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I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit
by Jaygles 3y ago
I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit flies, then sit back and observe no change in the number of flies in the air.
They either throw out decoys when you swat them to fool us, or there’s a large queue of them waiting to take their turn to keep the number flying constant
- zacharycohn 3y agoSounds like you need a multi-phasic trans-dimensional pitcher plant.
- nyjah 3y agoI’ll add some tinder to the fire. I have an indoor bug zapper. I set it next to a window and it gets the bugs that are inside. Does a great job. But always intermittently some small fly will fly into it. Even when a door hasn’t been opened. I joke, but I’m semi convinced that 1 in every few billion try’s, the tiny flys make it thru the glass of the window. Where else are they coming from ? lol.
- yreg 3y agoOf course The Simulation has wallhacks.
- squirtlebonflow 3y agoIf a mouse can get in your house, so can a fly. There are holes
- hgsgm 3y ago[flagged]
- Terr_ 3y ago... Looks fine to me? (33 mins later)
- joecool1029 3y agoI think you need showdead on in your profile settings, go to their comment history and see all the dead comments they have? That's a sign of shadowban.
- theamk 3y agoJust check the thread in incognito window.. I see it, so no shadowban is involved. (unless you have some very unusual definition of "shadowban"?)
- yreg 3y agoWhen you open squirtle's profile, there are many dead comments in a row. It's possible they are shadowbanned and the comments that are not dead (such as the one in this thread) have been aproved manually. But in that case dang already knows.
- joecool1029 3y agoUsers can vouch dead comments from the shadowbanned if they have showdead on and sometimes they'll appear for everyone like this one did. Doesn't change the fact any new comments the shadowbanned user posts will automatically go dead. I vouch a few dead comments per week usually, and around half come back.
- cyclotron3k 3y agoThey are basically quarks. If the gap between any two quarks gets too big, a third quark will pop into existence between them*. *I may have grossly misunderstood my physics lecturer. It was a long time ago.
- xnzakg 3y agoSounds like the Game of Life
- Filligree 3y agoThe binding energy between quarks is so huge (more than 99% of the total energy of a proton) that, if you attempt to pull them apart, the energy you have to apply in the process is enough to create additional quarks. So it’s not that they just pop into existence. You, as the person pulling them apart, are the cause of the extra quarks being created.
- Timon3 3y agoVery similar to how you, as the person swatting the flies, generate enough energy for another to spontaneously emerge.
- wholinator2 3y agoHmmm but the fly must have some kind of incredible complexity compared to a pair of subatomic particles. I mean, it's made of an uncountable number of such particles, bound together in an extremely complex singular arrangement. And as i recall, the energy to separate 2 quarks (produce a quark anti-quark pair) is somewhere around the hundreds of MeV. I wonder how hard you'd have to slap a table to spontaneously generate a fruit fly. Or the average number of attempts required.
- frutiger 3y agoActually a pair of quarks are created, not only a third one. This is required to keep the overall set colorless.
- austinl 3y agoI can't blame medieval scholars for believing that flies spontaneously generated from things like raw meat (instead of reproducing). I would guess that fruit flies played a major role in supporting this theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation
- stavros 3y agoBut how are they born? I'll have no fruit flies in the house, and then I'll forget a potato, it rots, and then I'll be infested with fruit flies. Were they already on the potato before it rotted, or did one just happen in, found some food, and figured it would stay and start a family here?
- mattpallissard 3y agoThey ride in on your grocery store produce. They also seem to hang out in/near soil in house plants.
- jb1991 3y agoI think they’re actually on fruit or may be vegetables in your case from the start.
- stavros 3y agoYeah, that's my suspicion as well, as I rarely just see one lone random fruit fly in the flat.
- sandworm101 3y agoClean/peal the potato and immediately put it in a sealed container. No flies will appear. Only flies beget flies.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoThis is what I always wondered about maggots, like when a person in any kind of sealed room, anywhere, dies and starts to decompose. I've been lead to believe maggots inevitably appear and start the process but where did the larvae come from?! Food?
- prennert 3y agoThe reproductive cycle of fruit flies is approx 10 days. A single fertilized female will lay 100s of eggs over her life. But not all at once, it's more like 5 a day. So if you have a single fertilized female in a room, about 10 days later, you will start getting those handful flies emerge every day. You can keep your room completely isolated, but still you can catch 5 a day on average for about a month or two (in lab conditions longer). If you don't catch them all and you end up with another fertilized female, the story continues. I think flies are very opportunistic individuals, in the sense that there is always a fly hatching somewhere. If there is food, it will lay the eggs there. If there is no food it will try and stick around or die. But even if it dies, it's bothers and sisters are constantly emerging. So the population will survive a lot of adverse conditions.
- barefootcoder 3y agoI think I had one lay eggs in my house. A few weeks ago, on a day when I hardly opened a door for more than a few seconds I suddenly found at least 100 horseflies in my house. I was sucking them up with a hand vac and releasing them outside, and every few hours I’d go suck up about 30 more — and every single day after that I found at least 30 or so more for at least a week. I’m still seeing 1-2 per day, but at least that’s manageable. Hopefully these last stragglers are the last that I’ll have. It’s nuts!
- b112 3y agoreleasing horse flies. Horse flies are the bitey kind, so release?! ... well, no polite words here. (House flies are typically just... flies) Also, you probably have a dead mouse or some such, in a crawl space. Thus maggots, thus flies.
- barefootcoder 3y agoOops. Autocorrupt got me. Houseflies.
- b112 3y agoProof that AI is sentient, and malign. The more horseflies, the more societal unrest.