1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: dot Com. Hey you, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan, there's Jerry Rowland. 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: And this is Stuff you Should Know. I don't know 5 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: what addition this is should be a pretty interesting and 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: entertaining how about that? Uh? This this is the interrupting 7 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: Chuck from watching the Kabinaugh hearing addition. Yeah, really, man, 8 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: talk about historic huh Oh. I was glued to it 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: and then like I gotta go to do my job. Sorry. 10 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: For some reason, I feel guilty, like I'm responsible for that. No, no, 11 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: it's not your fault. Thanks for letting off the hook. 12 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: We gotta make the donuts. M hmm. Man, don't get 13 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: I'm recording it. So I'll just go back right after this. Okay, cool, 14 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: Well we'll talk really fast. I'll go back to seething 15 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: rage right after this. You'll just be like, uh, you'll 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: be like, no one tell me what happens? Oh goodness, 17 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: Uh all right, let's do it death by invention. Yeah, 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: I guess this would be the horribly ironic twist edition 19 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: of Stuff you Should Know. Yeah, and um, you know 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: we are talking up people who died by their own 21 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: hand in a way, it's in and it's really sad. 22 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: I mean, all these people are are pursuing their passions 23 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: for the most part, Uh, and to die because you 24 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: are a creative, inventive, passionate person, except maybe in the 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: case of Lacy. Uh, it's really sad. It is I think, um, 26 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:38,839 Speaker 1: to die in any way, at any time, for any 27 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: reason is is unnatural. It's just wrong, you know. Yeah, 28 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: they listed out a couple before the official list of five. Yeah, 29 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: there's like a whole I mean, we could do the 30 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: same show like every white like once a quarter. Maybe 31 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: maybe we will chuck five more people. Yeah, we'll see. 32 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: We'll see how this one goes about that. Did you 33 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: want to touch on in a couple of those other 34 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: people though? Yeah, I mean, um, Henry wind Stanley is 35 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: definitely a kind of a famous one. He built a 36 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: very famous lighthouse, Eddie Stone Lighthouse back in and I 37 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: think that was the first iteration of it. I think 38 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: there's been four total, and we talked about it on 39 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: the Lighthouse episode. Yeah, I think this was the first 40 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: one on rock right, and this is like out out 41 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: there on on some rocks in the ocean or in 42 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: the channel, one of the two, or the sea. It's 43 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: out in the water. Yeah. A candle light, old school 44 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: candlelight lighthouse, very romantic lighthouse, very romantic, invented by, like 45 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: you said, Mr Henry wind Stanley, great name, and speaking 46 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: of great. Five years later there was a great storm 47 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 1: and this lighthouse actually that he built, collapsed on him 48 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: and killed him while he was trying to short up. Yeah, him, 49 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: he and five other people, and they were never found. 50 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: That's just sad. I guess the sweet, the sweet, the 51 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: sweet swept him as the sweet does sweet swell sweet 52 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: swells by the sweet war. Yeah, it's really that's it's 53 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: such a tragedy. What about Marie Curry who died at 54 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: sixty six from radiation poisoning, which technically she didn't invent 55 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: radium and polonium, she discovered them, but I mean her work. 56 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: She won Nobel prizes for it. Um. Yeah, like the 57 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: dangers of working with us, I mean always dangerous, but 58 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: especially back then and then again physicist Harry uh Daglion, 59 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, Dallian, Dallian, I like Daglion, Okay, Dallian, 60 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: That's what I'm going with but hey man, it's up 61 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: for grabs, so silent g silence, h yeah, kind of. 62 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: I mean there's a little bit of a guttural in there. 63 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: Why do you hate letters? Right? Those are superfluous right there. 64 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: So Harry daly In was another scientists who he was 65 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: working on the Manhattan Project on the Demon core, the 66 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: core of the plutonium bomb, and he died by his 67 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: own hand as well. He was stacking carbide bricks, tungsten 68 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: carbide around the core and dropped one, which I can't imagine, Like, 69 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: what a frightening moment that would be. Yeah, even more so, chuck. 70 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: He he had a monitor he was trying to see 71 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: how many tungsten bricks it took to make the plutonium 72 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: go critical, which is like once it goes critical, you've 73 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: got a nuclear explosion on your hands. So he's just 74 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: sitting there messing around with this. He's got a monitor 75 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: showing him and the bonitor said, hey man, that last 76 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: brick will make this go go critical. Um. It was 77 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: a monitor from the seventies, so it said things like 78 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: hey man, and uh so he knew, like, I gotta 79 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: get that brick away, and he went to go like 80 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: pull it back away from the stack, but in going 81 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 1: to pull it away, he accidentally knocked it onto the core, 82 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: so he had to go into the stack after it 83 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: to get it away from the core to make sure 84 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: that the thing didn't blow up, and he did, but 85 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: he supposedly suffered tremendously from um radiation poisoning. Yeah, I 86 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: mean he died within a month, So that's that's pretty tragic. 