What Happens to a Bug Flying in Your Car When You Slam on Your Brakes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I see what happens when a butterfly is flying in the back of my van when I push on my brakes and accelerate quickly? Does it fly to the front of the van or stay flying where it is?
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"No officer I did not notice the stop sign. I was poking my butterfly."
Talking to the cops about how you were using your 'butterfly wand' might get you some funny looks.
dude u made my day!
🤣
LMFAO
“You sure you’re not on any type of narcotics?”
-Officer
Dude, you should involve another person, when you're performing a "driving" experiment.
Yeah, I was getting anxious. :8
Don't you have any laws in America which forces you to pay attention to the road
@@tiddergreen3667 Americans can't drive anyway
Yeah as he could be distracted by traffic and occasionally damage butterfly with this whip
Agree
I tried the same thing with a butterfly.. but instead of the butterfly hitting my windshield the car behind me turned my car into a hatchback
😂😂😂
Hence... my comment about distracted driving and the need for a co-pilot to handle the butterfly stick while the driver keeps his attention on the road.
🤣🤣🤣 LOL! That's a good one, do be careful next time! 👍
🤣
😂😂
Action Lab: “Honest officer, I was doing a science experiment that involves a butterfly and a wand.” Officer: “why don’t I ever get any normal calls?”
lol
I wonder what if a policeman sees him driving and playing with a butterfly wand at the same time...Would be very interesting
And he got arrested because driving under -drugs- butterfly effect
@@mystcat3 😂
It should be the same as texting while driving.
I bet he gets pulled over for that regularly...
He would go straight into the mental asylum.
Guys it's so obvious the butterfly is a paid actor
Raid: shadow butterfly
Ah yes, someone versed in the flat earth shinanigans. Water and boats are also paid actors.
@@akhanyatinaten2665 AnD eRaTh Is On A tUrTlE!
I like your userNAME :P
@@zethylene ThAt's nOt wHaT ThE BiBlE SaYs tHoUgH
Disclaimer: no bugs were harmed during this shot
What if there was two butterflies, one for experimenting and the other for letting go?
@@holycow666 Lol! I thought about it!
Book the family in the oncoming car was killed
😒
@@sindu6715 just kidding man😂
3:27 Imagine you're driving on the highway and you see this guy coming at you lmao
@F.B.I I've seen you too (but I don't know 4 sure bec there are a lot of Fbi accounts out there)
@F.B.I (-_-)
@F.B.I I can almost guarantee you that we will meet again Cya!
@F.B.I i seen you too 🤔
A floating helium balloon that is tethered to keep it from touching the interior roof of a closed moving vehicle, in my opinion, is definitely worthwhile experimenting with. The balloon does not have a lot of mass and is much more sensitive to the changing air density that happens when accelerating and decelerating the vehicle (even from turning left, and right too!) Relative to the car, the balloon will go forward when accelerating, backwards when decelerating, and will move toward the inside of a turn when turning.
True! I was expecting he'd get to that.
What if there is a butterfly on it?
Smarter Every Day has already done that experiment
th-cam.com/video/y8mzDvpKzfY/w-d-xo.html
@@29C1C Thank you for that link. I really liked how Destin did it with both the plumbob/pendulum and the helium balloon at the same time. That was awesome!
Meanwhile in another multiverse:
What happens to a human when a fly hits the breaks of his wings?
O.O
Factz :|
I think cyanide & happiness made a video on that
Someones watching rick and morty xD
Haha! :-)
Plot twists:
1. The car was actually driving by itself while James was poking the butterfly so no accidents happened.
2. That butterfly was actually a moth. It was a paid actor.
3. That was no butterfly wand, it was a real magical wand. The Action Lab is actually a wizard in disguise.
4. He used an invisibility cloak so no human was able to see his car.
HAVE A NICE DAY! 😁
Damn you really exposed him like that
*bUt, bUt hOW CaN yoU Pay A BuTTerflY**
@@beactivebehappy9894 with butterflynip
I was one of the guys asking this question the other day... I never thought you would read mine and the other comments about the same thing, thank you so much for your big effort to answer our question so effectively, best regards to you!
When youre peacefully flying in the nature and someone takes you for a joy ride
So basically - the butterfly is pretty lightweight in air, that's why it is almost in the same place when you accelerate or brake, it's kinda like a human in a huge tank of water, but the drone is much weightier than a butterfly, that's why he goes with air that easily.
