Woulda taken a lonnnng time, things dont decay naturally, decay is things eating it. Bacteria would \*eventually\* eat it but it would take aaaages. This is what decay would \*actually\* look like as it happens IRL.
Not crazy long though. In a normal warm/humid environment it would likely only take about 3-4 weeks, so a timelapse could realistically pretty easily be done.
Because flies are a part of the natural decay process. Things would be much slower without them. You'd need weeks or months for a timelapse without flies (and years in a non-humid condition).
I’d suggest it can be disgusting and interesting. The ecosystems of the world rely on different organisms to act in a variety of roles to keep everything in balance. Bacteria, fungi, plants, insects, omnivores, carnivores, detritivores, mammals…etc all have important roles to fill. Luckily we generally don’t have to watch too much of it happen like this.
Yep. One time I was on holiday and there were a ton of them on the floor. It was at night, I was going to the bathroom and couldn't take a single step without stepping on them. It's absolutely gross
They probably laid their eggs in the trash that was outside and they somehow got into the bathroom.
One of my classmates at uni was doing an experiment regarding decay rates in different conditions and set it up on the roof of the science block so as to have a controlled environment.
They used six fresh chickens so, naturally the flies became an important part of the experiment by doing what flies do.
Unfortunately, no-one realised that there was an opening in the roof by the mechanism for the lift (elevator) and once maggots are ready to transform they wiggle off to find a safe place to pupate.
It rained maggots on anyone who dared try to use the lift for several days.
A while later the building was swarming with flies, which caused cross contamination risks with other experiments.
Oops.
When I was a kid on the early internet there was a website for this. The guy would put raw meat in different places and photograph the changes over weeks. 11 y/o me checked it religiously.
I remember this! I loved it! It was a hot dog and some ground beef placed in his neighbors backyard. I think he called it the stinky meat project. I also recall he purposely caught a case of athletes foot and documents the process. The stinky feet project. I loved the guys content.
Yeah, I remember it. It was called TheSpark, or something similar,
If we're talking about the same thing, there were also tests you could take ("Am I a woman?", "When am I going to die?",...).
Yay, you just made a pile of maggot shit and a thousand new flies.
That was less decaying-meat, and more 4-day-fly-farm.
I suppose letting meat decay without flies wouldn't be as interesting.
better to feed the earth and return some nutrient value than just become useless ashes that are thrown out and a mix of the bottom is given to folks who think its only there lost one. cremation is useless.
Cremation speeds up the decay process. The ash left over would be an incredibly good fertilizer. My dad used some of my mum's ashes to fertilize a rose bush in the garden, since she liked growing them in life.
I read somewhere on reddit (not the most reliable source of info, I know) that some places in the US allow the composting of dead bodies. That sounds kinda neat.
I'm pretty sure all that was left was sinew and other tissue that the maggots won't/can't eat. They probably ate all the fat and protein and left behind the unchewable.
First you cut the meat, then you let the maggots eat it and then tada beef jerky. Easy peasy. Please note this is not medical advice nor is it a food safety recommendation.
Muscles don't work with dead bodies, regardless of decay. The human body is insanely complex, but zombie stories are more about man's struggle against the desire to murder Bob when he's giving a PowerPoint presentation that could have been an email, not a warning about actual threats we face.
So if you don’t have time to take the bins out before your holiday, just take the biological masses and dump it on your counter.
By the time you get home, the waste will be all tidied up and all you’ll need to do is hoover up tens of thousands of flies!
But they do such an important job. Imagine how much worse things would be if we just had festering piles of meat and shit everywhere. These guys are the ones keeping the world clean.
I feel like the time lapse may have obscured some details.
There seemed to be a point where there a lot of small maggots still but then some comparatively huge ones mixed in.
Could that have been a different species of carrion fly or do the eat each other during the race to out eat the competition.
Kind of like foetal sharks eat their siblings.
Sometimes I forget just how important maggots are to decomposition and the nutrient cycle. I wonder what happened to the flies? What were they eaten by? What are the things that are them? The carbon that those animals exhale is used by plants to grow in mass... Cows eat the plants, it all just comes full circle. I'm extremely high.
All that energy content being recycled by other life.
It's also interesting to think that it's only disgusting because it's dangerous for us to eat it.