87 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: And you know, he it sounds like he was a 88 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: hero because if that thing would have exploded, uh, many many, 89 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: many lives lost. Yeah, he's definitely honored as a hero. 90 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: He also was not going to follow the rules apparently 91 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: because he was in there the lab by himself, which 92 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: was against protocol. I think he went back to work 93 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,679 Speaker 1: after dinner and was sitting there working on a nuclear 94 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: pile by himself that he was trying to see where 95 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: the threshold was for getting it critical. Jeez, this is 96 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: a little crazy. So these examples to serve as a 97 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: set up though to the official five. Uh, and we're 98 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: gonna start with lee cy L. I s I I 99 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: got no love for Lecy. No. No, this is not 100 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: one of the ones where just a great creative following 101 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: their passion. I don't know. Maybe he was passionate about 102 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: harming others and people and court intrigue for sure. Yeah, 103 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: that's a good point. But we're going back to ancient 104 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: China here roughly to b C E. Is that what 105 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: we're saying now, and China this time was making the 106 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: conversion from just a big mess of of warring states 107 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: into what would be, uh eventually be the Keen dynasty. 108 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: Is that right? Chin Chin? We've been corrected by that 109 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: officially too. I looked it up because I was like, 110 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not following for this again here I 111 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: did it. I think it was you last time. It 112 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: definitely was so that, Yeah, the Chin dynasty finally being 113 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: ruled by one dynasty. So it was it was a 114 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: big change for China. It was um. But the way 115 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: that they assembled um all of these kind of like 116 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: facts fractious states into a single empire was through this 117 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: practice called legalism, which is a political doctrine that basically said, 118 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: it basically assumes the worst about people, that they're selfish 119 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: and dumb, and that the best way to make a 120 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: state out of your citizens is by exploiting them and 121 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: lying to them and passing a law for everything and 122 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: then brutally enforcing it. Yeah, and kind of the government 123 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: just fully uh fully ruling with an iron fists citizens. 124 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: It's like proto fascism, Like the point of your citizen 125 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: read is not to serve them, It's for your citizen 126 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: read to kind of give all their power and work 127 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: and attention to the state to the emperor. Yeah. So 128 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: there's this um sort of an outlier as far as 129 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: uh where this guy started out Leacy. He became very, 130 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: very prominent with the Chin dynasty, but he was he 131 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: was not born into it. He was a commoner and 132 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: he was a clerk at a at a local government office, 133 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: and he really worked his way up through the system 134 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: pretty yeah, all the way up to prime minister. So 135 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: local government clerk to prime minister. And I mean this 136 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: guy makes like Machiavelli and the Medici's look like cream puffs. 137 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: Who yeah, so Medici's queen puffs. Yeah, I am compared 138 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: to Lacy, Yes, and not not just Lisie. So like 139 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: the emperor of the Chin dynasty, the founder of basically 140 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: China was an emperor named Shi Wong d I'm pretty 141 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: sure that's tell you say it. I'm almost equally sure 142 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: that I've gotten it wrong. But he was the King 143 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: of Chin, the first Emperor of Chin, and Um he 144 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: was pretty brutal, but he he found good company with 145 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: Lesi in his brutality and the way that he saw 146 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: citizens and people. And then also the king's eunuch, who 147 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: was basically tied for second place with le cy Um. 148 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: He was the king's official spokesman. His name was Choo Chow, 149 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: and the three of them together just ruled quite brutally. 150 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: It was you know, you you bribe people and if 151 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: they didn't take bribes, you killed them. You tricked neighboring 152 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: states into accepting your rule. Book burning was huge, and 153 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: this is what lecy is most commonly remembered for is 154 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: instituting a policy of burning most books, especially history books, 155 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: in an effort to kind of form a um, a 156 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: single way of thinking for all Chinese to to fall 157 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: in line with. And the way that you start that 158 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: is to get rid of everything that's been written that 159 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: doesn't fall into that line of thinking. So he instituted 160 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: like a an empire wide book burning drive. Yeah, I 161 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: think like the only thing that he said it was okay, 162 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: or books on medicine, books on growing things in agriculture 163 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: and then divination, which I think I can't believe we 164 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: haven't done a podcast on that at this point. Is 165 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: that water witching? Yeah? I think so, right, Yeah, I 166 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: think that's probably also like reading frog guts and tea 167 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: leaves and stuff to see the future. Oh well, that 168 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: that part totally makes sense, right, because you got to 169 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: know how it's gonna come, and had Lesi been at 170 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: all capable of divination, he would have seen that his 171 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: end was coming horribly ironically and it was going to 172 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: be very painful for him. Yeah, so they like, speaking 173 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: of Machiavelli, they they definitely lead the path in do 174 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: anything necessary to get what you want. And he said, 175 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm pretty I'm pretty into torture as 176 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: a means of getting what I want. And I've invented 177 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: a pretty full proof way to uh ensure that someone 178 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: is dead or gives us what we want and imagine 179 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: ended up dead anyway. It was called the Five Pains, 180 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: and it's basically cutting things off of the body one 181 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: at a time until you get to five, which is 182 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: the body. You cut the nose off first, then you 183 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,439 Speaker 1: cut off a hand, then you cut off a foot, 184 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: then you cut off the penis or the the vagina castration, 185 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: and finally you just cut in half. Your body has 186 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: cut in half. That come done with you. Yeah, the 187 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: five pains really undersells it. It really does so, because 188 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: the five pains for me are traffic, right, traffic, This 189 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: is the five unbearable social media None of them involved 190 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: cutting off hands and feet, a nose, man, can you 191 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: imagine losing your nose? That's first too. So um Licy 192 