There's a humming bird in your car...
06-13-2009, 08:19 AM
#91
The movement of everything in the car is based on the movement of the car. If the car accelerates to highway miles of 75mph, and then you all of a sudden delete the car, the passengers will be still flying 75mph. So if the hummingbird is in the car, "hovering" near your head, then technically speaking, it's traveling the same amount of speed the car is. When you suddenly slam on the brakes, it'll smack the front windshield.
I mean what happens when you slam on the brakes while YOU'RE in the car. The Seatbelt holds you back from flying into the windshield. A "hovering" hummingbird is going the same MPH as the car, and when the car suddenly stops, the bird will smack into the windshield at that MPH (maybe a little less do to friction).
Do you think a bird will survive when you hit it going 65-75mph? Maybe just bounce off? I don't know the answers to that one, but I think if I hit a hummingbird with that speed, it would be unconscious or something, if not dead. So I think the bird would get pwnt in the car, probably die.
I mean what happens when you slam on the brakes while YOU'RE in the car. The Seatbelt holds you back from flying into the windshield. A "hovering" hummingbird is going the same MPH as the car, and when the car suddenly stops, the bird will smack into the windshield at that MPH (maybe a little less do to friction).
Do you think a bird will survive when you hit it going 65-75mph? Maybe just bounce off? I don't know the answers to that one, but I think if I hit a hummingbird with that speed, it would be unconscious or something, if not dead. So I think the bird would get pwnt in the car, probably die.
06-13-2009, 09:00 AM
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Thing is, even with carbon/ceramic rotors and racing pads, even the baddest exotics can't brake much more than about 1.5-2g tops, so given the real life bounds on the rate of deceleration, I doubt the bird would experience anything close to the instantaneous impact that he'd get if he was hovering in still air and you smack it going 65.
I have hit larger birds at speeds a little over than that and the results are quite gory- take it from me- your hummingbird isn't going to survive that, but I'd still contend that a quick one might manage to adjust its flight to stay off the windsheild.
I have hit larger birds at speeds a little over than that and the results are quite gory- take it from me- your hummingbird isn't going to survive that, but I'd still contend that a quick one might manage to adjust its flight to stay off the windsheild.
06-13-2009, 12:47 PM
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anybody experience this an insect or a fly got inside your car and while your drivin its flying inside like ur car is not movin at all? cuz i know it happened to me. its almost the same as hummingbird.
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06-14-2009, 12:23 AM
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06-14-2009, 01:27 AM
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06-15-2009, 01:56 AM
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Wow this is really easy.
If the car was on the freeway traveling 65mph and you hit on the brakes the bird hits the windshield.
If the car is traveling 65mph on a treadmill the bird is not traveling 65mph he is simply hovering, therefore the bird stays where it is above you center console.
If the car was on the freeway traveling 65mph and you hit on the brakes the bird hits the windshield.
If the car is traveling 65mph on a treadmill the bird is not traveling 65mph he is simply hovering, therefore the bird stays where it is above you center console.
