Stupid Question

[RX-Men-8]

If a fly was hovering in a parked bus and the bus set off what would happen to the fly?

would it stay in the same spot until the back window of the bus hit it, or would it stay in the same spot as the bus moves    

if you're travelling in a bus which is doing 35mph and you jump up in the air, you don't hurtle backwards down the bus at 35mph, so i guess the fly maintains its position in the bus.

Ahhh, but you dont fly backwards because you are already in contact with the bus when its moving..

The fly question can also bring up... if you leap into the air the instant before the bus sets off, will you land further back than you began?

i think someone is going to have to try it out

I recon the answer is different for the person than for the fly.

The fly will move with the bus because it has very little inertia so, as the air in the bus moves forward, it will push the fly with it.

If a person jumps just as the bus sets off, the person will land further back in the bus because he/she has a large momentum keeping him/her stationary.

Just think what happens if you have something in the boot of the car... Does it shift to the back if you do a quick takeoff?

The fly has low inertia (low mass), but still has to work to stay afloat, so its mass (I really should say density, mass per cubic metre) is greater than the surrounding air. So it will shift backward as any person would when the bus accelerates. It will meet some drag from the air on its light frame, so it will shift back a little less than, lets say, a steel marble.

Cheers,

RX-Men-8

[GreyBeard]

QUOTE (GreyBeard @ Jan 5 2004, 02:48 PM)

and why has LISP got an 'S' in it?

Because it stands for LISt Programming?

Oh, you didn't mean that sort of LISP

________________________________

that's a bit like:

'OUT OF WORK TEACHER? GET A JOB IN IT'

so the teacher goes into the job centre and complains about the bad grammar in their notice; the counter clerk then says, "out of work teacher? get a job in I.T." :duh:

[Rob]

Why is McDonalds called McDonalds

hi steve, sorry ts been a while but mcdonalds is called mcdonalds because Richard and Maurice McDonald in approx 1940 opened the mcDonald brothers burger bar drive in restaurant in san bernadino, california. They got tired of hiring fast food chefs/bell hops etc, closed the business for 3 months redesigned the way food was made and it has turned into what we know today - that restaurant is also why we have burger king, kfc etc. people heard about the brothers restaurant, ate there then developed thier own restaurants.

[Bazza]

kfc was started in 1939 ??

[Rob]

kfc was formed by Harland sanders in 1952, in 1960 kfc was the largest food chain in the USA, i was refering to the self service, no washing up, no forks etc ideas.

[Bazza]

kfc was formed by Harland sanders in 1952, in 1960 kfc was the largest food chain in the USA, i was refering to the self service, no washing up, no forks etc ideas.

Colonel Harland Sanders, born September 9, 1890, actively began franchising his chicken business at the age of 65. Now, the KFC® business he started has grown to be one of the largest quick service food service systems in the world. And Colonel Sanders, a quick service restaurant pioneer, has become a symbol of entrepreneurial spirit.

More than a billion of the Colonel's "finger lickin' good" chicken dinners are served annually. And not just in North America. The Colonel's cooking is available in more than 80 countries and territories around the world.

When the Colonel was six, his father died. His mother was forced to go to work, and young Harland had to take care of his three-year-old brother and baby sister. This meant doing much of the family cooking. By the age of seven, he was a master of several regional dishes.

At age 10, he got his first job working on a nearby farm for $2 a month. When he was 12, his mother remarried and he left his home near Henryville, Ind., for a job on a farm in Greenwood, Ind. He held a series of jobs over the next few years, first as a 15-year-old streetcar conductor in New Albany, Ind., and then as a 16-year-old private, soldiering for six months in Cuba.

After that he was a railroad fireman, studied law by correspondence, practiced in justice of the peace courts, sold insurance, operated an Ohio River steamboat ferry, sold tires, and operated service stations. When he was 40, the Colonel began cooking for hungry travelers who stopped at his service station in Corbin, Ky. He didn't have a restaurant then, but served folks on his own dining table in the living quarters of his service station.

As more people started coming just for food, he moved across the street to a motel and restaurant that seated 142 people. Over the next nine years, he perfected his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices and the basic cooking technique that is still used today.

Sander's fame grew. Governor Ruby Laffoon made him a Kentucky Colonel in 1935 in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine. And in 1939, his establishment was first listed in Duncan Hines' "Adventures in Good Eating."

In the early 1950s a new interstate highway was planned to bypass the town of Corbin. Seeing an end to his business, the Colonel auctioned off his operations. After paying his bills, he was reduced to living on his $105 Social Security checks.

Confident of the quality of his fried chicken, the Colonel devoted himself to the chicken franchising business that he started in 1952. He traveled across the country by car from restaurant to restaurant, cooking batches of chicken for restaurant owners and their employees. If the reaction was favorable, he entered into a handshake agreement on a deal that stipulated a payment to him of a nickel for each chicken the restaurant sold. By 1964, Colonel Sanders had more than 600 franchised outlets for his chicken in the United States and Canada. That year, he sold his interest in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors including John Y. Brown Jr., who later was governor of Kentucky from 1980 to 1984. The Colonel remained a public spokesman for the company. In 1976, an independent survey ranked the Colonel as the world's second most recognizable celebrity.

Under the new owners, Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation grew rapidly. It went public on March 17, 1966, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 16, 1969. More than 3,500 franchised and company-owned restaurants were in worldwide operation when Heublein Inc. acquired KFC Corporation on July 8, 1971, for $285 million.

Kentucky Fried Chicken became a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. (now RJR Nabisco, Inc.), when Heublein Inc. was acquired by Reynolds in 1982. KFC was acquired in October 1986 from RJR Nabisco, Inc. by PepsiCo, Inc., for approximately $840 million.

In January 1997, PepsiCo, Inc. announced the spin-off of its quick service restaurants -- KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut -- into an independent restaurant company, Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. In May 2002, the company announced it received shareholders' approval to change it's corporation name to Yum! Brands, Inc. The company, which owns A&W All-American Food Restaurants, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system units with nearly 32,500 in more than 100 countries and territories.

Until he was fatally stricken with leukemia in 1980 at the age of 90, the Colonel traveled 250,000 miles a year visiting the KFC restaurants around the world.

And it all began with a 65-year-old gentleman who used his $105 Social Security check to start a business.