Sorry for my English, I am very Russian
Alex Bird this is really good English for a second language, I thought you were a native speaker until you said you were Russian! :D
Not just the weight, the surface to mass ratio. A small stone the same weight as the butterfly would push through the air like the drone. A piece of paper that weighed the same as the drone would be pushed by the air like the butterfly.
@@ahypixelnon266 Oh, thank you! Very kind of you. I don't know all technic things in language & it felt like I made mistakes because I kinda was thinking in Russian in the end, so had to include the place of origin, hehe
not only russian, VERY Russian. I like that expression
@@ogge8375 Hehe, Yes mister Ogge, plus you can tell it by my hat, it's actually my dad's hat from 1970's or something, so it's truly very Soviet
Plot twist: the butterfly was actually a moth
It's a butterfly.
Moths rest with their wings parallel to the surface. Butterflies rest with wings perpendicular to the surface.
Mahadev Parmekar r/woosh
Motherfly?
Don-don-don
@@gospizana Good one
If you see a butterfly slams to your windshield you were driving too fast
I like how he directly gets to the point of discussion in his intro of vid
Can we just appreciate about the fact that he did these experiments alone while driving?
Yeah, l know that from when a bee is in the car, flying in front of your face, you scream and slam on the brakes, the bee is still in front of your face, lol
Plot twist: The car was actually driving by itself while James was poking the butterfly so no accidents happened
“ What Happens To A Scientist Driving A Car While He Is Playing With A Butterfly And Meet A Police Man? ”
Updates: butterfly funeral at 3pm ET.
Regarding how the air itself in the car accelerates, that is due to pressure gradients, not so much movement of the air. That also changes the direction of buoyance. Try the same with a fish in a car filled with water to see how that works. ;-)
Basically, accelleration or decelleration changes the direction of apparent gravity in your car (equivalence principle), so things start falling diagonally instead of forward, relative to the car. The drone only corrects for the downward fall due to its orientation that it cannot adjust quickly enough; a butterfly doesn't fall as quickly due to its surface area (as pointed out correctly) and on top of that can accelerate very fast itself (they fly in curvy paths) so adjusting to the change is easy.
Can we talk about how unsafe this one was! You could have had someone in the passenger seat do the poking or a driver while you did the poking.
You can take risks with your own body but bending around to poke a bug while going 40MPH puts other drivers and people/animals on the roadside at risk.
I love your stuff but this one could have been done in a safer way.
I agree on that. There was even another car on the Street, so he wasn't in a closed Area or smtg. just a random street
STFU TH-cam police!
You should be staying at home anyway, COVID- remember?
Just messing... he is trying to keep it low budget, and his wife probably thinks this is a stupid episode or she would help lol
I think so too, but still watched it...
@@lieblingsfarbe4453 Yes, and two lucky cyclists on the opposite side at 4:06 😱
I wouldn’t be worried. If he had a bumper sticker ‘Action Lab’ no one would be near him anyways. Jk.
I just love this channel so much. The innocence with which he tries to explain everything is amazing. You can see how he really wants us to understand the why how and what of the principles.
And every question that I've, he addresses it immediately.. amazed!
No butterflies we injured in the making of this video...except the ones hitting the exterior windshield during maximum acceleration...lol. Great episode!
3:27 your experiments 😂😂😂😂
Essentially: air has mass. If you imagine we're all living inside a liquid a lot more physics make sense.
We should call it fluid not liquid.
Yeah. It makes much more sense, even helps imagine air flow since it's essentially the exact same as water.
Honestly this will be helpful next time I get a bug stuck in the car. The fact that they don't or can't battle the inertia is good to know
Thank God. At last I got my answer. This question was bugging me for my lifetime.
"We all love butterflies"
Me, a Butterfly Phobic:
;-;
Mystic LGD but if there was no salt free butter your cake would taste salty ;(
sh shh shhhh, it's okay, the butterfly is gone now, it will never hurt you
You're not the only one. I'm not phobic, but I don't like them. Same as moths and bugs. If its got wings and no feathers, I don't like it.
And not to mention that the butterfly has the weight of a packing peanut. Not much Inertia to do anything at all.
Don’t know y this I recommend but I’ve always wondered this as a child
"We all love butterflies" 🤣
Try a ballon that is attached to the bottom....THAT will blow your mind....