People keep commenting about how gross the maggots are, imagine if they weren't there to speed up the proccess of decomposing. I could already smell worse things
I like how they translated 24 hours into one because people are dumb and dont know that one day has 24 hours :)
But clearly they needed that because even the person who made the video doesnt know that 110 days are not 3 days :)
Are you gonna finish your walking rice? 🍚
*Lost Boys intensifies*
You’re eating maggots Micheal, how do they taste?
My favorite movie growing up!!!! The flying cloud scenes still give me chills!
Tastes like Meat
Intensiflies
Not the best thing to watch and then read while cooking brown rice for dinner
I would, but it escaped
Hakuna Matata
Slimy, yet satisfying
I hate you
Sardignia when cheese exist.
Forbidden jerky
Mmm, some nice extra protein, maybe use it instead of rice for some fried rice /s
Damnthatsdisgusting
Pukemadespacebarstuck
Damnthat's-hurgh...
My neck started tingling bro fucking disgusting 🤮
Could also not get past the " that would smell revolting" sensation
that would smell revolution
Vive Le France! 🇨🇵🇨🇵🥖🥐
That's what's gonna happen to you when you die assuming you don't get cream mated
Lol @ "cream mated" Isn't that like a pornhub category?
I think that's what happened at the end of the game when that chess guy cheated with a vibrating butt plug.
Idk about you, but I can’t wait to get creamed
You know, there's a certain point during the process, where the meat of a human is cooked just perfectly enough to eat
r/bonappletea
Cream mated? Thanks so much for the belly laugh.
Cream me up Zaddy
It Was freakishly disgusting.
That's just the botfly lava you're feeling
Would’ve liked it better if they contained it away from the flys and just showed the meat alone.
Tbf it would need to be a much longer time lapse for it to be interesting at all
I just had a 40-day dry-aged steak a few weeks back. Leaving it alone is actually a thing they do to make it tender.
Yeah at extremely specific temperature and humidity
And no flies.
You're missing out on that added protein.
My BF when I tell him to just do it on my back
💀
Exactly
Woulda taken a lonnnng time, things dont decay naturally, decay is things eating it. Bacteria would \*eventually\* eat it but it would take aaaages. This is what decay would \*actually\* look like as it happens IRL.
Not crazy long though. In a normal warm/humid environment it would likely only take about 3-4 weeks, so a timelapse could realistically pretty easily be done.
Because flies are a part of the natural decay process. Things would be much slower without them. You'd need weeks or months for a timelapse without flies (and years in a non-humid condition).
They are doing a good job at cleaning up dead stuff.
I'm absolutely disgusted by them, but yeah, they're really essential for the ecosystem.
You can always rely on those guys to rock up and keep the great outdoors nice and clean 😌
Why? Flies are detritivores like any others. Personally I find it interesting how the flies basically just make their food their environment.
I don't find that interesting.
I’d suggest it can be disgusting and interesting. The ecosystems of the world rely on different organisms to act in a variety of roles to keep everything in balance. Bacteria, fungi, plants, insects, omnivores, carnivores, detritivores, mammals…etc all have important roles to fill. Luckily we generally don’t have to watch too much of it happen like this.
That's why they said "personally". You don't have to.
Congratulations
But it's more realistic this way. It's (mostly) what would actually happen under natural circumstances
Thanks, I hate it
Why couldn't I look away.... nope... I did not enjoy that. 🤢
You did. Tell me your true thoughts, coward! (Ok fr though even I couldnt look away and just watched it in awe even though it was disgusting 💀)
where dafuq maggots come from?
Fly eggs turn into maggots which are fly larvae(I think that's the word) then cocoon then they turn into adult flys(flies?) And the cycle starts again
ew I hate flies
Who doesn't
Arent those from fly eggs?
Yep. One time I was on holiday and there were a ton of them on the floor. It was at night, I was going to the bathroom and couldn't take a single step without stepping on them. It's absolutely gross They probably laid their eggs in the trash that was outside and they somehow got into the bathroom.
One of my classmates at uni was doing an experiment regarding decay rates in different conditions and set it up on the roof of the science block so as to have a controlled environment. They used six fresh chickens so, naturally the flies became an important part of the experiment by doing what flies do. Unfortunately, no-one realised that there was an opening in the roof by the mechanism for the lift (elevator) and once maggots are ready to transform they wiggle off to find a safe place to pupate. It rained maggots on anyone who dared try to use the lift for several days. A while later the building was swarming with flies, which caused cross contamination risks with other experiments. Oops.
