WEBVTT - Beyond Human: Accessorize! 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.680 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:14.360 Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.560 This is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. And you know, Julie, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.640 we have some pretty sharp dressers here at How Stuff Works, 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.920 but nobody really, nobody here is accessorizing today, like like 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.920 we are like, can you explain this, um, this blue 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.000 uh dolphiny outfit that you're wearing today? Well, it's a 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.560 it's kind of shimmery first of all, and it's got um, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.080 all sorts of zippers on it. It's like very eighties, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.360 you know, it's kind of a throwback to a motorcycle jacket. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.960 And then I've got this fabulous fin at the bottom 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.320 and um, in fact, it's this fin that can propel 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.559 me through the water like twice as fast as Michael Phelps. Wow, 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.080 how did you drive to work in that? Um? You know, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.680 just carefully. I've got a stitch shift, so it was 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.080 just kind of a kind of stop and go and 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.160 lots of looking, but you know, it's completely worth it. Wow. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:03.840 Well it looks pretty sharp, almost as sharp as what 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.479 I'm wearing, which is a wingsuit. I did not fly 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.840 to work because you you actually have to have a 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.160 really significant skydiving experience to jump out of a plane 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:14.960 in one of these. But it looks pretty sharp. But 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.720 we have this awesome webbing underneath each of my arms. Um. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.440 The webbing between my that goes down between my legs 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.280 is a little less awesome because it makes me kind 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.440 of have to walk like a penguin, which can be 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.200 a little awkward on Martha. Um. But you know, so 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.920 I think a few people may miss the train this 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.560 morning because of me. If you're listening, I apologize. But 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.399 if I was to fall off a cliff and this 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.440 thing I would, I would stand a really good chance 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.360 of not dying quite as fast. Yeah, and you would 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.520 kind of look like, you know, Bobby Brown. Yeah, with 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.400 a sort of Bobby Brown wingsuit is what I'm looking 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.200 at right now. The Bobby I like the idea of 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.960 the Bobby Brown wingsuit. He's not doing anything right now. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.000 He can he can get behind this product. Oh yeah, absolutely, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.360 this is prerogative. So we are talking about accessorizing the 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.840 not just the human wardrobe, but the human form. That's right, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.640 not content just to be human, right, And we've been 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.920 doing this for a while. I mean clothing itself is 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.920 basically an accessory to the human form. Like hair is 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.959 not cutting it. Throw some clothing on there. If you 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.720 get some hair from another animal to augment what we've 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.440 got going on, and suddenly you can sustain. You can 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.400 go a little farther north or a little farther south 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.760 to forge for food. Right, that's right exactly. I mean 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.840 it's crazy the amount of accessorising we do. Well. Our 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.400 kitchen is kind of an accessory. I've heard this argument 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.200 that it's basically an external stomach that we've created to 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.920 to cook food, and or even just a camp fire 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.440 is kind of an external stomach in a certain sense. Well, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.400 until like how's our food? Yeah? Yeah, and it makes 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.680 it more digestible and does does the work that our 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:47.239 stomach cannot or you know, will not. Yeah, yeah, I 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.639 think it's it's it's pretty fascinating the ways that we've 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.640 tried to manipulate our form. And I even think about 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.920 the Right brothers, which you know, of course we're land lovers. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.560 We we can't fly, but that didn't stop them, yeah, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.839 or the just count as people just for centuries beforehand 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.360 that that tried and generally died or were horribly injured 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.320 when they fell off of something with wings strapped to them. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.440 Yeah I could fly. Yeah yeah. We actually we have 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.440 a couple of really good articles on that. We have 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.960 a like a top ten early attempts at flight article 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.120 on the house stuff works dot com. We're checking out 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.960 that details some of these more disastrous attempts, and I 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.000 wrote a short one like what was the first attempt 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.800 to fly? That also goes into some of these just 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:33.520 comic but also horrible accidents um of early attempts at 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.200 human flight. That's right, But I like the way that 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.320 you you put what we're talking about today. It was 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.720 basically like humans trying to Mr potato head themselves. Yeah. Yeah, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.760 it's like the potato in itself. It's not you know, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.560 doing much, but you know, so some eyes and there's 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.400 so some teeth on there. You know, the human form. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.440 It's not gonna excel in the water, um, like a dolphin. