Every morning when I was in school, I'd see this fox run across the field. It was beautiful. Some days it'd stop, stare at me as I waited for my bus, then just wander back into the woods. I used to find it odd how it'd walk down the path beside the field instead of in the field or in the woods. It'd just take the path all the way down to the woods. Then one day I figured out it might be because of field mice and may be easier to spot them. I saw it go after some sort of rodent. It was bouncing all around jumping. Then took off when my bus started coming down the road. They're such cool animals.
It may be an easy calculation, but if you have to remember everything... Ounces, stones, inches and so on. Also however easy this calculation is while the video goes if you want to follow the discussion you have to pause to make the calculation and rationalize how long is this before you unpause it again. Its more of a something unpleasant rather than hard.
Caitlin seemed so excited about the flying machines :D I love seeing people talk about stuff they're genuinely interested in, it makes them look radiant.
just discovered this talk show series (although i'm a scishow subscriber for quite a while now) and i must say this has to be the most exciting youtube series since kassem g's Going Deep. great idea guys
The reason that they're having trouble with breaking the height limit is that ground effect is quite strong when they launch, but it decreases as they go up, so that even a very strong, light pilot can only fly so high.
You may want to consider a third camera with a wide shot showing both participants. The constant back and forth jump between the two angles starts to feel like watching a tennis match after the first few cuts.
I'm so sorry but that moment when Seraphina looks into the camera for a second at 6:37 might be one of the cutest things I have ever seen on the Internet.
Hmm, if you could find a way to selectively slow down the rotors in each corner individually, maybe having a pulley system where one part is at a certain width at rest but can be pushed smaller or larger for each corner to change the speed and tilt the mechanism that might allow for some maneuverability.
Rodney Mullen said during a TED conference that "there is an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it." I think that applies to these crazy man-powered helicopters.
I have classmates working on this at Middle Georgia State College. I walk by the contraption named "simplicity" sitting in the hangar nearly every day.
Another entertaining video, thanks. I worry for your safety sometimes, but it looks like you guys have everything under control. I look forward to the next one. :)
I'd like to point out that the moon lander in the intro that flies away via rocket power is wrong! That rocket was used only for landing! PLEASE FIX IT! Haha, love the show Frank, it's quickly becoming a favourite :)
Great episode! That whole "dual pee-food burial-post-it note" thing is absolutely fascinating. Must be what that old "crazy like a fox" expression means...
science is always worthwhile, you never know what doors will open the solution to the problem you're facing sometimes going to the moon gives you as trivial stuff as smoke detectors, building a human powered helicopter may bring us new solutions to ultralight materials
The "tying lots of birds to it" method of flying is found in Mediaeval legends - it's mentioned in the Shah Nameh and in the Alexander Romance. Oh, and then there's James and the Giant Peach!
I love foxes, I'm so happy for the red fox and the arctic for that we've seen so far Maybe we could talk about tree-climbing grey foxes? or the giant eared fennec foxes?
Interesting fox fact; through a breeding program in Russia in 1959, they found the results were dog-like foxes. They would bark, the tails curled up, and they went into heat more often. The theory is that the adrenalin of aggressive behavior made them fox-like, and when bred out, they became dog-like
The man-made helicopter is worthwhile because it pushes the development of low energy locomotion. The insights gained can be used to create ultra-efficient helicopters which don't require a lot of fuel, nor require expensively large and powerful jet engines.
I've heard this described as secondary attraction. We know that our friends are generally trustworthy and nice, which makes us more attracted to them, which makes them look better to us.
imagine if we can fold these helicopters into little backpacks, and use them when stuck in mountain climbing, or lost at sea, or in deseart. the possibilities are endless!
