My greatest achievement is catching a fly out of anger without looking. It kept buzzing by my head and I couldn’t swat it nor could I focus on my hw with it coming and going every 2 seconds. I had angrily just whipped my arm out and grabbed where i heard it flying by and caught it without looking away from my work. Surprised myself, surprised the fly, fly got dead, I got an A. Life is good.
I did something almost impossible too. Few years ago there was a blackout at night and my room was so dark that i cant even see my hand. I was bored and raised my hand and started doing scissors but all of a sudden something got caught between my 2 fingers so i held onto it until lights came back on. Then i realised that i have caught fly in mid air with just 2 of my fingers without seeing it.
10:30 one of my dogs did this actually. He had one abusive owner and one that didn't abuse him but didn't really stop it either. He tried to break in one day when my other dog was in heat, after spending a few hours there we tracked down his owners. A few weeks later they moved out of town. A few weeks after that we opened out the door to the sounds of scratching. He's been living with us for around ten years now.
1:32 this is actually a severe understatement... while bees prefer to forage within a 2-mile radius of the hive they will fly more than 5 miles from the hive when forage is scarce, and find their way back with relative ease.
Insects, especially ants, also use pheromones to communicate or leave paths behind them as they walk. They can wander off looking for food or something and with the help of their internal compass as well as pheromones they can retrace their steps, communicate with pheromones that they've found food and then follow the path they took previously or another ant can follow that path if it's still there. It's actually very interesting to watch ants communicate.
Not so great when the pheromone trail is going through the kitchen 😂 I love ants too but when they get into the house they're a pain in the ass to get out
We have several different types of ants here in Georgia. What I call sugar ants are the most amazing to watch. Their ability to communicate and multi-task is nothing less than amazing.
Turtles that have just hatched have a difficult time knowing which way to go, to get to the water, because of light pollution near where they hatch. I think they also use stars, or the moon, to navigate. I love that scientists brought animals to a planetarium. It's like a Curious George story.
A fly is essentially two navigation modules in a system behind each eye coordinating their visual input with each other and sending commands to either their legs or their wings with a few subroutines for eating, topor, mating, ect.
'essentially two navigation modules ' It isn't just two navigation modules, it's essentially two halves to the brain, and you can prove it easily. If a fly is landed somewhere, keep your body back from it, and approach it with your hands, one from each side. Move your hands slightly up and down (this is to keep them moving slightly in the fly's vision so they remain 'active') and slowly bring your hands closer and closer to the fly, evenly so they stay an equal distance from the fly. With an equal threat from both sides, the fly literally won't be able to take off. You can generally get both hands to within a few inches of the fly, then light and shadows will make one hand or the other more of a threat and it'll finally be able to take off. Once in a while when lighting is correct etc, you can actually close your hands slowly around the fly and it won't even take off. But usually they can take off when you get about 3 to 4 inches away with each hand. With a little practice you can catch a fly almost every time by hand by bringing your hands together quickly that last few inches, they leap up and you can catch it in the hollow between your hands from that last few inches. Neat to do once in a while, you can directly demonstrate how their brain is organized.
@@ModelLights You sort of proved my point. They are very much like sensory arrays with simple threat engines that easily glitch in the right circumstances than an ever adaptable brain that is always improvising in real time.
@chrislofterprod zzz I think that's a massive overreaction to what is basically just a creative abstraction of what flies do. A thought exercise. Do hypotheticals really disturb you this much?
I was living in Vermont and had to move back to New York City and couldn't take my one-year-old lab with me. A wonderful couple who had a cabin in the woods about 10 miles from my place volunteered to take him. I brought him there in my station wagon in a 20 below snow storm at night. Long story short, he broke away from their place and found his way back in pitch darkness through the snow. In the early morning, I opened the door and there he was wagging his tail, licking my face, and jumping up and down. I both laughed and cried at the same time, given that I would have to take him back once more. I was also completely amazed that he could navigate his way at night in a blizzard from a place he had never been to before.
Can u keep these bs stories on Facebook or something ? At least u get more attention there and people with less than a brain cell would be happy for you .
@@agentsbigassforehead Please give my comment a once more read, and 10 miles is the distance. Probably did take him around 6 hours in the snow to get from their cabin to where I lived.
I think that the CFF (Critical Flicker Fusion) of a fly factors in a lot when trying to kill it. They basically live in bullet time perceiving everything else as slow motion with the way their brain processes input. Dog has a slightly higher CFF too which is why they kinda cheat at the game of frisbee.
No, he's right. Compared to humans, flies do see in "slow motion", and turtles see in "fast motion". All related to the eyes and brain processing information
If you look around some, he was one of the more popular Reddit readers, and became popular enough to just start doing the voicework for other channels. These topics are probably being fed in by comments and staff, there are probably a lot more people involved in making this channel than you might be thinking. Pretty sure he started with the Reddit stuff though, I had heard him there for 6 months or a year before he started being on other channels. This could also be his channel or something, but the overlap and timing etc suggested he started reading for larger channels.
I had noticed as a child that when flys take off from the ground they need to fly forward. If even for a fraction of a second. This gives you a small advantage of catching or killing them with your hand. You can also approach slowly and flick them using your middle finger and thumb. Works for me anyway.
Sitting in a chair next to a lamp I noticed a fly flying in a perfect circle at the bottom inside rim of the lampshade keeping 1/2 inch away from the rim it just kept going in a perfect circle many times until I put my hand in the way and then it stopped. Another thing I noticed about flies is they bump into stuff all the time but never really getting hurt.
When I was a young man around 14-15 years old my dad and I were always out hunting. One say we went to a area in southern West Virginia to do a racoon hunt. It was about 25 miles from home so we took the truck with the dogs. We got separated from the dogs and come morning we went back home thinking we would go back the nest day to look for them. They were nowhere to be found. After 5 days the 3 dogs came home and was laying on the porch when we got up to milk the cows. HOW 25 miles in 5 days. Remember these dogs were transported to the hunting site via a truck. Animals have some amazing abilities to find there way back home...