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: is credited in some circles with inventing that. Others say 193 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: it's not entirely clear. But um Shi wangd the emperor 194 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: when he died, he died abroad suddenly, and Choo Chow 195 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: and Licy decided to conceal it because the king said, 196 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: my eldest son is my heir. I want him to 197 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: take over after I die. So Lesy and joo Chow 198 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: got rid of that decree and forged a new decree 199 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: to the oldest son, who had been exiled for opposing 200 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: that book burning idea. Yeah, that that was the reason 201 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: it was a problems because he was no friend of Licy, 202 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 1: right exactly. So lesy U and Joo Chow drafted a 203 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: new decree from the king and it said son, kill yourself, 204 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: and they sent it to him and the son killed himself. Yeah, 205 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: so they had now they had consolidated their power, and 206 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: they named an infant son of she she Wangdi to 207 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: be the new ruler. They decided that wasn't any good, 208 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: so they killed the infant and then they turned on 209 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 1: each other, and Joo Chow got the upper hand and said, licy, 210 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: I have some terrible news for you. You're about to 211 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: face the five pains yourself. Yeah. I mean, that's the 212 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: thing is when you're when you've got to psychotic creeps 213 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: working together, eventually one of them is going to turn 214 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: on the other. That's how it always goes. Let's hope 215 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 1: that never happens to us, because where a parapsychotic creeks 216 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: working together? You know, Um, what is the king's eunuch? 217 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: The so the eunuch was castrated? Unich is? But like, 218 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: so the king's eunuch is? Why did they castrate them 219 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: just to render them subjugated or whatever or trustworthy like 220 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: now I can trust you around my wife or whatever. Sure, 221 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: that's what why people were looking assized. But in this 222 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: case he was like the spokesperson for the emperor. He 223 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: was like the highest the imagine like the press secretary 224 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: and the chief of staff combined. Right, that's kind of 225 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: what he was. But no penis no right. So he 226 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 1: uh so jow Chow turns on Leasy and and has 227 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: him executed through the five five pains his invention supposedly 228 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: about which I looked into that five pains thing. It 229 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: seems to come under the tradition of ling Chi, which 230 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: is called slow slicing, which is as bad as it sounds, 231 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: and I think it's way worse than the five pains. 232 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: It's there can be twenty four cuts or a thousand cuts. 233 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: They call it um and they actually last used it 234 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: in nineteen o five. And there's a horrible picture of 235 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: the man who was executed in nineteen o five by this, 236 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: like being executed through this the slow slicing method. He 237 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: just cut all up and bloody. Yeah, it's pretty pretty rough. 238 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: It's pretty awful to see. Um. But they did it 239 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: up until nineteen o five. Remember the days when we 240 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: would send each other those awful pictures. Yeah, I think 241 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: we got to a certain point where we're like, se 242 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: seen too much. You find it on your own, More 243 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: power to you. Yeah, you've become a father, you know, 244 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: and I'm a father in my own way. I feel like, 245 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: you know, we have to protect ourselves from that. Oh boy. 246 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: All right, well let's go take a break. I'm gonna 247 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: go watch it. Four minutes of the Cabin all hearing? Okay, 248 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: and we'll come right back right after this. All right, 249 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: we're back. Now, let's talk about parachuting Franz right cult. Yeah, 250 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: I know a little bit about this one because, uh 251 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: I did something back when we were doing videos. I 252 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: can't remember exactly what it was, but one of our 253 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: half hearted attempts at a video series. I think it 254 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: was a blog post, was it. Yeah? Those didn't work either. 255 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: It was like in that same series of the Baby 256 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: Cage that like hung out over. Yeah, that's right. Remember 257 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: how what a relief it was when we were finally told, hey, guys, 258 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: why don't you just podcast because that's a job. That 259 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: was nice. Wasn't that great? Yeah? You don't have to 260 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: dance like a monkey on YouTube? Yeah, we're blog like 261 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: it's people missed that stuff though, It's crazy, I know, 262 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: but we enjoyed this. Yeah, I love podcasting, Chuck, all right, 263 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: So it's a late seventeen hundreds, we're in France and 264 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: there's a series of men that are intent on jumping 265 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: off of things and testing out this new thing called 266 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: a parachute. Yeah, and so in the fourteen seventies, Da 267 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: Vinci is credited with designing the first parachute just on paper. 268 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: I've seen pictures and apparently somebody did. Somebody built it, 269 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, it works. Of course it's da Vinci. 270 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: But something and I couldn't figure out what it was. 271 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,479 Speaker 1: But something in the eighteenth century and nineteenth century just 272 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: caused like parachute fever in France, and there was like 273 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: you really, you can't really attribute it to anybody else 274 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 1: but the French that the development or the early development 275 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: of the parachute. There was just a bunch of frenchmen 276 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,239 Speaker 1: working on the parachute at about the same time. And 277 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: maybe it was the advent of hot air balloons, which 278 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: was another huge thing in France, and they were like, well, 279 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 1: I'm up here, and how am I going to get 280 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 1: down there if my balloon starts to crash? So it's 281 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: possible that was it. But there were a lot of 282 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: French guys jumping off of like buildings in the late 283 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: eighteenth in early nineteenth century trying out parachutes. Yes, I 284 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: mean over a ten or fifteen year period. There was 285 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 1: a