 41 photos	http://scitechdaily.com/natural-example-functioning-gear-mechanism-discovered-insect/
OuBallie	14/09/2013 17:55:01
1181 forum posts 669 photos	Amazing, and just confirms one of my strongest beliefs that nature holds the answers to most problems, and has invented/evolved solutions yet to be discovered by Homo sapiens Geoff - Good day in the workshop, with photos to follow.
Stub Mandrel	14/09/2013 21:39:01
4318 forum posts 291 photos 1 articles	Look at how a crab or a spider's legs work, how they can fold into a small space and yet have full three-dimensional movement, using only plain hinge joints. Neil
Michael Gilligan	15/09/2013 08:40:45
23121 forum posts 1360 photos	Thanks for posting that, Jason I was particularly interested to see that it's only the nymph that has geared joints. The explanation given seems reasonable but; [for this forum, only] one has to wonder if the adults have converted to Poly-V. MichaelG.
jason udall	15/09/2013 09:59:06
2032 forum posts 41 photos	Sadly no sense of scale Was given but for the smallest rotary structure must go to one of the bacterium...a filament sticks out and spins to propel the crita....when pulled oit of the bug an arrangement of polarised proteins is found on the root of filament..a change in charge in the body of the bacterium causes the filament to spin.... The world is not only stranger than we imagine it is stranger than we can imagine

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