Man powered helicopters could be the new mode of transportation: Not only "green", but also avoiding ground traffic and getting rid of the need for roads eventually
There's a YT video on it, which is shown on the front page of their website. Really wild. Looks like the bicycle is a converted road bike of some kind, probably a carbon fiber frame. The blades turn really slowly. Kind of surreal to think they're lifting a human being off the ground! :-)
I think the important thing behind a man-powered helicopter is that no flying machine has had the efficiency for a human to lift their own body weight under their own power. Most require an extremely high power-to-weight-ratio engine to take off due to losses from flight. If someone can make one that has a more efficient design than what we already use, that technology could dramatically improve the gas mileage of current helicopters.
i think human powered helicopters could be useful. imagine if they were eventually designed well enough to become as commonplace as bicycles. and seraphina is so beautiful :3 i love animals
Clearly they don't pre-record, rather they schedule when certain guests will be on and what they'll be showing. Had SciShow been pre-recorded, there wouldn't be regular videos released that in fact talk about current events, rather it would be events that happened a while ago.
The contest by Google started back waaaay in 2007. I actually used to do research with one of the teams during my undergrad, shoot me a message and I could probably get you connected with the people on the project now :D
Of course original aircraft were powered by birds. They still are. That is why bird strikes are so serious for the airline industry--labor costs are already high enough.
just a quick question can you own a pet fox, i seen somewhere on the internet that you can actually buy them as pets and they behave like a cross between a cat and a dog
Hank, I think a man powered helicopter is actually very useful for science. For a person to be able to lift himself off the ground and fly, energy input needs to be maximized, losing as little as possible. Now, if we take that and apply to machinery, vehicles will be able to operate wasting as little resources as possible, which is very important since the energy we rely the most is non-renewable
Crawfish swim backwards so when they urinate our of the face area it doesn't become part of the breathed in water. Pretty fox. by the way. I kept wanting to pet it. I think they roam the streets in London now. I've heard that they stink a lot, as a way to camouflage themselves from prey and predators too, maybe. This was a fascinating episode! Thanks!
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It's official! AeroVelo of Toronto has won the Sikorsky Prize. Congratulations, you unstoppable human beings! I'm only a little bit crazy jealous.
Oh god... how do you resist petting her?! AHHH!
Mr. Castenada would not approv...Oh the OTHER fox
Can I just say thank you to everyone for getting two foxes on the show? I love foxes so this made my whole day, on a day where i really needed it.
Thank you! There's also a link in the description. I am super awestruck by your school for this. --Caitlin
Every morning when I was in school, I'd see this fox run across the field. It was beautiful. Some days it'd stop, stare at me as I waited for my bus, then just wander back into the woods. I used to find it odd how it'd walk down the path beside the field instead of in the field or in the woods. It'd just take the path all the way down to the woods. Then one day I figured out it might be because of field mice and may be easier to spot them. I saw it go after some sort of rodent. It was bouncing all around jumping. Then took off when my bus started coming down the road. They're such cool animals.
The whole man-powered helicopter made me think of two things:
1. A cat-powered glider.
2. Hank's Helicoptopodes rocket.
do you burn the cat as a source of energy?
Amarendra Mishra you use a small laser pointer and a large, hamsterwheel-type device attached to a generator to power your lights.
Damn thats genius
I love how when someone says measurement in feet annotation says how much this is in meters! This has to be canon everywhere.
meters are like 3.288 feet aren't they? 3.3 should suffice and that is an easy calculation.
It may be an easy calculation, but if you have to remember everything... Ounces, stones, inches and so on. Also however easy this calculation is while the video goes if you want to follow the discussion you have to pause to make the calculation and rationalize how long is this before you unpause it again. Its more of a something unpleasant rather than hard.
welcome back from Defranco inc Hank!
was a real surprise to see you on Sourcefed
i have a fox that lives near my bus stop. i see him/her all the time in the winter when my bus comes at what is still night.
Foxes are my spirit animal. That Fox is just~ GORGEOUS.
"Hello Micheal Aranda" Made me laugh harder than I should have >
Caitlin seemed so excited about the flying machines :D I love seeing people talk about stuff they're genuinely interested in, it makes them look radiant.
I love how the handler and the fox had the same hair color :D
I love the Animal Wonders portion.. Truly, I watch these longer videos just for that part.
YES! I really want to see one!
Hank has the same voice for every animal he meets. Its pretty adorable.
"Whats holding them back?"
Me: "Gravity, Hank, come on."
I love that there is always a new animal we get to meet at the end of these videos. I love foxes!
Hank "Are they native to here"
me "Where is here for you?"
Hank:"It was a fun time"
Caitlin: "Thanks, it was fun for me too"...
