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Flighs are well known to be killable by the application of a grid of high-voltage electrickal wires.
However flighs are also fairly mobile and tend to fly away from where ever you have put your hand-held high-voltage wire array.
What is needed is an array of high-voltage wires that sweeps regularly
through the entire air-space of your abode.
Problems: furniture and other objects.
Solution: All furniture and other objects are (a) built-in, and (b) formed from thin slices arranged parrallellilly, perpendicular to the direction of sweep of the high-voltage wire array.
Now the array can sweep through your house at regular intervals, zapping any flighs which might have arrived in your abode since the prior sweep.
Optionall accessory is a little thingy that goes beep just before the array sweeps though your abode, giving you enough time to get out of the way before you too are zapped.
Bug zapper ceiling
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Just a little off the top, please ... [kdf, Sep 01 2020]
What’s the worst that could happen?
https://www.sudoues...he-7810934-1980.php
[kdf, Sep 06 2020, last modified Sep 07 2020]
Shoo Fly
http://williamflew.com/omni122a.html
Richard Matheson, Omni Science Fiction 122 November 1988 [kdf, Sep 07 2020]
[link]
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I see no drawbacks whatsoever. |
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Beat me to it. Yesterday I was thinking of a similar but not
quite as extensive scheme. Why not just an always-on,
electrified
mesh covering the entire ceiling, and perhaps the top-most
foot of the walls? This would take carry of most phlyghyng
things, as they often alight in high spaces to stay out of
swatting reach. |
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As a side benefit, it would reduce cobwebs because the
spiders who like to build webs in high corners* would
likewise get zapped. |
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* what kind of spiders make cob webs? corn spiders. |
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What could possibly go wrong ? |
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I can't recall who said it, but somebody famous and/or funny once asked //If you pull the wings off a fly (sic) does that mean you should call it a walk ???// |
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What happens at the bottom ends of the wires? |
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The wires run side-to-side |
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Well there's a Canadian I haven't seen for quite awhile. |
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So the slices of furniture are levitating? |
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I see no mention of how this deals with all the fligh corpses, which begs the question: has someone already done a fligh-seeking version of a roomba (flighba??) where a self-powered, self-guiding drone-like device searches for and kills flighs, then cleans up afterwards? |
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// how this deals with all the fligh corpses // |
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Exactly, make sure that the grid can deliver significant
current, perhaps a large capacitor bank? it's the only safe
way. |
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Please explain why you bothered to include that entirely irrelevant adjective in your annotation; after all, it's not very "safe" for flying insects ... |
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//explain why you bothered to include// |
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Say the flying insect in question had recently been squidging
around in some putrid pile of pathogenic poo. Now, you zap
it with modest power, a portion of the insect conducts
current and it's water content rapidly vaporizes into steam
propelling the remaining parts in a parabolic poo-
precipitation. OR you could have some kick to the system,
rendering the whole insect a perfect purified plasma. |
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Eh, what’s the worst that could happen? (link) |
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I was about to post that link, [kdf]! |
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There was a Richard Matheson short story about a
man who came to a bad end while trying to swat a
fly... wish I could find it to post here for you. |
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... search search, ah, there it is ... shoo fly
(link)... |
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// what’s the worst that could happen? // |
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<Placeholder for judiciously worded Official Denial*/> |
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*In essence, "It wasn't us ... it really wasn't ..." |
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Missed your cue, 8th. The original article was from
France, such a target rich environment for your
brand of humor. |
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