1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 3 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: tech stuff from how stuff Works dot com Yellow Welcome 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: to the podcast. My name is Chris Pelett. I'm an 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: editor here and How Stuff Works. Sitting next to me, 6 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: as usual is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Hello, from the 7 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: World of Tomorrow. Oh no, you know, actually it reminds 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: me of a line from Spaceballs. Even in the future 9 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: nothing works, right, So we're gonna talk about what the 10 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: hell happened to the future? Yeah, because you know, we 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: were talking about fun ideas for podcasts, and we decided 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: we want to do something really fun, like you know 13 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: all those you know, the articles and the the text 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: avery cartoons, cartoons about the House of the Future and 15 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: the Dog of the Future and you know Tomorrow and 16 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: the Jetsons and all the cool stuff we were gonna have. 17 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: You know, what the heck happened to that? Also? I 18 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: have a theory, Yeah, I have a theory that the 19 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 1: future exists on a spectrum, and on one end of 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: the spectrum you have the Jetson's where it's the happy 21 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: future with the you know, helpful robots and the flying cars. 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: And on the other end of the spectrum, you've got 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: George Orwell's nightmarish dystopia where everything is very um locked 24 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: down and and all the technology is used to keep 25 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,639 Speaker 1: the proletariat in line. And that's the spectrum of the future. 26 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: And I kind of want to see by the end 27 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: of this podcast where we think we are on that spectrum, 28 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: Like are we closer to the Orwell or are we 29 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: closer to the shiny happy Jetsons. You know, honestly, I 30 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: have to say, um, and this is just a personal 31 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: side that I you know, like on the Wegia board, 32 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: when you start wondering whether somebody is moving the thing 33 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: around intentionally, I have the feeling you're going to steer 34 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: this direction in one part, you know way, But I'm 35 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: not going to get there. I will say that. I 36 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: will say there is a middle ground. It's called the terminator. 37 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: So the terminator is in between Orwellian and Jetsons. It's 38 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: actually I think closer to Jetson's because it requires sentient robots. 39 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: All right, then we'll speaking of robots. Yeah, let's say, okay, 40 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: we'll go straight to robots. So where where's my personal robot. 41 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: Where's my robot? Butler? You know you want Rosie? I 42 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: want well, you know, I'll settle for Rosie. That's just 43 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, it's truly nice. Yeah, where's Rosie? Yeah, 44 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, I think the closest thing 45 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: we might have is maybe Asumo Azamo is pretty close. 46 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: Asumo is Honda's robot. It was the neatest thing about 47 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: Osumo recently is that it learned to run before it 48 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: before it could just walk really fast. Running is defined 49 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: as the moment when you're propelling yourself forward and both 50 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: feet leave contact with the ground for at least to 51 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: split second. Yeah, Asimo can is pretty impressive. Yeah, I was. 52 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: By the way, that was one of my first articles 53 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: here was how asthma works. You know I knew that. 54 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: Yeah that was before you were here. Yes, but I 55 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: I you know, I've been told many times article you ever, 56 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: I still have the video CD at my desk and 57 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: I occasionally watch it because it brings a smile to 58 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: my face. Yeah, as the most not much of a butler, 59 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: but he is a pretty cool robot. He's not Yes, 60 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: he can't conduct. He can conduct. He did conduct an 61 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: orchestra um, but he can't make decisions. He can't do 62 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: really anything on his own. You have to pre program 63 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: a lot of information in Asimo for him to work. 64 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: He can recognize certain obstacles that are in his path 65 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: and plan for them and move out of the way, 66 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: and he can climb stairs and things like that, but 67 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: he can't write. But he can't. He can't decide on 68 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: things on his own. He can't make up his mind, right, 69 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: So there's there's lack of sentions. We can talk about 70 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: other robots too, I mean, there's the room Bore. There 71 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: are these helpful little robots that can do things like 72 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: simple tasks. But again we're not It's kind kind of 73 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: a far cry from Rosie. Yeah, although you know Rosie 74 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: vacuum too. Um. You know what I was. I was 75 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: thinking about the robotic critters like Ibo, Sony's Dog and 76 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: Pleio Plio. Yeah, really cool. Who you know it may 77 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: not think, but it is pretty scary. I don't advocate 78 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: you do this, but if you really want to, if 79 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: you're really twisted enough to do this, go online to 80 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: YouTube and there are videos of people torturing Cleo and 81 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: it streams and it's really awful. It's sad and I 82 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: don't I don't know exactly why they threw that in there, 83 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: but it is really depressing. We'll stay staying on the 84 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 1: robots and trying to move away from well, actually this 85 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: isn't moving away from depressing at all. But um, android 86 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: army robots are those we don't have any of those. 