guy named Joseph mont gulf Yer, great name that 286 00:17:53,520 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: means golf mountain. Oh nice, Louis Sebastian Uh Lenoman, It's okay, 287 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: I just dropped the last couple of letters on anything 288 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 1: French and the ally do it. And then a third 289 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: guy named Bourges he just he's like share right. All 290 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 1: of them were kind of making parachutes. There was another 291 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:21,959 Speaker 1: one to um, Jean Pierre Blanchard, who actually realized that 292 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 1: silk is pretty good for getting out of a hot 293 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: air balloon as a parachute. He had to ditch once 294 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: back in. So there are a bunch of them. And 295 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 1: Lenormand is the guy who actually coined the term parachute, 296 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: which para in the Greek means against and shoot in 297 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: French means fall, so it's against falling. The parachute is 298 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: yeah in a way, so they they The parachute was 299 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: invented by a number of people, but there was one 300 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: specific parachute kind of like a wing suit, but it 301 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: differed from a wingsuit in that it didn't work at all, 302 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 1: and it was invented typically by a guy named Franz Reichelt, 303 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: and I would love to hear you say his name properly, France. 304 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Yeah. That that's an interesting case too, 305 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: because this was a full like close to a hundred 306 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: years after people were successfully using parachutes. Yeah, so it 307 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: wasn't like he was like, oh man, these things have 308 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: not worked yet and I really need to figure out 309 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: a better way. Um. So I think Franz was I 310 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 1: don't think he had a death wish, but I think 311 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: he was shooting for the stars. He was. He was 312 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: an eccentric. This is what I've gathered. Yeah, he was 313 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,719 Speaker 1: an eccentric. He was a very talented tailor. But this 314 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,400 Speaker 1: article points out, I think quite astutely as as part 315 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: part of being an inventor is knowing where to draw 316 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: inspiration from among other inventions and inventors. And this guy 317 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: apparently just went through to um first principles like Elon 318 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: Musk does, where it's like, um, oh, I can buy 319 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: batteries on the market for this. Let me instead figure 320 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: out what you need to make a battery, and I'll 321 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: go by those parts and make it for way cheaper 322 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: Franz Reicheld seemed to have the same impression about his 323 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 1: flying suit. He just kind of made it up, not 324 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,479 Speaker 1: based on anything else. He just did it himself and 325 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: he was quite proud of it. And he took it 326 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: to the Arrow Club of France and said check this out, 327 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: and they said, do not use that ever. Ever, the 328 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: thing is not going to do anything, and he said, oh, 329 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 1: nuts to you. And he started doing trials from his 330 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: fifth floor apartment window with a dummy and it didn't work, 331 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 1: but he wasn't dissuaded by any of that. Yeah, the 332 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: only thing I can figure out is that um, because 333 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: again I don't think he had a death wish. I 334 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: think he must have thought. The only thing I can 335 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: figure is he must have thought a dummy like it 336 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: needs to be a real rigid human that can move 337 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: their body, and a dummy is just not gonna cut it. 338 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: So I need to try this thing out because I 339 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: think it's gonna work. It was a time in nineteens 340 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: well when apparently you could go to the Eiffel Tower 341 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: and just tell the cops, Hey, I'm gonna throw a 342 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: dummy um off of the Eiffel Tower to trap my 343 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: flying suit and they said go ahead. Uh so he 344 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 1: went up there. But UM, I don't think he changed 345 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 1: his mind. I think by all accounts it was he 346 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: intended fully to do this himself the whole time. And 347 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: the suit like you have um been hinting at it 348 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. It didn't And actually I should have 349 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: sent you this one to British Pete or Pete, I'm 350 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 1: not quite sure what what the the old newsreel service. 351 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: They were there and and there is a haunting video 352 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 1: of him. There is close up like it's not far away, 353 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: but close up, like on the ledge of the first 354 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:53,959 Speaker 1: platform of the Eiffel Tower nine ft or almost fifty 355 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: eight meters high, just like waiting, waiting, and then he 356 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: jumps and he just goes straight down like a sack 357 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: of potatoes and dies immediately hundred ninety feet very very tragic. Yeah, 358 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: And on the film that you see the police measuring 359 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: the depth of the impression he made in the ground 360 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: when he fell. When he hit the ground, it's really 361 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: sad to see, like you're like, don't do it, don't 362 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 1: do it, and you but you know obviously that he's 363 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 1: going to do it, and he he died. Well, it 364 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: was a time too where people were trying to figure 365 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: all this stuff out, so they're all kind of crazy. 366 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I know we haven't done one on the 367 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: Right Brothers yet, but I mean you've seen all the 368 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: crazy flying machines that people were trying to come up with. 369 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: It was. It was a time of the spirit of 370 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: adventure was in the air, and everyone there was probably like, man, 371 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: check out this guy. He's going to fly off the 372 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower. Yeah. I mean they thought that or they 373 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: all had a lot of blood lust and we're coming 374 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 1: out to see this guy die. You know, I don't 375 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: think he had a death wish either, Chuck, And he 376 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 1: actually applied for a permit. That's sweet. So I mean, 377 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: why would you apply for a permit if you had 378 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: a pretty good idea you were going to die. I 379 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: think he thought very much that they was going to 380 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: work and he was going to live, and he didn't 381 