In the time of year premiere of Orange Is the New Black , our beaten - down supporter Piper start off on a very incorrect foundation with her new bunkmate in prison — she steps on a roach . Not any roach , but Yoda , specially trained to smuggle cigarettes between cell . How material is this hypothetical cigarette transportation system ?
Turns out we were n’t the only spook wondering about cockroach on Orange Is the New Black . Over at the New Republic , Alice Robbs has done a thorough investigation into cockroach training . There ’s a inkling of world . Maybe . “ [ One team]foundthat if they placed roaches on a live surface — a alloy sheet over stewing water — that had one cool orbit , the roach would scurry around and eventually notice the cold spot on the floor . After many trials , most of the roaches learned to run direct to the cool office , ” compose Robbs .
But training a cockroach to voyage through prison house sound a lot more intimidating . It ’s potential , a scientist confess , but no one — as far as we know — has done it . roach are , not surprisingly , easily distracted by food and could n’t care less about your cigarette .
Even if this is just television , it ’s moderately damn good television . In sheath you have n’t binge watched the whole second season yet , you have the whole weekend to remedy that . [ learn on Netflix ]
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