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fruit flies are not ergodic (mander.xyz)
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from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_hypothesis

A screenshot of an image from wikipedia with caption "This device can trap fruit flies, but if it trapped atoms when placed in gas that already uniformly fills the available phase space, then both Liouville's theorem and the second law of thermodynamics would be violated."
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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'll have to read this some other time when I'm feeling a little smarter and can understand the words. But I do love some home made fruit fly traps! When there's a teenager in the house and it's warm outside, they are a miracle.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What do warm teenagers have to do with fruit flies?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Fruit flies are attracted to the different human life stages by temperature inversely proportional to the humans age. They like hot babies, warm adolescents, cold adults and the rest can kind of be fit into that continuum.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Most teenagers I know, and myself when I was one, are much messier than at any other stage in their life. The issue for most is that they are old enough to start sneaking food into their rooms that a kid wouldn't, or that the kid can't hide as effectively. I've had to come spray for pests in more teenagers rooms than any other part of the age spectrum.

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