When I got my puppy. He got out my backyard and was missing for 2/3 days. I was kinda upset then out of no where I found him on my front door step with a leash that was on his neck that he chewed off. Someone found him and tried to keep him but he escaped
You my friend have found the perfect mix of natural footage, meme footage and stock footage. I hate hate HATE channels that use nothing but stock footage for their films. And u sir have found the perfect balance of it
When I was a kid I remember seeing many flies get into the gap between the blinds and the window, id always find them really annoying due to the constant buzzing sound they made from smacking their wings against the glass trying to get out, one day I decided to walk over to one of these windows and inspect the fly that was inside the gap and with my morbid curiosity coming into play I wondered if I'd be quick enough to squash it against the surface of the blinds, so I waited for it to get comfortable and wipe its face with its legs repeatedly like they usually do and then SMACK, I ended up flattening the little guy and sticking him against the window, I told my mom about it and seeing as I was just a kid she cleaned the bug guts up and jokingly told me I did a good job and since I was now convinced my mom was proud of me for smearing fly guts on the window over the next few months I would be constantly at work splatting flies all over every window of my house, my mom would constantly be cleaning dozens of exploded flies off the windows. That's all.
By doing that you just affected the outcome of unlimited number of ways of the future had that fly lived. One tiny instance is I wouldn't be here now typing this and another is all the people reading it.. its endless.
@@davidenatoh359 changing anything in the past can affect the future, down to a single atom. Or should I say the choices you make in the present will affect the future in ways you couldn’t imagine. Say you saw a spider at a park, you didn’t squash it and someone sat at the picnic table that spider was at. That person gets bit by the spider and has an allergic reaction and goes to the er and survives. However if they would’ve left the park later on, they could’ve gotten into a car accident due to a drunk driver and die. This is a extreme example but an example none the less
@@tpghl5225 spot on bro, its unimaginable. everything we do in the moment by choice or not affects absoloute everything else in ways thats unlimited which inturn affects everything else in unlimited ways., just holding Ur breath for 1 second by thought changes everything compared to if u didn't have that thought. It's definitely one thing can never be controlled.
Once when I was a child my little brother took the dog "Buddy" he was like a corgi golden retriever, he was a puppy under our truck one morning and we kept him, he was years old at the time of this insident, we lived in the heart of the city, my brother walked the dog about 2 miles away to a friend's house also crossing a very dangerous busy road, when he was at the friend's house the dog loose somehow and ran outside and my brother lost him...he came home CRYING he lost Buddy and within minutes we were in the front yard and here comes Buddy ran home himself, we still wonder how he crossed that busy street himself!
When my brother was 3-4 years old, my familly was on our way to a friends house, way out in nowhere. My brother had only been that way once the year before, but when my dad got lost on those gravel backroads, my brother could navigate the exactly perfect way there. Baffles me to this day, because I can get lost in a phonebooth, with a map, kompas and guide 😂😂😂
@@mkvv5687 there are still phoneboths in australia, China, large parts of South/ Central America, and Africa. India still has them located in theire trainstations, and they still exist in Europe and the USA. Some places they are extinct, some places they are rare, but there are stil places, where you can find one.
My cat in the villages of Bangladesh was taken and left miles away by someone. A few days later late at night he just appeared whilst heavily raining too! This cat never left home and the only thing I felt he'd recognise from perhaps half a KM away are the flood lights high up on the roof so I left them on all night. Such a relief.
I moved not too long ago. My worst fear was that my two cats would walk back to my old house many km away. Luckily they decided to stay at my new place 🙂
And, I still don't know why I can't kill a fly... other than it being bad karma. Here is a funny story. When I was a kid I used to watch the Karate Kid movies. And in one of the movies there is this scene where the Karate-sensei Miyagi is teaching Daniel how to focus. And out of the blue "whoosh", he just catches a fly with his chopsticks. When I saw this I was just floored. And it formed a great impression on me. A few years later a Japanese student from overseas came to live with our family as part of an exchange program. He taught me about Japanese customs, the Japanese syllable alphabet and also how to eat with chopsticks. At this point having mastered how to eat with chopsticks after a few weeks of practice. I remembered the scene from the movies and as we were living in the countryside there were always flies around. And so in a smug moment of focused concentration I struck out at the next fly to come by me AND I CAUGHT IT IN MY FIRST TRY! I was totally astonished. Never caught one again in my life.
Its funny because your like the 4th guy whos commented the same thing catching a fly with chopsticks smh 🤦 yall just like writing paragraphs why yall didnt become authors instead
I can't imagine a large flying machine trying to replicate the flying ability of a housefly. Flies can fly like that because of their size. Any large wings trying to replicate a fly's would probably generate a lot of heat and destroy itself.
It’s about the mass per square inch of gravity and air pressure actually. That’s why we rely on engineers for things common people don’t understand that’s why they get degrees and spend so much time in school sometimes longer then doctors.
I was in bed with my girlfriend, she’s terrified of moths and there was an absolute beast flying around the lights in the bedroom. I fully love moths. So I put my hand in the air and said “come to me my child” being daft and it literally flew to my hand and we just lay there shocked af til I put it out of the window😂 Weirdest most satisfying moment of my life
You are the most cultured human being of a day for writing this comment. I wouldn't say we need more people like you because i prefer quality over quantity. Who even says "come to me my child", straight out of a fairy fate line it sounds haha, good day to you!
I wouldn't have let you touch me after touching a moth till you scrubbed your hand with bleach. Moths are just demonic and are in league with spiders to trick men into putting them in a cup and putting them outside instead of smashing their brains in. Then they go have a spider/moth meeting in the secret place where they have their weapons of mass destruction and discuss which houses are soft touches. Wait till you're at work one day and you get a Facebook notification with a picture of spiders wrecking your house with a party while your girlfriend is being tied up with a caption saying "snack 4 later, shoulda killed us when you had the chance motherfucker
I've lost track of how many flies I've had to kill today. There seem to be an infinite amount. A black plastic spatula seems to be a particularly good Instrument as the flies don't seem to be able to see black objects coming. I've been hearing that flies didn't exist in the Americas until roughly 200 years ago. But They also say things to the contrary. It's hard for me to envision a landscape without any flies, so I don't know who to believe. They're here and they're not going away any time soon. Might as well get used to slapping and flailing at them. I can't have them crawling on my lips, but they're intent on doing that. I guess I just don't ever get to fully relax again. Thanks nature. You're a real pal.