87 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: If you will, UM, we don't really have this. We 88 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: do have military robot that's true, but they look more 89 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: like kind of manage your tanks. Really, you're welcome, thank you, 90 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: the manage your tanks. Uh. They tend to be used 91 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: mainly for reconnaissance or rescue missions. Um. You send them 92 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: into areas that you know are are dangerous either there 93 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: perhaps land mines or other explosive devices, or the area 94 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: you're sending it in as structurally unsound. You wouldn't want 95 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: to necessarily send a human being in there, So you 96 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: see a robot and instead it's a lot easier to 97 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: replace a robot. Um, it's just money, right, it's just money. 98 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,799 Speaker 1: In parts, it's so much better to use a robot 99 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: in those cases. But again, we're talking about robots that 100 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,239 Speaker 1: don't really have a lot of autonomous functionality. They can't 101 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: really make decisions on their own. Now you can program 102 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: them where you could program a sentry robot where it 103 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: essentially fires on anything that comes in its field of vision. 104 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: But again, that's not really making a decision. It's just 105 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: recognize a target and fire at it. True. I mean, 106 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 1: that's what the unmanned aerial vehicles do. They're in missions 107 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: in uh in the Middle East, in Iraq and Afghanistan. 108 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: There's actually a group of people here in the United 109 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: States who are operating those those they're not robots, I 110 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: guess technically, they're more like remote controlled airplanes. They are 111 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,799 Speaker 1: remote controlled airplanes, but I mean they've got the cameras 112 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: on them and somebody's moving them. And that's essentially what 113 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: these other devices are doing. The bomb squad robots and 114 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: the military robots that go in and test for land 115 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: mines and stuff like that, their own thing. Yea far 116 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: far away from autonomous robots. Some people would say that's 117 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: a good thing, because you know, terminator bad in general. Okay, okay, okay, 118 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: flying cars, flying cars. Where's our flying car? Michael Jackson 119 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: was supposed to buy one back in the eighties. Do 120 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: you remember hearing that story? You never heard that story? 121 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: Heard other stories about Michael was not one of the 122 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: ones I heard that. One of the stories about Michael 123 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: Jackson one of the you know, I mean it's a 124 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: little crazy, but not like so, one of the stories 125 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: about Michael Jackson was that he was into sit buying 126 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: a flying car. There was this a couple of different 127 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 1: inventors at the time. We were talking about the possibility 128 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: of a flying car. It's just around the corner. This 129 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: is the nineties, and Michael Jackson said he wanted to 130 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: be the first person to buy that. Um, you know, 131 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: that's not surprising. You've got celebrities who buy the first 132 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: something of whatever, like Schwarzenegger bought the first civilian hum V. 133 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: So it does happen. And Stevie wonder about the first 134 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: UH book reader for the board that was off the 135 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: top of your head. Um, so anyway, yeah, it's not unusual. 136 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: But the problem is that the flying cars just haven't 137 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: really I hesitated to use the words surfaced. Well, we 138 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: have an article called how flying Cars Will Work by 139 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: Kevin Bonsor, and you can look at that. There are 140 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: flying cars they used basically they basically used fans, giant 141 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: fans kind of giant hover craft. Really is what they 142 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: end up being. Yeah, and uh, it's not a not 143 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: a back to the future. I'll flying car not so much. 144 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: You're you're you're hovering. You're not really flying, I'd say, 145 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: But you know, George Jetson makes it look so easy. 146 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: And that's the problem is with the flying cars is 147 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: the one that we all eventually come to when we 148 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: start thinking about how nice it would be when you 149 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: take your flying car to work and you're the only 150 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: one in the air, and if everyone has flying cars, 151 