WEBVTT - Five Crazy Government Experiments 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.040 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should Know? 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:16.200 From House Stuff Works dot Com. Sometimes science goes too far, 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:25.799 dog matters twisted but true. Wednesday's at ten on Science. Hey, 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.319 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.720 Chuck Bryant. Say, hey, Chuck, Chuck. That makes the stuff 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.560 you should know. It's such an old joke. Yeah, terrible, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.760 It's still It's got a lot of little staying power 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.599 and little else. It has as much staying power as 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.879 cat urine. Chuck, you want to hear the history of 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.080 the microwave? Woman? I love in forty seconds or less? 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.600 All right back in, a guy named Percy Spencer was 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.080 touring the labs of the Raytheon Corporation when he passed 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.760 by a magnetron. If he had unpopped popcorn in his pocket, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.600 then I'm leaving right now. We'll get to that. That 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.960 doesn't count against my forty second I thought, like popcorn 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.240 popped in his pocket? No, he had a chocolate bar 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.560 in his pocket and it melted, And he's really, what 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.960 the hell is going on here? So he actually ran 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.679 and got a bag of popping corn and it started 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.080 popping too. And then he finished the whole thing off 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.319 spectacularly by getting a pot and a raw egg and 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.800 holding it near the magnetron, and it exploded into his 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.800 buddy's face. Anyway, he figured out he was producing microwaves. No, 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.880 he lived to be an old man, but he figured 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.000 out that this was producing microwaves, and he um put 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.320 it in an invention. So everybody has a microwave oven 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.760 today has a tiny magnetron in their house. He put 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.720 it in an invention. Yeah, that's a unique way of 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.480 saying that look good for him. Yeah. Anyway, the point 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.360 of this is that that's the Raytheon Corporation where it's 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.800 this discovery was made. And the Raideon Corporation was largely 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.560 a government funded outfit, so we would call that a 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.480 government experiment of sorts. It's not the craziest though, Chuck, 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.840 Not not even close. No, you want to talk about 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.600 some crazy government experiments, maybe five of them today. It 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.959 sounds like a great idea. All right, let's do it, man. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.400 This is written by Robert Lamb with stuff from the 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.320 science Lab we should point out. Yeah, I hope we're 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.000 not stealing this article. Is here gonna do this at 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.600 some point I didn't even ask him. I'm sure that 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.920 he wanted to. It's too late now, which it was 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.920 the first one here, Josh about transplanting heads onto other bodies, 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.560 let's talk about that. Yeah, because think about it, Chuck, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.920 think about the applications of this. I mean, like, technically, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.960 if you don't look at it as a head transplant, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:33.840 you can make the case that this is a full 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.079 body transplant. Appere's on if you're the chicken or the egg. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.720 I guess it definitely definitely makes sense a little. We'll 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.200 find out when the people right in um the but 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.600 this is something that we could definitely use if we 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.800 could attach the spinal cord. Uh yeah, I cannot. Is 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.520 that the thing that's holding it back? Well, that's the 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:59.520 thing that keeps the result from being a quadriplegic. Oh 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.040 what they said that applications. Maybe if someone just wants 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.840 to live, they'd rather live as a quadriplegic than die. Yeah, okay, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.000 especially if you're already a quadriplegic and you're used to it, 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.600 but you have oregan failure. Hey, that's pretty random. But 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.360 I let's think about it. We talked about brail. What 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:21.600 if you are blind and handless. I guess you used 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:26.560 it that e readers that read things to you out loud, Chuck. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.400 This idea of full body transplantation does have its roots 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:36.400 in government experiments, specifically as far back as night when 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.720 a US surgeon named Charles Guthrie decided that he wanted 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.160 to find out if he could put one dog's head 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.240 on another dog's body. And by god, Chuck Bryant has 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.360 a picture of it, the two headed dog. Yeah, he 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.640 actually did this, and it was not replacing one head 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.960 with another like you said. He he attached a dog's 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.720 head and underneath the chin of the other dogs, so 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.800 they were in fact chinna chin, and the other dog 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.600 was like going right. So you actually did this, and 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:07.880 I don't know if you want to say it worked 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.520 because the second head could only um lawl about. Yeah. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.880 They said that there were some um, just normal um 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:21.880 reflex reactions and and sounds, but not dog type sounds. Yeah. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.840 It couldn't fetch the paper or anything. Right. Yeah, so uh, 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.040 I guess you could make the case though, that that 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.200 was successful. At the very least, they got a pretty 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.920 cool picture out of it. Well, blood flowed from one 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.120 head to the other, through the brain and then back out. