What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph?

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What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? - Pawb.Social

I assume it’s a 100% chance of death for the fly but IDK. Maybe the can stay in the air long enough to slow down? I’m not sure how fly flight can work at that speed.

So birds can get their wings broken by sudden gusts while aloft. Without accounting for size (reynolds number) and reaction speed - a fly would suffer a similar fate.

But I’ve seen videos of insects and/or flies hit with directed blasts of air. They react very, very quickly by adjusting orientation and shape. If a fly tucks fast enough it might survive the aerodynamic forces due to its reaction speed, and be left to the fate of where it’s path goes while it slows to a flyable speed.

And size matters. What seems to us a thin and uniform body of air gas for them is thicker and rippling with waves of density and speed. The wrong placement might kill them with pure shear or high pressure, but I suspect they have the ability to surf those waves as well, and maybe even use them to steer through extreme conditions.

They react very, very quickly by adjusting orientation and shape.

They experience time slower, to them a second just feels longer. It’s like Neo in permanent “bullet time”.

When I was a kid it was pretty easy to catch one alive in my hand. But now my reflexes have slowed and I can only do it from experience and luckily having large hands.

But my big ass hand smacking one out the air and catching it in the same palm is going to hurt it more than going out a window, and weirdly enough I’ve never killed a fly catching it.

They’re a lot sturdier than people think. Any amount of bounce and they’re cool.