• Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
      41·
      1 day ago

      Fruit flies have an incredibly short life time so those who aren’t getting stuck in wine just end up dying shortly after anyway.

      The moral of the story is to get drunk, high, and have lots of sex (or other equally engaging hobby like knitting) because we are cosmic fruit flies.

      • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
        61·
        1 day ago

        Okay that’s what I was thinking. But was thrown off by the clock. Fruit flies have a short life but longer than 6 hours so it didn’t really make sense for them to die exactly at the same place.

        I thought choice paralysis (from having to think about their future) made them freeze there and die from starvation or something

        • squaresinger@lemmy.world
          3·
          24 hours ago

          I think OP is confusing fruit flies with mayflies, some of which really only live for a single day as flies. Some of them even live only for a few minutes as flies. E.g. Oligoneuriella rhenana only lives for about 40 minutes in their adult form.

          But they live much longer, some of them up to 4 years, in their non-adult forms.

      • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, the clock is 6 hours later, but fruit flies don’t suddenly die within 6h.

        Edit: can’t read clocks anymore I guess