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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
bye~
