we are sitting in the bus so u can claim that it is inertia that makes us move forward…..but the insect does not have any attachment or link with the moving vehicles’s surfaces this is what makes me think………
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Of course it does, there is air inside the bus, etc.
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Funny answer – you would fly quick if a car’s rear windscreen was coming at you at 50mph
Boring answer: the air isn’t getting moved because it is contained – take out the windows and it ha the same fate as the ones you meet flying along and splatting on your windscreen.
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Same way you can move your arms,legs etc
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Everything inside the car is going at the same speed.
Including the air.
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dude it just flies throught the window. the same way you can throw a ball in to a moving vehicle
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This would be Einstein’s “Theory of Relativity.” Check out this link if you want more details:
http://www.bartleby.com/173/18.html
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yes
ive had both a bee and a mosquito fly into my car while i was driving and they can definitly fly. its really scary and dangerous!
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What’s really amazing is when you’re driving down the road singing your favorite song with the windows down, and all of the sudden a bee smacks up against your head and falls into your shirt. You learn to dance really fast as your pulling off the road at the nearest acceptable spot.
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So………it can still fly
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When a vehicle accelerates forward, there is inertia that holds us back until we compensate for it. The air in the bus also moves forward because it is contained and restrained by the walls, roof, floor, and windows. The air that the bug is flying in is also first compressed in a backward motion and then stabilized. Its a good thing, else when the bus moved forward if all the air pooled on the back window then the driver and everyone up front couldn’t breathe. Just as that air exerts an outward pressure upon itself and everything else (if there were no pressure, there would be no wind resistance) that keeps it from collapsing at the back of the bus when it moves forward, the bug continues flying by the same aerodynamics that permits it to fly in the first place.
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uh-huh…..the inside of the vehicle is stationary so therefore just like you (in the vehicle) you move at say 70 but you remain in place. That’s why you go through a windshield after to hit the tree at 70. car’s stopped…but you haven’t and are doing 70 on your way out the window. Get in an elevator…cut the cable….jump up before it hits the ground. Won’t work. You’re still moving the speed of the falling elevator and are doomed.
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The insect is moving forward along with you in the moving vehicle plus the insect is flying around through it’s own created force inside the car just as you would if you could jump inside the vehicle,now if you would put the insect in a vacum enviroment,he would drop down like a rock
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“How can an insect (bee or mosquito) fly in a moving vehicle?”
Exactly the same way as it flys in a stationary vehicle.
The insect is flying in a volume of air, just like it does at any time. The fact that the volume of air is moving is entirely irrelevant.
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