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 1: want to get in trouble, so he applied for a 382 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: permit first. That's a good point. How about moving on? 383 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: Yes number three? Max Valierre would say it, Valier, I 384 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: don't like I don't like extra letters, man, I need 385 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 1: to take French. Um. Sure, Although this guy wasn't even French, 386 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: was he. No, he was born Get this, he was 387 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 1: born in Austria Hungary and the town of Bozen. But 388 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: Austria Hungary broke up. It was very sad and um 389 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: that town is now known as Bozano, Italy. But the 390 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: guy's last name is Vollier. So that was the Italian 391 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: or what we would consider Italian if he was. If 392 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 1: he had been born after the Austro Hungarian Empire collapsed, 393 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: he would have been Italian. But he was Austro Hungarian. Well, yeah, 394 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,719 Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. I mean, it's not 395 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: like said all you Austro Hungarians get out of here. 396 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: I don't know, I really don't know. I would guess 397 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: because it was an empire, there was probably a lot 398 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 1: of movement around the empire. So who knows what his 399 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: his his ethnicity or pedigree was in his family. Well, 400 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: we know one thing for sure is that he was 401 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: a smart dude. And he did not have a degree 402 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: in science, but he was very good at figuring stuff out. 403 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: He was and and I guess an amateur engineer would 404 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: be the best thing to call him. Yeah, in a 405 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: bit of a groupie, sure, but but like a groupie 406 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: who put his his his actions where his mouth was. Yeah. 407 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: So he reads a book by um, a German engineer 408 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: named erman O Birth and it was called The Rocket 409 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: Into in an Interplanetary Space. Just just wonderful in the 410 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: in the early twentieth century when books like this would 411 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: be written. Yeah, this is this is I think credited 412 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 1: with helping inspire the idea that like, um, we actually 413 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 1: could do this. Yeah. Yeah, So this guy gets inspired 414 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: by this book on an amateur level. He develops a 415 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: four stage program and starts to get to work on 416 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: what what would be with with a car company, Opal 417 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: at his side, like in partnership on a rocket powered car, 418 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: not a space rocket, but a car. And he built 419 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: these things and he actually worked. Yeah, and Opal was 420 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: involved in this to like a red bull degree. They 421 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: were like, look at this crazy stuff. Check this out. 422 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: We're making a rocket car. But Vollier was like, no, 423 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: this is the future. Rockets are going to power everything. 424 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 1: And he actually I think some of the first tests 425 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: were pretty putsy, like one of them win a hundred 426 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: and twenty five in thirty five seconds. Not super fast, 427 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: I mean like a football field in a quarter in 428 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: thirty five seconds. Is not fast, but later on he 429 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: got some of these rocket cars up to a hundred 430 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 1: and forty five. That's impressive. And then he got a 431 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: rocket sled up to two hundred and fifty miles an hour. Yeah, 432 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: this is in Yeah, so like these rockets are working. 433 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: He's he's making him work. But then there were there 434 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: was a phase three and four of his four point plan, 435 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: and it went from static engines just the rocket engine 436 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: tests themselves, to rocket cars and rocket sleds, and then 437 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: to rocket powered aircraft in then um space rockets. Yeah, 438 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: and to his credit, like, um, it's not like things 439 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: were going really poorly and he was just pressing on anyway, 440 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: Like like you said, he got one of them up 441 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: to two hundred fifty miles an hour, so it would 442 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: make sense to go to a stage three, the rocket 443 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: assisted aircraft. And then very tragically May seventeen, Uh, he 444 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,439 Speaker 1: died working on phase three. He's working on a liquid 445 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: oxygen gasoline fueled rocket motor. This thing explodes, a piece 446 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 1: of shrapnel severs his aorta, and he's dead, like immediately, yeah. Yeah, 447 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: everything I saw was that he he just dropped it. 448 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 1: So it must have been a heck of a severed 449 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: a Yorda. I mean, right, there was hard I guess then, huh, 450 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 1: I guess so jeez man. Yeah, an explosion that shoots 451 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: a piece of strapnel that severed you a yorda. You're 452 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: not gonna last much very long after that. And he 453 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: was only thirty five years old at the time too. 454 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: He had a pretty bright future. In all of this 455 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: is self taught rocket guy. It's pretty impressive. But his 456 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: um this article is hilarious. It talks about how his 457 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: legacy continued. So he helped found u UM, an organization 458 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: called you want to take that one? Uh sure, um, 459 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: I love that. I take German and you take French, 460 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 1: and both of us should have taken Spanish and neither 461 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: one of us can do Chinese. That's right. I'm gonna 462 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: say Verine, fire Ram Chift, not bad Chuck. That's what 463 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 1: I would have said too. It means a society for 464 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: space travel, because again, at the time, this is like 465 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: people smart people are saying, like we can actually do this, 466 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: let's figure out how to do it. And some very 467 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 1: famous UM people were members of this space society, and 468 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: some of the members actually went on to work on 469 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: the Saturn five project, including one member named Arthur Rudolph. 