Miracle of Evolution

[Lemon[H]ead]

Flies, we all know them. They buzz around us while we're asleep, they buzz around our food, they buzz around dogs, and various other animals' sh...

They are already blessed with enough intelligence to navigate towards their next tasty meal, which tends to come from the backside of assorted animals.

BUT when will they learn about windows. I mean if they are flying and hitting something repeatedly for a long time (3-4 hours perhaps) and generations are doing this for hundreds of years...then why oh why dont they learn and pass on the information that "Okay, theres obviously something here so check out some other place"

they should make some kind of bible or something.

i'd pay good money for the bible of the fly's baptist church.

[Epidemic]

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Interesting observations, Epidemic. Interesting. Hmmmmm.....

Talking of intelligence of these critters, let me relate something interesting:

Way back when my grandmother used to notice that whenever she left any food on the table , small ants would inevitably find it and there'd be a long trail of them. Nothing unusual you say. Well, read on.

So to prevent them from getting to the food on the plate, she put the plate on a larger plate and filled the outer/larger plate with water. Like a moat. The ants couldn't swim, could they ?

Well, did it work, you ask?

Nope. The ants were there and they didn't swim across either. Couldn't figure it out.

Finally, after a day or two (who remembers, I'm just relating an incident and days are irrelavant), we noticed that there was a clothes line (the table was in a balcony) going over the table and the little buggers were on the clothes line and diving into the food. When they were directly overhead, they'd let go and land on the plate.

So that's how clever they can be.

Cockroaches are even more so.

But that's another story for next time.

Don't want to crap your thread.

[DangerSeeker]

I think we should help the flies along. Some creative genetic alterations will suffice. Shouldn't be too hard to add a biocircuit allowing such logical memory & calculations.

[alligator_al]

Originally posted by Lemon[H]ead
BUT when will they learn about windows. I mean if they are flying and hitting something repeatedly for a long time (3-4 hours perhaps)
...then why oh why dont they learn and pass on the information

I thought for a minute you were talking about pc users

If you're going to bioengineer them, make them stay out of the house period. :P

-Whir

[Lemon[H]ead]

noo...agh

the flys must learn. windows (the software, and the physical look-thru devices) should be avoided cos they jsut fly into them all day until they die.


its a shameful waste of life

[cowboybooter]

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the flys must learn. windows (the software, and the physical look-thru devices)

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You mean there's a difference ??



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[Lemon[H]ead]

You mean there's a difference ??

Yeh. However much your best friend tells you otherwise, dsl modems do not work with double glazing.

[Graham]

shahani,
Clever little *** these ants, perhaps a bit too clever, they might be well fed, but they are trapped on their little plate island.

Now where is that bridge building programme?

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