WEBVTT - Chuck and Josh Bust a Few Everyday Myths 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.240 Welcome to you Stuff you should know from house Stuff 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:12.640 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.160 Josh Clark. With me is always a Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Right, 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:21.640 I am here, sir, Jerry, are you here? Yes, she's here. Uh. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.880 This is then stuff you should know, not not the myth, 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.360 the legend, that's right, the legendary. We should do a 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.840 show where we plus myths. We're about to do that 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:33.680 right now now, like a TV show where we go 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.920 out and kick myths when we bust them. And that's 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.280 a great idea, you know, yeah, like we could blow 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.040 certain things up we had to. We could have like 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.519 a little assemblage of people who kind of help us 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.479 out sometime and maybe spin off and get their own shows. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.960 That's not a bad idea. I I'm gonna wear a beret. Yeah, 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.640 I'm gonna do it. I've been thinking for years about 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.600 whether or not to just go ahead and wear a 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.720 beret out in public. I do at home very frequently. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.080 I would you should only wear a bret if you 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.720 grow a Walrus mustache. That would be a good look. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.440 Maybe I'll go back to classes too, might as well. Huh, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.600 what will you do? I don't know. I think we're 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.040 onto something, though, I'll just say my same affable self 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:21.960 and with a slightly more stylized haircut. Ye. All right, 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.040 I think we're on is something. Let's pitch it to 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:31.080 the bosses. Yeah, which company? Uh? Yeah, I don't know. Discovery. Yeah, 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.720 that's a good idea. Okay, the myth dudes. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.480 that's a great one. All right, So Chuck, I'm gonna 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.920 make a million dollars. You are, uh, you're feeling pretty good? 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.360 I am. I'm glad. How are you? I'm good to 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.320 your Mickey Mouse t shirt is cheering me out? That's good? 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.640 That something is I'm cheerful. Okay, good. Um. I don't 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.320 really have much of an intro for this, aside from 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.360 I don't know if you know this or not, but 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.640 I have a little video series that I do. It's 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:08.280 called Don't Be Dumb. This is virtually a podcast version 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.519 of that show that It struck me like that as well, 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.399 but even better than that, it is one that we're 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.440 doing together. Yeah. And I think there was a couple 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.280 of these you've actually covered too, right, Yeah, Like, um, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.840 is your blood blue in your veins? Boiler? Yeah, we 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.919 don't want to actually, you know what, you should go 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.440 ahead and cover that one, okay, because I think you're 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.680 the expert. I've always heard I'm pretty far from an 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:36.560 expert man in elementary school, that your veins, your blood 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.799 is actually blue because see it right under my arm 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.200 there in my forearm. You can see it. It's blue 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.560 until it reaches like if you get cut, and when 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.600 it gets oxygen, boom turns red. Yeah, and it's it's 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.519 supposedly your veins that are blue because they're the ones 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.880 that contain deoxygen eated blood. Right, that's what I always 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.959 already used up from your organs and tissues and it's 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.280 on route back to your lungs to become oxygen need 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:05.440 it again, Right, that's not true. There's no part of again, Chuck, 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.600 I'm not in next saying David Rerenzo in the fourth 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:12.240 grade lie to me. Yeah, he's a dirty liar. David Renzo. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.840 Um that your blood at no point is ever blue. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.280 The the more oxygen it has in it, the deeper 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.799 the red. Right, But there's no blue blood in you. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.160 The whole thing is that in an optical trick. Right. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.480 So your skin um is translucent see through, and it 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.480 really doesn't have a color. It's your fat that gives 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.840 your skin its color, and fat tends to have a 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.800 kind of a crazy effect on light, like it scatters 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.400 it in all sorts of different directions, right, and Um, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.800 depending on how deep a blood vessel is, that will 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.680 have an effect on what color that blood vessel looks like, 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:59.800 because some colors of light, some wavelengths are reflected better 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.000 than others. Right, So if you have a blue blood vessel, 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.920 it's usually very close to the surface, and that means 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.320 that all of the red light has been absorbed and 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.600 what's being reflected back and kind of scattered about is 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.040 the blue. That's all there is to it. There's no 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.120 blue blood in your veins. It's just the collusion. And 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.560 your family comes from wealth. Well that's more of a 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.359 figurative thing. Okay, Yeah, I think it would be pretty 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.479 creepy now that they think about it, if everyone had 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:32.000 like red streaks of veins running through their body. Yeah. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.400 I think we're just so used to seeing blue if 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.560 we saw red all of a sudden, it would be creepy. Well, 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.120 you can't see, I mean some veins are red, you know. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.719 Depending on the depth as well, Um, you can see 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.400 some red veins every once in a while, or red 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.960 blood vessels, but for the most part, the ones that 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.240 really stand out are blue. You don't think they're creepy 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.120 in and of themselves. Yeah, yeah, I think it's a 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.839 little creepy. It is a little creepy, but anyway, the 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.400 point is you don't have any blue blood. It's all 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.080 just what color is absorbed in, what color is reflected 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.719 by the amount of fat in the depth of the 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.159 blood vessel. Okay, I hope some kids are listening to 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.160 this one. Yeah, and if they're not, hey, you can 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.440 go watch Don't Be Dumb on our website. Yeah, and 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.479 I think most of these I did. It's like it 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.960 all goes to elementary school. Then you hear from various 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.719 kids or sometimes teachers. Yeah, get it wrong, you know? 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.960 All right, I got one for you. Um, I'm gonna 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.000 go with the body. You lose most of your heat 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.159 through your head. Have you ever heard that? Oh? Yeah? 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.640 This one goes back to, uh apparently two things. Some 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:41.080 experiments the Army did in the nineteen fifties where they 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.280 dressed up volunteers to give them a little whirl at 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.920 Arctic survival, and there was a special field trip there was, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.039 and they put them in the big survival suits, you know, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.719 super warm, put them out in the in the cold. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.080 But they left their heads uncovered, and so most of 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.560 the heat was lost to the heads that ended up 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.520 in an Army training manual survival manual from which said 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.960 of body heat comes from the head that you lose 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.080 that's true, Then it is not true. The reason they 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.039 lost all that body heat through the head is because 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.400 that was the only part that didn't have anything on it. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.000 It's as simple as that. You don't lose I guess 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.960 actually your head, your your face, and your chest are 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:29.159 a little more sensitive. It's a temperature change. But um, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.600 that doesn't mean that you lose more heat there than 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.320 you lose the same amount of heat. Um. No, more 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.120 than your body heat is going to go through your 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.039 head because it's proportional surface area. Your head makes it 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.080 about ten percent of the surface area of your body. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.200 Therefore you lose about ten percent of your body heat 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.320 through that. You like, do the same experiment with a 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:53.000 ski mask on and naked from the waist down and 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.960 see if you don't get arrested. Yeah, well, a few 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.280 things might have happen in that situation to stay there 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.039 and waved all. It's an experiment. You're doing great. They're 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.520 not gonna say you lose most of your body heat 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.960 through your genitals. In that case, I think had the 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.800 Army been a little more swinging back in the fifties, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.680 you never know, they may have come up with that 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.400 experiment and that would be the myth. So we're not 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.000 saying don't wear a two out in the cold. You should, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:22.160 just as you should wear your parka. Yeah, just bundle up, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:27.320 bundle up. Buttercup, you got one. I do have one. Okay, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.960 I like this one. I know you don't, but I 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.640 didn't know this. Um, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.840 in the world. You didn't know that. That wasn't true. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.160 I think that's the one I heard early on as 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.040 just that, like little kids love saying things like that, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.400 they also love saying and that's actually not the case. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.400 I've never encountered that little kid. Yeah, I need that kid. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.520 It was also David Arinzo Man, that kid, he's on 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.880 the ball. He was terrible. Um, so the the A 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.440 lot of people are saying, well, what is it then, 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:01.040 what's the tallest mountain? Hold your horses it is true 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.840 the mountain Everest is the highest mountain. It's just not 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:08.440 the tallest mountain, right because of the way geologists, uh 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:14.720 and geographers measure mountains. So from sea level, yeah, that's highest. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.239 Highest is the amount of the mountain that is above 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.960 sea level, and Everest has that one licked. It's the 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.680 highest mountain at twenty nine thousand, twenty nine ft above 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.840 sea level. Right. Yes, But to measure which mountain is tallest, 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.320 that goes from the base of the mountain to the summit, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.800 and in this case that's uh, mounta KaiA in Hawaii. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.440 This thing is huge. That makes it the tallest mountain, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.080 even though most of it is underwater. If you took 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.760 away all the water and the idea of sea level 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.840 at all, and just measured this mountain from the base 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.880 to the top, you have a thirty three thousand, four 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.640 hundred and sixty five ft tall mountain, which is it's 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.240 about four thousand feet higher than Everest. That's substantial, right, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.800 But above sea level as far as highness goes, it's 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:08.080 only seven ft high. Yeah. But I kind of feel 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.719 bad for mounti Cab because it never gets to the 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.719 dew it deserves because of all that stupid water. And 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.280 there's another way to mosure the mountain to um by 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.599 the distance from the center of the Earth. You know, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.199 the Earth is not a perfect sphere, and it's widest 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.840 ad its circumference, i e. The equator UM. And there 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.880 is a mountain and equador Ecuador called the Chimbararro and 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.559 it is um a great many meters which I forgot 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.800 to write down from the center of the Earth. Wow. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.000 So if you if you think about just the if 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.720 you cut the earth, yeah, cut of mountain in half, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.640 and we're able to core the Earth at the same time, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.000 you would see like, oh, this mountain is further than 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.800 this one. That makes sense. It makes sense in a 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:59.400 in a geo geographer's way. Yeah, I think um also 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.719 to the although there's really not a gage for this, 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.720 but just how striking a mountain might appear. You probably 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.080 should go with kill human Jaro because it rises from 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.320 the flat plains of Tanzania and that's like the only 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.360 thing out there. If you've ever seen pictures or been there, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.520 it's pretty amazing. And it's not like Everest doesn't stand out. 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.520 But when you're in the Himalayas, you're a little bit 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.000 taller than your brother's next door. But kill Himanjaro is 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:31.800 at nineteen thousand when everything else is flat. That's pretty remarkable, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.040 just rising right up from the plane. All right, So 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.480 go mountains. Just just watch what you say. Everybody is 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.000 the point of that and tallest highest. Choose your words carefully, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.079 all right. This is a good one. And this is 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.240 one that I think most everyone believes that the Great 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.640 Wall of China is the only man made object visible 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.920 from space. I did this one. Don't be done too, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.480 did this is? I love this one? Yeah, this one 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.640 is wrong on every level because not only can you 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.000 see other things, you can't really see the Great Wall 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.319 of China. It's doublet wrong, right, So um, you can, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.439 like you said, see other things that There's also a 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.720 big problem with this is the idea that you can 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.080 see the Great Wall of China from space. Well, we're 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.839 in space exactly. That's pretty broad. There's all sort of 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.959 like lower Earth orbit is a hundred and thirty five 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.360 miles above sea level um and apparently from lower Earth 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.079 orbit you can see all sorts of things with the 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.640 naked eye, and if you have binoculars you can really 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.280 see stuff like trucks, and things like that. But you 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:38.880 can see airports, dams, um, you can see roadways. Cities 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.960 are obviously very clear, especially at night, so there's all 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.520 sorts of stuff you can see. Um. One of the 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.199 things you have a tremendous amount of trouble seeing and 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.199 that you can't see with the naked eye from space 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.480 is the Great Wall of China, the one thing that 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.600 they say is the only thing you can see. Yeah, 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.880 how about that for irony and and why, Chuck? Well, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.120 one reason is because it's um, it's made up of 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.280 rocks local to the area, and so it kind of 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.559 looks like everything else in the area. It blends in 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.600 just has had. Yeah, and it's big and it's long, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.679 so you would think, I mean, I see where the 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.200 rumor got started, because it's one of the great wonders 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.640 of the world, and it is huge in scope. It's long, 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.599 but it's narrow. It's like thirteen thousand miles long, but 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.120 it's like thirty feet across, So it's long, but it's 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.880 not necessarily big. You know where this one got its 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:34.959 origin in? And uh, no one knew at that point. No, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.679 it was Robert Ripley and Ripley's believe it or not. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.080 Wrote in a column that you can see the Great 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.640 Wall of China from the moon. That's what it was, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.959 and everybody just thought it was true because everybody so yeah, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.559 everyone's so gullible back then. Uh. And it wasn't until 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.800 um NASA's astronauts made it to the Moon that they 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.160 were able to confirm that, no, you can't see the 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.000 Great Wall of China. But the Chinese didn't believe it 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.240 until they sent their own people into space in two 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.960 thousand three. They were pretty bummed too. Uh, you can't 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.240 see anything man made from the moon. That's way up there, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.160 they say. Um Alan Bean and Apollo twelve astronauts said, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.400 the only thing you can see from the moon is 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.319 a beautiful sphere, mostly white, some blue, patches of yellow, 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.040 and every once in a while some green vegetation, but 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.640 nothing man made at all. So um, but that's where 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.680 the or the original version of it was, you could 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.120 see the Great Wall of China from the moon. Then 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:30.880 we went to the moon and it was downgraded to 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.079 you can see it from space. Yeah, and then you 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.440 know they now they're trying to prove, like I think, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.200 the Chinese took photos from lower Earth orbit and they 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.280 were like, you see there, you can make out that's 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.199 the Great Wall of China. But um, you know it 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.120 took like hunting and pecking and poking around and like 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.240 a hundred millimeter lens. I think, so it doesn't count. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.960 Doesn't count if you can't see it with the naked 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.880 eye from lower Earth orbit, you can't see it from space. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.000 Dang straight eight. Okay, I got one for you that 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.319 supposedly you've never heard, and we're gonna get to it 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:14.720 right after this message break. Okay, so let's talk about 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.520 this one. Have you ever heard uh, like on a 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.680 trip to like an abbey or monastery, this is where 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.840 it usually comes up as a kid like stained glasses 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.680 maybe thicker at the bottom, or leaded glass and windows. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:30.040 That glass is a very slow moving liquid. No, I 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.600 hadn't heard that, and I can tell you had I 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.720 been on that field trip, I would have yelled at 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.400 the docent for lying. Really yeah, even at that age, 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.600 yeah see, I would have gone wow, Yeah, even at 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.440 that age, it would have been like, that is preposterous. Well, you, sir, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.520 are much smarter than I was at that age. It 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.400 is not a slow moving liquid at all. It is 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.160 an a morphous solid. I've never heard that before. Yeah, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.880 it's it's not the same. It's not a liquid, it's 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.280 not a real solid. But I've never heard somebody call 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.040 it a slow moving liquid and explain like wavy glass 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.240 like that. Yeah, well that it comes from how it's 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:12.160 actually was made. Back then, up until the mid eight hundreds, Uh, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.240 there was a process called the Crown method where you 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.840 blow the glass, flatten it out, heat it, spin it 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.840 um mechan on the bottom. Oh no. Uh. And you've 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.760 got a sheet of glass and it's pretty cheap, but 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.480 it's rippled and some parts are thicker than others. And 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.960 when you look at nature. I have the windows of 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.080 my house do that some of them? Yeah? You me 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.200 and I lived in a craftsman that was like that. Yeah, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.040 and they were the wind blew right through. Yep. It's 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.400 pretty weird. Uh. So the difference in liquid and solid 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:48.160 is all about molecular structure. Uh. Solid has arranged molecules 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.160 and a crystalline structure. When you heat that up, the 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.800 molecules are going to vibrate and then it will eventually 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:59.160 reach a melting point when those little structures break down. Uh. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.440 Liquid but comes to solid when it gets cooled, and 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.600 if you super cool a liquid, it will remain that way. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:11.120 Um beyond like the freezing point. So glass is an 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.560 a morphous solid. It's not quite as organized as the crystal, 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.120 but it does not freeze, so it's more organized than 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.520 a liquid. So like in any form, in any version 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.320 of its solid form, glass is an amorphous solid, not 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:30.040 just when it's wavy. I think it's just an amorphous solid. U. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.479 We need to do one on glass. It's pretty remarkable. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.040 We could tag team it with our mirrors. My my 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.400 hometown was the It's like the capital of the glass 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.760 capital of the world, the Glass City, the Glass City. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.960 Uh gotta be proud of something that and Tony Pecko's 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.160 So we got a few more, but I think we 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.480 should take a little message break and then we will 0:16:53.560 --> 0:17:03.160 wrap it up. Okay, what else you got, I've got one? 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.240 Um So, Uh have you ever heard that if you 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.320 see a little baby bird on the ground, you you 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.680 pick it up. That's it for that bird, Like you've 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.119 just signed its death warrant because your stink is on 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:22.000 the bird, and when the mother comes back, it'll smell 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.920 the fact that humans touched this bird. And now it's 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.520 spoiled somehow, and the bird will be rejected by its 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.480 mother and starved to death. So you pretty much have 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.639 to take the bird indoors and raise it as your 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.919 own child. I've heard that. Actually, yeah, did you ever 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.639 do that? Um? Well, I've told the story about when 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.359 I accidentally killed the bird as a lifeguard, when I 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.359 drowned it. I think I've told it. I found a 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.600 bird in the pool and rescued it out, and the 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.920 bird was still alive, but um seemingly dehydrated. So I 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.840 got a straw and would you know, get a little 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.160 liquid and the straw and the bird would peck at 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.240 it and drink. And I was like, man, this bird 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.960 is thirsty because it's just drinking, drinking, drinking. It drank 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.800 so much water it died, man, And it kept going 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.159 back for more. And I thought I was doing the 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.680 right thing. And the bird is quit moving. And here's 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.840 the funny part of the story. All these kids, I'm 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.480 surrounded by like twelve year olds at this pool and 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.720 I pick up the bird and I noticed it's like 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.320 kind of fat and bloated. Now. And when I picked 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.960 it up and with any I didn't even squeeze it 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.360 water shot out of its mouth like a squirt gun. 