470 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 1: And the thing that cracks me up about this article 471 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: is Arthur Rudolph was a Nazi war criminal, right, who 472 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: was basically plucked out of Nazi Germany at the end 473 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 1: of the war from the V two rocket program, which 474 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: just devastated Britain and other parts of Europe um and 475 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 1: put to work on the the Apollo space mission. And 476 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: then after that they said, okay, you have to go 477 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: now be you're being accused of working people at death 478 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: in your V two factory. But he carried on Max 479 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: Valier's legacy. Yeah, in a way, I guess. So. Yeah, yep. 480 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: Have you seen the trailer for the Neil Armstrong movie. No, 481 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: I haven't. All of you here is Oscar Buzz looks good. 482 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: I'm sure man. That the Ryan Gosling man. He's he's 483 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: pretty good. He's great. You want to take a break, Yeah, 484 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: let's do it, okay, alright, Chuck. I think we're down 485 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: to two. And this is weird because normally we do 486 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: top tens, but we only do seven or eight of them. 487 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: This is a top five, and by god, we're doing 488 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: all five. That's right. When the couple added on, ah, yeah, 489 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: this one William Bullock, Old Bill Bullock in eighty two. 490 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: That was the printing in the printing press. You know 491 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: the history of the printing press. In fact, we should 492 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: do one on that too, at some point, you bet. 493 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: Really fascinating and many many people contributed to the printing 494 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: press gaining attraction and gaining and speed and just getting 495 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: more efficient and being able to pump out more and 496 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: more what you would call sheets per hour paper sheets 497 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: per hour, right and up to and by eight thirty 498 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: two they're up to about four hundred sheets per hour. 499 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: That was good, like, yeah, not bad at all. Um. 500 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: It was like it was a flat press. You had 501 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: the type set on like a flatboard that came down 502 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: and you'd take the paper off or flip it over 503 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: and then print another one another one. They could do 504 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: like four hundred sheets per hour like that. And then 505 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: this guy named Richard Hoe came up with He replaced 506 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: that flat thing with the type setting with a cylinder 507 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: with type setting, so it just spun and you just 508 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: moved that paper on and off as fast as you could, 509 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you could do like a 510 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: thousand to four thousand papers pages an hour. So there 511 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: was a huge leap, right, and by I think eighteen 512 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: thirty two is when Richard Hose invention came along. Yeah, 513 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: so flash four word another thirty to thirty three years 514 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: and William Bullock comes along again, a great period of 515 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: invention in the world and in the United States, and 516 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: he created the Bullock press, which was I think this 517 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: is sort of the one we're more used to seeing now, 518 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: which is a rotary press which had um, not sheets 519 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: of paper, but one big, huge roll of paper. Some 520 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: of these were up to five miles long, where you're 521 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: just continually cranking these things through and all of a 522 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: sudden you could get twelve thousand sheets per hour. Yeah, 523 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: what was amazing about? So before, like it didn't matter 524 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: how fast that cylinder was moving, you still had a 525 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: human who had to take a paper off after it 526 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: was printed and put a piece of blank paper on 527 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: to do the next one. With this, it was just 528 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: fully automated, and you had a cylinder on top doing 529 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: the front and you had a cylinder on bottom doing 530 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: the backside of the paper. So you could print two 531 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: sided twelve thousand chiefs per hour. And today, from what 532 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: I saw, those rotary presses that um Bullock invented move 533 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: paper through it like twenty miles an hour, and can 534 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,719 Speaker 1: do like I think, sixty four thousand, hundred and twenty 535 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: eight page booklets in an hour. Now they're they're that fast, 536 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: which is I'm impressed. It's it's come a long way. 537 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: But Bill Bullock, like you said, kick the whole thing 538 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: off with his web rotary printing press. And I mean, 539 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: think about it, think about making an improvement to a 540 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: machine where it was four thousand pages an hour, now 541 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: it's twelve thousand thanks to you, You feel pretty good 542 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: about yourself. Plus he was a newspaper editor too, so 543 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: he was kind of doing this based on his own 544 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: observations and how to make improvements in his own industry. 545 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 1: And he was an orphan raised by his brother who 546 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: was self taught in mechanics just from reading books. So 547 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: I'm impressed with William Bullock, except for one of the 548 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: last things he ever did in his life. Yeah. So 549 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: because he was invented this machine, he would work on 550 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: it himself. He would adjust it and make repairs himself. Uh. 551 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: And there was the Philadelphia Public Ledger in eighteen sixty 552 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: seven one of his Bullock presses needed some work, so 553 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: he went in there himself, was working on it, and 554 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: exactly what you think happened happened. His leg gets caught 555 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 1: in one of these rollers and there was no pulling 556 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 1: out at that point and crushed his leg. That turned gangrenous, 557 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: and he died a few days after that. Yeah, during 558 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 1: an operation to amputate the leg. Yeah, very like. I 559 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 1: feel like he was close to making it. He was. 560 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, from what I saw, what got 561 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: him was he was trying to kick a belt back 562 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: onto a pulley and if his leg got caught in 563 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: there and sucked in, that means he was doing that 564 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: while the machine was operating. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. 