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: everyone's in the air, that's right. How do you legislate that? 152 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: How do you control that? What happens when one of 153 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: them gives out? When your neighbor is flying over your house? Yeah, 154 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: the entire sky becomes the road. There's no there's no 155 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: single pathway to follow. That's one of the things about 156 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: you know, car travel makes it easier to handle than 157 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: than flight is because you know you've got you've got 158 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: very limited places where people can go. You can legislate that, 159 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: you can control control that. How do you control it 160 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: when everyone's got their own mindage or airplane? Apparently where 161 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: we're going we do need roads, apparently, So I mean, 162 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: if nothing else, we probably need computer controlled vehicles to 163 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: take the human element out of it, because just thinking 164 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: about everyone owning their own flying cars kind of frightening. 165 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: There is there are some that are out there, the 166 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: M two G Valantern. Have you heard about this. It 167 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: looks like a little flying saucer um and I've seen 168 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: videos of it and it's it's pretty neat. And they're 169 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: talking about the possibility of manufacturing things on a mass scale. 170 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: It all depends on how many people order them, so 171 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: it's kind of a catch twenty two. They can't make 172 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: them cheaper until people start buying them, but people aren't 173 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: buying them because they're not cheap. So that's probably where 174 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: we're you know, we're kind of gonna be stuck on this. 175 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: I think I think we're just going to see those 176 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 1: as kind of, you know, novelty vehicles, not not like 177 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: your regular kind of vehicle. I got another one for you, Okay, 178 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: go ahead shoot weather control because you know, in the 179 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: future we're going to control the weather. There's been some attempts. 180 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: I tried it another article we have on the site right. 181 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: They tried to seed clouds to try and make it rain, 182 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: so that it would rain in distant locations in China 183 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: so that the rain would not eventually make its way 184 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: to Beijing where the Olympics were being held, right right, Yeah, 185 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 1: I don't know how did that work out, and I 186 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: didn't follow up on it, so I actually don't know. 187 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: We'll have to look into that and see if they 188 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: were actually successful. No, grant, this is very primitive weather control. 189 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: It is. It's sort of semi successful from what I 190 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: understand that the point is to uh seed clouds with 191 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: silver iodide, and essentially what it does, if you know 192 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: a little bit about how rain works, um, the moisture 193 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 1: in the air and the clouds gets so heavy that 194 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: it can't stay up in the clouds anymore and falls 195 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,079 Speaker 1: down its rain. Well, the point is to give the 196 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: water molecule something to condense on so as they go ahead, 197 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: so you make it rain earlier, yeah exactly, and try 198 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 1: and get to rain out before it hits whatever. And 199 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: I mean this idea does have some merit, you could think. Little. 200 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: The problem is that it requires that there will be 201 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 1: moisture in the air already, right, So you can't just 202 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: say like, oh, we can solve the drought problem. Now. 203 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: You kind of need clouds with moisture in them above 204 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: the drought area before you can actually cause it to rain. Yeah. 205 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, we're still ways off on the weather control 206 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: to um lunar base. How are we doing with that 207 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: lunar base? Well, surprisingly, well, we don't have one. That's 208 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: that's the short answer. Shucks, but we're gonna have one. Awesome. 209 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: I know that NASA is really interested in it. NASA 210 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: is really interested in it, and and part of the 211 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: reason that President George W. Bush was interested enough to say, hey, 212 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: let's do this and actually get the ball sort of 213 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: semi rolling, is that they want to use it as 214 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: sort of a jumping off point to get to Mars. Yeah, 215 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: it would be kind of a rest stop on the 216 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: way to any other distant location. So when you get 217 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: just past the Moon, you could say you should have 218 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: gone when we're back at the moon, right exactly, like, look, 219 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: we were just at the Moon, why didn't you go 220 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: within Um. Yeah, it's kind of the truck stop of 221 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: the universe, or at least the Solar system. Um. And yeah, 222 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: there's there are NASA does have plans to return to 223 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: the Moon. There's actually an amazing video on NASA's sites, 224 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: very inspirational about about using the Moon as a base 225 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: for that kind of thing, and and just a you know, 226 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: a base in general, using it for everything from astronomy 227 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: to other scientific experiments. And um, and it's we got 228 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: to see this video here at How Stuff Works in person. 