Things That Make You Go Hmmmmmmmmmmm

[lowest of the low singhni]

if the fly is in the bus then it is already moving at the speed the bus is. so evven though to one in the bus it may appear to be hovering it actually is not staying still. if some one on theside of the road looked into the bus they would see the fly fly by

Hmmm. So does this mean the fly doesn't actually need to make an effort to fly forwards in order to move at the speed of the bus?

[Guest peacemaker]

Correct

[lowest of the low singhni]

Please forgive my ignorance of physics : ) but we have legs when we stand on the floor of the bus, and we sit on chairs that provide resistance. So I thought the situation would be slightly different with respect to a fly as he/she/it would be in mid air.

Edit in response to Peacemaker's edit: Ok. So why doesn't he have to make an effort to fly forwards? How is he moving forwards with the bus then?

[Ikonkar Kaur]

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

If superglue is so good, why doesn't it stick to the side of the tube?

Why can't we sneeze with our eyes open?

How come stealing from one is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research?

[Laadli Fauj]

no, because it would just be a disabled fly

a man in a wheel chair is still a man

because the glue is insulated while in there. if it were to harden, it would stick

i donoo

[singhnii♥]

Why do i have a lot of "things tht make u go hmmm" questions but i cnt think of a single one rite now.......hmmm

[fauji07]

Please forgive my ignorance of physics : ) but we have legs when we stand on the floor of the bus, and we sit on chairs that provide resistance. So I thought the situation would be slightly different with respect to a fly as he/she/it would be in mid air.

Edit in response to Peacemaker's edit: Ok. So why doesn't he have to make an effort to fly forwards? How is he moving forwards with the bus then?

the fly keeps moving forward because it already has inertia. that is why if the bus suddenly stops you will fly forward because your body is still moving at the speed the bus was moving at. also if the bus accelerates you will be pushed to the back of your seat because your body is at rest and the bus is moving.

on the topic of physics: if you shoot a gun parallel to the ground and at the same time drop a bullet from the same height of the gun both bullets will hit the ground at the same time! try it some time, well not with a gun but with a rock or something

[1978]

hmm no, dats wen u drop two items, they will fall at da same time, but a bullet which is already travelling at a faster speed must oviously hit the ground first, i disagree with the laws of psysics

[lowest of the low singhni]

the fly keeps moving forward because it already has inertia.

The point is that the fly isn't *actually* moving at all. But it seems to get carried in that position purely because the bus is moving.

I resolve to one day understand this phenomenon.

dats wen u drop two items, they will fall at da same time,

Ah yes, I remember reading about this in a Horrible Science book : ) a famous scientist, so famous that I have forgotten his name, once stood from the top of the tower and dropped a big object and a small object to the ground. Then he ran at lightening-fast speed to the bottom of the tower in time to see the objects hit the ground at the same time. Or something.

[1978]

oooo i know this story, someone dropped a tomato on someones head from the leaning tower of pizza