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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, wasn't the stuff to blow your mind?

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie,

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Speaker 1: what's the longest flight, continuous flight you've ever taken in

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Speaker 1: your life? In reality or in my mind? Well, that's

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Speaker 1: that's both, okay, I don't know. Nine hours yeah, to London,

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Speaker 1: I believe, and in my mind I've been on a

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Speaker 1: hot air balloon journey for a while. Yeah, yeah, well

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Speaker 1: that's the hot air balloon journey sounds a lot more

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Speaker 1: romantic and a lot a lot smoother. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: just gliding. You're up there in a basket. I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: there's a second basket that might have, you know, some

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Speaker 1: nice bread in it or something, and a panda bear

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Speaker 1: to keep me company. And well that out it sounds

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Speaker 1: really dangerous. You're gonna be mauled and you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to jump half laid for your life storybook panda Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: talks and stuff of course, what about you? Um, definitely

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Speaker 1: my flights to Asia either. And I the thing is

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Speaker 1: like once the once a flight is long enough, it

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Speaker 1: becomes eternally long it becomes long in a way that

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Speaker 1: ours can't really measure it, so counting in um both

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Speaker 1: the length of the flight and the uh the factors

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Speaker 1: of the flight, I would say the flight home from

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Speaker 1: China with my son and my wife, that was say

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Speaker 1: so that was that was the longest plane, right, I've

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Speaker 1: ever been on. But in this episode titled up in

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Speaker 1: the Air, we're gonna be talking about other lengthy flights,

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Speaker 1: lengthy flights by humans, lengthy flights by birds, lengthy flights

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Speaker 1: by robots. And I was really astounded by some of

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Speaker 1: the information we're going to discuss in this episode because

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Speaker 1: some of this I was already familiar with. I was

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Speaker 1: new about some of the records, some of the technology,

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Speaker 1: but other things just completely came out a left field

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Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, and I think this is one of

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Speaker 1: those topics that's always gonna be fascinating to us because

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Speaker 1: we would all like the hour of flight, and we've

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Speaker 1: been trying to attain it from time memorial. And I

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Speaker 1: was actually thinking about a later example, but again a

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Speaker 1: hot air balloon example of the moncal Fhier brothers who

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Speaker 1: created the first hot air balloon, and I thought, Ah,

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Speaker 1: if only I could go back in time to September

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Speaker 1: nineteen three, two first Sigh, where one of these hot

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Speaker 1: air balloons carried a sheep, a rooster, and a duck

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Speaker 1: and flew for eight minutes in front of Louis the

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Speaker 1: sixteenth Marine Antoinette and of course the French court. I

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Speaker 1: mean that must have seemed like just alchemy and and

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Speaker 1: all sorts of magic. Well to the people under the sheep.

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Speaker 1: But I bet the rooster and the duck we're probably

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Speaker 1: not as impressed, because they're like, all right, oh flight,

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Speaker 1: oh great, even invented flight. That's great humans. Because but

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Speaker 1: back to your point, humans have always obviously craved flight.

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Speaker 1: We've we've we've stood there, we've invented things, we've we've

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Speaker 1: made weapons and tools, and then we look up and

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Speaker 1: the birds are flying all overhead, and we're like, I

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Speaker 1: want that too. Feels like nothing, all those intentions feel

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Speaker 1: like zero. And for ages and ages and ages that

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Speaker 1: was forbiddness. We might try to strap together some sort

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Speaker 1: of wingsuit, and then we'd fall off a cliff and

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Speaker 1: die or hardly injure ourselves. And and and we and

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Speaker 1: we just can't help but envy those birds. Um, there's

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Speaker 1: a great YouTube clip that's been going around recently up

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Speaker 1: and it's it's I believe it's a European and Russian

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Speaker 1: and they're they're filming this crow. We've discussed crows before,

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Speaker 1: highly intelligent birds tool users. And this bird is taking

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Speaker 1: it will take this little, uh, this little makeshift sled

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Speaker 1: it down again. And I was talking to my wife

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Speaker 1: is this crow doing this? Like, doesn't crow know that

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Speaker 1: he can fly? He's here, he is wasting his time sledding,

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Speaker 1: and sledding is the thing we do as as land

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Speaker 1: of what it might be to fly. I think that

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Speaker 1: crow is just throwing it in our faces. Right, not

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Speaker 1: only can I fly, but I can slid? I think

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Speaker 1: but how long can they fly? How how long can

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna look at the Alpine swift. This is

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Speaker 1: a small bird each way, it's less than a quarter

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Speaker 1: because we're talking about a one thousand, two forty mile

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Speaker 1: flight carried out by three Alpine swifts. Longest recorded flight

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Speaker 1: use two hundred days in the air no stop. It

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Speaker 1: seems it seems like it was a NonStop flight. Um.