229 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: We had someone from NASA come to How Stuff Works 230 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: and show this video. This might have been before you joined. 231 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure, I think, um it was. It was fascinating. 232 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: The man from NASA showed us the video and it 233 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: was really really inspirational. And it is available on NASA's site. 234 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: I highly recommend people check it out, um, because it 235 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: gets you excited about the space program, which is you know, 236 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: not not only is it not a small task, it's 237 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,959 Speaker 1: also vitally important for NASA's funding. They have to get 238 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: this kind of excitement, um, in order to get the 239 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: interest from Congress to get the funding they need to 240 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: to do these these projects. That's why you start seeing 241 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: these private projects pop up too, like the X Prize 242 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: Foundation Google. That's true. You know, they have a contest 243 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: for people teams to send up a lunar rover up. 244 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 1: So this would be a robotic rover, not a not 245 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: a manned mission root. You say, yes, a robot rover 246 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: to the moon, to um to prove that private companies 247 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: could do this just as well as a government group could. 248 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: And India just launched its first unmanned mission to the moon. 249 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: So um, so there is a renewed interest. So a 250 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: lunar a lunar community is not outside the realm of believability, 251 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: and it will still be a couple of decades off probably, 252 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: but so we're not there yet, but we're still heading there. 253 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: At least we haven't gotten off track. And you know 254 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: you mentioned tech savery cartoons at the beginning. I went 255 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: back and watched one, The Car of Tomorrow. Now we 256 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: should we should stress the these cartoons were meant just 257 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: as kind of poking fun at the idea of what 258 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: the future would look like. Well, that's that's that's true, 259 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: because this was it was actually sort of a reaction 260 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: to all the articles about you know, what's going to 261 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: happen in you know, nineteen fifties, American's gonna happen in 262 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 1: the year two thousand one, right, So these were these 263 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: were meant specifically to poke fun and that they were 264 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: just meant for laughs. They were not meant to be 265 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: taken seriously, and yet there are a couple of them 266 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: that have come true, at least or in the prototype stage. Yeah, 267 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: there was there was one car. One of the cars 268 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: was a a a car that could have rotating tires 269 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: to solve the parallel parking problem, right, so that you 270 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: would you would be driving and then your your tires 271 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: would rotate so that they were now perpendicular and you 272 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: would just slide in sideways directly into the parallel parking spot. 273 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, aren't all car tires rotating, well, 274 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: rotating you mean the other right? Exactly? Not not just yes, 275 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: they could change change the axis there. They didn't want 276 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: to break it to you that, right, Hey, guess what 277 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: we have that? Well, there's a prototype, now, there was. 278 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,479 Speaker 1: It's actually a car concept. It's not even a proto prototype. 279 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: It's called the NASA car concept. And the idea here 280 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: is that the tires would move so that you're no 281 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: longer facing forward, they actually face to the left and right, 282 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: so that you could roll immediately to your right and 283 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: parallel park without having to do that nasty little shuffle maneuver. Yeah, 284 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: I hate that actually, Yeah, So I mean that's that 285 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: was one that was just men as a joke in 286 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: this tex Savery cartoon, and yet someone's really working on 287 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: a way of potentially addressing ANA. And there's another one. 288 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: There was a folding car where when you get to 289 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: where you're going, it folds up into a tiny little 290 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: square and you put in your pocket. Okay, so we're 291 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: not really going to that level. I mean, there's some 292 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: other issues that we would have to address before that, 293 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: but like repealing the laws of physics exactly, that would 294 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: be a big one. But there's the idea of the 295 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: city car from M. I. T. Which is a folding car. 296 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: It's not men as a personal vehicle. You you would 297 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: kind of rent it for your time where you're at 298 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: the car while you're in the city. Rather so you'r 299 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: you go to the city, you rent this little car 300 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: and you drive it around. When you return it, it 301 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: folds into a line, kind of like the way shopping 302 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: carts fold up to each other. So you would actually 303 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: come up and you take the one on the end. 304 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: Obviously when you rented one, you take whichever one was 305 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: on the end, drive it around, drive it into the 306 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: little docking station and it would fold up with the rest. 307 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: So again, you know, not as far fetched as tech 308 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: Savery thought, probably, And there was another one. There was 309 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: a boat car, a car that was part car apart 310 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: boat that could drive through nasty nasty weather. We could 311 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: talk about the the scuba car. We've got an article 312 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: on that. It's a car that's a submarine car, go underwater. 313 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: So again tech Savery, you know what, not that far off, 314 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: strangely enough. Yeah, you know, he wasn't the only uh 315 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: animator who was interested in the future. There are quite 316 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: a few Disney pieces on that. As a matter of fact, 317 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: it was a big thing tomorrow Land, you know, in 318 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: disney Land, in Walt Disney World. Um, in Disney The Moon, 319 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: which is opening next year. UM okay, seriously, no, it's 320 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: in the future. I'm gonna start planning my trip. It's 321 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 1: in a giant dome. Anyway. Uh. There was an episode 322 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: of Disneyland, which was the show Disneyland UM called Magic 323 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: Highway USA. And UM, I actually watched this before I 324 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: was pulled down for copyright infringement, called The Road Ahead, 325 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: and it talked about color coded expressways and cars that 326 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: you could basically get in and it would take you 327 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 1: to where you're going. And um, long time, how Stuff 328 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 1: Works podcast listeners might remember I brought this up on 329 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: a Stuff You Should Know episode in which Josh Clark 330 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: and I talked about his article will there be a 331 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: new kind of taxi cab in the future? Well, Personal 332 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: rapid transport is actually a form of this, and what 333 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: it would do is, uh, it's it's like a little 334 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: car that you get in. Doesn't look like a little car. 335 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: It looks very futuristic, surprise, surprise, but it's on a 336 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: track and you say, okay, I want to go to 337 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: and you give it the dress for work. Well, you're 338 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: the little car gets on the track and it's coordinated 339 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: with all the other cars. Uh. So it basically knows 340 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,439 Speaker 1: not to go too fast or too slow, and it 341 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: takes you to where you're going. When you get out, 342 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: you you leave it, and that's it's not really your 343 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: once say personal, it's not yours, but it's basically just 344 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: you and it takes you where you want to go. 345 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: And it would require a lot of infrastructure because you 346 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: can imagine, because it would have to be a track 347 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: going to everybody's house and every every location. But it's 348 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,919 Speaker 1: kind of like the Minority Report. I remember there were 349 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: vehicles in the Minority report. They were very much like that. 350 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: They would even go up and down buildings. Yeah. Yeah, 351 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: but uh, and it's being tested out in a couple 352 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: of places, and that's pretty cool. And apparently it's very 353 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: cost efficient as far as building out the infrastructure. It's 354 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 1: less than than building light. Right, So when it comes 355 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: to where the hell is my future? At least the 356 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,679 Speaker 1: car stuff is falling into line pretty well. Yeah, some 357 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: floating cities not so much. No, No, I read about 358 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: this a few years ago. Uh. The idea was proposed 359 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: by a man named Norman Nixon of the Freedom Ship, 360 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: which was an enormous ship. It could hold fifty thou 361 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: people and it was a floating community. It's not men 362 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: as like a cruise ship or anything like that. You 363 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: would actually live there and there'll be workspace and and 364 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: living space and um. Visiting his website, Uh, seems they 365 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 1: ran into a few problems. They trusted some people with 366 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: their money that maybe they should not have trusted. Uh, 367 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: And they trusted some engineers that maybe they should not 368 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: have trusted. And at any rate, this dream is still 369 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: well within the dream phase. Um, it doesn't sound to 370 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: me like they've made a whole lot of progress. They're 371 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: still determined to try and make it work. But I 372 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: think it's gonna be another few decades before