Fly out the car window: what happens?
 

When you have a fly in your car, and you shoo him out the window, what happens to him?

Say you're travelling at highway speed, what happens when his little fly wings hit that fast-moving air? What about the turbulence between the two bodies of air? I'm sure a fly's body isn't designed for that (or maybe it is).

I'd think the fly's wings would get ripped off his body, or he would almost instantly perish by some other means. I'm almost certain he doesn't just blissfully fly away, and wonder what zip code he's in.

What do you think? Maybe one of you smart-types who knows all about physics and whatnot.

if the air was actually standing still just outside the car window, maybe...but the car moves that air outside, too. the fly will gradually slow with the air currents.


weirdo

Why don't you do an experiment with yourself Flint?

Because I'm not a fly. Therefore, impossible. Duh.

I am no expert, but I think the fly probably just buzzes off perfectly fine. There's probably some time of extreme turbulence but I doubt the wings come off or that it could impact the car hard enough to kill it.

Well Pookas probably happy that you're at least clever enough to realize you might not survive a jump out of a moving car...and besides, wouldn't the car crash if you did anyway?

Not if I wasn't driving.

Of course, but I think you might have a hard time finding someone to drive you if they knew what you were going to do.

That's why I think you'd have to drive yourself.

Perhaps you could put the car on auto-pilot...

They have professional drivers for this sort of thing.

I can see the ad now.

Wanted: Driver for a lunatic who thinks he's a fly. Good money, and if things don't work out, you can keep the car.

I can never get a fly to go OUT the window.

I've had one or more of the damn things buzzing around my truck for ten days before they either die or wander out. I have even seen one fly partway out the window and then drive like hell to get back in against the air currents.

Annoying when you have 600 miles to go before you get to stop.

The fly will be fine ... if the car is on a treadmill ....

They'll flip ass-over-teakettle, then wonder what zip code they're in.

This thread is classic of how mental midgets also know that light bulbs are destroyed by powering on and that Saddam had WMDs. Not one number provided. So as the car is traveling at 3 MPH, then its wings are ripped off? Yes, according to the logic and numbers already posted. Why so many poster and not one even asked how fast the car is moving?

No wonder 70% of Americans knew Saddam had WMDs - also proven by ignoring numbers. No wonder everyone 'knows' powering on a light bulb off and on causes bulb failure. No wonder so many knew that conveyor belt underneath an airplance affected its takeoff.

Based upon numbers posted, a responsible poster could not even speculate an answer.