Tag: nature

There’s a lot of free food lying around in nature!

• Rocks

• Leaves

• Small animals that aren’t paying attention

• Unattended trash cans (the whole thing)

• Bugs

• Litter

• Strange cubes with geometrically impossible amount of sides

• Dirt

• Tree Roots

• Flowers

• Childrens’ lost imaginary friends that got lost in the woods

• Eggshells

• Sticks

• Sand

• Gravel

• Hopes and Dreams

• Rotting fruit

• Bones

• The fading memories of those with amnesia or alzheimers.

• Actual eggs

• Werewolf hair

• Breadcrumbs placed by lost children

• Shedded Antlers

• Other self replicating nanomachines

• Firewood

• Unlabeled magical potions

• Settlements of elves, gnomes, and smurfs (return smurfs to Jewish wizard for reward, elves may have cookies, scaring gnomes petrifies them with fear, and thus will make cool lawn decorations, the same does for their flamingo warmounts)

• Broken glass

• Scavenged remains

• Your escaped clone

bobbycaputo:

Close-Up of the First Mechanical Gear Ever Found in Nature

The biological form of a mechanical gear was observed in nature for the first time in juvenile planthoppers (Genus: Issus), a common insect that can be found in gardens across Europe.

The insect has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing ‘teeth’ that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronize the animal’s legs when it launches into a jump. The finding demonstrates that gear mechanisms previously thought to be solely man-made have an evolutionary precedent.

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