HOW TO MAXIMIZE YR KILL COUNT

[defrog]

ITEM: If you’ve ever wondered why flies are so hard to kill, Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have yr answer: flies have a quick-fire intelligence and are good at planning ahead.

Flies can quickly calculate the location of the threat and an escape plan. Within 100 milliseconds of spotting the swatter they can move their bodies into a position that allows an extension of the legs to save them.

Says Caltech Professor Michael Dickinson:

"When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture."

In other words, to kill the fly, you have to think faster than the fly.

So get out there and kick some fly ass.

It’s all in the reflexes,

This is dF

Comments

[bosswriter.livejournal.com]

My most successful method is to place both hands about six inches apart a few inches above the unsuspecting victim, and has I close my hands quickly I also move them upward. Since the fly almost always flies straight up as an evasive maneuver, it becomes squished goo in my hands.