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Joel Kontinen
Shrimps protect themselves from shock waves by intelligent design They have a helmets
to ward them off.
Biomimicry is a science that brings out that what God has designed. And what he did, He did very well.
New Scientist says that “juvenile
snapping shrimp have broken the acceleration record for a repeatable body
movement underwater. The tiny crustaceans can snap their claws with an
acceleration of nearly 600,000 metres per second squared – similar to that of a
bullet leaving the barrel of a gun, "
Bigclaw snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis),
which can grow to several centimetres long, have spring-like mechanisms on the
larger of their two claws.
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