If you know what I mean...
The value of a scientific endeavour lies not in how useful it is but how awesome it is.
in Melbourne Australia the experts suggest we are never more than 300 meters from a red fox.
No more than 50 meters of an animal than can kill you
Scishow Talk show is awesome! Red foxes being my favorite animal and this being episode 8 (8's my lucky number) are just bonuses lol
Peeing on other people would also clearly convey what you think about them...
Yes. Being pissed on usually results in being pissed off.
just discovered this talk show series (although i'm a scishow subscriber for quite a while now) and i must say this has to be the most exciting youtube series since kassem g's Going Deep. great idea guys
The reason that they're having trouble with breaking the height limit is that ground effect is quite strong when they launch, but it decreases as they go up, so that even a very strong, light pilot can only fly so high.
You may want to consider a third camera with a wide shot showing both participants. The constant back and forth jump between the two angles starts to feel like watching a tennis match after the first few cuts.
could you do a video on Bose-Einstein Condensate?
I love sci show talk show!
jessi is so passionate its so sweet
The little fox is lovely, but Jessi, she stole my hearth!!! Congratulations I love your show!!!
I love the special guests =]
You should do a video on Da Vinci. He was an amazing scientist as well as an artist and was accomplished in many areas of life
Congratulations, Sir or Madame. You are my favorite person of the day.
that fox is gorgeous, so glad we got to see her on scishow
I'm so sorry but that moment when Seraphina looks into the camera for a second at 6:37 might be one of the cutest things I have ever seen on the Internet.
always wondered myself since primary school!
I would kill for an air-bike. I can't think of anything cooler than flying using your own muscles.
It would suck if you needed some water or just a quick breather lol.
I love seeing all the adorable and interesting animals!
7:17 I can't help but laugh at the way she says that
I LOVE ANIMALS WONDERS! It's my favourite part of the show!
SCI SHOW TALK SHOW IS BACK!
There's a few red foxes near my house :) Most adorable things to see running through the yard :)
Scishow, also known as 3 awesome smiles!
Everything in this episode is adorable.
aww the fox is so cute! and like she said they can come in any color combination, like pink, purple, blue, blood red and lime green :D
Hmm, if you could find a way to selectively slow down the rotors in each corner individually, maybe having a pulley system where one part is at a certain width at rest but can be pushed smaller or larger for each corner to change the speed and tilt the mechanism that might allow for some maneuverability.
HOW DID YOU NOT PET THAT FLUFFY CREATURE OF ADORABLENESS
I think they should have a SciShow Talk Show about human powered helicopters and a red fox.
Rodney Mullen said during a TED conference that "there is an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it." I think that applies to these crazy man-powered helicopters.
I have classmates working on this at Middle Georgia State College. I walk by the contraption named "simplicity" sitting in the hangar nearly every day.
Fox's are so beautiful!
Another entertaining video, thanks. I worry for your safety sometimes, but it looks like you guys have everything under control. I look forward to the next one. :)
I was eating from a bowl of ice cream when they started talking about Fox pee.... I did not enjoy my ice cream....
I'd like to point out that the moon lander in the intro that flies away via rocket power is wrong! That rocket was used only for landing! PLEASE FIX IT! Haha, love the show Frank, it's quickly becoming a favourite :)
Thanks, I enjoyed seeing the fox.
Look up SaveAFox on TH-cam, you'd be really happy
Great episode! That whole "dual pee-food burial-post-it note" thing is absolutely fascinating. Must be what that old "crazy like a fox" expression means...
And you got me all excited about a purple fox!
god dang that fox. its so darn adorable. and i just kinda noticed that a fox is like the perfect balance between dog and cat.
Hank should be allowed to play as the Doctor. :D
They can't have him do that. He actually is a time lord, so it would rip the fabric of the universe apart. Somehow.
Is it just me of do I love seeing Hank with animals.
Jessi is so sweet, I love her segments on the show.
science is always worthwhile, you never know what doors will open the solution to the problem you're facing
sometimes going to the moon gives you as trivial stuff as smoke detectors, building a human powered helicopter may bring us new solutions to ultralight materials
I love foxes; I am so happy right now.
That is the coolest thing about storing their food. Thanks!!!!
