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by rbanffy 5063 days ago
The kind of flight demonstrated is routinely done by flies with smaller brains.
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Fruit flies have about 100k neurons, according to Wikipedia.
Amazing. This puts the F-22 pilot between a fruit fly and a sea slug.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_ne...

But that's unfair. F-22's don't have to reproduce.

Every time I see a Wikipedia list such as this I can't help to marvel at the extent at which people contribute.

Yet as a developer I still have the uneerie feeling that all this data ought to be in a database and such a page content should be autogenerated with a single query.