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.840 So that's pretty cool. It worked in a way. You're 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:42.720 gonna post that pick on the blog. So that was 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.599 the first one. That's nineteen o eight. That's pretty old timey, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.800 right indeed. And then we cut to nineteen fifty one 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.080 when the Soviets are saying, oh, the Americans are doing it, well, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:53.680 well you gotta do it too. There was a lot 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.000 of that going on back then. There really was, UM 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.760 And actually before that, there was an experiment in the forties, 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:04.279 right right, This thing is on YouTube. If you type 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.280 in experiments in the Revival of Dead organisms, you're going 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:14.120 to find a nineteen forties UM instructional film esque film 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.360 like that UM that shows people killing dogs and reviving 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.560 them and apparently, well it's not very graphic. It's more like, here, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.840 have some cyanide dog, and then they bring the dog back. UM. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.960 Also supposedly, if you can just barely see it, that 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.679 it's a dog's head that's moving and like responding and everything, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.720 but it's being kept alive externally through like an artificial 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.599 heart and lungs, pumping blood into the brain and back 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.800 out for circulation. I don't need to see that. They 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.880 don't show a good shot of it, so it's possible 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.680 it's a trick. But I was reading a post on 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.360 it that showed that this stuff was real. They actually 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.200 did kill this dog and revive. It was very scientific. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.599 It wasn't a joke or a hoax. Um, so we 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.279 have been able to was that Vladimir was that someone else? 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.200 I think it was Vladimir because it was the Soviets. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.240 He was a sick puppy. He was, yes, And speaking 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.479 of puppy, he did the same dog thing where he 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:17.839 would He transplanted twenty puppy heads with head, shoulders, lungs, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:23.119 four limbs, and an esophagus that emptied outside of the dog, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.640 transplanted them onto other dogs, and some of them live. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.039 One lived as long as twenty nine days, and they 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:35.039 actually uh, there's some log notes here. Nine am Donor's 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.240 head eagerly drank water or milk and tugged as if 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:42.720 trying to separate itself from the recipient's body. And one 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.599 of them bit one of the staff members, which was 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.360 my favorite part. And one of them bit the other 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.599 dog on the ear, and the dog tried to shake 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.640 it off, so they were actual dog things happening. Yeah, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.920 that's pretty puppy esque. Yeah, and awful, this six sickens. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.960 I didn't eve want to talk about this really sick, yeah, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.920 really dead on the other dolphins. It's like the cutest 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.960 horrific experiment ever. The only way it could be cuter 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.880 is if they transplanted unicorn heads. There were pictures of 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.320 this by that I couldn't even go there, well, chuck. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:22.160 This horrible type of experimentation culminated in nineteen seventy when 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.840 an American nerves surgeon named Robert J. White transplanted the 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.640 living head of one monkey onto the headless body of another, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.000 and it worked, and he was almost bitten by the monkey. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.480 That's how they considered as a success. Apparently everybody in 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.120 the lab cheered when the monkey tried to bite the guy. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.520 And then after a week they put it down. So 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.840 good for these crazy, crazy people. And meanwhile, um, of 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.280 course the Soviets and the Americans were shooting chimps into space. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.040 They're gonna return again, and you know they're up there 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.920 still little chip bodies or bounds probably at this point 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.080 in some in space capsules. Well, you have to wonder, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.800 I mean, what kind of process of physics called degradation 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:05.120 does a monkey undergo after death in space? I don't know, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.640 Answer me, I don't know. All right, let's move on, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.320 chuck to acoustic kitty. Yeah there animal abuse, Well it 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.480 actually is. And um this was courtesy once again of 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.120 the Cold War, the US and Soviet superpowers battling each 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.480 other for position, and the c i A spent maybe 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.160 as much as twenty million, at least ten millions. Yeah, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.160 so let's just settle in fifteen and five years and 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:33.600 five years to implant uh listening devices into a cat, 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:38.000 complete with battery and an antenna in the tail. Little kitty, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:39.800 Acoustic kitty is what they called it, and it was 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.560 a single cat. They were they were. They alternately surgically 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:48.000 outfitted it with UM eavesdropping devices and tried to train 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.600 it because think about it, the presence of a cat 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.800 is not the most you know, cats wander into places, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.040 they kind of go wherever they want, so it makes 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.080 kind of it makes sense. The logic is there to 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.600 an extent. But apparently the cat was just a little 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.960 too willful for this. Um. They figured out that it 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.920 went off and just kind of left whenever it got hungry, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:12.240 so they tried to um surgically manipulate um it's it's 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.880 sense of hunger so it wouldn't get hungry as often. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.920 And then finally chuck it threw itself under a cab. 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.520 Well you know why why it was It was the 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.400 Kitty Acoustic Kitties first test mission. They they sent the 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.200 little kitty on its first eavesdropping mission to eaves drop 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.440 on these two Russian men in a park, really in 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.520 a public park, and so they dropped the cat off 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.480 and then that's when the cat ran from the cab 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.080 and got killed, which is not funny at all. It's 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.400 been to watch a cat get hit by a car, 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.880 but imagine a ten million dollar cat that you spent 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.920 five years training get hit by a car and its 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.920 first mission. That's the part that I think was funny. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.760 It was the egg on the face of the US government, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.080 and there was egga plenty, and they kept it under 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.920 wraps until two thousand one when that stuff was declassified 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.640 but still partially censored. I read part of it. It's 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.400 you know, all the fun words are blanked over right, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.000 you know, like who was doing it? Actually, there was 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.480 one part left in their CIA officer Victor Marcetti. He 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:08.880 addressed the hunger thing. He said, they put in a 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.320 wire to thwart the hunger. I don't even know what 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.600 that means. Yeah, I don't. I read that as well, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.040 and I don't know how you would do that, I mean, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:22.080 keeping grilling out. I have no idea. Probably so also 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:27.520 awful because it involves animals, Chuck, Josh, have you ever 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.600 heard of zero point energy? I have had you before today. No, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.720 I hadn't either. What is that, Josh? So from what 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.720 I can gather, it's a it's a something that comes 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.959 out of quantum mechanics. It's not supposed to happen under 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:47.560 classical physics, but in quantum physics it does apparently innate 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.319 energy that a particle has, even after all other external 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:56.320 energies are removed right saying in a vacuum um. So 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.520 they figured out that this means that particles have innate energy. 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.800 But one of the um I guess more surprising aspects 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.600 of reducing a particle to zero point energy is that 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.520 they kind of come in and out of existence randomly, 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.880 which is not supposed to happen, but apparently this is. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.840 It is especially susceptible to it when you completely remove gravity. Right, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.800 And this pursuit, the pursuit of figuring out how to 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.679 use zero gravity machines to wink things in and out 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.319 of existence was supposedly a Nazi experiment, huh. Right, And 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:35.640 the Nazis were famous for many many odd, unproven, unsubstantiated 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.480 experiments that they may or may not have conducted. Yeah, 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.920 this one was real. The Nazi Bell, that's what they 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.680 called it. Yeah, that's what Dr Cook called it. Yeah. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.720 And Dr Cook is Nick Cook, right, the Jane's Defense 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.920 Weekly editor who kind of went off the deep end. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.520 I wrote a book review on Salon of his book, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:58.319 and it's you know, he's he's a very very respected journalist. Um, 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:03.600 but he really got into conspiratorial world with this one. Yeah. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.800 He wrote the book The Hunt for Zero Point, where 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:07.960 he broke it all down basically and alleged that this 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.960 all happened. And he's not some crackpot, or he wasn't 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.600 at the time, right, No, So he was, he was, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.160 you know, a respected, respected dude. What he believes is 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.199 that an s S officer in charge of the V 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:22.160 two rocket program, which eventually got the U S to 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.080 the Moon, because don't forget we under operation or Project 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.960 paper Clip, we UM drafted tons of Nazi scientists, including 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:35.440 Werner von Brown who got us to the Moon. Yeah. Yeah, 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.800 and uh, apparently the guy who was running the V 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:43.480 two rocket program UM traded this information about zero gravity 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.800 or zero point energy to the US. And uh, Cook's 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.480 hole point is that some guy comes up with this 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:56.920 real method of using an anti gravity machine, uh for 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.959 military application, and he, I guess came up with a 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.320 file from UM someone in the Defense department saying there's 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.920 no real scientific or there's no military application here. So 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.680 Cook's premise was there. Totally was, and they wouldn't have 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.480 said that if they didn't already know how to do it, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.959 of course, So he was saying that we knew how 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.439 to do that, and that the whole Foo fighter phenomenon, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.720 UFOs sightings, all that is evidence of us having figured 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:26.480 out zero point gravity? How about that? And I did 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.320 a little extra digging around and I found out there's 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.800 this guy named Tim tim Bentura and he runs something 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.720 called American Anti Gravity and he claims this is five 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.000 years ago. And as usual, when you when you can't 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.320 find follow up info, it's usually not a good sign. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:46.000 But he claims five years ago that a fellow named 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.359 John Dearing of s A r A, the Scientific Applications 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.040 and Research Associates, who actually have a lot of government contracts, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.880 are not crack pops either. They supposedly replicated key elements 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:02.520 of the Nazi bell technology anti gravity propulsion, and they 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.480 supposedly recreated this like five years ago, and they were 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:10.240 looking for funding and uh, we're too secretive to get 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.360 the funding that they needed, and it's it was kind 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.320 of up in the air. Last I checked from from 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.599 what I understand, and I don't know if it's necessarily 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.760 zero point gravity, but using quantum mechanics, people have figured 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.400 out how to get discs to levitate. So I mean, 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.000 it's not without it's not outside of the realm possibility. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:30.400 He's got stuff on the YouTube, does he? Yeah? But 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:35.040 so does David Blaine. He's a big phony. What No, Josh, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.640 he doesn't levitate. It's a trick. What let's talk about sex, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:45.200 baby in space? Yeah, sex in space. They have researched 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:50.200 this um behind closed doors, obviously, although NASA says that 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.640 they've never done such a thing, but clearly they have 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.880 because they want to colonize the Moon in space one day, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.480 and you know you gotta know everything. Remember we talked 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.320 about well the doom state, lunar doomsday ark safe humanity, 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.280 that they were going to have their sexy business up 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.080 there if they had to wait a century. Stephen Hawking said, 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.080 it's essential for human survival. It depends on being able 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.400 to appropriate in space. Okay, in space. I was gonna say, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.240 you don't have to be Stephen Hawking to realize that 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.840 you gotta reproduce or else the species dies out right, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.320 no matter whether we're here in orbit or on the 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.120 Moon or on Mars or wherever. Right. So, yes, of 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.400 course NASA would engage in this kind of stuff. Specifically, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.720 there was a guy named Pierre Kohler. He was a 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.160 French astronomer. Uh. And he wrote a book in two 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.880 thousand called The Last Mission, and he said that four 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.840 years earlier NASA um checked out ten different zero gravity 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:44.680 um sexual positions on a mission. NASA says no, and 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:50.520 and Pierre Cohler was like and pretty, yeah, you're on Earth. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.640 I'll tell you some pictures later. Uh. And obviously, like 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:03.960 everything else's, Soviets have done the same with her cosmonauts supposedly, uh, cosmonauts. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.960 No the uh what the research into sex with the 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:13.440 type of sexual positions? Oh, I don't know. Human docking procedures. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.840 Well that's what Robert called it. I think he put 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.280 it in quotes. I thought that Many is just making 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.560 a ride joke. We'll have to ask him. Yeah, but 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:25.720 I love that human docking procedure. Uh. Russia Russian cosmonaut 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:32.520 Valentia Valentina Tereshkova got pregnant nineteen seventy four by another cosmonaut, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.320 So there were some that said this was probably a 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.760 maybe not done in space, but done just to see, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.840 like set up to see what would happen, like has 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:45.080 his sperm been affected, has her uterus been affected? Whatever? 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.880 But it all turned out fine. Their baby was completely normal, right, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.080 So that's a good sign. And some wonder if possibly 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.320 that union was in a science experiment in and of 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.600 itself just to find out. Um. But yeah, we have 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.040 such a little grasp on what the effects of zero 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.880 gravity have on the human body exactly that I mean, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.640 it's a worthwhile look, it could be a sperm killer, 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.240 who knows, it could do all sorts of crazy stuff 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:16.040 like remember the uh Sarcopenia episode where the neurons, the 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.320 type of neurons that die off and are replaced or 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.800 taken over by the other type of neurons happens the 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.000 opposite the astronauts who have been in zero gram and 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.720 it does here on Earth. Who would expect that? Sure, 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.840 so you got it tested out. Have you heard of 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.119 the two suit? No, it's a number two suit. This 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.320 I don't know why it was invented by an actress 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.560 and poet, but it was. Her name is Vana Bonta, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:44.919 and she invented the suit that basically keeps two people attached. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.199 You can put two suits together, if you know what 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:52.399 I'm saying, to make one suit, and there's zippers and 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.119 there's velcro, and there's openings and there's places to go 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.400 cool within this suit, and each one has this sigrette 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.760 tucked into like exactly the arm. And the idea is 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.800 to stabilize human proximity so you can stay attached without 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.760 much effort, so you can save your effort for coitus. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.560 Are they I don't know if you can buy them, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:15.600 and I don't know if the government said, hey and 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.400 give me some of those two suits, But I mean 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.479 it sounds like they gave us tang. Yeah exactly. So 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.600 let's get get the two suits out there, and let's 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.280 get to the last one, shall we, Buddy the Psychic 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.480 Cold War? Yeah, did you see Men Who Stic Goats? 