The "tying lots of birds to it" method of flying is found in Mediaeval legends - it's mentioned in the Shah Nameh and in the Alexander Romance. Oh, and then there's James and the Giant Peach!
Now more than 500 years later, people haven't decided whether to use imperial or metric...
Could you do some information about the anlion?
I love foxes, I'm so happy for the red fox and the arctic for that we've seen so far
Maybe we could talk about tree-climbing grey foxes? or the giant eared fennec foxes?
Interesting fox fact; through a breeding program in Russia in 1959, they found the results were dog-like foxes. They would bark, the tails curled up, and they went into heat more often. The theory is that the adrenalin of aggressive behavior made them fox-like, and when bred out, they became dog-like
The man-made helicopter is worthwhile because it pushes the development of low energy locomotion.
The insights gained can be used to create ultra-efficient helicopters which don't require a lot of fuel, nor require expensively large and powerful jet engines.
awww maaan i just wish i could hug that fox XD
I liked the part at 3:42 where Catilin did the little "call me" motion lol. Maybe I will XD
What do you think about the Antares launchs?
Great show Hank!
vulpes vulpes, i love you!
I demand more shows with animals!
I've heard this described as secondary attraction. We know that our friends are generally trustworthy and nice, which makes us more attracted to them, which makes them look better to us.
imagine if we can fold these helicopters into little backpacks, and use them when stuck in mountain climbing, or lost at sea, or in deseart. the possibilities are endless!
Seraphina is lovely! :)
Man powered helicopters could be the new mode of transportation: Not only "green", but also avoiding ground traffic and getting rid of the need for roads eventually
In the bio, it says shows of Seraphina the fox. It should say shows off Seraphina the fox.
I was a sci show mug. :)
who remembers the deadulus project, that was a great success in man powered flight
There's a YT video on it, which is shown on the front page of their website. Really wild. Looks like the bicycle is a converted road bike of some kind, probably a carbon fiber frame. The blades turn really slowly. Kind of surreal to think they're lifting a human being off the ground! :-)
I think the important thing behind a man-powered helicopter is that no flying machine has had the efficiency for a human to lift their own body weight under their own power. Most require an extremely high power-to-weight-ratio engine to take off due to losses from flight. If someone can make one that has a more efficient design than what we already use, that technology could dramatically improve the gas mileage of current helicopters.
i think human powered helicopters could be useful. imagine if they were eventually designed well enough to become as commonplace as bicycles.
and seraphina is so beautiful :3 i love animals
HOLY FREAKING CUTE FOX
That fox~
Maybe they can try hollowing out the rider's bones
+mos ab You're hardcore. I like you.
I love seeing the animals.
i want a scishow mug. where do i get one?
Clearly they don't pre-record, rather they schedule when certain guests will be on and what they'll be showing. Had SciShow been pre-recorded, there wouldn't be regular videos released that in fact talk about current events, rather it would be events that happened a while ago.
The contest by Google started back waaaay in 2007. I actually used to do research with one of the teams during my undergrad, shoot me a message and I could probably get you connected with the people on the project now :D
Of course original aircraft were powered by birds. They still are. That is why bird strikes are so serious for the airline industry--labor costs are already high enough.
Aw, thanks for showing the vixen. X3
That fox didn't make a sound.
What does the fox s-
/shot
I had to do this
I feel so ashamed
/gets in the shame car
foxes actually chitter or chirp. they do make noise, its just rare to hear it.
just a quick question can you own a pet fox, i seen somewhere on the internet that you can actually buy them as pets and they behave like a cross between a cat and a dog
Hank, I think a man powered helicopter is actually very useful for science. For a person to be able to lift himself off the ground and fly, energy input needs to be maximized, losing as little as possible. Now, if we take that and apply to machinery, vehicles will be able to operate wasting as little resources as possible, which is very important since the energy we rely the most is non-renewable
Crawfish swim backwards so when they urinate our of the face area it doesn't become part of the breathed in water. Pretty fox. by the way. I kept wanting to pet it. I think they roam the streets in London now. I've heard that they stink a lot, as a way to camouflage themselves from prey and predators too, maybe.
This was a fascinating episode! Thanks!