If you ever want to clear a room of Flys, and want to try something new I use a Spray Bottle with soapy water or glass cleaner it Stuns them and get them with Rag.
this guys videos are entertaining dont get me wrong, but sometimes the things said in the videos are completely inaccurate. ants and other insects may be effected in different ways of navigation due to light or whatever but they mainly travel using pheromone trails, which wasnt mentioned at all. not the first time something has been left out like that.
I have always been VERY good at just being able to tell where/what direction i am, and i don't know when that skill has been acquired, but i think it has to do with smell and memory, and magnetics ofcourse. -i have always run around far into the woods alone as a child, and i learned the smell of water-sources, and various other types of areas by subtle hints off the wind. i never, EVER got lost, and i learned, even with our northern weird-sun, to use it to tell "oh, it should be 5:00 now, i should head home so my mom does not worry!", and i would always be on-the-dot RIGHT, even if the sun was inconsistent and my mom told me "but that is only for the lower half of the planet!", yet i was always on time, without a watch or anything, all year. I would equate it to do alot with memory, because i have a VERY good one, and every step and area, i always knew and never forgot, but perhaps it has to do with my feeling for the magnetic fields too, because i know where north is by heart, -don't know how, but i always do (along with the other 3 directions) and i would think it makes alot of sense why animals would know it too, it's just a mystery to me how i know these things, it's SO subtle, it is amazing i ever pick up on these things at all, and scares me, that some people lose their direction so easy.
GPS, which is only one of our global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) has come a long way, and real-time kinematic (RTK) centimeter-level positioning is becoming more and accessible, as well as SBAS, which as far as I understand it, literally reads atmospheric pressure differences and sends that data to GNSS receivers to increase position accuracy. I just started learning about this stuff and it is so so cool. GNSS also works over most of the globe, and even without a base station (like a cell tower), we still have positioning down to a few meters. My point is, GNSS is a very useful tool, and I don't think flies will replace it, but I'm excited to see what we can do with flies, maybe in addition to GNSS.
also it would be cool to integrate muscles as motors and digestive systems as batteries into robotics. There's some reasearchers making robotic grippers out of dead spiders, they do it by just sticking a syringe into a dead spider, and tapping into the spider's natural hydraulic legs.
Speaking of navigation, there are languages (namely Guugu Ymithirr) that require speakers to have an inherent knowledge of where North, South, East, and West lie. In other words, native speakers develop somewhat of an internal compass when learning to speak the language from childhood.
He speaks about ants as primitive and humans as the peek of evolution. This is just straight up wrong. Though ants have been around for a long time this doesn’t mean they are primitive, it just means that they are so well sooted to their niche that they have not have to change. Meanwhile saying that humans are the pinnacle is naive. We are highly adaptive due to our intelligence and thats why we are the dominant species. But we aren’t really that evolved. Are heads are to big at birth for the mother, our backs are positioned in a way so that everyone will at some point have major issues whit it and our ankles have so many useless bones that we can break them by stepping on something the wrong way. Does that sound like “the pinnacle of evolution” to you? No. Furthermore evolution is an ever ongoing process in living things even when it seems that an organism is perfectly sooted to its niche. So there is no pinnacle because there is no end. (This is not meant as a hate post, just trying to inform)
This guy loved nature I don't think he intended to call ants primitive as in inferior, many times this guy says things like "this animal might be as smart as Humans" he means in this example that to our perception certain animals can do things that we do so we can only assume they might be smart as Humans. He is basically describing things he isn't intending to put a negative connotation onto the abilities of animal I think u just took it that way
@@djatlasmusik what you say is true. I just tought that poeple who are not very versed in biology might not recconise that and take it very litterely. What could cause them to develope wrong ideas abbout evolution and other topics that he touches on. (Sorry for my bad english btw)
The title led me to believe the video would explain why I am unable to kill a fly, but it seems what he meant was an explanation as to why I shouldn't kill a fly. I'll still kill flies.
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I was shown a way to kill a fly by my brother and it works, so long as you have a little patience. Ball up a white tissue in your hand and hold it with your fingertips. It is obvious that flies cannot determine the white or its slow movements. Move the tissue slowly towards the fly, once you are within an inch or so, speed up and capture it in the tissue. When I first tried, I became impatience towards the end and sped up my movement too soon and the fly evaded me but take your time and move in constant slow motion and it will work every time. I don’t know what the real reason is, it could even be that flies are mesmerised by white, but I suspect they cannot define it from other colours. I tried colour tissues, and it didn't work, I got nowhere near it. So flies can be killed, the times they buzz you is frustrating so a little patience is well worth the effort.
Its quite easy. Humans also used to navigate by the sun. Rises in the East & sets in the West. Perpendicular is North & South. Just plant a stick in the ground & put a stone on the tip of the shadow. Leave it for about 20-30 mins and come back and put another stone on the tip of the shadow. Join the the two stones up to get the West-East line (West is the first stone, East is the second) Then place another stick perpendicular for the North-South line.
The nature always attracts me .whether it is because of its beauty or mystery. Your videos are really awesome. I also think so. The world is mysterious but this statement is not enough. We have to know how much mysterious it is, then there will be a stimulation provoking us to know further which is really amazing and enjoyable
Birds use roads, highways & many other big landmarks to find their way around. When the birds migrate south before a winter storm hits. All of the birds around my town will follow route 148 due south in Southern Illinois. I have followed them down this highway for over 12 miles until I reach the very first bird. The line of birds will be over 15+ miles long & as wide as the entire Highway .They fly straight as an arrow down this highway. Coincidence? I doubt it. I believe birds have a fantastic memory. They use it to follow Roads & landmarks using their extraordinary sense of direction, to end up at the exact area, they are supposed to be at, for that time of season!
it's actually really easy to catch/kill a fly. For some reason they fly upwards, so all you have to do is hold a cup vertically above the fly and move it slowly towards the fly, and then slam it down. Or you can just use your hand and slam it down; always worked for me
The easiest way to suspect or even proof that birds use stars for navigation is to observe when their migration happen. If it never happens during total overcast, then it's highly probable they use visual cues from the sky. For machines that kind of navigation is not very useful. GPS + compass + visual obstacle detection is just perfect. For direction alone a compass is enough. Having a map and a compass you don't even need GPS, if you only can measure your velocity accurately. For that visual data can be used similarly as in computer mouse, but for that to work in 3D you need 2 cameras instead of one. Of course at least several other types of sensors could be used for navigation, but a compass and a couple of cameras are enough for the basic navigation. All we need for better or perfect navigation is just to make the systems cheaper and more energy efficient. BTW, without GPS you would have to track the movement constantly - any data gap causes positioning error. Having GPS you can correct those errors when needed.
