I'm really very impressed with many of the intellectuals here on ATS. Scientists,
Biologists, Biochems and even students of the like.
However, I'm sort of challenging, definetly hoping for one of you to come up with
a solid explanation of the why, that is opposed to this question.

WHY IS IT POSSIBLE TO RESERECT A DEAD FLY.

This is not a joke.
The first thing you must be able to do of course is to aquire a fly WITH OUT
harming it. Try not to even damage the wings. so at the end of this thread I can make the claim
that" no flys were in any way hurt or disabled during the course of these experiments even though the fly died, this was only done with
the full knowledge of being able to bring the subject (the fly) back to it's life
as a fly". It's also a far better effect, if the fly goes on his merry way at the
end.
Once you have a subject, you will need a jar with a lid. Any size will do I guess, but
the size of a baby food jar would be ideal. All this does require a certain amount of expertise, in not harming the fly while catching and getting it into a jar full of water. That's right the jar must be filled with water. Well how else do you expect to kill the fly.

This is what you do catch a fly in your palm stick it under water in the sink. Oh
MY GOD FILL UP THE SINK FIRST! Once you have a fly unharmed in the water
take the jar and scoop up the fly filling the jar with water and cap the jar. This can be so much fun with coeds running around naked. Drown the fly. keep the fly
under water by flipping the jar over and over until you are satisfied the fly is dead .
Dead from drowning. Usually 15 -20 minutes. Pour out the water and set fly in a
pitri dish (however you spell it) or on the counter in the kitchen.
Now cover up the fly with salt just enough to completly cover the fly. A little pile
on the fly to where you can no longer see the fly. NO, JUST COMMON TABLE SALT!
Just wait if you did not harm the fly, it will crawl out of the salt and fly away.
Any body explain this?

[edit on 5-11-2009 by randyvs]

no idea. its intriguing though.

off the top of my head i would have to guess 15-20 minutes isnt enough to actually KILL it, but put it in something like a coma or stand-by mode.

try drowning it over night and update us on your attempt at fly zombification.


[edit on 5-11-2009 by ELECTRICkoolaidZOMBIEtest]

I remember when I was a kid a rescued a christmas beetle (thats what we call them in SA - a small red/copper beetle that comes around christmas time) from the pool. It was not moving at all, looked very dead, so i just threw it on the pavement around the pool. After some more swimming I happend to look there again and saw the beetle was moving slowly, after a few more minutes he was up, flying, then gone.

I imagine the poster above is pretty spot on - the flys body shuts down when the breathing tubes get blocked up with water and appears dead. The salt then draws the water out of the spiracles and the fly "lives" again.
Not heard of doing it before though, cheers.

Do the exprement with 2 flies.

One you poured salt onto it. the other not.

Wait and see.

I thought I heard something before hat the fly goes into a coma on purpose to sruvive or something, then when it's safe it will wake up. I don't think it dies.

Or maybe it was a spider...not sure.

[edit on 5-11-2009 by _Phoenix_]

i dont know about killing fli's, but they can deffinitelly be placed in suspended animation - or frozen in other words... then when they defrost they come back to life,

funny enough, it was not a science show i seen this on, but a magic show kinda thing!

to add to the can they come back to life after salt water argument... i have to say no... i have salt water sitting in pans normaly before i cook something, and i cant tell you how many times a fly, (usualy a fruit fly) lands in the water and dies.

[edit on 5-11-2009 by boaby_phet]