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:36.000 The kids that screened in horror because over the course 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.840 of six hours, I drowned this bird that I took 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.200 out of the pool man drownded on land on dry land. Yeah, 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.480 it's one of my great all time awful stories. I 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:52.200 never did that. Yeah, Um, I've raised squirrels before, little squirrelings. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.160 But Umi has a pretty good story of like picking 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.159 up a little bird that she found on the grass 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.440 that you know, obviously was going to die if she 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.880 didn't care for it. And she was a pretty little kid, um, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.840 and she got ahold of the phone number of a 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.760 local VET and started calling them and asking them what 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.200 to do, and then she go do what they said, 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.840 and then she'd call them back again and go do 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.439 what they said again. And apparently her mom figured out 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.520 what was going on. I was like, stop calling this vet. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.560 So she found the number to another VET started calling them, 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.840 and then she called like one and then called the other, 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.960 and she kept pesturing these people and they're trying to help, apparently, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.800 but they're also like, this bird's a goner. So they said, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.159 you need to keep the bird warm. So this is 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:39.159 at a time when microwaves were pretty, and so she 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.879 she didn't kill the bird in the microwave, but like, 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.359 this bird spent a few seconds in the microwave eating 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.080 and she got it out and um, it was warm, 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.040 and she wrapped it up and and took care of 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.080 it and was really like stressing, like I really wanted 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.240 this bird to live and was doing everything she could 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.159 and it just didn't work out. Man, you mean I 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.159 can't wait to see you again. We actually share the 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:08.440 very horror horrific stories. The point of this is that 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.680 neither one of you should have touched this bird in 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.600 the first place, because it was probably in the middle 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.879 of a flying lesson. Yeah, it has nothing to do 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:20.240 with your human stank and the mother's rejection. Um yeah, 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.680 that's another is probably trying to fly and the mom 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.040 was probably nearby allowing that to happen. Yes, So you 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.000 come along, you see a bird, You assume it fell 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.399 out of a nest, right, and you pick it up. 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.520 And two things just happened. One, you interrupted a flying 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:39.399 lesson and kidnapped a baby bird. And to um the 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.280 idea that you couldn't just put that bird back down 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.560 after you picked it up because your smell is on. 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.720 It is totally false too, because birds don't have a 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.920 very good sense of smell. Yeah. In general, your average 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.560 yardbird isn't going to know that you had your stink 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:59.159 on it or care. No, we're not dirty to them, No, 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.520 and even if we were, they couldn't really smell us anyway. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:09.240 So the whole concept of um, the that a mother 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.960 bird will reject her little birdling what are they called 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:19.399 when they're a little like, you know, uh, baby birds, 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.400 baby birds. Yeah. The the idea that a mother will 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.720 reject a baby bird I think was probably developed to 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.400 keep little kids from touching them, probably so in interrupting 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.720 a flying lesson or whatever. Yeah, so maybe we should 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.680 not encourage or discourage people from saying this. Yeah. But 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:38.840 at the same time we kind of backfire because it's like, oh, well, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.119 I touched it. Now I have to kill it in 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.239 the microwave. I have to to try to take care 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:48.080 of it to death. Yeah. And we were both had 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.680 our hearts in the right place too, except that was 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:57.640 like eight y Yeah, um, all right, I've got one. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.560 Uh And this one I actually did not know until 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.680 I studied this. Chameleons I've always thought changed their color 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:10.840 to blend into their surroundings as a form of camouflage. 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:15.240 That is not so they do change color, but it 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.960 has nothing to do with that. Um. It is physical 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.360 or emotional changes. Um. They're like they want to fight, 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:25.920 they may want to make love. Uh, it depends. But 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:28.600