You can develop ultimate navigation skills by having a photographic memory and using the sky I might not have a degree in Science but I am an enthusiast but in a spiritual sense of manner from what a few Wiccans taught me your heart is the compass....
Those zapper ⚡racquets are the best invention since sliced bread. & bug-a-salt ain't bad either. 🤣BTW, I had a cat we took to the firehouse for a rabbis shot & he escaped there. It was about 2 miles(in a straight line) from home. We had just moved there the day before so he wasn't familiar with the area at all. Yet he turned up a few days later. Pretty miraculous instincts I'd say ! All creatures are magnificent, especially furry mammals.
All I could think about while watching the second half of this was Ancient Aliens and how all the ancient cultures seem to have an unexplained fascination with the stars. I wonder if we too as humans have some kind of visual connection to the stars that we do not yet fully understand.
Thing is...humans use to be able to use stars too; and even dirt patterns and mountain ranges. We also used moss as well to tell what direction was which.
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My greatest achievement is catching a fly out of anger without looking.
It kept buzzing by my head and I couldn’t swat it nor could I focus on my hw with it coming and going every 2 seconds. I had angrily just whipped my arm out and grabbed where i heard it flying by and caught it without looking away from my work. Surprised myself, surprised the fly, fly got dead, I got an A. Life is good.
Impressive af
@@spacebarbarian._ indeed, don't wanna get on his bad side like the fly did lol
Congrats bro
Caught one with chopsticks once without killing it and it’s sad knowing I will never be able to do it again
I did something almost impossible too. Few years ago there was a blackout at night and my room was so dark that i cant even see my hand. I was bored and raised my hand and started doing scissors but all of a sudden something got caught between my 2 fingers so i held onto it until lights came back on. Then i realised that i have caught fly in mid air with just 2 of my fingers without seeing it.
🤣 Pilots should now carry flies in a jar as navigation backup
Yeah, brooo 🤣
@@TheMemeExplainer r/whoosh
@@TheMemeExplainer r/woooosh
Yes
Facts
10:30 one of my dogs did this actually.
He had one abusive owner and one that didn't abuse him but didn't really stop it either.
He tried to break in one day when my other dog was in heat, after spending a few hours there we tracked down his owners.
A few weeks later they moved out of town.
A few weeks after that we opened out the door to the sounds of scratching.
He's been living with us for around ten years now.
Aw that's cuteee
Yesssssss. Awesome. Everyday hero.
Dude saw your dog and made a commitment
@@oatmealman1586 😂
Just out of curiosity how did you know he had one abusive owner and one who didn't stop it?
1:32 this is actually a severe understatement... while bees prefer to forage within a 2-mile radius of the hive they will fly more than 5 miles from the hive when forage is scarce, and find their way back with relative ease.
"This is why you cant kill a fly"
Me: hits a fly with a fly swatter and stomps on it victoriously
immaculant clickbait
I kill a few flies before, about 2 to 3 so far by bare hands so far
@@xer0058 immaculant nuisance to society
@@Grandzi_011 human flyswatter be like
Insects, especially ants, also use pheromones to communicate or leave paths behind them as they walk. They can wander off looking for food or something and with the help of their internal compass as well as pheromones they can retrace their steps, communicate with pheromones that they've found food and then follow the path they took previously or another ant can follow that path if it's still there. It's actually very interesting to watch ants communicate.
Indeed. I’ve had a few and farms in my time and they are very fascinating to watch.
Not so great when the pheromone trail is going through the kitchen 😂 I love ants too but when they get into the house they're a pain in the ass to get out
We have several different types of ants here in Georgia. What I call sugar ants are the most amazing to watch. Their ability to communicate and multi-task is nothing less than amazing.
um..duh?
Turtles that have just hatched have a difficult time knowing which way to go, to get to the water, because of light pollution near where they hatch. I think they also use stars, or the moon, to navigate. I love that scientists brought animals to a planetarium. It's like a Curious George story.
I like turtles
Really such a shitty situation for the dung beetles. That kind of crap pisses me off.
@@jaybingham3711 its a beetle
@@fireball2275 r/woosh
@@jman2u50 thank you
A fly is essentially two navigation modules in a system behind each eye coordinating their visual input with each other and sending commands to either their legs or their wings with a few subroutines for eating, topor, mating, ect.
you tried too hard to turn biology into tech terms this is awful
@@chrislofterplodzzz Tech?
'essentially two navigation modules ' It isn't just two navigation modules, it's essentially two halves to the brain, and you can prove it easily.
If a fly is landed somewhere, keep your body back from it, and approach it with your hands, one from each side. Move your hands slightly up and down (this is to keep them moving slightly in the fly's vision so they remain 'active') and slowly bring your hands closer and closer to the fly, evenly so they stay an equal distance from the fly. With an equal threat from both sides, the fly literally won't be able to take off. You can generally get both hands to within a few inches of the fly, then light and shadows will make one hand or the other more of a threat and it'll finally be able to take off.
Once in a while when lighting is correct etc, you can actually close your hands slowly around the fly and it won't even take off. But usually they can take off when you get about 3 to 4 inches away with each hand.
With a little practice you can catch a fly almost every time by hand by bringing your hands together quickly that last few inches, they leap up and you can catch it in the hollow between your hands from that last few inches.