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Speaker 1: They recaptured three of them and they looked at this

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Speaker 1: So it's impossible to rule out the chance that they

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Speaker 1: touched down occasionally, but every single one of the data

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Speaker 1: because that's basically what they're doing, uh, instead of resting

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Speaker 1: they're they're eating and drinking in the air as well,

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Speaker 1: presumably according at the Swiss research. Yeah, this is so cool.

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Speaker 1: They were making meals of airborne playing them bugs and

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Speaker 1: spiders swept into the sky by high winds, and then

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Speaker 1: they slaked their thirst by just skimming the water in

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Speaker 1: rivers and oceans. I mean, that's that's eating on the

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Speaker 1: up and had rather high altitudes before, but I had

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Speaker 1: the bar tailed Godwit just because the sheer distance involved here. Uh.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand seven, a female god with was found

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Speaker 1: one of these birds, which they easy It flew six

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Speaker 1: Uni him is spheric sleep. You dare not put the

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Speaker 1: the people are being judge that the birds they're not.

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Speaker 1: When we get back, we're going to talk about how

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Speaker 1: the longest human flight on record. And i'd like to

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Speaker 1: it went to Sunny Key West, Florida. Eleven d days

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Speaker 1: about two hundred sixty four point two hours. And can

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Speaker 1: have I've often seeing like images of the old the

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Speaker 1: old Zeppelins particularly and where I've watched the second Indiant

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Speaker 1: you know, the neat scenes of the Zeppelin or that

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Speaker 1: Zeppelin has some some nice classy scenes as well, where

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Speaker 1: it does look just instantly attractive because you're talking a

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Speaker 1: very smooth ride where I mean they say that you

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Speaker 1: will get to that. But also the Vegas angle I

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00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 1: did not realize was a part of this. Now this

429
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 1: is the says No. One seventy two Hacienda, and this

430
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: was named Hacienda after a I believe it was a

431
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 1: hotel in Las Vegas, a sponsor the flight. So it's

432
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: it's it's not uh, you know, you know, atomic power

433
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,879
Speaker 1: or or the championship of the human spirit solely that

434
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: are that are driving this particular record, but good old

435
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 1: fashioned capitalism and advertising. Yeah, and then this is by

436
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: the way, and as we all know from from our

437
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 1: bugsy flix, Las Vegas was really trying to establish itself

438
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: as a tourist destination, so it had, of course all

439
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: these sorts of things that it was pulling out. In

440
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: terms of theatrics. Now we are talking about sixty four days,

441
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 1: twenty two hours, and nineteen minutes and five seconds, more

442
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: than one hundred and fifty thousand miles. So can you

443
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: imagine spending two months in a Sessna and flying twenty

444
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: four hours a day without even landing for fuel, Because

445
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 1: this is key. It got fuel, but it never landed. Yeah,

446
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 1: this is and this is a very unremarkable plane. I mean,

447
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: it's a plane, so it's remarkable. Obviously it flies, and

448
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: it can fly for sixty days straight, uh with with

449
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: with refueling, but it's it's very much the kind of

450
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: plane that if you just went to your local airport

451
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,120
Speaker 1: in the fifties you would have seen normal people could

452
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: potentially own this airplane. It wasn't experimental, it wasn't military,

453
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: just a civilian plane. But what it did was like

454
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 1: cert slay stuff. Um, you know in sal Yeah, this

455
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: is Robert tim and John Cook. They're the ones who

456
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: took off in this thing, uh, doing this promotional stunt.

457
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: And uh and again that distance six times around the

458
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: world is the equivalent. They didn't fly around the world.

459
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,199
Speaker 1: They just flew around the channel area. Um and uh

460
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: and and so what are they gonna do to refuel

461
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: this What can they possibly do to get more fuel

462
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 1: in this plane on a regular basis because they're not

463
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,719
Speaker 1: going to get there's no air to air refueling, certainly,

464
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: not not for not for a Cessna, not for for

465
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: these two guys. So what they do is they end

466
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: up running formations with a ground vehicle on a remote

467
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: stretch of highway near blythe California. Uh So they just

468
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: kind of mcgivered it. They devised a way to to

469
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: to hook onto a hose and pump the fuel up

470
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: into a tank that they installed on planes belly. Yeah,

471
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: twice a day gallons of fuel into the belly tank,

472
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: and food and water and other supplies were lifted up

473
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: from the truck as well. Now, it took them several

474
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: tries to get this right. So they tried it once

475
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 1: and they had They had to bail. They tried it

476
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: a second time, had to bail, third time had to bail.