565 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, not that impressive, but he um, yeah, that's 566 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: a terror by way to go Gang Green through complications 567 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: of surgery from Gang Green, brought onto leg crushing, brought 568 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,879 Speaker 1: on by not just stopping to turn the machine off, 569 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: brought on by being a brilliant inventor, great guy. Nothing 570 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 1: makes me more relaxed and enthralled in watching a a 571 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,359 Speaker 1: newspaper operation being printed. I've said it before, have you? 572 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,479 Speaker 1: I have you because it doesn't ring a bell. Yeah, 573 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: I think I said it when we were talking about 574 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 1: the the movie that last year, what's called The Paper, No, 575 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 1: the Post, the Post there Um. One of the hokeyest 576 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: shots I've ever seen in my life is in that 577 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: movie what is It? Where the lawyers and the editors 578 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:49,359 Speaker 1: are all at um uh. I think they're at Tom 579 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:56,760 Speaker 1: Hanks's house and they're arguing and they like the cameras 580 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,719 Speaker 1: just moving around the room, just taking in all this 581 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 1: frenetic scene. And one of the shots is Bob and 582 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 1: David from Mr. Show like pointing into the chests of 583 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,319 Speaker 1: the lawyers like in rhythm, and then the lawyers are 584 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 1: backing up in rhythm, almost like it's like a Rogers 585 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: and Hammers Hammerstein musical. That's I suddenly is breaking out. 586 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: It's crazy, And I was like, who directed this? And 587 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: then I saw that Steven Spielberg directed this, and I thought, 588 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 1: I think his maybe B or C director maybe came 589 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,480 Speaker 1: up with that one, like his second unit was hoping. 590 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: I'm hoping. I just love that he cast Mr. Show 591 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 1: and that it was pretty great. I did not expect 592 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: to see that in that movie. Have you seen The 593 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: Paper the Michael Keaton, Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. 594 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: That's that is a world classman. That was a Ron 595 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: Howard movie. Yeah. Those guys know how to make movies 596 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,600 Speaker 1: for the most part, unless it's a Star Wars movie. 597 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: Uh do they make one? Yeah? Ron Howard made the 598 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: Han solo movie. I didn't know that, did you see it? 599 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: I didn't care for it. The what the one I 600 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: saw that I liked was a rogue rogue one that 601 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: was great. Yeah. I had nothing to do with anything, right, 602 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 1: it was just its own thing. I mean that's great. Yeah. 603 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,640 Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it had nothing to do with anything, 604 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,759 Speaker 1: but it wasn't like part of the I don't even 605 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: know what Star Wars fans call that the cannon. Yeah, 606 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: we're just gonna get slaughtered for this, So that's fine. 607 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 1: I've been slaughtered for less, So let's move on. Then. 608 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: How are you gonna how do you pronounce that guy's name? 609 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: Ker Michael Dacre? That's what I'm going with, al Right, 610 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: you're keeping all the letters. I looked it up, and um, 611 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 1: I couldn't find any news coverage of it. That's usually 612 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 1: how you can find somebody's Yeah, and this is surprising 613 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: because this was very recently. Um, and we're going back 614 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 1: to rockets again. With this one. Uh, and this is 615 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: a really interesting idea for an invention. If you look 616 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 1: at these things, I assume you checked out the pictures 617 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,959 Speaker 1: of the jet pod, dude. So this guy idea uh. 618 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,920 Speaker 1: He was born in the UK in ninety six, was 619 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:10,240 Speaker 1: a pilot in the British Army and um but good pilot, 620 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,920 Speaker 1: and he had this idea for something called the jetpod, 621 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:18,279 Speaker 1: which is basically an air taxi. So he was like, 622 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 1: if I I think if I can invent something that 623 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,439 Speaker 1: goes uh, doesn't need very much runway to take off, 624 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: can go really really fast and in a quick time um, 625 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 1: and land in a in a kind of a truncated area, 626 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: then I can speed up. I can make like a 627 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,799 Speaker 1: a jet taxi where people can get from like an 628 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 1: airport to a city center. In the case of London, 629 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 1: he said, in four minutes from heath he Throw to 630 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,279 Speaker 1: central London. Yes, dude, which I'm sure you know this 631 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: from when we did our UK tour. It takes an 632 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:57,160 Speaker 1: hour at least to get there by regular like car taxi. Yeah, 633 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 1: by the by black cab. It's horrible. So the idea 634 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: of getting from central London to Heathrow in four minutes 635 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:09,000 Speaker 1: is a dream by itself, right, they really are. And 636 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 1: from what I can tell, this was not just like 637 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,880 Speaker 1: some pie in this guy kind of thing, like this 638 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,479 Speaker 1: guy was on track. This thing was like the real deal. 639 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 1: It was something called very quiet short takeoff and landing aircraft, 640 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,720 Speaker 1: which is a type of vt o L vertical takeoff 641 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 1: and landing, which, like you said, it just needed a 642 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: very short strip of land, which meant you didn't have 643 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: to you didn't have to have an airport. You could 644 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,919 Speaker 1: have like a dedicated, say air strip, but it could 645 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,320 Speaker 1: be it would just take up a very small amount 646 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,480 Speaker 1: of land in the middle of the city. And they 647 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 1: were going to sell them for a million dollars, which 648 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: meant that trips on these things would have been like 649 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: fifty sixty bucks, um, it's as much as yeah, and 650 00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,439 Speaker 1: in four minutes rather than an hour. And the whole 651 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 1: point was this was this was gonna ease congestion. It 652 00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 1: was going to be a cheap and easy way to 653 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,200 Speaker 1: kind of hop short distances or medium distances. And he 654 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:08,320 Speaker 1: had some ideas for military and like ambulance um uses 655 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,680 Speaker 1: for it as well. So it was close and who 656 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,920 Speaker 1: knows if we might have these things by now, because 657 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,080 Speaker 1: um and two thousand nine the guy died and he 658 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 1: was It was during a test flight of one of 659 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,440 Speaker 1: the jet pods. Yeah, there were a few of them. Um. 660 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,400 Speaker 1: I don't think we said on any feet. About four 661 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:32,680 Speaker 1: feet to take off, um, which is about and it 662 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,000 Speaker 1: would go like three hundred and fifty miles an hour, 663 00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,920 Speaker 1: which is awesome. But he had three models. The T 664 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 1: one hundred UM sort of if you look these things up, 665 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,399 Speaker 1: it looks like a little ultra light plane, but it's 666 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,600 Speaker 1: a jet. This would take about fifty trips a day 667 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,319 Speaker 1: back and forth between the airport and city centers. It 668 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,839 Speaker 1: looks like a short bus plane, is what it looks like, 669 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,799 Speaker 1: because it's yellow, you know, it's totally and it's like stubby. Yeah, 670 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: it's stubby with wings and goes super super fast. Then 671 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,080 Speaker 1: he had the M three hundred, which was bigger, bigger. 