Neat to do once in a while, you can directly demonstrate how their brain is organized.
@@ModelLights You sort of proved my point. They are very much like sensory arrays with simple threat engines that easily glitch in the right circumstances than an ever adaptable brain that is always improvising in real time.
@chrislofterprod zzz I think that's a massive overreaction to what is basically just a creative abstraction of what flies do. A thought exercise. Do hypotheticals really disturb you this much?
I was living in Vermont and had to move back to New York City and couldn't take my one-year-old lab with me. A wonderful couple who had a cabin in the woods about 10 miles from my place volunteered to take him. I brought him there in my station wagon in a 20 below snow storm at night. Long story short, he broke away from their place and found his way back in pitch darkness through the snow. In the early morning, I opened the door and there he was wagging his tail, licking my face, and jumping up and down. I both laughed and cried at the same time, given that I would have to take him back once more. I was also completely amazed that he could navigate his way at night in a blizzard from a place he had never been to before.
Can u keep these bs stories on Facebook or something ? At least u get more attention there and people with less than a brain cell would be happy for you .
your dog didn’t walk 6 hours all the way from vermont to nyc
@@agentsbigassforehead Please give my comment a once more read, and 10 miles is the distance. Probably did take him around 6 hours in the snow to get from their cabin to where I lived.
@@nexstory you want me to believe that your dog walked 300 miles from Vermont to NYC? it’d take 4 days on foot
@@agentsbigassforehead he hadn't moved to NY yet in the story dumb dumb...
I think that the CFF (Critical Flicker Fusion) of a fly factors in a lot when trying to kill it. They basically live in bullet time perceiving everything else as slow motion with the way their brain processes input. Dog has a slightly higher CFF too which is why they kinda cheat at the game of frisbee.
actually its just the size and being really small to us
No, he's right. Compared to humans, flies do see in "slow motion", and turtles see in "fast motion". All related to the eyes and brain processing information
If you close the gap between kill object and a fly slowly then attack with no room to escape they actually can't see it coming until its to late
How does this guy find so many interesting topics.I’m addicted to these videos.
Yes and his awaaz his soo soothing
If you look around some, he was one of the more popular Reddit readers, and became popular enough to just start doing the voicework for other channels. These topics are probably being fed in by comments and staff, there are probably a lot more people involved in making this channel than you might be thinking. Pretty sure he started with the Reddit stuff though, I had heard him there for 6 months or a year before he started being on other channels.
This could also be his channel or something, but the overlap and timing etc suggested he started reading for larger channels.
6:14 "so as usual I asked Steve, Steve asked Google", I like how they follow the chain of asking questions.
Can we just appreciate how good his videos are
Yes the video is good but the relationship between ur mother and father was not good
@@serenitycat lmao thats a good joke that sensitive people might get triggered at HAH
@@serenitycat you wrong for that 💀
@@serenitycat mama lol
yes but your father didnt find the milk
The title: "This is why you can't kill a fly"
The fly trapped in my jumping spider's enclosure: 💀
I had noticed as a child that when flys take off from the ground they need to fly forward. If even for a fraction of a second. This gives you a small advantage of catching or killing them with your hand. You can also approach slowly and flick them using your middle finger and thumb.
Works for me anyway.
exactly this, im great at killing houseflies with my hands.
Sitting in a chair next to a lamp I noticed a fly flying in a perfect circle at the bottom inside rim of the lampshade keeping 1/2 inch away from the rim it just kept going in a perfect circle many times until I put my hand in the way and then it stopped.
Another thing I noticed about flies is they bump into stuff all the time but never really getting hurt.
That's only until they bump into a spider, scorpion or praying Mantis.
Landing on a Venus fly trap does not help them either.
That's because they don't weigh much, bumping into things and not getting hurt. There isn't really any force there.
@@hydrolito or a bug zapper
When I was a young man around 14-15 years old my dad and I were always out hunting. One say we went to a area in southern West Virginia to do a racoon hunt. It was about 25 miles from home so we took the truck with the dogs. We got separated from the dogs and come morning we went back home thinking we would go back the nest day to look for them. They were nowhere to be found.
After 5 days the 3 dogs came home and was laying on the porch when we got up to milk the cows. HOW 25 miles in 5 days. Remember these dogs were transported to the hunting site via a truck. Animals have some amazing abilities to find there way back home...
@@b.t4604 Blue Tic and Blood Hound
I had a set of 3 dogs that would sometimes disappear for days, and come back absolutely exhausted, I always wondered what the hell they were doing.
ok
When I got my puppy. He got out my backyard and was missing for 2/3 days. I was kinda upset then out of no where I found him on my front door step with a leash that was on his neck that he chewed off. Someone found him and tried to keep him but he escaped
You my friend have found the perfect mix of natural footage, meme footage and stock footage. I hate hate HATE channels that use nothing but stock footage for their films. And u sir have found the perfect balance of it
When I was a kid I remember seeing many flies get into the gap between the blinds and the window, id always find them really annoying due to the constant buzzing sound they made from smacking their wings against the glass trying to get out, one day I decided to walk over to one of these windows and inspect the fly that was inside the gap and with my morbid curiosity coming into play I wondered if I'd be quick enough to squash it against the surface of the blinds, so I waited for it to get comfortable and wipe its face with its legs repeatedly like they usually do and then SMACK, I ended up flattening the little guy and sticking him against the window, I told my mom about it and seeing as I was just a kid she cleaned the bug guts up and jokingly told me I did a good job and since I was now convinced my mom was proud of me for smearing fly guts on the window over the next few months I would be constantly at work splatting flies all over every window of my house, my mom would constantly be cleaning dozens of exploded flies off the windows. That's all.
By doing that you just affected the outcome of unlimited number of ways of the future had that fly lived. One tiny instance is I wouldn't be here now typing this and another is all the people reading it.. its endless.
@@SideEpics Huh??
