Well, kill a fly and put it to little crash test. Not that hard. At least you would hit the windshield, why not the fly?

Or buy some coke from McDonalds, open the cup's cap, hold the coke in your hand and hit the brakes from 100 mph and see what happens.

A fly is a living object that can compensate. During its daily routine has all sorts of pressure and wind force exerted to its body during natural flight. A coke on the other hand doesnt. I understand what you're saying though. Just wondering if a fly actually has the capacity to compensate...maybe not at 100mph but at some speed.

I didn't read, Thanks

You can't kill the fly; the whole point is that the fly is airborne and flying.

It being airborne means that it will hit the windshield easier (less friction) and that flying part probably doesn't do much. There was stuff about compensating, but how will the fly know to compensate? You tell it that you will hit the brakes and explain that it will hit the windshield if it doesn't compensate?

Compensate for what? The fly will happily continue to "fly" 100 mph, until it isn't so happy anymore.

We need to create a fly impact detection system so the fly has ample warning and can begin to fly backwards

It is flying at 100mph +/- it's own airspeed/direction. How is that not obvious?

Is it an african or european fly?

http://i.imgur.com/bDPLZsA.jpg

I was developing this but I got flyswatter industry all over me. Same thing happened to my car that doesn't need any fuel or power source whatsoever.

The question asked requires the fly to be flying and somebody said kill a fly to do the test.
That's what I was responding to.

GFY genius strikes again :D

same question asked in a different way.

a fly is buzzing around inside a stopped convertible with the top down. that car accelerates at full throttle. Does the fly stay in the car?

Not sure if it does but i do know whats the last thing that goes thru its head, its ass

I think it would, set a penny on your dash and see what happens.

The answer is No, but not for the reason you think. The fly would be travelling at 100mph relative to the road. When you apply the brakes it takes approximately 400 feet to decelerate to zero mph. The fly would still be flying forward at 100mph while your car is rapidly losing speed. The fly would start to travel toward your front windshield at a speed equaling your deceleration. Flies have extremely fast reaction times and can change directions in 1/100th of a second. Flies can also fly at 15 mph. The fly could probably fly fast enough to avoid impacting the windshield altogether. Flies due to their small mass have a very low terminal velocity speed. The air would provide a soft cushion for the fly. Even if the fly did impact the windshield it would be at low speed and small objects have a much greater strength to weight ratio and would most likely survive and therefore not be smashed.

All the cables would have to break, including the broken rope safety cable for the elevator to fall. When an B-25 hit the empire state building in the 1945, an elevator fell over 75 floors and the woman inside survived.

B-25 Empire State Building crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, if you can find funding for, or license or sell a device to save the lives of something that lives 10 days anyway, you could truly sell anything. A guy sold the Eiffel Tower twice for scrap metal. You could probably do much better than that even. :)

haha... just occurred to me to look it up.
Victor Lustig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The genius of "crazy".
I didn't know he conned Al Capone.

Did something similar happen with you?

I don't understand