Eat shit because 136 quadrillion flies can't be wrong.

[Darkover]

Eat shit because 136 quadrillion flies can't be wrong.

Doing whatever some large group of people or insects do is not logical just because many of them are doing something.

just because 70 percent believe in god doesn't make it true

likewise just because the vast majority of humanity enjoys being forced to eat shit doesn't make it right

just because the universe can build machines that enjoy doing anything doesn't make it right

imo it would be better if someone put an end to all this death and destruction once and for all instead of letting it continue for billions of years life has been evolving killing and eating each other to continue surviving and all for what so human beings can use up all the resources in less then 400 years starting from 1800s the industrial revolution until 2200

 

[mortuarymary]

Love it
Happy valentines xxxx

 

[Pluto]

 

[deedeme]

Flies, the evolutionary missing link

 

[Tears in Rain]

 

[Darkover]

@Tears in Rain
I guess the question should be "what did you expect?" We and fruit flies share a common ancestor, so it would actually be shocking if our genes were totally different. We don't actually share any genes in common with them. Rather, 60% of the genes in a fruit fly are related to the genes in a human. This makes sense, as a fruit fly does a lot of the same things a human does. Biologically speaking, we're actually quite similar. You see light, they see light. You move your muscles, they move their muscles. They have nerves, so do you. They metabolize glucose, their cells grow, their cells divide. They make proteins and replicate their DNA the same way we do. Most of those genes are the same, or at least very similar. Things like body shape and size are mere window dressing compared to most of the fundamental biological processes that animals use. This is sort of like being shocked that both an iPhone and a desktop computer both have silicon microprocessors that use binary.

One mistake people always make with evolutionary bio is to think that because we are bigger and smarter, that it somehow makes us more evolved than fruit flies. They think that our DNA should be more complex, more nuanced, more unique than a tiny fly.
The fact is that fruit flies are probably more evolved than us. Their generation times are much shorter, so they have gone through many more rounds of natural selection than humans have. They have just gone in a different way for their evolution since our lineages diverged. They have maximized efficiency, small size, and short generation times, which enable them to thrive on food sources and amounts that humans wouldn't be capable of living on. That said, they do a ton of the same things, and so you'd expect a lot of commonalities between us.

 

[Darkover]

Ooh is this really how many flies there are in the world approximately?

According to insect expert Erica McAlister, there are 17 million flies for each person in the world. However, this is just an estimate, as there is no way anyone could ever determine an accurate number. 17,000,000*8,000,000,000 equals 136,000,000,000,000,000

 

[thewalkingdread]