672 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,439 Speaker 1: This is the one that like, um, he thought could 673 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:14,560 Speaker 1: take the place of like military helicopters, right or not 674 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,760 Speaker 1: take the place up, but you know, assist with removing 675 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,440 Speaker 1: injured soldiers from the battlefield. And then the E four 676 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,120 Speaker 1: hundred was like a like a flying ambulance. Yeah. So 677 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,400 Speaker 1: these things, like you said, they were speeding along again, 678 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,600 Speaker 1: not pyeing the sky. This was a real thing that 679 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,919 Speaker 1: was happening. And then on August six, two thousand nine, 680 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: not very long ago, he took one of the eight 681 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:40,640 Speaker 1: Seedar models, a prototype UH in Malaysia for a test flight. 682 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: I also saw I was in Taiwan. Oh really, yeah, 683 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 1: I couldn't tell where it actually happened. Interesting, So he 684 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,760 Speaker 1: and this is where it gets a little frustrating, because 685 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,040 Speaker 1: he he could not get airborne on three attempts. And that, 686 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: to me is when you're like, all right, let's just 687 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,359 Speaker 1: ground it for the day and figure this out. But 688 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,160 Speaker 1: he tried to fourth time, the aircraft went right straight 689 00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,080 Speaker 1: up into the air vertically and then right back down 690 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:10,160 Speaker 1: and killed him. Yeah, it shut up five seven feet 691 00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,080 Speaker 1: and then yawned left and crashed and that was that. 692 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: And that was that. I don't I'm curious. I would 693 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: imagine that this thing wasn't completely scrapped after that. I'm 694 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,040 Speaker 1: curious what the status is. I couldn't find anything about it. 695 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,759 Speaker 1: It's the company that he founded that was developing its 696 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,359 Speaker 1: absent a V C E N and I couldn't find 697 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,359 Speaker 1: what the status of that thing is. I hope they 698 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,080 Speaker 1: continue on with it because it would just be wonderful 699 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,879 Speaker 1: to have these things. Because another thing, I mean, these 700 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,600 Speaker 1: were jets, but something they had some sort of technology 701 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,879 Speaker 1: that cut the jet noise in half by fifty. Yeah, 702 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,120 Speaker 1: so it's not like we would just hear jets in 703 00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:53,600 Speaker 1: our city skies constantly. It was relatively inexpensive. Yeah, but 704 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 1: you need to solve that straight up and straight down thing. Well, 705 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,280 Speaker 1: our I P, Michael Dacre and r He all those 706 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:06,040 Speaker 1: inventors except ly see are really interested in wishing him well. 707 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,160 Speaker 1: Um who who died by their own invention, hats off 708 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:15,919 Speaker 1: to you for your spirit of curiosity and ingenuity. Agreed. Uh. 709 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,600 Speaker 1: If you want to know more about inventors who died 710 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,080 Speaker 1: by their own inventions, go onto the internet. There's all 711 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,960 Speaker 1: sorts of stuff about that. And in the meantime, it's 712 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 1: time for listener mail. I'm gonna call this. I love 713 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,800 Speaker 1: it when we get answers to questions that we asked 714 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,799 Speaker 1: because this from Scott Miller, and we asked about how 715 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,120 Speaker 1: they test for color blindness and animals, and he knows 716 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,319 Speaker 1: because he does that. Guys just finished that episode. In 717 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,560 Speaker 1: Chuck's question about how they test, I was very excited 718 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,920 Speaker 1: because This comes from my own area of study in 719 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,600 Speaker 1: behavior analysis. It's actually a very simple and clever experiment. 720 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,239 Speaker 1: Experiments will will teach an animal to respond to a color, 721 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: often by pressing a lever or button, um or performing 722 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,799 Speaker 1: some action that is easy for them, and in doing so, 723 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,920 Speaker 1: the animal earns a treat. But the animals only get 724 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,759 Speaker 1: treats if they press the lever when certain colors are 725 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: presented to them. So in this way, if an animal 726 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,760 Speaker 1: does not respond differently between two colors e g. Green 727 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,759 Speaker 1: and red for dogs, then that would indicate that they 728 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,200 Speaker 1: are deficient in detecting those colors. The same is true 729 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 1: for birds, rodents, cats, and anything else. They have tried 730 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,440 Speaker 1: this with. Congratulations on being one of the greatest podcast ever. 731 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:33,520 Speaker 1: Love Scott Miller. Thanks Scott Geeze so as sweet as that. Yeah, 732 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,919 Speaker 1: that was very sweet and thanks for explaining. It makes 733 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,919 Speaker 1: total sense. The poor animals, they're like, I can't tell 734 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,200 Speaker 1: between red and green, so they don't give you mouse 735 00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:49,239 Speaker 1: heads anymore. Can I get another mouse head? If you 736 00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,080 Speaker 1: want to get in touch with this, like Scott did, 737 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,799 Speaker 1: we would love to hear from you. You can hang 738 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,000 Speaker 1: out with us at our home on the web. Stuff 739 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,560 Speaker 1: You should Know dot com. You can also find links 740 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,759 Speaker 1: to our social media accounts, where you can sometimes find 741 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,879 Speaker 1: us lurking around UM. Or you can send a plain 742 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,840 Speaker 1: old fashioned email to Stuff podcast at how stuff Works 743 00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:16,440 Speaker 1: dot com. For more on this and thousands of other topics. 744 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,719 Speaker 1: Is it how stuff works dot com Yah,