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Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger
The similar shapes are not accidental at all, of course -- that's streamlining. If you're moving through a fluid (whether air or water), and you want to minimize resistance and drag-inducing turbulence, then you had better be shaped in such a way that the fluid flows over your surfaces as smoothly as possible, with minimal resistance and turbulence.
It's a really neat illustration of how function dictates form, isn't it?
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The 1914 Alfa Aerodynamica was not only streamlined, it took advantage of skin-dimpling, which has been proven by Mythbusters to be more aerodynamic than smooth surfaces.
You can't get much more drive-by sciency than that.