[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/17squg1/ho...
Actually, someone even commented in that thread about how it was similar to biological mechanisms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390619
The author passed away 15 years ago so I will mention the PDF of the book shows up in the first few search results on Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missi...
I wonder how much of machine-like "efficiency" is actually "overfitting" at the cost of robustness.
They can even repair their own DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair
Electric motors are sort of like hermit crab shells - Hard and long-lasting, but they only exist because they piggyback off of a living species.
there's a good richard feynam video about how things feel when they're that small https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRCygdW--c
This whole "protons entering bacterium and being pumped out" is exactly the ancestor of the mitochondria, that's what it does, except now the "outside" is the inside of the parent cell.
Also can work as atp generator by applying rotation ?
Which if you want an actual feel for the true scale of things, must be multiplied by (order of magnitude) the number of bacteriums on the planet.
The caveat is that more zeros do nothing for our comprehension of the scale. That's the problem because most people can't comprehend how evolution is even possible. We just don't have a mental model for a trillion, it's all the same to us after a certain threshold.