Friday, April 09, 2010

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

Fruit flies turn in midair with a shrug of their shoulders, article and video.

Fruit flies beat their wings 250 times per second?! Dang.

3 comments:

  1. Now then was that Groucho or Karl? :-)

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  2. Fruit flies beat their wings about once every 4 milliseconds ...

    ... this means 250 times per second!

    Anyway, it's astounding.

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  3. Dang, I must be getting soft in the head... I read it twice, and I was *sure* it said "four times every millisecond".
    (Maybe they changed the post since.)

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