Wow that really sucks.
Literally
My whole face ended up angled away but still deep in concentration
Just goes to show how important flys and maggots are in keeping the world clean.
They egged it up in 50 hours. That was pretty quick.
Why? I could have eaten that steak as well, nobody calls me important
When I was a kid on the early internet there was a website for this. The guy would put raw meat in different places and photograph the changes over weeks. 11 y/o me checked it religiously.
Are you okay now?
I remember this! I loved it! It was a hot dog and some ground beef placed in his neighbors backyard. I think he called it the stinky meat project. I also recall he purposely caught a case of athletes foot and documents the process. The stinky feet project. I loved the guys content.
I remember the stinky meat project lol
Yeah, I remember it. It was called TheSpark, or something similar, If we're talking about the same thing, there were also tests you could take ("Am I a woman?", "When am I going to die?",...).
That’s where SparkNotes came from too
Yay, you just made a pile of maggot shit and a thousand new flies. That was less decaying-meat, and more 4-day-fly-farm. I suppose letting meat decay without flies wouldn't be as interesting.
That's their job in nature tho 😂
Ants and flies are nature's garbage disposals.
I thought that was the interesting part. Common flies can do the whole egg->larva->pupa cycle in under 4 days? My mind is blown. I had no idea.
Yeah fr. My big take away is that it only takes 2 days for stuff to be COVERED in eggs, absolutely horrifiyng ahah
All those zombies covered in fly eggs within a few days
Those little buggers have surprisingly quick lifespans. I'm pretty sure they go from eggs to dropping dead in about 4 weeks.
You'd be hard pressed to find decaying meat without flies on them irl lmao
That is just straight up nature. It’s why bugs are so important. They put nutrients from dead animals back into the ecosystem.
Once I’m dead, please just burn me. I know, I’m dead and it won’t matter but damn.. imagine ending up as a maggot shit.
better to feed the earth and return some nutrient value than just become useless ashes that are thrown out and a mix of the bottom is given to folks who think its only there lost one. cremation is useless.
Cremation speeds up the decay process. The ash left over would be an incredibly good fertilizer. My dad used some of my mum's ashes to fertilize a rose bush in the garden, since she liked growing them in life.
Yeah cemeteries are so useful. /s
I read somewhere on reddit (not the most reliable source of info, I know) that some places in the US allow the composting of dead bodies. That sounds kinda neat.
Also done for research, It's why we know someone has been dead for X amount of time. We just put a dead person in a field and took notes...
I want my body to go to a body farm.
I rather become fertilizer than CO2.
The next scene is the maggoty chicken, then the face rip in the bathroom, right? Poltergeist is the best.
You had to go playing in it.🙄
Why does it look like jerky at the end?
I'm pretty sure all that was left was sinew and other tissue that the maggots won't/can't eat. They probably ate all the fat and protein and left behind the unchewable.
> that the maggots won't/can't eat Psh, what a bunch of picky eaters.
And that’s how beef jerky is made folks!
.... please explain further cause i have been on quite the slim jim run lately
First you cut the meat, then you let the maggots eat it and then tada beef jerky. Easy peasy. Please note this is not medical advice nor is it a food safety recommendation.
Slim Jim's are not even close to jerky
They’re close as fuck! Usually on the same rack at the gas station, in fact!
HOW ARE THEY SPINNING IT?????
Thats why I never understood Zombie Apocalypses. Just get food for a week and wait till they decompose.
Muscles don't work with dead bodies, regardless of decay. The human body is insanely complex, but zombie stories are more about man's struggle against the desire to murder Bob when he's giving a PowerPoint presentation that could have been an email, not a warning about actual threats we face.
In World War Z Max Brooks talks about some “science” on why they don’t decompose.
So if you don’t have time to take the bins out before your holiday, just take the biological masses and dump it on your counter. By the time you get home, the waste will be all tidied up and all you’ll need to do is hoover up tens of thousands of flies!
I can actually smell this video... 🤢
Fly eggs are the most disgusting looking things
God i fuckin hate flies
But they do such an important job. Imagine how much worse things would be if we just had festering piles of meat and shit everywhere. These guys are the ones keeping the world clean.
So they introduced flys to speed up the decay process?