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.640 I love that movie. I didn't see it. I loved it. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.920 It got like a forty seven percent pretty much across 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.000 the board, like half and half. It was a good movie. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.480 Was it based on this or was it just fanciful 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.320 goings on of George Clooney? No, there was your I'm 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.800 writing a blog post on this today. There really was 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.800 a programs that this thing was kind of based on. 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.639 The characters were based on real life people. Um. Yeah, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:54.960 I'll show it to you. So we're talking about his 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.879 psychic spies, right, Yeah, one, they're they're both the Soviets 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:05.320 and the Americans were engaged in paranormal research. Um. This 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.640 the Soviets since the twenties, um, and then the US 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.640 and the forties or fifties was like, oh, we better 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.600 catch up with this, and never did. They're reading our minds, 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.560 so we need to read their minds exactly. Um. And 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.160 there's a ton of applications for this. For the military lecture, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.520 for example, if you're manning a submarine and you can't surface, 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.760 why don't you just send whatever information you need using 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.280 your mind and the mind of somebody else, or why 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.760 I get out of bed. Yeah, that's what I would 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.479 do if it's a great one to just beat my 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.879 messages everywhere. UM a man machine interface where we could 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.840 UM basically psychically link ourselves to a computer to interact 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.679 with it, uploaded download data. So does this stuff work though, Josh, 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.080 I don't know. Is it real? It's real that they 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.680 did the research. They definitely did do the research, and 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.080 in nineteen seventy three, the Rain Corporation was asked to 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:56.679 create a brief study on who was doing better at it, 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.720 and the Rain Corporation said the Soviets big time. The 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:05.719 Soviets were much more UM investigatory with the biological, the 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.639 physiological aspects of this the basis of it, whereas with 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:14.959 Americans it was UM psychology. All psychological based UM theory 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:19.080 and practice were kept separate with America. In in UM 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:21.480 the Soviet study, they came up with theories and then 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.920 tested them like it was really scientific. So if anybody 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.800 was going to get anywhere with it, the Rancorporation concluded 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:29.960 that it was definitely going to be the Soviets. Well, 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.480 good for the riskies. Yeah, they they still are. Yeah, 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.920 and you know we had Operation or Project Stargate going 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:42.160 until n so that was it. Well that's remote viewing basically. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.760 And at one point, Operation Stargate had twenty two active 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:50.640 military and or private remote viewers on staff. That's pretty cool. 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.560 I wonder how much that pays remote viewing a bit. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:56.760 It pays pretty good. Especially, I'll bet you can pretty 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.200 much demand whatever salary you want. It's like, oh yeah, 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.240 we'll go higher somebody else. Boy got downother home depot. 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.560 Those guys hanging up front, see if they can remote 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:08.960 view for you. Well that's about it for crazy government experiments. 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.080 I think there's probably a ton more on the site though. 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:15.640 You know obviously the c i A experimented with LSD. Buddy. Yeah, 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.359 well that's number one on our list. That's why I 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:20.439 got a whole podcast that one. Um. All you have 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.480 to do is type maybe government and experiments in the 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:27.240 handy search bar at how stuff works dot com, and 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:32.520 that leads us to listener mail. Josh got a couple 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.560 of quick ones today. Okay, this one is from Sasha 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:39.679 a k a. Sparky and Sasha Sparky says a recent 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.760 podcast mentioned pika and that's when you eat things that 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.400 aren't food, and it reminded me of my own five 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.720 year old cravings. As a young girl, I had an 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:52.440 insatiable craving from match heads. Huh. Yeah, sulfur huh. I 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.399 guess so I would bite down on the matches and 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.440 scrape off the heads and eat them. And I kept 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.639 a secret stash of Pilford matches under my pillow. I 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.560 just think remember the salty sulfurus flavor and chalky texture. 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:05.879 I'm not sure anyone of my family caught on, and 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.520 I apparently outgrew it eventually. I'm not sure if this 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:10.080 is a unique pike of craving or not. I just 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.439 thought i'd share it from Sasha Sparky a k a. 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.960 The match eater. Maybe that's why she's sparky. Either that 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.479 or her love of sulfur just developed into a love 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.560 of arson. And this one is from Tony and you're 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:25.199 gonna like this one. Don't know if you actually read this? 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.600 Uh one? Am Tony Rhotas. He's a business director for 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.360 Gamma Vacuum, and he says guys, just thought you might 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:33.679 like to know that I am sending an email from 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:36.959 a hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, and have a couple of 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.879 meetings tomorrow. It's cern awesome trying to sell them our 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:44.040