I had to wonder if Nature (the Mother, not the journal) had first created anything similar, because she always does. One answer is a dandelion seed. Not exactl

I had to wonder if Nature (the Mother, not the journal) had first created anything similar, because she always does. One answer is a dandelion seed. Not exactly the same, but a dandelion seed is about 85%+ "porous" - the pores here being the space between the spindles, not actual holes per se. And it turns out that high porosity is critical to stabilizing the wake turbulence not unlike what is described in the Nature video. https://sites.nd.edu/biomechanics-in-the-wild/2021/06/01/innovative-plant-how-does-the-dandelion-drift-its-seeds https://sites.nd.edu/biomechanics-in-the-wild/2021/06/01/inn... A learning that kirigami parachute researches might apply: The dandelion pappus is less porous near the center and becomes more porous toward the outer edge. A lower porosity near the central hub can increase shear flow, helping to detach and strengthen the vortex Furthermore, spiders which have been known to "balloon" on the wind even across entire oceans use multiple strands of silk which are negatively charged to repel each other, thus forming some of the same gaps that are seen in a dandelion pappus, with similar aerodynamic benefits. https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.034401 https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.0...