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26 Sep 2006 11:33:12 PM |
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The fly flies in the car window |
Question:
I'm at a stop sign in my car, the windows are open a fly flies into the
car. It doesn't ever land on me or the car interior. I pull away from
the stop sign put the windows up and drive, fly flying about the car
still never stopping to land. Now I'm driving 60+ MPH Does the fly
have to fly that fast to not touch the car? How fast can the fly fly in
a moving vehicle if it never touched the vehicle?
Thanks for any answers just a ponderance that's been bothering me for a
while
Bill
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| User: "CWatters" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
27 Sep 2006 05:45:01 AM |
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<tonerdot@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Question:
I'm at a stop sign in my car, the windows are open a fly flies into the
car. It doesn't ever land on me or the car interior. I pull away from
the stop sign put the windows up and drive, fly flying about the car
still never stopping to land. Now I'm driving 60+ MPH Does the fly
have to fly that fast to not touch the car?
Yes - about as fast as you have to run to keep up with the car you are
sitting in.
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| User: "greysky" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
27 Sep 2006 01:15:42 AM |
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<tonerdot@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159331592.297314.87480@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Question:
I'm at a stop sign in my car, the windows are open a fly flies into the
car. It doesn't ever land on me or the car interior. I pull away from
the stop sign put the windows up and drive, fly flying about the car
still never stopping to land. Now I'm driving 60+ MPH Does the fly
have to fly that fast to not touch the car? How fast can the fly fly in
a moving vehicle if it never touched the vehicle?
Thanks for any answers just a ponderance that's been bothering me for a
while
Bill
That's what car windows are for. Without their aid in bringing a fly up to
speed, the fly would have to move at the speed the car was traveling or it
would hit the side of the car (or a window - there's that ol' window again).
Now, a fly on the outside of the window is another matter. I once had a fly
land on my windshield at a stop sign, and manage to stay attached up to
almost 50 miles per hour...
Greysky
www.allocations.cc
Learn how to build a FTL radio.
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
27 Sep 2006 12:21:20 AM |
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<tonerdot@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159331592.297314.87480@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| Question:
| I'm at a stop sign in my car, the windows are open a fly flies into the
| car. It doesn't ever land on me or the car interior. I pull away from
| the stop sign put the windows up and drive, fly flying about the car
| still never stopping to land. Now I'm driving 60+ MPH Does the fly
| have to fly that fast to not touch the car? How fast can the fly fly in
| a moving vehicle if it never touched the vehicle?
| Thanks for any answers just a ponderance that's been bothering me for a
| while
| Bill
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Hi Pete! Good to see you've just started posting again.
Now that you have the windows up I'll roll on the floor and fart.
ROFLMAO
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| User: "Randy Poe" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
27 Sep 2006 08:52:23 AM |
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wrote:
Question:
I'm at a stop sign in my car, the windows are open a fly flies into the
car. It doesn't ever land on me or the car interior. I pull away from
the stop sign put the windows up and drive, fly flying about the car
still never stopping to land. Now I'm driving 60+ MPH Does the fly
have to fly that fast to not touch the car? How fast can the fly fly in
a moving vehicle if it never touched the vehicle?
Even though the windows are open and you
might be feeling a breeze, it isn't a 60 MPH breeze.
For the most part, the car is pushing a volume
of air along with itself and most of it is moving
at or close to the same speed as the car.
Any air not experiencing a breeze IS moving
at the same speed as the car, and the fly
can keep up with no problem.
- Randy
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| User: "Jeff Wisnia" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
30 Sep 2006 08:17:00 PM |
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wrote:
Question:
I'm at a stop sign in my car, the windows are open a fly flies into the
car. It doesn't ever land on me or the car interior. I pull away from
the stop sign put the windows up and drive, fly flying about the car
still never stopping to land. Now I'm driving 60+ MPH Does the fly
have to fly that fast to not touch the car? How fast can the fly fly in
a moving vehicle if it never touched the vehicle?
Thanks for any answers just a ponderance that's been bothering me for a
while
Bill
I'm suprised you didn't also wonder whether if you stopped the car on a
sensitive enough scale with the fly still flying inside, would the scale
reading increase when the fly finaly landed on a seat?
Jeff
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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
"What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?"
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| User: "G=EMC^2 Glazier" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
01 Oct 2006 05:23:39 PM |
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There was a fly flying around the Spirit of St Lewis as it made its trip
to France. It could even go in the opposite direction. Here you see
relativity. It begs this question. Does the plane weigh more when the
fly is not flying. I'm big on horse flies. Bert
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
01 Oct 2006 06:00:44 PM |
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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" <herbertglazier@webtv.net> wrote in message
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| There was a fly flying around the Spirit of St Lewis
Ahem... I've heard of the Spirit of St. Louis...
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| User: "hanson" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
01 Oct 2006 11:27:42 PM |
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Andro, the "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_b> w/i
news:wMXTg.69440$wg.10135@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
oye-weh-Zion Herbie aka "G=EMC^2 Glazier"
<herbertglazier@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:9137-45203FEB-195@storefull-3336.bay.webtv.net...
| There was a fly flying around the Spirit of St Lewis
[Andro]
Ahem... I've heard of the Spirit of St. Louis...
[hanson]
ahahaha... you must understand, Andro, that with/for
oye-weh-Zion Herbie everything has to be Jewish...
and "Lewis" sounds more Jewish to him. Hebie just
can't face & live in any other world than his Jewish one.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/681276f425ec28ed
--- I wonder though why he never went to his beloved Israel
and fought for it... instead of him hiding & loud-mouthing behind
the aprons of goyim shiksa women... Herbie is not only a profound
embarrassment to all Yidds but Herbie is a fly in their ointment,
....not on a car, because he doesn't own one... ahahahaha...
ahahahaha.. .. ahahanson
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| User: "G=EMC^2 Glazier" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
02 Oct 2006 07:23:56 AM |
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Sorcerer I heard of that too Bert
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| User: "PD" |
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27 Sep 2006 06:48:23 AM |
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wrote:
Question:
I'm at a stop sign in my car, the windows are open a fly flies into the
car. It doesn't ever land on me or the car interior. I pull away from
the stop sign put the windows up and drive, fly flying about the car
still never stopping to land. Now I'm driving 60+ MPH Does the fly
have to fly that fast to not touch the car? How fast can the fly fly in
a moving vehicle if it never touched the vehicle?
Thanks for any answers just a ponderance that's been bothering me for a
while
Bill
You know those moving walkways in airports?
When the fly enters the car, the same thing happens to the fly that
happens to you when you step aboard a moving walkway.
Substitute feet => wings, walkway => air.
PD
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| User: "Ben Newsam" |
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| Title: Re: The fly flies in the car window |
02 Oct 2006 09:02:57 AM |
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On 26 Sep 2006 21:33:12 -0700, wrote:
How fast can the fly fly in
a moving vehicle if it never touched the vehicle?
How fast does the air in the car have to move to stay in the vehicle?
Same answer.
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