Tokyo Rail System as Efficient as Slime Mold

[Kamiyacho]

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/327/5964/439

 

This is either brilliant work...... or completely crazy.

[David]

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crazy thing is the humans ended up with a system that was in the ballpark as efficient as the slime mold did!

 

Lots of this kind of biological modeling of engineering. spider web, etc. can end up in showing some new ideas of how to do things!

 

cheers

 

jeff

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crazy thing is the humans ended up with a system that was in the ballpark as efficient as the slime mold did!

 

Lots of this kind of biological modeling of engineering. spider web, etc. can end up in showing some new ideas of how to do things!

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

Like beaver damns, or ferret mazes ^_^