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Very neat concept. Love to see biomimicry in action. More great stuff available at https://biomimicry.org/.

And for anyone wondering — these pipes don't leak water, they leak air and other gasses. Title is a tad bit confusing.

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There possibly is great stuff there, but after having dismissed the third popup in roughly as many seconds, I gave up and hit the back button.

I've no idea why websites do this. No one wants it.

Those 3 clicks to close the popups probably were seen as more "engagement". ;)

Wasn't sure why they called biology "chaotic". Complex, yes, but chaotic? No. More like "we don't understand it".

“Chaotic” may be an appropriate term. I mean, “Chaos Theory” (using a very technical definition of the word “chaos” which is only serving as an analogy here) deals with systems that are understandable and somewhat predictable in the near term but with a certain amount of a particular kind of complexity that makes it totally unpredictable in the long term. Even when you understand that he fundamental, reductionist physics. A simple pendulum is predictable over the near and far term. A double pendulum, on the other hand, is “chaotic,” and fundamentally not predictable in the long term, even though all the relevant fundamental physical laws are known.

I think “chaos” is a good word describing something which is in between the fully predictable and the purely random.

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