I get that when you throw a ball in the air while traveling, it will go up at the same speed you’re moving at, but for a bee to be going on about it’s business like it’s nothing, traveling at 40 mph.. it doesn’t make any sense
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If the bee is in an enclosed cabin, then the air it’s flying in is also moving with the boat. So the bee would be able to hover with the boat just as it would with solid ground.
If the bee is in an open canopy, then the bee will move with the wind surrounding the boat, regardless of the boat’s own speed. So it will only hover with the boat if the boat just happens to have a tailwind as fast as its own speed.
But wind forces aside, Newton’s First Law does dictate that the bee will maintain its original speed until a force is applied to it. If that original speed happens to be that of the boat, then the bee will keep moving at the speed of the boat until another force acts on it. Whether that’s wind, the bee’s own propulsion, or a fly swatter.
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