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Amazing Creations 33
Richard Gunther
Many plants use
the wind or air to The seeds are about
disperse their as wide as a man's
seeds, such as spread-out hand.
the sycomore, or
dandelion.
Another plant is
the alsomitra.
This plant prouces
fruits as large as
footballs, full of seeds
packed together like cards.
When the fruit is ripe it splits open
and seeds like paper-thin gliders drop out.
The seeds are as wide as a man's hand, and shaped like gliders.
They sail away, doing wide spirals.
Sometimes they nose-dive and swoop upwards.
Aerodynamically shaped, these seeds have what aircraft designers
call a dihedral desgn, with wing tips higher than the body.
This makes them stable, and ideal for gliding.
How did a plant come up with a modern aircraft design for its seeds?
It didn't. A plant does not have a brain. It cannot design anything.
The great God, who created the alsomitra, gave it the features.