Don’t stop keep on smacking them
@@davidenatoh359 changing anything in the past can affect the future, down to a single atom. Or should I say the choices you make in the present will affect the future in ways you couldn’t imagine. Say you saw a spider at a park, you didn’t squash it and someone sat at the picnic table that spider was at. That person gets bit by the spider and has an allergic reaction and goes to the er and survives. However if they would’ve left the park later on, they could’ve gotten into a car accident due to a drunk driver and die. This is a extreme example but an example none the less
@@tpghl5225 spot on bro, its unimaginable. everything we do in the moment by choice or not affects absoloute everything else in ways thats unlimited which inturn affects everything else in unlimited ways., just holding Ur breath for 1 second by thought changes everything compared to if u didn't have that thought. It's definitely one thing can never be controlled.
imagine drones banging against windows like flies do XD
So your saying if I grind a fly into a very fine powder it’s not dead? (Just asking)
so thats the powder i saw flying around the city
Once when I was a child my little brother took the dog "Buddy" he was like a corgi golden retriever, he was a puppy under our truck one morning and we kept him, he was years old at the time of this insident, we lived in the heart of the city, my brother walked the dog about 2 miles away to a friend's house also crossing a very dangerous busy road, when he was at the friend's house the dog loose somehow and ran outside and my brother lost him...he came home CRYING he lost Buddy and within minutes we were in the front yard and here comes Buddy ran home himself, we still wonder how he crossed that busy street himself!
Yea my cat once got lost for 4 days and came back
The vision of the insects reminds me of the super long ending “scene” in 2001 a space odyssey
Video Title: This is why you can’t kill flys.
Me: Looks at fly guts on window from KILLING a fly.
Dude i truly appreciate the amount of vids lately! WATOP has been my fav channel of 2022 🙏🏿🙏🏿
When my brother was 3-4 years old, my familly was on our way to a friends house, way out in nowhere.
My brother had only been that way once the year before, but when my dad got lost on those gravel backroads, my brother could navigate the exactly perfect way there.
Baffles me to this day, because I can get lost in a phonebooth, with a map, kompas and guide 😂😂😂
If you can find a phone booth, I think you are lost in time :)
@@mkvv5687 there are still phoneboths in australia, China, large parts of South/ Central America, and Africa. India still has them located in theire trainstations, and they still exist in Europe and the USA.
Some places they are extinct, some places they are rare, but there are stil places, where you can find one.
@@hellefur6631 who?
@@hellefur6631 Fair enough. I need to get out more.
So scientist should study your brother and make a drone that like him!
I love your interesting and informative videos. Always looking forward to the next one! Good luck!
Me who has killed serval flies: *”Amateur.”*
My cat in the villages of Bangladesh was taken and left miles away by someone. A few days later late at night he just appeared whilst heavily raining too! This cat never left home and the only thing I felt he'd recognise from perhaps half a KM away are the flood lights high up on the roof so I left them on all night. Such a relief.
I moved not too long ago. My worst fear was that my two cats would walk back to my old house many km away.
Luckily they decided to stay at my new place 🙂
What if someone made special contact lenses that let people see the way insects do (for navigation). They’d have to be robotic but it’s a cool idea
Well actually you can use googles with polarised glasses right now. Fishermen use them to see under water without reflections on the water surface.
There are also facette goggles which imitate the vision of a fly
@@ZraloqCZ googles 😂😂
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@@ZraloqCZ yes. They are called polarized sunglasses. Most sunglasses are polarized.
Every time I watch an episode from WATOP; I need coffee
And, I still don't know why I can't kill a fly... other than it being bad karma.
Here is a funny story. When I was a kid I used to watch the Karate Kid movies. And in one of the movies there is this scene where the Karate-sensei Miyagi is teaching Daniel how to focus. And out of the blue "whoosh", he just catches a fly with his chopsticks. When I saw this I was just floored. And it formed a great impression on me. A few years later a Japanese student from overseas came to live with our family as part of an exchange program. He taught me about Japanese customs, the Japanese syllable alphabet and also how to eat with chopsticks. At this point having mastered how to eat with chopsticks after a few weeks of practice. I remembered the scene from the movies and as we were living in the countryside there were always flies around. And so in a smug moment of focused concentration I struck out at the next fly to come by me AND I CAUGHT IT IN MY FIRST TRY! I was totally astonished. Never caught one again in my life.
Its funny because your like the 4th guy whos commented the same thing catching a fly with chopsticks smh 🤦 yall just like writing paragraphs why yall didnt become authors instead
@@jonn40853 fishing for likes like a dog on heat
@@jonn40853 this isnt even that long
"This Is Why You Can't Kill a Fly" I don't understand the relation to the title.
RESPECT to all creatures as we need Each other. Amazing discovery, keep it up and expand our brains. Humans are always discovering and learning.
An animal getting taken to the planetarium is like A person being taken by A UFO 🛸 👀
More like a person who can see being instantly blinded and deafened
I can't imagine a large flying machine trying to replicate the flying ability of a housefly. Flies can fly like that because of their size. Any large wings trying to replicate a fly's would probably generate a lot of heat and destroy itself.
It’s about the mass per square inch of gravity and air pressure actually. That’s why we rely on engineers for things common people don’t understand that’s why they get degrees and spend so much time in school sometimes longer then doctors.
Humming birds fly similar but are also small but not as small as a fly.
@@hydrolito hummingbird cooks itself?
Sarcasm.
@@ArtisChronicles hahaha
The robot they built in the video was based on a fruit fly not a house fly, not sure that makes a difference though
buddy turned into the guy on the Reese's ad at the end 💀
I love that they used the scrne from movie "A Dog's Purpose"! That's one of my all time favorite movies! I love Bailey!
I was in bed with my girlfriend, she’s terrified of moths and there was an absolute beast flying around the lights in the bedroom.
I fully love moths.
So I put my hand in the air and said “come to me my child” being daft and it literally flew to my hand and we just lay there shocked af til I put it out of the window😂
Weirdest most satisfying moment of my life
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this comment is why I love RUclips
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You are the most cultured human being of a day for writing this comment. I wouldn't say we need more people like you because i prefer quality over quantity. Who even says "come to me my child", straight out of a fairy fate line it sounds haha, good day to you!