If you do it with a balloon, due to the surface area of the balloon, and it's mass verses the air in the van, when the break is applied the air in the van will travel to the front of the van, causing the pressure to become higher at the front of the van, which will actually cause the balloon to move backwards and especially if the balloon is a helium-filled balloon, and tethered to the floor of the vehicle. And that is because the atomic weight of helium is less than that of air, you see if you were to take a helium-filled balloon on board the space station, and turn it lose, it would float just like any other object, because of the lack of gravity causing a pressure difference between the floor and the ceiling. What I want to see done is the type 2 superconductor placed on that Trac of 🧲 and placedin a vacuum chamber, with no air to cause frictional losses, as well as add heat to warm up the superconductor, how long will it continue to go around the Trac will it coast to a stop or will the superconductor warm up past the critical temperature and fall off the track????
@Adam HOWIE maybe that is where I saw it :-D :-D :-D
I run this experiment every night when driving home- except the butterflies are usually outside, and the air is pushing them into my windshield... then I try to turn the wipers on only to smear’em all over- it gets every time!
I guess I make a bad scientist.
Still a result then.
When I was a kid I wondered why when I threw a ball up in a car why it doesn't get left behind lol
Abdi osman
It’s basic physics
@@FuntasticStudio29 explain that to an 8 yr old
Abdi osman
Coz I knew everything in physics when I was 9 years, now I’m 14
@@FuntasticStudio29 oh yeah you definitely fully understood physics when you were 9, I'm sure
Mr. Bruh
I’m serious
Imagine driving down the freeway and you see a man with a barren car turned around, smacking at a butterfly and slamming his brakes lmao
Thanks to that butterfly. Literally it gave almost its entire lifetime to make the experiment. Good video 🤟
Now every local cop that sees this will be keeping an eye on you 🤔
Theres literally a stop sign coming @ 4:25 and he's like "fULl AcCELRatIon!"
Plot twist: The butterfly was a paid actor
Plot twist: The car was actually driving by itself while James was poking the butterfly
NEXT TIME, have a co-pilot ensure that the butterfly 🦋 continues flying. 👍🏻
I absolutely love how this guys works soo hard just to create a proper science experiment along with proofs for our knowledge unlike other youtubers out there eho only create fake content just for the views.
Specs comparison:
Competitors: Drone vs Butterfly
Design: modular - segmented
Materials: Fe, Al, Li - C, H, O, N
Technology: 200 years - 200,000,000 years
Transformation ability: basic - God level
Mass: 100g - 100mg
Battery life (flight) : 10 mins - 2-3 days
Battery life (standby) : 4 days - 1 week
Charging : Micro USB - Self charging
operating system? manual and fully automated???
Everyone watching this :
Well well .. let's find out 🤔🤔🤔
I could hear that butterfly screaming "STOPSIGN"! Listen really close.
Butterflies read and speak English?
That extremely acceleration could be like when a bug flies into your window while you're driving
When I was kid I always wondered this ..... thanks for making this video..
We need one of these low budget experiments to prove that a plane will take off on a conveyor belt
00:06 Trabant! I had a car like this one :-)
My too well not my becouse im 14 but my dad,sister and her husband all have trabants :D Im from czech
Me : I've been asking a lot of people this question but I had not a single answer.
Thanks for the action lab . Better than my physics teacher
Before I'm watching this video, what I'm expecting is the bug will go to the back of the car when the car brake and go to the front when car accelerate.
I love how he is so nice to the butterfly
I'll add another vote that this was crazy, it would have been so much better and SAFER with a helper!
That butterfly wand is a real magical wand.
This was very dangerous James... the butterflies wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
You really should get an assistant to do the driving so that you can focus all of your attention to details. Would hate to see you crash. :-)
This addresses a question about physics that I have pondered my whole life! Thanks for showing this! I was never able to get a clear explanation about how a bug would have to fly if it was inside of a car while it was in motion. Would it have to also be flying at the same speed of the car inorder to avoid being smacked against the rear windshield? It always boggled my mind.
-So tell me again, what you were doing before the accident happen?
-Officer, I was trying to make my butterfly to fly with my magic wand
DOES YOUR FART TRAVEL AROUND IN A TRAIN WE NEED TO KNOW
Lenni :DD no im not giving you a view
It's quite surprising you didn't try "Bug flying in your car while inside a vacuum chamber" yet
This is the same reason fish get a version of motion sickness when being transported. Every change in direction of motion the vehicle makes, the fish basically drop through the water continuing in the direction they were going. They are a little more comfortable using a suspended container that allows that change in force to become directed toward the bottom of the container, then at least they are only battling one change of direction and falling downward doesn't seem to alarm them as much as suddenly hurdling face forward into the side of the container. Without a water current to help the stabilize themselves in a moving environment, they are struggling constantly to orient without gain; much like those poor kitty cats being tossed around in NASA's vomit comet (a plane that simulates zero gravity for training purposes). Hey, this might be a good idea for a future video, to demonstrate how a moving vehicle affects fish in transportation. The current remedy for helping fish being transported over large distances is that some sellers will anesthetize the fish. Baby fish have a low survival rate reviving out of anesthesia, which is why pet store customers can experience a high death rate of some new fish. Always ask how long the fish have been at the store. If they have been there less than a week, come back later and get fish that have survived their terrible trip.
