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Hank: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the SciShow Talk Show! Today we are joined by
my friend and editor for SciShow and the SciShow Talk Show Caitlin Hofmeister who
was the person who has to cut together these multi camera shoots. SciShow Talk
Show is part of SciShow where we talked and today we're going to talk
about some things
so this is a way that it sort of works I don't really know what's going to happen
when I come and sit down in this chair and they bring me stuff and then I just
respond so if i'm not talking intelligently it's because i don't know
what i'm talking about what you got for me today
today I want to talk to you about flying bicycles
it's just like like ET mostly it's about man-powered helicopters people are
competing there's two teams especially right now one in Toronto and one in
Maryland competing for the Sikorsky prize which is $250,000 goes to the
first team to make a man a man powered helicopter is are these science prizes
are interesting to be AA and and I think that they're cool i think they're worth
while I think google just announced some large prize for the first private
company to get a robot to the moon and traverse a certain amount of distance on
the moon
but at the same time it feels a little bit like a man-made or a man powered
helicopter is maybe a little less useful to the cause of science
I don't know though I could be wrong right that's I think I think it's maybe
completely not useful at all
ok which is like is kind of awesome because they're just doing it just right
if they can do it
I think that's it is that is worthwhile yeah just to see if you can is was a
DaVinci's flying craft service be man powered i think so and the first one was
actually the first one in like the seventies no sorry the first one in the
late eighties was called The DaVinci because it was based off of his I guess
it would have to be because they did not have internal combustion engines back
then
yeah could have been like some other animal yeah just Birds
what's this look yeah I mean I helicopter over by talking about your
bird this through this piece of wood
yeah yeah but like like you were saying about getting the robot to traverse like
a certain amount of area right there is a lot of really so but they have to get
and three metres into the air and however for 60 seconds but they don't
have to be three meters up for 60 seconds and then it is day or and then
yeah and then hover and they have to stay within a 10 meter right where and
most of these are like big ten meters accross so they don't have
why are they so big I just maybe they're not been constructed I think I like 10
feet across
ya know that repeated grass hundred feet across yeah more than 10 meters
yeah so they have to like I think there's the center the human-powered
park has to be within that 10 meter
it looks like a helicopter has helicopter is dead and it has it has
four rotors over then the one in Canada is just this big beefy guy like riding
bike like this and then the one in Maryland
they it's like a more like a recumbent bicycle and so they pedal with their
legs and they use their
yeah because you're a killer
ok that sounds that sounds really exhausting to me I mean you gotta find
the right guy
it's like a jockey you have to have some guy with just legs that's what I think
too is because this guy in Canada
probably weighs like 160 yeah and I but he's like a professional cyclist
but by like a moist smaller that's true
so that's true you are tiny
yeah because you would have the first yeah person in nine meters of air by
their own power
yeah 3 3 meters of air like 10 feet so I mean what what are the obstacles that
they have to overcome like what is what's holding them back
why can't it happen like what have they done to make it possible
thus far mostly I think they can get and I think the record right now is nine
point four feet
so they're super close and they can go over a minute but they just can't steer
them like they get us there and name is drift
it's so cute as you see the pilot like another completely out of your control
classes and everybody just like 10 year
yeah and there it's spent all this time and like it's not the smoothest landing
so if it right when it lands it's going you guys he will not only do that really
called day they do it inside
they are in like indoor soccer fields and stuff yeah she's this is complicated
it is probably not super loud
no yeah very quiet yeah sort of eerily yeah because they're all like killing
and excited but that you can't hear the machine at all here
them is this part of the machine this area is that
that's why it machine yeah yes in our operation yeah pretty cool thanks for
sharing yeah I have no stamp ink
well you know you're going to try to stop that I understand it's a daunting
task
it is but we are going to do you know what kind of animal we're about to see
I don't you go I know all of you they're coming
Kalin organized but i don't know which one I give this gift to pay
yeah that was very nice of us well let's be surprised hey Jesse from animal
wonders has a truly spectacular guests for us today
this is Sarafina and she's a red fox you know how how you were just taking a
little nap in the corner
yeah join expecting down here am I
I red foxes can actually come in every color will not purple but any natural
color they can be brown that can be white black grey brownie read like this
an amber color or they can be that striking red color with the white
underneath so they can be all different colors just individual wise and her coat
is going to look a lot different in the summer than it is in the winter
so right now she has her full winter coat on to use that huge fluffy tail
pretty typical of what you think of Fox would look like but in the winter tire
in the summertime she's going to be but look about half that size her tail is
going to be actually pretty skinny
if you give it doesn't stay so hot you taking everything I yeah I was over
there is she she's pretty young right
she's about two years old almost too hmm how is this still happy stage kit
yeah um she's gonna be a kid until about six ones hold and then she'll be
considered a vixen
they're native to hear needed to hear yep and they're actually red foxes live
all over the world now they've been introduced
there are pretty nasty invasive species and some great they're always everything
I read about them they're like killing everybody else
yeah I know which is just sad for them
um you know just doing their thing they're going to get it good at it
good at surviving yeah so they were introduced for hunting because people
wanted to help them for hunting that such of the worst reason ever
I know you know our seem like bringing in kudzu for an ornamental plant but
it's kind of like great come up in there like you wouldn't let me
I'm just going to kill everything else watch this video
she's eating some apple in yam
these guys are omnivores a little pretty much eat anything that you give them to
you notice your posturing there so she's up her ears or Iraq and she's looking at
something when she's you know curious about it but if she's a little bit
nervous she's going to put her head down and she's going to try and get a
different perspective on that
so I she has eyes like a cat so cats will do that - they can kind of see
vertically instead of horizontally
ok and that's good for them hunting animals on the ground and animals up in
the trees and she's very smart we've been working with her an animal wonder
she does she knows some fun stuff she knows how to way she knows how to dig
I know you move that you can take one more time good job and we use these
behaviors to show off what she does in the wild so if she found food in the
wild
she's a circle - she would do a circle she went on her coffee
this is that she would take you around too much food and she couldn't eat all
once you cash in sochi dig a hole and she would put the food in there and she
buried with her nose and then she would pee on it
who you should be on any of the marker so during the wintertime when she can't
find food
she would just have to smell for her pee spots underneath the snow and she dig it
up and she eat the food and the interesting thing really neat thing is
that she's going to be on it again but with a different smell of urine saying
i've already done this cash up
how do you remember I don't know how you don't know
i'm not i'm not as the holidays her
is it like a winter smell or is it like this time I'm going to be different
it's like old smell and slightly newer smell me that's what it is
maybe until home eh not really sure i know that I'm i think that i'm not
making this up a lot of a check for we put it online but i'm pretty sure that
lobsters can control the scent of their pee
ok might be through their faces and so they pee and each other to tell you that
feeling
Wow we don't do that
so if she buried a lobster he could trick her right and like spray different
scented pee
I'll get away I think the laughter would have bigger problems in the wintertime
you like safe to say that the fina Sarah know what 15 ax
she's like and I was there for you to thank you for coming on the show today i
hope that you have a lovely winter
everybody else in the thing about what it was that was happy that camera and
Jessie thanks for bringing that
thanks for having us thank you once again for watching this episode of
SciShow talk show where on SciShow we talked and thank you too Caitlin for
joining us
those are fun time thanks it's been for me too
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