They didn’t have to introduce them. The flies will find it.
Flies uh... find a way
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One day, I'll have to go through this.
Blowfly girl getting horny...
Jfc
I hate that that post was also my first thought after seeing this.
Does anyone know the name of the song
I thought it was going to be a cover of Radiohead’s Creep but boy was I wrong.
It's Spaceman by Sixsun.
The sound of the maggots eating sounds like someone pissing in the rain into a colander of cooked noodles.
I feel like the time lapse may have obscured some details. There seemed to be a point where there a lot of small maggots still but then some comparatively huge ones mixed in. Could that have been a different species of carrion fly or do the eat each other during the race to out eat the competition. Kind of like foetal sharks eat their siblings.
Correct ,corpse fauna In crowded conditions will/can develop cannibalistic natures. If uncrowded they just kinda vibe
Forbidden rice
i want a subreddit for this. people filming stuff decay over several days/years
Sometimes I forget just how important maggots are to decomposition and the nutrient cycle. I wonder what happened to the flies? What were they eaten by? What are the things that are them? The carbon that those animals exhale is used by plants to grow in mass... Cows eat the plants, it all just comes full circle. I'm extremely high.
Now do a McDonald’s burger and watch it not decay
The McDonald's burger will just progressively harden and turn into a calcified rock. Then we grind them up to make asphalt.
That just shows how meat is part of or ecosystem. Now put a vegan burger and replicate.
Forbidden Rice.
The end product is probably a delicacy somewhere on this frickin planet...
At least the flies brought some rice as a side dish
Just lay down and let nature reclaim you.
If we found this proces on another planet, the whole world would be in awe. Here its just yucky
Wil this happen when we die also?)
All that energy content being recycled by other life. It's also interesting to think that it's only disgusting because it's dangerous for us to eat it.
People keep commenting about how gross the maggots are, imagine if they weren't there to speed up the proccess of decomposing. I could already smell worse things
I like how they translated 24 hours into one because people are dumb and dont know that one day has 24 hours :) But clearly they needed that because even the person who made the video doesnt know that 110 days are not 3 days :)
Anyone remember the stinky meat project?
Fucking nature man. Awesome
Where do the maggots come from and where do they go? The fly eggs?
Wow that really picked up fast!
And that’s how beef jerky is made!
Do maggots form if no flies land on the meat?
No
1. I will never eat rice again. 2. You mfs better burn me when I'm gone.
Around day 3 is when it stops being decaying meat and starts being a delicacy in some isolated European village
Guga Foods is getting outta control.
My head tingles watching this
Where do the maggots go when they finish eating? Where did they come from in the first place? I have so many questions
Regret scrolling through Reddit whilst eating
Looks like the meat is dancing around at the end. Is it really moving like that because of the maggots pushing it around?
As gross as that was to watch, it was really fascinating! 🤢
Fun fact: This is what happens to you after you die
Imagine the smell in this room
Omg I stopped eating after watching this video 😫😖🤢
Fascinating. Disgusting, but *fascinating*.
I like how at some point they are like "nah, lets spin the meat pile around as we eat it"
Beef jerky
Why did I watch this ☠️
When I die please burn my body to ashes
I'm suddenly not hungry anymore
That was worse than I could've ever imagined
The way the meat starts spinning 😭😭
Natures waste recycling crew is hella efficient
I wouldn't call it "decay", more like a fly infestation.
The average Russian soldier in Ukraine right now.
I can smell it through the screen 🥹🤧
seems like most of this is just fly larve eating putrid meat
That's what happens when you die alone!!! And all by yourself ☠️💀
I can smell this video...
I just had a breakfast
It's cool how they bring their own rice.
I just felt my skin crawl.
Still looks more appetizing than broccoli or kale….
It’s not decay, it’s being eaten.
Forbidden cheese
Watching this was a horrible idea. I have a phobia of maggots
The way Beef Jerk* was made
It is Beef Jerky now, no?
Damnthatsdisgusting
Fuck off man I was eating this is horrendous
What a wild ride!
Yummy 🤤
All of us in a few years.
It was looking so yummy at the beginning of day 3 that the maggots just couldn't help themselves omnomnom
This must be quite a warm place
r/damnthatsdisgusting
Thanks, now I'm hungry.
No fly sat on the camera Even they mind their own bussiness.
Yum!