He probably knew this because he knew the butterfly wouldn't get harmed!
I feel like a "butterfly wand" could be a nicknam for a rifle. I see myself with a misbehaving son, telling him "behave yourself, or I will put out my butterfly wand"
Don´t underestimate the will of a butterfly...!
Man said he had a "wand " for butterflies.
Remember that the butterfly has a modicum of intelligence and is therefore able to adjust to the forces pushing it around. Is is not exactly like a helium balloon or a drone that can't position itself relative to the van.
Did everyone else recognize his arms that are extremely brown on the outside and very white on the inside? 😂
It’s called a tan. The bottom part of your arms don’t get as much sun as the top, so the top will be darker.
@@blackmagic7976 I know, I got that too, but his arms look funny because the difference is so extreme 😂
Jasmin Marte oh ok
drivers arms
Could you imagine the conversation, yes officer 👮 I am poking a butterfly with a wand
I am surprised that the word 'inertia' was not used anywhere in the whole video.
I always thought those white butterfly looking things were moths but I don’t know
Yesss....finalllly.
..you answered my question!!!! I've been asking this question on your every video for 3 years!!!😭😭
let Someone help you don't do it alone When you're driving❤❤
TH-camrs will show symptoms like this after lockdown!
Can we have some justice for the bug please? XD..... Dear bugs, please stay away from this guy.
2.6 million subs, youre doing good for a one man channel
Lol. I love all the safety concerns.
Butterfly splats on inside of windscreen 🤣🤣🤣
It's like the shifting of a gravitational "horizon" [perpendicular to attraction point], anything that would be in equal density with the atmosphere will rest on it, less - float, more -sink. As accelerating you move your centre of "gravitation" towards the back of the car so the "horizon" will tilt, forcing the fluids in your car to accelerate to the point they are settled as when you were not accelerating. Hence a floating helium balloon in the same situation dives towards the back of the car when screeching to a halt. [was so freaky when I tested this =P]
A wise man once said "...okay today I'm going to be" and continued into the video. (I bet you read it in his voice)
No insects were harmed during the experiment.
Never
Except the ones that crushed on the car :{
Safety is number one priority - Crazy Russian Hacker.
Thanks a lot for taking the effort to actually carry out these experiments which remain mere thought experiments for most of us. Explanations are superbly done. Love the channel.
P.S- Pls do get someone else to help out during potentially dangerous ones.
Also because butterflies have brains unlike the drone they can perceive their own motion relative to space very accurately and make changes to adjust their path.
Had this question in mind since 2001, sadly, my physics teacher had no good answer
That is probably a bad teacher then.
@@MrT------5743 She was not my actual school teacher, (I was 11, so 2 years before I even found out about physics at school), she was just a lady at my mom's job who liked to do physics with me because I was curious
the glowing spider will come to avenge his bug friend.
Man removed most of the sets and turn the SUV into a panel van.
I've always thought of this!!!!! Thanks for making this!😁👍
Oh my gosh!! I've literally always wanted someone to do this experiment. Its boggled my mind since I was a child. There was an old car commercial in the 90s where a miniature flock of ducks were flying through the car as it was moving and I was always curious.
Try doing the acceleration with a Tesla Model S
Now try it with all the windows open.
Also the butterfly has choice. ... A bug can fly against a breeze that begins to blow counter to the path to its target
Thank you I finally understand how bugs do this
Finally someone give an understandable answer
Now he's so cautious with bugs
Teacher "That's very interesting Billy, but this still doesn't answer my question about why you thought it would be funny to take Jill's crayons. Go to the Principals office right now young man....!"
I can't believe I didn't think of the air resistance thing initially! Oh well, I did just start the video without seriously thinking about it first.
Hooray for distracted driving lol
That was dangerous you should do this type of experiments in a track, i was genuinely worried for you!
7:45
In your face, Aristotle!