So you have a boat that can carry 100 pounds of cargo. If you load it with any more than 100 pounds it will sink. You have a cargo container that weights lets say. . .10 pounds, and inside it is 91 pounds of live hummingbirds. There are a couple of tiny airholes in the top but other than that the container is solid. If you put the container on the boat but all the hummingbirds inside it were hovering in the air (not standing around on the bottom of the container) would it sink the boat?
*Obviously I used hummingbirds for this example since no other kind of bird can hover stationary in flight.
Would it make a difference if the walls of the container were permeable like screen or if they were solid?
*Obviously I used hummingbirds for this example since no other kind of bird can hover stationary in flight.
Would it make a difference if the walls of the container were permeable like screen or if they were solid?