477
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 1: The fourth try proved to be the charm. But by

478
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: that point, like nobody was paying attention to the pr

479
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, these guys are gonna try and break

480
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 1: the endurance record again. You know who cares. So it

481
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: wasn't until they've been up forty or fifty days that

482
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 1: everyone started paying attention to them again. I'm thinking about

483
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: after that point, maybe fifty days. That's when people in

484
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: that general area were like, that circular white path is

485
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: driving me crazy. They keep buzzing by once a day,

486
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: and by some accounts, they're really kind of lucky. They

487
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: didn't crash and die, because I mean the whole time

488
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: like that, there are times apparently where one would wake

489
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 1: up and find the other one dozing off the controls.

490
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: They've just flown off in some random direction. I mean again,

491
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: luckily they're not trying to fly around the world. They're

492
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: not dealing with with typhoons and uh in in enemy airspace.

493
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: But they are flying in a plane over the over

494
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: the ground. Uh, they were very lucky not to die.

495
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: Now Matt Pipkin and his dad Check are now working

496
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: to find a suitable aircraft, likely Assessna want to try

497
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 1: to break the record and in doing so to raise

498
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: money in awareness for sexual abuse victims with their nonprofit

499
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: which is called Speak Your Silence. And instead of flying

500
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 1: circular paths, they want to chart across country path hoping

501
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: to draw more attention as they pass over each location. Yeah,

502
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: and I can see that being more of a thing,

503
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, you can sort of like watching the space

504
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: station and go over, except a little more visible. Because

505
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: they they're these guys trying to to break this record.

506
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: Uh So currently they have not done it yet. So

507
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 1: by the time you listen to this podcast, who knows,

508
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: maybe they will have completed this, maybe they actually beat

509
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: this longstanding record record. Yeah, they are slated to fly

510
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: or they're hoping to buy Summer. Of course, they have

511
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: to raise all the funds to do this, and they've

512
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: been trying to put it together for years. So it's

513
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: it's you know, I hope they get it off the

514
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: ground literally, but but we'll see. Yeah, and if you

515
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: want to check out that nonprofit again, it is speak

516
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 1: your silence, all right. So we've talked about birds, We've

517
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: talked about planes that are piloted by human beings. But

518
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: of course we live in an amazing and at times

519
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: frightening new age of U A. V's of robotic airplanes

520
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: that fly around and uh and fly all over the world.

521
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: In fact, we just had a news item not too

522
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: long ago about the possibility of Amazon dot Com using

523
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: drones to deliver packages. So it would make sense that

524
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: you would start to look at these drones and uh,

525
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: these unmanned flights and solar power and see what you

526
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: can figure out. Yeah, because solar power, of course is

527
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: a great option for this because I think back to

528
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 1: the voyager that was a situation where he had a

529
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: very light plane. Uh, it only concerns were the fuel

530
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: to keep it going and just the bare minimum for

531
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: human survival aboard it and human piloting of it. Is

532
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: this the Routon voyager, you have Ruton voyager. So in

533
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: this case, so if you if you take the humans

534
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: out of the scenario, all right, you don't have to

535
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: that's a lot of rooms saved, right there, a lot

536
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: of worries. You don't have to worry about the pilot

537
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: falling asleep or or having trouble going to the bathroom

538
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: or what have you. And then if you take the

539
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: fuel out of the scenario, the onboard fuel in the

540
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: term in the in the form of of of gasoline,

541
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: that illipens it up even more and allow exactly you

542
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: get to create basically a flying solar panel in the

543
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: form of the Zephyr created by the company of quinty Q.

544
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: Again it's a drone, it's a robotic airplane. It's you know,

545
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: very light, and it has all the solar panels on

546
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 1: top of it. And UH. The interesting record that it's

547
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: set here for for the longest ua V flight was

548
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: was that it flew for UM July nine did July

549
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: over the us UH kicking off at the Army's a

550
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: hum approving ground in Arizona. It clocked three thirty six

551
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: hours twenty two minutes, or fourteen days a couple of

552
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: weeks in the year. What I love about this is

553
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: that it has such high technology and you know, you've

554
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: got these recharged lithium soul for batteries, you've got the

555
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: solar panels. But it took five people to handle launch

556
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: it at the test range before it could actually reach

557
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: an altitude of seventy thousand feet and then began to

558
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: use the solar panels on the plane's wings and ultimately