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.040 It's not gonna sail like a bird. So we end 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.320 up it's not going to sting like a bee. Yeah yeah, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.240 it's not gonna sting like a bee. So we kind 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.880 of I I couldn't help but think of like like 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:06.280 a classroom containing all the varied forms that natural selection 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.920 is generated over over millions of years. And uh and 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.120 imagine like the human setting there and kind of like 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.400 looking over to cheat off of somebody else's sheet, because 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.479 we're we're cheating off of the work that in many 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.840 of these, in some of these more bio mimetic, you know, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.960 mimicking mimick, mimicking biology forms, We're we're basically kind of 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.479 cheating off of their work. You know, their natural selection 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.039 has has been pushing this, uh, this design and fine 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.600 tuning this design for ages, and we're just kind of like, 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.839 you know, looking over seeing what they're doing and copying 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.080 it to our own, our own purposes. Yeah, and I'm 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.840 thinking about the dolphin fins. Um, well, let's get into 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.120 the dolphin fins. Yeah, where is this coming from? Like 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:53.680 where symbolically or who came up with this great idea? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.960 let's go with that one. Okay. Ted C. Millo, whom 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.200 is an inventor, basically studied the dolphin form and said, Okay, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.960 that is really cool that dolphins use something like of 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.159 their energy and convert it into thrust, whereas us humans 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.480 are pretty lousy in the water and we can only 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.080 convert four percent of our energy into forward motions. So 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.280 basically when we get into the water, it's just it's 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.720 it's kind of an awkward experience if you think about it, Like, 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.240 even if we put on swim fins, right, we're you know, flippers, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.880 we're only just getting like what ten to fift more efficient, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.920 right exactly, and we're still kind of just trudging through 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.600 the water. Even if even if we look really elegant 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.680 like Michael Phelps, which I know that when I swim my, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.360 like really elegant like him, it's still not the best, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:44.279 uh way to make our way through that sort of 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.880 uh discuss material, I guess you could say. So this 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:52.760 guy Semlo, great, totally interesting guy. He decides that he's 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.839 going to create a two and a half pound fin 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.960 um and this is made by his company called Luna Set, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:05.279 and uh it's basically like a piece of foam and 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.640 it's got a really big span so it allows you 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.479 to now go twice as fast as Michael Phelps in 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.839 the water. It's kind of like a mermaid uh flipper, right, yes, yeah, 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.039 And so the really cool thing about this too is 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.719 that he envisions that eventually and they've been messing around 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.080 with us that that you can breach completely out of 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.680 the water like a dolphin, you need to actually jump 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.480 up into the air, yes, like like SeaWorld style, which 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.120 then I start to think, of course, well, are they 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.560 going to replace the dolphins with the human humans breaching 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.640 the water? Oh? Man? And then you'll like, you'll be 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.520 able to go, You'll be out in California, be able 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.640 to take tour boats out to watch like the crazy 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.200 um dolphin people. Yes, coming up to the side of 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.240 the boat and like, you know, following following the boat 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.039 like they do and jumping out of the water exactly. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.680 Although I still think the humans might be fired. I 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.080 feel like they won't be able to do the tricks 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.840 as well. Yeah yeah, I don't know. But what they 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.680 can was they can have those guys like the dolphin 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.039 people hanging out in the back of the boat and 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.200 if they're they start freaking out. It's like, oh my goodness, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.920 we're not singing any whales, we're not singing any dolphins. 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.560 They're like, call those guys in, We're not sending these 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.720 people back disappointed. I like that. I want to ride 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:18.760 the humans me um. Well. CML also is envisioning this 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.960 hydro touring aspect of it too, which is basically that 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:23.880 you get a group of people who have these fins 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.000 on and they can go really long distances throughout the day. 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.720 They've got waterproof gear, backpacks, and they can basically just 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.600 go and hang out in the oceans as long as 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.120 they want and tour around. And of course that makes 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.760 me think of like these marauding gangs. Oh we'll see, 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.480 I was. I had a much more optimistic view that 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.920 I was thinking like sort of wandering hippies of the sea, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.160 you know, especially since this guy that comes from Athens, Georgia, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.120 which I mean, granted has the whole like football side 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.120 of it, but then there's also kind of like a 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.400 hit thee, you know, music incompatible with the world outside 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.520 of Athens quality too. I Mean, I love Athens, but 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.320 I can't help but think of the patent Oswalt quote 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.320 that it's one of those places where people like leave 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.040 Athens and then they're they're like, what you can't you 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.800 can't pay for a meal with a song in this 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.120 in this town, you know. So it's true, it does 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.200 have its own little special bubble of reality to it, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.200 and so it makes sense that it produced this guy. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.920 Yeah totally so. But but yeah, indeed, Weather we're talking 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.760 you know, your vision of of you know, marauding, um, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.000 you know Hell's Angels with flippers. Yeah yeah. Can't you 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:29.760 just see them going up to the snorre flowers, like 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.160 the tourists who are all snorkeling, and just start jabbing 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.400 them and you know, running away really quickly or swimming away. Yeah, 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.520 what with like the bottle knows that they wear over 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.560 their mouth exactly. Yeah yeah, yeah, that along with like 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.040 a Nixon mask. Yeah. Well, okay, all right, I can 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.440 I feel like the hippie idea a little better. But but 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:48.880 but I mean, either way, they would be heading out 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.840 to like a local little island with their sack full 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.280 of like with their cell phone and their GPS system 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.040 and some peanut butter sandwich. Yeah, unless they're really into it. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.720 Maybe they only they start only eating like you know, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.440 like raw fish. Oh, like they just really embrace it. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.800 Yeah yeah, and they start spearing their fish. Yeah. You 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.760 could create an entire community out of this. This doesn't 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.160 have to be like a day trip. It could be 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.440 a way of life. Yeah. But this guy Semial He 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.280 also created a human powered submarine and I don't know 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.160 if he's actually used it to cross the Atlantic, but 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.560 I know that he's planning to. And it too has 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.960 a bio mimicry and it it's it's got a a 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.800 foil like a dolphin's tail. Okay, now, how many humans 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.319 does he have to enslave to power it? For him? 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.040 You know what? This is the good news? Just one, 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.040 just just himself. Oh okay, that's actually that's a lot 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.720 more optimistic. Yeah yeah, And I mean I can't quite 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.720 get my head around it because it's fifty pounds, But 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.880 it's been explained like a StairMaster crossed with a cross 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:55.000 country ski machine in the arm and leg drive system 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.360 is linked to the flapping tail through a system of pulleys. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.719 And that seems really exhausting to me. I really hope that, um, 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.280 the the inventor is not out there right now on 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.760 the bottom of the ocean in this thing. Now. I 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.880 know that would be awful. But I knew that he 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.520 was planning it for like his forty birthday or to 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:17.640 celebrate his his forty year. And here's a quote on 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.200 his website. He said, I want to spend time out 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.560 on the open ocean, and something I built with my 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.800 own hands, pondering my own existence. So obviously the only 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.840 way to really achieve that is to build a personal submarine. Yeah, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.400 don't run a boat, yeah, starting evil gazing. You just 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.600 have to create your own power petaled submarine. Well, we're 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:37.840 making fun of it a little, but it is kind 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.440 of now it's really I'm making fun of it because 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.520 it's so cool. I want one of my own, and 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.040 I wish I had the own that sort of initiative 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:46.719 to be like, you know, I want to ponder in 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.920 the best way I can ponder in the middle of 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.520 the ocean, and I'm going to make that happen for me. Cool. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.040 It also make it reminds me that we do have 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.839 an article on the site about whether a um giant 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.680 squid could take down a submarine or not. Well, I 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.920 mean that we haven't even discussed rogue waves. Yeah, rogue waves. Yeah, 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.040 I mean that could take animal or um you know, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.599 side stitches. I think that can really thank you in 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:14.240 this particular advice. Oh yeah, I didn't even thought about that. Yikes. Yeah. Yeah, See, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.640 you can't eat your peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.720 you definitely would have to take breaks. So that's one 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.480 way that we're trying to look over at our classmate 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.760 the dolphin and say, what's what's going on with you 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.599 and your design, which I think is pretty cool that 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.079 we're trying to co op cool as long as we 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:36.319 don't do any you know, crazy damage in our marauding gangs. Yeah. Well, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:41.400 while while our marauding um um Luna set that wears 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.600 are busy in the ocean um in the air, we 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:49.360 have people wearing wingsuits like and uh and and these 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.880 are these are pretty awesome. Recently, there's been a couple 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.440 of I mean they by they kind of pop up 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.440 in the news. I guess like wingsuits one of those 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.720 things that the economy doesn't really hurt because they're always 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.880 going to be crazy people who want to jump out 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.319 of an airplane and sort of fly for a little bit. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.920 I mean, they fly, But if you've got that kind 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.240 of discretionary income, you're probably not too badly hurt by 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:14.000 the the economy. Because recently in the news and both 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.760 of these relate to the Red Bull Skydiving team, which 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.320 is basically a wingsuit with a bunch of Red Bull 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.559 logos on it. And uh, they're not like wearing a 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.080 red bull can mascot outfit or anything. They don't have 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.200 what it touched their head with a straw coming down. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.960 But there's a guy named Valerie rose Off and he's 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.760 a Russian and he recently glided uh forty seconds when 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:42.720 he jumped off of Vatana Mountain in uh Antarctica. And 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.960 that's a nine thousand, six d sixteen foot peak. Yeah, 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.160 so there's video that online. It's worth checking out. It's 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.880 extremely terrifying because even though you kind of well on YouTube, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.560 I guess all all you know, bets are off, but 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.719 I figured he probably wasn't going to crash into the 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.920 side of the mountain and die horribly. But you kind 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.440 don't know when you watch this, uh this film, because 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.280 he's pretty close to the side well, And I think 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.240 it's fascinating that it's not enough just to fly through there. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.240 It's to try to get as close to the mountain 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.319 and the cliff as possible. I mean, isn't that that's 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.319 sort of part of the whole wingsuit thing. If if 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.600 you're an enthusiast, well with the base jumpers, I think 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.680 it just kind of comes with the territory because you 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.600 know you're jumping off of a mountain. You know it's 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.640 gonna be you're not gonna necessarily get that much distance, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.520 but plenty of these guys do it also just you know, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.160 out of planes and it's all about that seems to 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.720 be just all about soaring as far as possible. Uh, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.760 you know over when watching the mountains and stuff just 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.720 pass underneath you. So I think there are different schools 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.840 of thought on it. But the other news item related 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.319 to the Red Bull sky Diving Team. Um, but I 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.679 think it's like the last month or so in the 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:51.120 Santa Monica area, they had UFO sidings and it turned 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.000 out to be I was strange lights in the sky. Oh, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.679 it's just the Red Bull Skydiving Team. So so if 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.920 you see a UFO, you know, don't freak out. It 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.480 could just be these guys. Um. And if something comes 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.680 into your house and you have like an abduction, abduction 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.160 experience like we've experienced, like we discussed that previously, Uh, 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.360 try to look at their legs and see if there's webbing, right. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.800 And it's not Bobby Brown by the way, But I 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.679 do think that's kind of funny when you think about it, Like, 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.280 you know, an octogenarian when such good eyesight looking up 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.240 in the in the air and seeing what looks to 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.960 be like these flying squirrels coming at them. Yeah. Yeah. Basically, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.000 if you think of a flying squirrel, you're imagining the 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.960 suit pretty spot on, because it's all about creating an 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.280 air foil, uh, you know. And uh and so it's 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.360 like webbing under the arm and between the legs, and 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.520 so you like, you spread your arms, you tuck your head. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.520 I better not tuck my head away from the mic. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.120 You tuck your head right now, yeah, and uh, and 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.680 you spread your legs and and you create this air 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.280 foil so you can generate some lift. Now, you can't 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.600 get enough. It's not enough to you're still fall you're 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.800 still gonna, you're still kind of falling. I mean, you're 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.840 just sending anyway. You can't really ascend in this in 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.800 this kind of suit, but you can. You can steer, 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:02.920 you can glide around just by moving your your legs. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:08.640 The the airfoil itself. It's pretty brilliant because if you 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.200 look back in uh, in parachuting history, like the first 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.800 parachute jump from an airplane was nineteen twelve, which was 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:19.160 just uh nine years after the right brothers. So you know, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.880 we we were on this pretty quick. It's like, woh, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.880 this is great, we can fly, but can we jump 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.760 out of so? Um. You had a lot of people 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.320 back then they were trying to incorporate wings into their 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.040 design because you know, they're trying to come up with 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.480 ways to steer and and you know, the dream of 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.240 human flight without the aid of this airplane is just 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.240 I mean, it's it's older than the idea of the airplane. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.560 Really you look back to you know, the myths of 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.280 Vicarius and Dadalus and all that, or even looking at 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.200 da Vinci's drawings right exactly. Yeah, so it really predates 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.840 the idea of creating a flying machine. Um. But of 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:56.160 the seventy five original pioneering birdmen, uh seventy two testing 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.240 their new designs and techniques between just between nineteen thirty 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.600 and nine sixty one. Because you throw these uh these 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.800 these different wings on and suddenly you have just just 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.720 like extra limbs that can become entangled in the shoot 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.280 um or like you know, I like to think, you know, 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.880 you jump out and then you go to check your 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.600 pocket watch and uh and then bam, you go into 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.920 a spin because you have a wing out here on 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.640 the side of your arm. So the the wingsuits, though, 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.200 they solve a lot of this really in a really 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.720 neat way, because you don't have like the wings are you. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.640 They're not wings tacked onto you, and and they the 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.880 membranes inflate when you jump out because the air rushing 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.800 up towards you like goes into these chambers and it 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.840 kind of inflates you to a certain degree. I mean, 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.720 you can still moving on, but it gives it kind 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.680 of gives it more of a structure. And so it's 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.160 not just like you know, some loose webbing underneath the army. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.680 That's pretty nuts. So I have to say, I think 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.320 that's that's a speed freak thing. Yeah, And if you're 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.920 interested in doing it, um, just keep in mind that 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.760 you're going to I mean, you can wear one to 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.320 work like I'm doing. It's no problems. You know. Just 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.920 to be careful when the train comes when you're on 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.800 the platform exactly because that that that train breeze will 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.920 catch you, believe me, but you you recommended, it's recommended 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.920 you have a five hundred jump traditional skydiving jumps under 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.879 your belt before you even strap on a beginner wingsuit, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.840 and those will cost your own six D dollars less 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.320 less estimate I looked at and if you get an 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.160 advance model you're looking at at well, you know, well 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:30.600 over twice that. Yeah. So um, some experience probably and 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.639 as well as an understanding of basic physics probably helps 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:40.600 a lot in terms of, yeah, surviving your fun experience exactly. Um. Yeah, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.560 it is an advanced skydiving technique, so that that really 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.680 has to be stressed. It's it's it's an it's it's 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.040 an advanced technique. So don't just don't try and build 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.960 one on your own. No, no, kids, don't do that 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.879 in your backyard there. Yeah. Well, there's another really cool 0:17:55.880 --> 0:18:00.320 way that we're using accessories I suppose you could call them, 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:04.760 which is neural prosthetic devices. Okay, So the cool thing 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.680 about this is that these devices use neural implants consisting 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.080 of an array of electrodes that are implanted in the 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.520 brain to monitor a small set of neurons. Okay, and 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:18.600 now this is related to our nervous system exactly. And 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.679 so if you think about the brain is an electrical device, 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.359 an electricity. Electricity is a common language. So that's what 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.919 allows us to interface the brain to these electronic devices, 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.720 so it detects an individual's intentions to maneuver an object, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.280 such as a prophetic limb. And I'm thinking about the 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.840 bionic arm, which allows you to basically say, you know, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.080 a quick command like move fingers here or go there, 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.159 and then it basically takes that signal and allows your 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.480 hand to move, which is incredible if you think about, 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.320 especially if you've lost a limb. Um, you know, it 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.760 can be used in so many different ways. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.160 it's it's really incredible. Um, it'sens So it seems seems 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.520 like the ones I've seen, you know, schematics of it's 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:04.840 kind of like a little legs so it's like a 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.679 little metal plate in the interior of the device, like 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.720 this kind of a sensor. Yeah. And in fact they 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.080 tested it a monkey, of course. Oh yes, yeah, so 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.960 of course they present a monkey with a bionic arm. 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.720 I'm just gonna assume that the monkey lost that arm naturally. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.640 I'm not even to tarnish my brain with with any 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.200 other possibility. You know, I can't remember right off hand, 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.520 but maybe this is my brain creating a cover memory 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.160 because I was trymatised by that myself. But I want 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.240 to say that they actually just strapped it on top 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.199 of the arm. Oh well that's good, which does it 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.920 means doesn't make it any freakier looking, right, Um, but 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.800 again that might be a cover memory that just created. 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.760 Still the end result, monkey with a mechanical arm. There 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.960 you go, That's that's progress right there. Um. But it 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.520 actually is progress because ultimately it can help out a 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.240 lot of people. Yeah, even if they did, even if 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.560 they did have to saw off a monkey's arm. It's like, 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:00.520 you know, the fact that you can help all these 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.680 people with that have that have lost a limb is 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.080 pretty amazing. Yeah. Yeah, And then I was reading too that. 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.760 I mean, it's it's so fascinating that you can take 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.639 the neural code and break it down like that. And 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.480 now that we have figured out that genome, you know, 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.879