we hear 373 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 1: anything firm about the freedom Ship. If if it doesn't 374 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 1: just disappear altogether. Well, the freedom Ship does sound exciting 375 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: and new. I'd like to come aboard. They're expecting me. 376 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: I have one more, but I wanted to ask if 377 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: you had any before I did my final one. Okay, well, 378 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: I was thinking of a couple. Okay, yeah, let's go ahead, 379 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: quick ones. I'll make them quick. Um. You know, there 380 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: was this this thing that was proposed a couple of 381 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: hundred years ago called the Mundaneum by Paul Outlet, and 382 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: it would store it would basically be a giant catalog 383 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: of information stored on on you know, essentially punched cards 384 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 1: catalog cards. Uh, not really punch cards like in the 385 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 1: later on. Although Van eva Bush, who was one of 386 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: the government's top scientists in the United States for a 387 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 1: long time, worked with the UH, the Atomic Bomb Project, 388 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,479 Speaker 1: and a lot of other different projects. He had this 389 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: idea of a machine called the memex or me max 390 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: I guess um and uh it would be like you 391 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: could scan things in documents in and save them all 392 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: on microfilms. You could have like a giant reader on 393 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: your desk and you could pull up information from anywhere. 394 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: I think I see where this is going. I mean, 395 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: have you heard anything like this, Well, it's what we 396 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: pretty much do our research on now, huh And actually, well, 397 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: except for their expectations, do you research on paper tree killer? No? No, no, 398 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: of course. Uh you all by now who are downloaded 399 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: this podcast on the internet, you know what I'm talking about. 400 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: But there you go. There's an instance in which we've 401 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: actually surpassed uh, both of these um scientists expectations. And 402 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure that both of them would have if they 403 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: had lived to see it, would have been very pleased. 404 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: Actually if any of her Bush lived into the Internet age, 405 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: but only very slightly, um, so, you know, he would 406 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: probably be pretty darn impressed. What's going on? And uh, 407 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: of course you know there's the uh Monsanto House the 408 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,239 Speaker 1: Future to mention another Disney term. Of course, we have 409 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: the uh you know, different modern furniture, you know, but 410 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: really that's not. Automation has made some progress, though not 411 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: to the point where arms come out of the wall 412 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: and and make your dinner for you. Yeah, I'm waiting 413 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: for the little mechanic arms to come shave me in 414 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: the morning. Instead, we just have like temperature control and 415 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: lights and things like that. Yeah, we still in the future. Ish, 416 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: I think that, you know, the little arms were more cartoony. 417 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: Maybe I'm still holding out hope. Okay, Well here's my 418 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: final one. Here's how I know that the future really 419 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: did fail us. Okay, Okay, it's because in the ES 420 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: we did not manage to shoot Kahn off into space 421 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: in exile aboard the Botany Bay. Okay, Khan is not 422 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: out there, so Kirk cannot encounter Khan and then put 423 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: him on Steady Alpha five and imprison him there and 424 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: then encounter him again later in Star Trek to the 425 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 1: Wrath of Cohn, which we all know was the best 426 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: of the Star Trek movies. Next Generation included. Okay, maybe 427 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 1: I said switch back to stuff you should know. Maybe 428 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: there's a slot. I'm just saying. Con alright, then, boy, Future, 429 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: you really you really let me down there? All right? Well, 430 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: you know what, I have nothing I can say that better. Well, 431 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: how about we go back. I'll tell you about that 432 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: futuristic technology that really exists. I'm talking about liquid body armor. 433 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: It's super neat stuff. I mean, we're talking about non 434 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: Newtonian fluids here. So these are fluids that when you 435 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: make an impact, they don't behave like a normal liquid 436 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: where you know you would just hit it in your hand, 437 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: just goes through. They actually stiffen up and they distribute 438 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: the force so that you can take a shot like 439 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: literally take a shot from a from a gun and 440 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: it distributes the force so that doesn't kill you, which 441 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: is pretty much what body armor is supposed to do 442 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 1: right right, except most of it isn't made out of 443 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: corn starching water. That's true. But you can read about 444 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 1: the stuff that is beat out of liquid in our 445 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: article about how liquid body armor works. 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