I wouldn't have let you touch me after touching a moth till you scrubbed your hand with bleach. Moths are just demonic and are in league with spiders to trick men into putting them in a cup and putting them outside instead of smashing their brains in. Then they go have a spider/moth meeting in the secret place where they have their weapons of mass destruction and discuss which houses are soft touches. Wait till you're at work one day and you get a Facebook notification with a picture of spiders wrecking your house with a party while your girlfriend is being tied up with a caption saying "snack 4 later, shoulda killed us when you had the chance motherfucker
Okay bro, but you don't need to brag about your gf...
Thanks man you are giving us lots of knowledge respect ✊ for you
i have 0 knowledge
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What do you mean "no nudity"?
Practically all of the animals on this channel are nude.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou so the animals you usually saw wear clothes??
@@itsyoboyak12 No; they're usually nude, just like the animals on this channel.
I've lost track of how many flies I've had to kill today. There seem to be an infinite amount. A black plastic spatula seems to be a particularly good Instrument as the flies don't seem to be able to see black objects coming. I've been hearing that flies didn't exist in the Americas until roughly 200 years ago. But They also say things to the contrary. It's hard for me to envision a landscape without any flies, so I don't know who to believe. They're here and they're not going away any time soon. Might as well get used to slapping and flailing at them. I can't have them crawling on my lips, but they're intent on doing that. I guess I just don't ever get to fully relax again. Thanks nature. You're a real pal.
If you ever want to clear a room of Flys, and want to try something new I use a Spray Bottle with soapy water or glass cleaner it Stuns them and get them with Rag.
06:39 So the birds are going to Chad, what a chad.
So im not the only one who noticed Chad
@@jjmike nope.
No, when I was young, my classmates used to kill and collect flies in bulk. Bizarre, I know
But how do they use the stars (and moon) to navigate? There are so many and don't they move across the sky? So you would change directions constantly
this guys videos are entertaining dont get me wrong, but sometimes the things said in the videos are completely inaccurate.
ants and other insects may be effected in different ways of navigation due to light or whatever but they mainly travel using pheromone trails, which wasnt mentioned at all. not the first time something has been left out like that.
Nice! Hope he make a video about it
yea...
I have always been VERY good at just being able to tell where/what direction i am, and i don't know when that skill has been acquired,
but i think it has to do with smell and memory, and magnetics ofcourse. -i have always run around far into the woods alone as a child,
and i learned the smell of water-sources, and various other types of areas by subtle hints off the wind. i never, EVER got lost,
and i learned, even with our northern weird-sun, to use it to tell "oh, it should be 5:00 now, i should head home so my mom does not worry!",
and i would always be on-the-dot RIGHT, even if the sun was inconsistent and my mom told me "but that is only for the lower half of the planet!",
yet i was always on time, without a watch or anything, all year.
I would equate it to do alot with memory, because i have a VERY good one, and every step and area, i always knew and never forgot,
but perhaps it has to do with my feeling for the magnetic fields too, because i know where north is by heart, -don't know how, but i always do (along with the other 3 directions)
and i would think it makes alot of sense why animals would know it too,
it's just a mystery to me how i know these things, it's SO subtle, it is amazing i ever pick up on these things at all, and scares me, that some people lose their direction so easy.
GPS, which is only one of our global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) has come a long way, and real-time kinematic (RTK) centimeter-level positioning is becoming more and accessible, as well as SBAS, which as far as I understand it, literally reads atmospheric pressure differences and sends that data to GNSS receivers to increase position accuracy. I just started learning about this stuff and it is so so cool. GNSS also works over most of the globe, and even without a base station (like a cell tower), we still have positioning down to a few meters. My point is, GNSS is a very useful tool, and I don't think flies will replace it, but I'm excited to see what we can do with flies, maybe in addition to GNSS.
also it would be cool to integrate muscles as motors and digestive systems as batteries into robotics. There's some reasearchers making robotic grippers out of dead spiders, they do it by just sticking a syringe into a dead spider, and tapping into the spider's natural hydraulic legs.
So, seeing as birds and insects travel during the day, how do they see the stars?
Some scientist believe that some ants actually have a hive mind and are actually significantly more complex then we first initiated
Thats what happened with cells back when they first discovered them. They thought they were simple and that we could create life.
Nah even with these many innovations , Zoro will still be lost. Birds will point south and he will still go north Lmao.
This guy’s voice is like a perpetual yell, even if he’s not technically being loud.
"Pinnacle of evolution." Such humility.
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Speaking of navigation, there are languages (namely Guugu Ymithirr) that require speakers to have an inherent knowledge of where North, South, East, and West lie. In other words, native speakers develop somewhat of an internal compass when learning to speak the language from childhood.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how much time and effort he puts in the videos for us😇.
Shut up
Yes corrector
Thank you for bringing attention to this.
I love how he explained why it’s impossible to kill a fly
He speaks about ants as primitive and humans as the peek of evolution. This is just straight up wrong. Though ants have been around for a long time this doesn’t mean they are primitive, it just means that they are so well sooted to their niche that they have not have to change. Meanwhile saying that humans are the pinnacle is naive. We are highly adaptive due to our intelligence and thats why we are the dominant species. But we aren’t really that evolved. Are heads are to big at birth for the mother, our backs are positioned in a way so that everyone will at some point have major issues whit it and our ankles have so many useless bones that we can break them by stepping on something the wrong way. Does that sound like “the pinnacle of evolution” to you? No.
Furthermore evolution is an ever ongoing process in living things even when it seems that an organism is perfectly sooted to its niche. So there is no pinnacle because there is no end.
(This is not meant as a hate post, just trying to inform)
ok
This guy loved nature I don't think he intended to call ants primitive as in inferior, many times this guy says things like "this animal might be as smart as Humans" he means in this example that to our perception certain animals can do things that we do so we can only assume they might be smart as Humans. He is basically describing things he isn't intending to put a negative connotation onto the abilities of animal I think u just took it that way
@@djatlasmusik what you say is true. I just tought that poeple who are not very versed in biology might not recconise that and take it very litterely. What could cause them to develope wrong ideas abbout evolution and other topics that he touches on.
