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by rossdavidh 1831 days ago
There is presumably also a falling-off of the signal with distance. Flies may have a good sense of smell and all, but it's not infinitely good. Which is too bad, because if they did, then all the flies in NYC (or I suppose maybe the world) would all be in one big clump near the best (to a fly) smelling object. Although I guess if you were that object, then it would be not as good.
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Sure, the inverse square law applies to smells as well.