Michael Dickinson (CalTech) 3: How Flies Fly: Control

[@prational]

In this time when so many in our country and especially in our government are saying and doing things that are totally irrational and not based on science, it is refreshing to hear from an intelligent human being something that is meaningful, i.e. how the universe works. Thank you Dr Michael Dickinson!

[@rockapedra1130]

Absolutely amazing how clever these experiments are!

[@markusnl]

This was insanely interesting, thanks for all your efforts!

[@jpmillerusa]

Brilliant lectures, Mike. Beautiful summary of a huge and important opus.

[@TropikSchmitt]

Wow, thank you so much for this lecture! These three lectures are maybe the most interesting thing I have ever watched on KZbin! Thank you! Now I am curious about mosquitos :) they seem to be a different kind of a beast.

[@monika9804]

Last lecture was the most interesting. Great work.

[@yunliu8448]

"think before you swat" what a nice saying in this chaotic moment.

[@gerchikov]

Fascinating indeed. Many thanks for putting these lectures together. At 10:42, should we perhaps say "to the order of several *millions* body lengths of motion", rather than "several *billions*"? E.g. 7 km / 3 mm = 2.33*10^6. Still pretty impressive, of course: for humans that would translate to travelling thousands of kilometers overnight -- that's the airliner kind if speed. Using our bodies alone we are ~100x slower.

[@yogeshwarang2043]

actually, the flies are not traveling in a straight line but in a zig-zag way, so it will take billions of its body length. The zig-zag motion towards the source of food is explained in the latter part of the video.

[@allyourcode]

How we know that science is great: it opens an inner eye which is capable of seeing the marvelous beauty of fruit flies.

[@biologyonline99]

Indeed, enticing and gigantic slides

[@doanviettrung]

"The fly's vision system is the planet's fastest.. Its wings taste and maybe smell" - fascinating! Please tell us more

[@jellymop]

Dude these things are so insane. I never get bored figuring out how things work. Who knew wings could taste and smell! That nuts man.

[@tumarbongrox6074]

So did the FLYS *design* and construct themselves?? The word *SOPHISTICATED* was used *many* times during this lecture describing the design and *FUNCTION* of a FLY!!!🤔🤔

[@jellymop]

I truly didn’t know how advanced flies were evolutionarily. I mean taste buds on the wings? Wtf? And the fact that a fruit fly can fly dozens of miles across a desert with no food or water. Just insane.

[@h0yj0y]

awww.. I will try to think before I swat

[@amirsa7140]

Can you design most effective fly killer based on your knowledge?

[@TropikSchmitt]

yes, its a machine that expands slowly, then lets out a sweet puff and then presents a little ball for the fly to land on.

[@nadaxiong]

Money well spent on this researcher