(Sorry for my bad english btw)
The title led me to believe the video would explain why I am unable to kill a fly, but it seems what he meant was an explanation as to why I shouldn't kill a fly. I'll still kill flies.
Hey WATOP
I've got a question,
Can you cross breed different animals like ants and dogs
Or birds and cats,
Is it possible?
have you ever seen an obscure combination of a bird and a cat or an ant and a dog? if not then you have your answer. google is at your fingertips.
Their chromosome numbers don't match up, neither do the mechanism of determining the male so no, not even in a lab environment will it work.
@@yungyojileaf yeah Google :l
@@MultiAnimationboy hmm..
You can't. They are too different. Animals can only crossbreed if they belong to the same genus. But even that barely works!
Whenever I see flies at my Windows I just pull out my bug sprayer.
5:39
Fly: weeee!
As always, Great video.
You said people used to use birds if they couldn’t see stars. However, you also said that birds use the stars, how does this work?
(눈‸■)He forgot about bats and flying foxes.🍵
If this is true then minecraft bees have a huge issue in their heads
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And this could in no way be used against humanity. The term "too smart for our own good" comes to mind.
Rolled newspaper, grandfather on his chair never missed one
WATOP: This is Why You Can't Kill a Fly
Spiders:Hold my Web
We are all slow motion to flies
Everybody knows that Mr.Commenter
I see your face everywhere I go
I was shown a way to kill a fly by my brother and it works, so long as you have a little patience. Ball up a white tissue in your hand and hold it with your fingertips. It is obvious that flies cannot determine the white or its slow movements. Move the tissue slowly towards the fly, once you are within an inch or so, speed up and capture it in the tissue. When I first tried, I became impatience towards the end and sped up my movement too soon and the fly evaded me but take your time and move in constant slow motion and it will work every time. I don’t know what the real reason is, it could even be that flies are mesmerised by white, but I suspect they cannot define it from other colours. I tried colour tissues, and it didn't work, I got nowhere near it. So flies can be killed, the times they buzz you is frustrating so a little patience is well worth the effort.
Its quite easy. Humans also used to navigate by the sun. Rises in the East & sets in the West. Perpendicular is North & South. Just plant a stick in the ground & put a stone on the tip of the shadow. Leave it for about 20-30 mins and come back and put another stone on the tip of the shadow. Join the the two stones up to get the West-East line (West is the first stone, East is the second) Then place another stick perpendicular for the North-South line.
It's pretty crazy that some life on Earth are able to navigate thanks to the light coming from stars burning countless light years away in space
The nature always attracts me .whether it is because of its beauty or mystery. Your videos are really awesome. I also think so. The world is mysterious but this statement is not enough. We have to know how much mysterious it is, then there will be a stimulation provoking us to know further which is really amazing and enjoyable
Can't and shouldn't are 2 different scenarios. I have slayed thousands. 🤣
Birds use roads, highways & many other big landmarks to find their way around.
When the birds migrate south before a winter storm hits. All of the birds around my town will follow route 148 due south in Southern Illinois. I have followed them down this highway for over 12 miles until I reach the very first bird. The line of birds will be over 15+ miles long & as wide as the entire Highway .They fly straight as an arrow down this highway. Coincidence? I doubt it.
I believe birds have a fantastic memory. They use it to follow Roads & landmarks using their extraordinary sense of direction, to end up at the exact area, they are supposed to be at, for that time of season!
it's actually really easy to catch/kill a fly. For some reason they fly upwards, so all you have to do is hold a cup vertically above the fly and move it slowly towards the fly, and then slam it down. Or you can just use your hand and slam it down; always worked for me
The easiest way to suspect or even proof that birds use stars for navigation is to observe when their migration happen. If it never happens during total overcast, then it's highly probable they use visual cues from the sky. For machines that kind of navigation is not very useful. GPS + compass + visual obstacle detection is just perfect. For direction alone a compass is enough. Having a map and a compass you don't even need GPS, if you only can measure your velocity accurately. For that visual data can be used similarly as in computer mouse, but for that to work in 3D you need 2 cameras instead of one. Of course at least several other types of sensors could be used for navigation, but a compass and a couple of cameras are enough for the basic navigation. All we need for better or perfect navigation is just to make the systems cheaper and more energy efficient. BTW, without GPS you would have to track the movement constantly - any data gap causes positioning error. Having GPS you can correct those errors when needed.
Im high af , loved this.
I mean 10 curb stomps and book slams I'm pretty sure it's obliterated at that point
You can develop ultimate navigation skills by having a photographic memory and using the sky I might not have a degree in Science but I am an enthusiast but in a spiritual sense of manner from what a few Wiccans taught me your heart is the compass....
Years ago you go homie in the corner like “yoooo you guys seen how cool these flies are?!”
Those zapper ⚡racquets are the best invention since sliced bread. & bug-a-salt ain't bad either. 🤣BTW, I had a cat we took to the firehouse for a rabbis shot & he escaped there. It was about 2 miles(in a straight line) from home. We had just moved there the day before so he wasn't familiar with the area at all. Yet he turned up a few days later. Pretty miraculous instincts I'd say ! All creatures are magnificent, especially furry mammals.
'This is why you can't kill a fly"
Me:I must be the chosen one then...
But anyone can kill a fly, it's been done.
2:55 The world is a Hallucination
The fly knows where it is because it knows where it isn't
Someone idk: You can’t even hurt a fly! Me: true
“I asked Steve..Steve asked google.”😂
All I could think about while watching the second half of this was Ancient Aliens and how all the ancient cultures seem to have an unexplained fascination with the stars. I wonder if we too as humans have some kind of visual connection to the stars that we do not yet fully understand.
This man, says this is why you can't kill a fly.
Me: I bEg YoUr PaRdoN
Thing is...humans use to be able to use stars too; and even dirt patterns and mountain ranges. We also used moss as well to tell what direction was which.
I killed a unsuspectingfly with a quick slap at the back of my finger, and killed it on my window.
Dumb bird: I know how to navigate over the ocean.
Smart: Human: Follow that bird!
Why did I not know this channel EXSISTED when I was in school now I'm not
God creation 💜its just perfect