Happy Birthday Johan!!
May your life become even better than is already has been!
And thanks for the tip that lead to this post!
The movie is made by http://www.1st-ave-machine.com/
It's their project named "sixes last" and if you click on it you can choose "view quicktime"
for those who are afraid of looking for the right link on the website, here's an easy shortcut to the same footage albeit in poor quality
but eyes and rotating elements in plants ??
exobiology or computer animation ..
well eyes aren't that impossible in living things but evolving something like that in earth plants ... not very likely in any reasonable time-frame and probably a few evolutionary re/constraints are going to prevent it
but recalling the evolution-course i followed once, rotating things are quite impossible because the wires would snap: veins, nerves etc ... would not survive it
Do you want to know more? An article by Richard Dawkins on the subject
Here are a few shorter remarks about the lack of wheels in animals, but the Dawkins piece is much better.
About Me
- paul
- Antwerp, Belgium
- warning! not updated since 2010 something. Born in the eighties, still alive and staying that way for many years to come. I graduated as an MSc. in biology from the university of Antwerp in Sept 2008. Finishing a dissertation about testate amoeba and their potential in biomonitoring. I combined my final year with a part-time job at the medical faculty. After that i went to London, doing a short internship and looking for opportunities to get into the field of sustainability. Right now I'm working for the province of Antwerp at the department of the environment. I love: most of my friends, taichi, the great outdoors, reading, cooking, eating, blogging/writing and just life itself. Music and humor are also very important to me. Furthermore I like the rest of my friends, playing some piano, scifi and fantasy. I don't like: people who dare to say "I'm bored" (there's just NO excuse for boredom, open your eyes dammnit), and certain types of seafood (but that's ok, we're seriously overfishing the oceans anyway. Just a few more years and we'll have won the war against fish!).
Me
Fieldwork @ Spitsbergen, thanx Stefi for the pic
2 comments:
congrats on the end of exams.
you know, i cried last night just thinking of the plight of animals and plants and their complete lack of wheels.
its so nice to find someone who understands
xx
pinks
haha :)
well i understand why they don't have wheels .. but i don't really think animals mind
they usually prefer to live in places where wheels are of little use like dense forests or cute swamps
(ok maybe on the Serengeti they could drive around..)
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