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 Posted: 12:51 - 14 May 2009  Post subject: Flies, Flies and oh...more damn flies! |
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Went for a ride on my route that I found last time, had a decent ride. Got home and was covered in bloody flies from head to toe! All over my lid, jacket, jeans and even my gloves! There were so many I also found some on the floor in my house which had fallen off me  And to top that I found about 5 that were still alive  I've yet to check my bike
It's weird because it's not even warm or sunny 
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| Posted: 12:54 - 14 May 2009 Post subject: |
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They are a pain in the ass, their goo really restricts vision.
Racing on Sunday, I had a bee or a wasp hit my visor at about 58mph. I can only imagine he was less than happy, quite a wallop aswell, took me by surprise.
Clean them all off with Magic Eraser or something. 
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Sure they were flies? Riding alongside a Dam I would expect midges
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| Posted: 14:38 - 14 May 2009 Post subject: |
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I have hit a butterflies, wasps and plenty of files/midges before... but the worst was a butterfly, that that bloody hurt.
I haven't experienced bad flies yet (this year) because I haven't been out on my bike for a while 
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I have had an owl fly into my leg before, butterfly still hurt more. Right on left nipple through my jacket.
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Hate them too. Especially when one decides to finish its Kamikaze run right in the middle of my visor making me spend half the journey half-focusing on it and the road and giving myself eye strain and a headache. 
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SKluff: About 0.8 metric fucktons.
Fuckton: noun (non-SI unit). A fuckton is defined as the pain caused by impacting something that engenders the screaming of profanities while moving at 100mph.
Ergo, at 80mph, you achieved a 0.8 on said scale.
No idea what it'd be in joules.
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| metalforever wrote: | | Paulington wrote: | Racing on Sunday, I had a bee or a wasp hit my visor at about 58mph. I can only imagine he was less than happy, quite a wallop aswell, took me by surprise.
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You race?
"About 58mph"
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Yes, karts. Data says I hit 58mph on that section of track, relatively slow section.
@Selkie, you beat me to it! 
Let's say the impact was for 0.2s, that's close as makes no difference 800kW.
or 250g of TNT.
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| Selkie wrote: | | skluff wrote: |
I've had a bee to the nipple before at about 80. That sucked. Wonder what the kinetic energy of that impact was? |
I was bored....
Kinetic Energy = 0.5 x mass x velocity squared
Mass in KG and Velocity in meters per second
Average bee according to Google weights 100mg
80mph is 35.76 m/s (according to Google, I couldnt be bother to work it out myself)
KE = 0.5 x 0.0001 x (35.76x35.76)
KE of bee hitting nipple at 80mph is 0.0639 Joules
Doesnt sound very much but bet it hurt!
EDIT: hummm that's wrong, bee wasn't moving at 80mph you were....
Ok so you hit bee with the KE of;
approximately 159847.2 Joules |
OK, that is so horribly wrong, it's not true. What direction was the bee travelling in? If you assume 10mph towards the OP then the true closing speed would have been 90mph. Secondly, there is no point in calculating the energy imparted to the bee from the person, as the bee is not a solid object, it's structure and energy would have been massively affected by hitting the person in question. Far more sensible to calculate the energy of the bee hitting the person, so your original maths was they way to go. The other point you have missed is ther area over which the impact takes place. The reason the bee hurts is that the relatively low kinetic energy is applied to a very small area, which is why that hurts so much.
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| Posted: 12:06 - 15 May 2009 Post subject: |
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| Skudd wrote: | Old ladies don't splat the same as flies do. |
Depends on how hard you hit them with a spade, really...
It helps if you aim for one with osteoporosis, too, because their bones won't transfer as much of the immediate shock around the skeletal system anywhere near as well as normal: with enough impact force, their bones will effectively turn to powder.
Skin elasticity's the real problem here, though, because it'll allow for internal displacement of organs and associated mush, and given that older shin is wrinkled from relative loss of elasticity, there's more immediate give. Kinda like deflating a balloon, and then re-inflating it sharply: it'll be easier in the initial stages, but it starts to lose integrity a bit. Ergo, if you hit hard enough, with a large enough object, the skin will rupture, thus causing said old biddy to burst like a rather nasty balloon, thus neatly demonstrating my rather poor earlier example.
Disclaimer: I have never exploded an old lady, nor do I intend to. This was just a layman's attempt to reason through large kinetic forces being applied to OAPs. No old ladies were harmed in the making of this post, or in the upbringing of the poster. Don't try this at home.
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