559
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: it didn't stay up near as long as two guys

560
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: in assessment with some help from you from some dudes

561
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: on the ground in a truck. But it's it's important

562
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: because this maybe the future. There's a there's a company

563
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: called Tightened Aerospace. It's also very much involved in the

564
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: development of aircraft like this, and they're eyeing a five

565
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: year fly that's what they're they're they're hoping for, hoping

566
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: to manufacture this. Uh uh, This the special UIV with

567
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: three thousand solar panels. And a huge advantage here is

568
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: that this would essentially be a cheaper and more environmentally

569
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: friendly alternative to a satellite, because if you want to

570
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: get a satellite up there to uh, you know, if

571
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: you're monitoring something, if you're spying on something, or or

572
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, some sort of communications technology needs to be

573
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: deployed at a at a high altitude. Satellites are expensive

574
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: and the only way to send that payload up there

575
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: is on the uh, the other end of an enormous

576
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: explosion that is pumping out all sorts of bad stuff

577
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: into the atmosphere. Yeah. Now, the next one on our list,

578
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: which actually is our last one, is so sci fi.

579
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: I love it. It is actually beamed laser power. And

580
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: what we're talking about is that in two thousand and twelve,

581
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: Tom Nugent's company, Laser Motive, they beamed enough energy to

582
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: a seventeen point five pound drone's Lockheed Martin Stalker to

583
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: keep it airborne at least forty eight hours, about forty

584
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: six hours longer than they drunk and usually fly. And

585
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: it was a demonstration of the lasers are capabilities. There's

586
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: no prototype yet. Yeah, this is a really awesome technology

587
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: now in the concept alone of wireless energy transmission. This

588
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: has been for around for a little while, uh, the

589
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: technology has just been kind of catching up with this. Uh.

590
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: For instance, as far as using microwave energy to transfer

591
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: that that that power to a flying uh vessel like

592
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: that's been around for a while. We've proven that technology.

593
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: But the problem there is the the the greater the

594
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: distance between the microwave emission and the recipient vehicle, the

595
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: less power is going to be transmitted. So it would

596
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: be super helpful. If all you wanted was a drone

597
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: to circle your skyscraper or something, you can just microwave

598
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: that energy too, and it's fine. But if you're sending

599
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: a drone out on a on a long mission, uh,

600
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: the laser technology, that's where the advantage is. Because you're

601
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: gonna have persistent power. Uh. You still will have to worry,

602
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: you know about the environmental factors about whether, etcetera. But

603
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to have regular microwave energy stations spread

604
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: out over over a certain distance. You could have far

605
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: fewer laser transmission centers that would be lasering that power

606
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: right to the drone. Yeah. NuGen actually told Popular Mechanics

607
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: that it's like plugging a system into a wall, taking

608
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: that electricity and converting it to light and transmitting that

609
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: light through open air to a receiver which converts the

610
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: light back into electricity, and the laser system can transfer

611
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: only about electricity it takes from its ground source. But

612
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: drones like the Stocker don't require a huge amount of energy,

613
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: and in that June test, its batteries held more energy

614
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: after the test than when it began, So it may

615
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: be something that actually works very well for the sort

616
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: of scenario. And certainly when you start combining laser emitted

617
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: energy with solar energy for a drone and you're seeing

618
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: the best of both worlds it can get. It can

619
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: feast on solar energy when that's available, and when it's not,

620
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: you can you can deal with the direct beamed energy

621
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: and vice versa, depending on which is easier to deploy.

622
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: You're also satisfying your eight year old nacy of a

623
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: remote control like behemoth in the air. Yeah, I mean

624
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: kind of a light behemoth, very spread out, very very elegant. Um.

625
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: It's really it is really phenomenal to to envision this,

626
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: this potential future where maybe we get a little less

627
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: dependent upon straight up satellites and more on these, uh,

628
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: these sort of ephemeral drones that are just soaring through

629
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: the air, feasting off of solar energy, and also this

630
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: crazy laser energy that we're beaming up to you know,

631
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that as we talked about satellites.

632
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: I think it us in the Satellite Junkies episode and

633
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: we talked about, at least in the US, how there

634
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: are not nearly as many satellites up or plans to

635
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: put them up, and how that would impact us adversely

636
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: in terms of weather and um all sorts of intelligence

637
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: gathering capability. So this might be a really good alternative,

638
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: and we look even further into the future. This idea

639
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: of of laser energy also factors into our potential to

640
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: put up stay solar energy harvesting satellites in space and

641
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: then beaming the energy back to Earth or back to

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