biomimicry_kakolin_zhenya

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BIOMIMICRY
By Kakolin Evgeniy

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• Copying someone else's
work or invention without
attribution is called
plagiarism. But, despite
the fact that plagiarism is
usually considered
something wrong, oddly
enough, it led to the
emergence of a completely
new scientific field biomimicry. As the name
suggests, biomimicry is an
imitation or copying of
technological ideas found
in the biological world.

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Let's start with the simplest example. This is
Georges De Mestral, it was he who invented sticky
fasteners on clothes. Mestral loved to hunt with
dogs and noticed how dogs collect a lot of thorns.

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He saw one of
these spines
under the
microscope and
saw hooks with
which they clung
to wool.

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Then, Mestral decided to repeat this
mechanism in clothes, only he made
hooks from nylon so that it would
serve longer.

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And this is the first level of
biomimicry - copying forms.
in this case, the engineer
should look closely enough at
the animal to see its
potential.

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Next comes the
second level - hidden
properties. It means
that we can create
analogues of natural
mechanisms that are
not similar to the
original, but with the
same functionality.

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We look at the woodpecker. They knock 22 times a second and reach 12,000 a
day. One hit of a woodpecker creates loads of 1200 G. While, with 5 G, people
lose consciousness.

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But the
woodpecker
has 4 fixtures
that protect
it. It is tough,
but at the
same time
elastic beak.

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Porous skull

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Small
compartment
with fluid that
cushions the
blows.

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And springy
bone that
supports the
tongue.

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Engineers were able
to reproduce all
these mechanisms to
protect fragile
electronics.

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The protective
capsule has a
body made of
steel.

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Aluminum
soft layer

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Rubber
support

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And a large
number of glass
beads

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Richard
Hammond made
such a capsule,
put an ordinary
light bulb there
and threw it
from space.

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The light
bulb
remained
intact.

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Such
protection is
perfect for
black boxes on
airplanes.

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And also, to protect orbital stations from space
rubbish.

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Perhaps scientists
in different
spheres of life,
such as
architecture,
energy and
chemistry, should
not invent
something new.
You just need to
look at the genius
creator - nature.